Berkeley Arts Festival

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Berkeley Arts Festival

Berkeley Arts Festival

The Fourth Annual Berkeley Arts Festival opens Saturday, June 16th with a Downtown Music Circus, from 1 to 5 pm, featuring hundreds of musicians playing everything from rare violins to instruments made from recycled materials lining Shattuck Ave from University to Channing Way. The Bicycle Coalition will provide Valet Bicycle and Vegetable Parking. The Library will stage a Poets Corner in front of the unfinished Main Library, Street Performers will cavort and Pedal Express will offer free pedi-cab rides. The Crucible will pop corn on Shattuck in a wok made in their forge. The opening ceremony will be hosted by Mal Sharpe and the City Council will be led in song by Richard Kalman.

From June 17-July 1--Special Exhibitions, Concerts and Events. Festival tours will guide you around town and all the way to the bay. see calendar below

Carefree/Carfee Tours

Ecologically friendly tours will explore the city by bus, and foot. Artists, Environmentalists, The Bus Riders Union, the Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley Architectural Heritage Assoc., Berkeley Historical Society and others will lead tours. Print or web calendar and map will enable you to plan your own tours.

Special Events

At 2200 Shattuck Avenue, the former Lee Frank Jewelry Store, you will find an exhibition from the collection of The Ames Gallery, work of self-taught, visionary, or outsider artists. On June 17 Sarah Cahill's CD Party as she plays the work of Ruth Crawford from her recently issued album.On June 23, Marathon Film Festival, of Bay Area filmmakers organized by Sandra Sharpe. see calendar below. June 30 Beanbenders returns to Shattuck Avenue. see calendar for more Gallery events

Malcolm Margolin will present ''Berkeley Stories'' musings on our city by a great variety of Berkeley residents at the Julia Morgan Theater on July 29.