Featured Events in Berkeley in November, 2024 (Continuously Updated)

Experience the magic of KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS Tour at the Greek Theatre-U.C. Berkeley in Berkeley, California on November 1, 2024. Get ready to be mesmerized by the electrifying beats and rhythms of this acclaimed artist in a stunning outdoor venue. Join fans from around the world for a night of unforgettable music and energy. Don't miss this opportunity to witness KAYTRANADA live in concert at 2001 Gayley Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720.

Join us at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore on Thursday, November 7th at 7:00 PM when Berkeley author and artist L. John Harris comes to the store to share his new book Portrait In Red: A Paris Obsession. He will be joined in conversation by Marion Abbott and will sign books after the discussion. Click Here to preorder a copy of Portrait In Red: A Paris Obsession.While wandering the streets of Paris in 2015, L. John Harris finds an abandoned, unfinished, and strangely compelling painting. The subject: a girl wearing a bright-red head covering, fixing her viewer with a foreboding gaze. The painting bears no signature, only the date: January 12, 1935. Harris, a journalist and illustrator, embarks on a multi-year quest to uncover the story behind this painting. His sleuthing has given birth to Portrait in Red, a wide-ranging exploration of art and its enduring mysteries. With wit and a contagious enthusiasm, Harris traces unexpected connections between Paris on the eve of World War II, his bohemian life in the San Francisco Bay Area, the aura of original paintings, the magic of found objects, and the aesthetics of a perfect croque monsieur. Portrait in Red will delight lovers of Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes or Michael Finkel's The Art Thief. By turns heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, it is an existential detective story, set among world tragedies, art-historical epiphanies, and comic hijinks. L. JOHN HARRIS, born in Los Angeles, studied art and literature at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. Seduced by Berkeley’s food revolution in the 1970s, Harris worked at several iconic shops and restaurants and wrote The Book of Garlic (1974). He launched his cookbook company, Aris Books, in 1980 and his “Foodoodles” cartoon byline in Bay Area magazines led to a series of illustrated memoirs: Foodoodles (2010), Café French (2019) and My Little Plague Journal (2022). Mr. Harris coproduced with PBS in 2001 the film Los Romeros: The Royal Family of the Guitar and serves as the curator of the Harris Guitar Collection at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Harris’ next book is a history of Berkeley’s “gourmet ghetto,” to be published by Heyday. After beginning her career in trade book publishing, MARION ABBOTT co-founded and co-owned Mrs. Dalloway’s (with Ann Leyhe) from 2004-2021. Her short stories, essays, and book reviews have appeared in anthologies, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, and Lithub. She now works as a freelance editor and is writing a book about her years as an indie bookseller. THIS EVENT is free but pre-registration is requested. Registration ends at 6:00 PM on November 7th. BECAUSE SEATING is limited, please register only if you plan to attend. DUE TO SPACE limitations, we may not be able to accommodate every person at an event, so early registration is encouraged. WALK-INS will be accommodated only if space allows. WE ASK that attendees arrive between 6:45 and 7:00 PM for the event. PLEASE leave your non-support companion animals at home. OUR shared restrooms are not accessible after 6:30 PM, please plan accordingly. Information Source: Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore | eventbrite

Join us for a fun-filled evening of cheering on our favorite team while enjoying delicious drinks and snacks. The atmosphere will be electric as we root for the Bears together. So, grab your friends and come on down to Trumer Taproom to cheer on the Golden Bears with The Perfect Pilsner. Don't miss out on the excitement - see you there! Information Source: Trumer Brewery | eventbrite

Join author Dino Enrique Piacentini at Books Inc. Berkeley for a celebration of his book Invasion of the Daffodils! Dino will be in conversation with Shanti Sekaran. Dino grew up in Los Angeles, lived in San Francisco for twenty-three years, and has also, at various times, set down stakes in Houston, Oaxaca, Champaign, and Prague. His stories and essays have been published in or are forthcoming in Pembroke, Gulf Coast, Confrontation, The Masters’ Review, The Atticus Review, The Globe & Mail, and The Massachusetts Review, among other places. He was a collaborating writer for the Aura Contemporary Ensemble’s Words and Music concert and served as Fiction Editor at Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. He has taught creative writing at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the University of Houston, where he also earned his MFA in 2016. Currently he lives in Denver, where he teaches creative writing at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the University of Denver’s University College. Before becoming a writer, he worked as an arts administrator at The Mexican Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Asian Art Museum, and Galería de la Raza. Invasion of the Daffodils is his debut novel. Information Source: Books Inc. | eventbrite

Join Vanessa Saunders at Books Inc. Berkeley for a celebration of her debut novel The Flat Woman! In The Flat Woman, women exclusively are blamed for the climate crisis. Sea gulls drop dead from the sky, and the government, instead of taking responsibility, scapegoats a group of female ecoterrorists. When a girl's mother is incarcerated for climate crimes, she is forced to raise herself alone. As a young woman, she begins a romance with a climate activist whose passion makes her question her own role in the world. By turns hilarious, deadly serious, and completely absurd, The Flat Woman asks who gets the right to call themselves a good person in a world ripe with disaster. Driven by complex academic and moral questions, The Flat Woman is certain to appeal to fans of feminist and experimental literature, as well as fans of Margaret Atwood, Renee Gladman, Banhu Kapil, Maggie Nelson, Kelly Link, and Anne Carson. “Richly textured and chillingly poetic, The Flat Woman is filled with pure enthrallment. A mother, a child-like woman, an Elvis impersonator, and an aunt—all caught in an intricate web of seagull terrorism, spattered with ash and feathers—plunges the reader into an intricate and inscrutable collision of forces.” —Vi Khi Nao, author of Swimming with Dead Stars “With deft efficiency, Vanessa Saunders lets a mini-matrix of motifs and characters mirror a society's worth of ecological, political, and personal crisis. A beautifully constructed work of feminist realism.” —Nell Zink, author Avalon Vanessa Saunders is a professor of practice at Loyola University New Orleans. Her hybrid work, fiction, and poetry has appeared in Seneca Review, Los Angeles Review, Sycamore Review, Passages North, and among others. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she received her MFA from Louisiana State University. Information Source: Books Inc. | eventbrite

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