Arts & Events

Worth Noting:

Sunday October 16 is the Bird Festival with events from 8 am – 8 pm. Field trips start at 8 am.

Monday smartspace goberkeley pay for parking starts in Southside https://smartspace.goberkeley.info/

Civic Center (CCCC) meeting is at noon, Council Agenda Committee planning for November 3 regular council meeting is at 2:30 pm (the proposed agenda is packed), Civic Arts Policy subcommittee meets at 4 pm (Bayer and STEAM) and the Peace and Justice Commission (on Lisjan/Ohlone and Shellmound) meets at 7 pm.

Tuesday – council meets in closed session Thursday not Tuesday and no other city meetings were found

Wednesday the Commission on Aging meets at 1:30 pm (Hopkins Corridor), the Environment and Climate Commission meets at 5 pm, the Civic Arts Commission meets at 6 pm, EBMUD presents desalination webinar at 6 pm, Human Welfare Commission and BOLT meet at 6:30 pm and the Planning Commission on Bird Safe Glass and Rent Stabilization Board meet at 7 pm.

Thursday the annual Earthquake drill is at 10:20 am, Council meets in closed session at 3 pm, the Fair Campaign and Open Government Commission meets at 6 pm and the Design Review Committee (1820 San Pablo) and Transportation and Infrastructure Commission (Ashby BART on the Agenda) both meet at 7 pm.

Don’t forget to check for meetings posted on short notice https://berkeleyca.gov/ No meetings found for Friday, Saturday or Sunday October 23.

The Comment Period ends October 17, 2022 at 5 pm for the Housing Element Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR). The DEIR is a plan for adding 19,098 housing units not the RHNA 8,934. As stated at the Planning Commission in the presentation, the larger number is to push changing zoning in the City of Berkeley. The document including appendices is over 500 pages.

https://berkeleyca.gov/construction-development/land-use-development/general-plan-and-area-plans/housing-element-update

Last day to register to vote is October 24 for the November 8, 2022 election. You should have your ballot by now, if it hasn’t arrived check your registration at https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/ -more-

On Friday, October 14, Cal Performances offered the return of world-renowned violinist Maxim Vengerov after a 15-year absence. Vengerov was joined by pianist Polina Osetinskaya in a program of works for violin and piano. Included were Johann Sebastian Bach’s Violin Sonata in B-minor, BMV 1014; Beethoven’s Sonata in A Major, Kreutzer, Op. 47; Dmitri Shostakovich’s Ten Preludes from Op. 34; Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42; and Tchaikovsky’s Valse-Scherzo in C Major, Op. 34. -more-