• Audacious Artefacts by Ann Taylor
• War Music by Ann Taylor
• Crime and Punishment by Ann Taylor

• Asian Art Museum
• Beach Blanket Babylon
• SF Follies

Wed Apr 22

A sexy Fashion show featuring designs from Dollhouse Bettie and Due Citta.

Thu Apr 23

The Cartoon Art Museum will host an all-star cast of stand-up comics for this event with Headliner Carlos Alazraqui of "Reno 911" plus: Mike Meehan, Harmon Leon, Joe Klocek, Justin Lamb plus Special Guests! Hosted By Michael Capozzola.

Fri Apr 24 - Sun Apr 26

Please join us in celebrating our 15 year Anniversary with Art Explosion Open Studios 2009. There will be many fabulous works of art and jewelry by our artists on display. It will be an exceptional opportunity to buy art and jewelry from local artists and visit their studios.

Sat Apr 25

Berkeley Earth Day is an annual event held in April to celebrate the environmental movement and creatively challenge the destruction of our planet. We provide cultural performers, speakers and resources to link individuals and groups with each other in community based ecological activities.

Sat Apr 25

The American Himalayan Foundation along with The Richard C. Blum Center for Developing Economies University of California, Berkeley are pleased to announce that His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama will make a historic visit to the University of California, Berkeley. His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give a lecture entitled "Peace Through Compassion"...

Sat Apr 25

Alchemy is packed with interactive art installations built to engage and amaze you: a collaborative live art event of carnivalesque proportions! Refashioning notions of standard art, the artists and participants will toy with and combine different mediums for unlikely results. Get there in time for the fashion show at 10pm, before the space fills up!

Open Endless Nigel Poor Darren Waterston Small Treasures, Visual Aid's Spring Art Auction Taste 2009 The Secret of the Ninth Planet Experience: New Paintings by Six Bay Area Artists Art Exhibit Reception: New Works Eat.Art. In Our Own Pictures and In Our Works Art Explosion Open Studios 4/24

Tony Rock with Mo Mandel and Edwin Li Nina WiseÕs What Just Happened? Single Shots Comics 4 Comix Benefit S.O.S. by Big Art Group Beauty and the Beast The News Show

Thomas Buergenthal David M. Kennedy Cori Crook: Sweet CharlotteÕs Seventh Mistake Painting and Drawing Lecture Local Historian and Author Rand Richards Paul Kephart: The Living Roof Shawna Yang Ryan Exploring Your Writer's Voice Pop-Up Magazine The Minsk Ghetto Jay McInerney: Wine, Literature and Coming of Age S.J. Tucker and Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest Author Macarena Gomez-Barris Randall Mann & D.A. Powell Jane T. Robe Jane Reichhold: Secrets of Haiku Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics, & etc Fearless Poetry Workshop Arguing with the Storm Deth P. Sun: I See It All Mary Roach Bookparty for Bonk Paul Madonna American India Foundation