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Ohlone Greenway Group Ride.Saturday, August 23 | 11 am - 2 pm.Multicultural Institute.1920 Seventh Street. Register / More Info:

Carrying Things by Bike Workshop.Saturday, August 16 | 1 - 2 pm.South Branch Library.1901 Russell Street. Register / More Info:

Check out these @BikeEastBay workshops and group ride happening in August in Berkeley! 🚲. Bike Camping in the East Bay Workshop.Wednesday, August 6 | 6 - 7 pm.Sports Basement Berkeley.2727 Milvia Street. Register / More Info:

Brunch and refreshments will be provided and there will be a swag table and business card raffle.

Join @berkeleycc at their Community Open House to network with business and community leaders and learn about services and ways to partner with our community!. Thursday, August 7 | 11 am - 3 pm.2050 Center Street. Register:

MATRIX 287 / Berenice Olmedo (August 13 - November 23). Tsai Ming-liang in Person (August 14 - 31). Dream Dioramas with Caro Yagjian (August 16).

Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs (July 11 - August 29). Lee ShinJa: Drawing with Thread (August 6 - February 1, 2026). Special Screenings (August 9, 14, and 16). Art Wall / Stephanie Syjuco: Present Tense (Roll Call) (August 13 - June 28, 2026).

Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California (June 8 - November 30). Robert Altman at 100 (June 13 - August 30). Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time (June 20 - August 29). Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman (July 3 - December 21).

Check out what is happening @BAMPFA (2155 Center Street)! 🖼️ 📽️. More Info: Collection Focus / Sky Hopinka: Sunflower Siege Engine (March 12 - August 24). Teaching Wall / Beyond Face Value: Meditations on Portraiture (May 7 - August 17)

Check out what the pools have to offer, such as: Parent and Child Aquatics; Preschool Aquatics; Learn-to-Swim; Adult Swim Lessons; and Lifeguard Training Courses.

Registration for the @CityofBerkeley's Fall Aquatics Programs begins today for residents! Non-resident registration will begin on Monday, August 11. Register / More Info:

Photopolymer Plate Gravure (August 31 - September 14).

Intro to Cyanotype Printing & Toning with Botanicals (August 9 - 16). Mokuhanga: Japanese Woodblock Printing (August 17 - 31). CMYK Monotype Printmaking (August 19). Intro to Nerikomi: Pattern Making with Colored Clay (August 23). Intro to Copper Etching: Hardground (August 23).

Check out what adult art classes are happening @KalaInstitute (2990 San Pablo Avenue) in August!. Register: Printing on Handmade Paper (July 26 - August 2). Freeform Fabric Dyeing (August 3 - 10). Printing Without a Press: Gelli Plate Monotype (August 9)

Laraaji performs Day Of Radiance: Brian Eno's Ambient 3 (August 29).

Annual Freight Fiddle Summit (August 21). Innov Gnawa (August 22). Eliza Gilkyson (August 24). A Benefit Concert for The Sonder Project with Mamajowali, Joe Craven, Mamadou Sidibe, and Walter Strauss (August 27). Rahim Alhaj Duo (August 28).

The Moth StorySLAM - CHILDISH (August 6). Shannon Lay (August 7). Zohar & Adam (August 8). T Sisters (August 9). Alam Khan (August 16). Ancient Mbira Music of Zimbabwe: ‘Samaita’ Vitalis Botsa (August 17). The Moth StorySLAM - LIES (August 20).

Check out what is happening at The Freight (2020 Addison Street) in August! 🎸 🪕 🎻 🎷 🎺 🪘 🪇 🎹 🎶. Get Tickets: Third World (August 2). Bobby McFerrin & MOTION: Circlesongs (August 4, 11, 18, and 25). Freight Open Mic (August 4)

Tickets are now on sale for the @westedgeopera Festival (August 2-17) featuring “Dolores”, “David & Jonathan”, and “Wozzeck” - check it out ASAP! 🎭 🎶. More Info: