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✡️✝️☪️ Berkeley’s Sacred Music Fellowship, which holds regular songs sessions featuring sacred and secular music, presents an interfaith holiday celebration for Earth Day with a concert and jam session featuring a diverse crew of music leaders from many cultures and faiths, including three music directors from major East Bay churches, three local Jewish music leaders, South Asian and Turkish Muslim music leaders, secular rock folks, and others. Community jams precede and follow the concert, and Urban Ore will be on hand providing materials for people to create their own musical instruments from reclaimed materials. Sunday, April 26, 4-7 p.m. Cedar Rose Park. FREE (RSVP)
🍇 Berkeley Youth Alternatives, a nonprofit helping underserved children and families overcome challenges such as housing insecurity, is hosting a Taste of BYA fundraiser where food and drinks will be served, and all proceeds will go towards funding BYA’s programs. Thursday, April 23, 6 p.m. Tilden Park’s Brazilian Room. $125-$150 for one attendee. Attendees must be 21+
🖼️ Learn to make a miniature 3D shadowbox — all materials provided and all ages are welcome. Friday, April 24, 4:30 p.m. 1275 Walnut St. FREE (RSVP recommended)
🎹 The East Bay-raised Hogan Brothers can be found individually playing with leading figures R&B, funk, hip-hop, jazz and Latin music, but with Julian on drums, Steve on bass, and Colin on electric piano and accordion, the Hogans are at their most freewheeling playing as a family unit. Friday, April 24, 7 p.m. Jupiter. FREE
🎶 New Century Chamber Orchestra joins forces with acclaimed classical guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas for Michael Daugherty’s groundbreaking 2006 “Bay of Pigs” and Joaquín Rodrigo’s landmark “Concierto de Aranjuez” as part of the “Radiance In Rhythm” program, which includes Astor Piazzola’s “Fuga y misterio” and the world premiere of “Blues Variations,” a new work by Henry Dorn commissioned by orchestra as part of the Emerging Black Composers Project. Friday, April 24, 7:30 p.m. First Presbyterian Church. $35-$80
✝️ A Cal Performances concert by The Tallis Scholars presents the celebrated vocal ensemble delivering an Easter-season program centering on Tomás Luis de Victoria Renaissance masterwork “Missa O magnum mysterium,” inspired by the miracle of the virgin birth. Friday, April 24, 8 p.m. First Congregational Church.$83-$129
📚 Pegasus celebrates Indie Bookstore Day with prize drawings at each store for a basket of cool Pegasus, a Libro.fm Golden Ticket hidden at each store, worth a one-year subscription of audio books, free 2025 calendars, and a spin-wheel prize with purchase. Saturday, April 25, all day. Pegasus Books (Solano and Shattuck). FREE
🍅 Join BUSD and the Edible Schoolyard Project for their Climate Fair, featuring a plant sale, student project showcase, bike repair station and other family-friendly, hands-on activities. Saturday, April 25, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. King Middle School. FREE
👕 Got clothes that need to be mended? Bring them to the Berkeley Art Center’s “No Buy Your Wardrobe” event, where folks can learn how to sew their clothes and make new out of old. Bring an item to mend, and feel free to bring pieces of clothing to swap with others. Saturday, April 25, 3 p.m. 1275 Walnut St. Suggested donation $10-$25
🎸 Guitarist, songwriter and vocalist Phil Marsh has cut an insistently idiosyncratic path across the Bay Area performing arts scene for more than five decades, including stints with the Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, serving as musical director of the Pickle Family Circus, and composer for the San Francisco Mime Troupe. He’s joined by lap steel expert Patti Maxine, bassist Richard Saunders and special guests. Saturday, April 25, 4 p.m. Art House Gallery & Cultural Center. $10-$25 suggested donation
🌍 Celebrate Earth Day with the 2026 Wild and Scenic Film Festival, which will feature films that highlight nature, community activism, adventure and more. Saturday, April 25, 7 p.m. David Brower Center. $25
🎹 Concluding a month of keyboard adventures, the Jazzschool’s monthlong PianoLove series a two-hour Thelonious Monk marathon hosted by faculty pianist Ben Stolorow, as faculty, students, and special guests from the Bay Area music community take turns playing their favorite compositions by the iconic and incalculably influential pianist and composer. Admission is free for those attending the earlier solo recital by Berkeley piano explorer Myra Melford. Saturday, April 25, 9:30 p.m. The Jazzschool. $10
🎭 With prom season approaching, could there be a better theatrical experience for your high schooler than “Carrie: The Musical”? Presented by Berkeley Playhouse’s TeenStage program, the production based on the Stephen King novel features music by Michael Gore, lyrics by Dean Pitchford, and a book by Lawrence D. Cohen. No swine is injured in the making of the musical. Saturday, April 25-Sunday, May 3. Berkeley Playhouse. $27
💍 Gilman District is hosting a street fair, featuring local businesses and vendors selling food, art, jewelry, ceramics and more. Sunday, April 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Gilman Street between Sixth Street and Fourth Street. FREE
🎵 Enjoy live Brazilian jazz by singer Catia Machado Lund and Eric Siegel on piano, and nosh on small plates of Brazilian food at Casa do Petisco for an extra charge. Sunday, April 26, 3-5 p.m. 2642 Ashby Ave. FREE (We recommend supporting by buying food)
🏮 UC Berkeley’s East Asian Union is hosting their annual Asian Night Market, featuring food, vendors and performances from Asian student affinity groups. Event is open to all community members. Monday, April 27, 6-9 p.m. Lower Sproul Plaza. FREE
📚 In conversation with health journalist April Dembosky, Dr. Cynthia Li shares her new book “The Medicine of Flow: Harmonizing Your Inner State for Effortless Healing,” a guide to science-informed practices for overcoming chronic illness, anxiety and stress. Monday, April 27, 7 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore. FREE (RSVP)
📚 The UC Berkeley Institute for the Study of Societal Issues is co-hosting a book talk with author Caro De Robertis for their latest book, “So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color.” Books will be available for sale, free books will be given to UC Berkeley students, and the author will be available to sign them after the talk. Wednesday, April 29, 4:30 p.m. Downtown Berkeley (location TBD) and virtual option available. FREE
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