Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, April 28–May 3

Welcome to the week! A lot actually happens on Mondays, but you’ll only know about it from us if you pay for it, since we're ruthless and venal in pursuit of paying writers. (And this Monday was a good one, including one of the weekly free screenings happening all spring of archival footage from the militant filmmaking collective, Newsreel, hosted by black hole cinematheque at various locations (read about it).

The rest of the week is good too, though. Friday is May Day but a bunch of labor gatherings and thinking are happening all week. May Day is an ORB official holiday, so we’ll be be leaning and loafing at our ease, probably reading Whitman for the day (because “I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough / To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough / To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough /  To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then? / I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.”) You could swim along with your comrades to Fruitvale or Oakland City Hall and hold some signs together with other folks celebrating all of us workers and decrying the abuses we’re subject to. Or take your rest. You deserve it. We’re leaving poetry month behind and tipping over into some other as yet unknown genre of literature over the weekend; maybe in May we can be all in for novellas and novelettes.

Looking ahead: Bather’s Library (BAY-thurs LIE-breh-ree) has been open for a bit over a year now and May 15th is their first big fundraiser! Spit and a smile gets you a long way but a little money helps–as we have learned–so throw in and throw down for them, there’s only a few tickets left.

-MS and AB 

Tuesday, April 28

[West Bay Bonus Event] Rally for the Arts in San Francisco, 11:30am, West Bay City Hall Steps (Civic Center). Arts for a Better Bay Area wants to hear your voice and see your face at the seat of power! Take that rally energy inside for the Board of Supervisor's meeting and read a poem into the record. [insta]

MOCHA At The Library: Mayan Stories + Art, 3:30pm, 81st Avenue Branch (Deep East). Art and stories in three of Oakland's many languages! Enjoy a Mayan story in Mam with your kids and use a glue stick responsibly. [OPL]

Figaro Up, Figaro Down, 4:30pm, BAMPFA (Downtown Berkeley). Director Javid Soriano will be on hand to talk about his documentary about Tim Blevins, a renowned opera singer who turned to busking, unhoused in the Tenderloin while he struggled with addiction, following his comeback. It will be, uh, operatic. [BAMPFA]

SOLD OUT I Love Boosters, 6:30pm, Grand Lake Theatre (The Lake-ish). All the tickets are gone for what's gonna be a great night, though it might be in the spirit of the thing to get in without paying: A New Boots Riley movie! Songs by The Tune-Yards! Shoplifting to DEI the fashion industry! Stop-motion animation and time travel! And also Boots and cast members will be in person and doing a Q&A, hella cool. Someone get ahold of the scalpers and tell them ORB wants in. [SFFILM]

[West Bay Bonus Event] Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff on Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, 7pm, City Lights Bookstore (North Beach). You know how cats are the ultimate libertarians because they think they're totally independent while ignoring an entire system (me) who supports them? It's an insult to cats to compare them to Elon Musk so I won't do that but he's like if someone mistook a possum for a cat and then the dumbass possum-cat got really racist and sexist and still didn't acknowledge that someone is filling his bowl (rockets) with kibble (government subsidies). Here's a new book about the possum. [City Lights]

Sink or Burn with Cristy Road Carrera and Eric Drooker, 7pm, Clio’s Books (The Lake). Cristy Road Carrera has been making punk music and drawing comic zines for a while now, and would like you to come and yell and jump around with her -- maybe after the conversation between her and Eric Drooker wraps up. Her new book Sink or Burn is an illustrated queer autobiographical romance involving a saxophone player and possibly climate change; there's plenty to rage against in the world, but some sweet punk love might soothe the pain. [eventbrite]

Is Inequality or Regulation the Driver of America’s Housing Affordability Crisis? 8pm, Berkeley Law (Cal). A late night debate! Chris Elmendorf says regulations like zoning are causing the housing crisis, and Maximilian Buchholz takes the position that it's inequality. Why not both? Drink when they say “Prop 13.” [UCB]

Also: Emmaia Gelman | The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State at Social Sciences Building (Cal) / Annie Leonard and André Carothers' Protest at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore (Elmwood)

Wednesday, April 29

Oakland is a Worker Town, 11:30am, In front of Oakland City Hall (Downtown). International Worker's Day is Friday, but make it a whole week! Join labor unions and other local orgs reminding the city they need the workers in the Town all day, all week, all year. [action network]

Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture, noon, Geballe Room (Cal). Did you cold shoulder someone at the party? Ghost a former lover? Look away and pretend not to hear the ranter on the street corner? How human of you, Benjamin Saltzman says. His new book puts your avoidant-attachment issues in conversation with Plato, Christ, Augustine, Arendt and more. [townsend center]

Poetry Tea Party, 2pm, Main Library (The Lake-ish). poems for kids, with tea and stories! Best Tuesday ever, and definitely the best way to spend the second-to-last-day of Poetry Month. [insta]

Unclaim this Body: Necropower in the Global Circuit of Anti-Blackness, 3:30pm, McCone Hall (Cal). Kris Manjapra will talk about the invention of the “unclaimed body” and how liberal empire has learned to profit even from the racialized and incarcerated dead. Someone will reference Achille Mbmebe, at some point. [UCB]

Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks, 3:45pm, Grand Lake Theatre (Grand Lake). This sounds pretty great: will the Lunachicks—an early punk femme group from NYC—get back together? Dive deep into the scene and see what happens when creative minds find each other again. Moonshots abound. [GLT]

Seasonal Mending Circle, 4pm, Local Economy (Rockrich). Sure, we could throw away everything damaged, but we could also hang out together and fix things. Love a chance to repair. Bring ripped jeans, holey sweaters, and a forgiving mindset. [luma]

[West Bay Bonus Event] Blacksound and the Legacy of American Popular Music, 6pm, 473A Haight St (San Francisco). Stanford’s Matthew D. Morrison will talk about the racialized history of American music through the legacy of blackface minstrelsy, which is another way of saying you cannot believe how violent the origins of American popular music are, if you don’t already know. His book, Blacksound, is the rare recent work that has truly new things to say about this very old story. [Big Brain Lectures - SF]

How to Make a Mini Forest, 6pm, Local Economy (Used to Be Shafter). Weirdly, the original copy here doesn't mention Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, originator of the pocket urban forest concept, so we fixed that. Make the golf course and other dumb uses of open spaces a public forest! What you do with it after that is up to you. [luma]

Dunsmuir House: Past, Present, and Future, 6pm, Main Library (Oakland, California 94612). Oakland has some mansions, but unlike the behemoths in Piedmont occupied by various real estate moguls, these have mostly fallen into disrepair and recently burned up. This talk is about the Dunsmuir Hellman Historic Estate, which maybe 10 years ago was still stunning, but has been abandoned to disrepair thanks to shrinking city budgets and hard choices. Hellman descendent Frances Dinkelspiel, community supporter Edmund Clausen, and Executive Director and CEO of the Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation Mandolin Kadera-Redmond will share information how we got to here in a talk moderated by Liam O'Donoghue. [Oakland Public Library]

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: Lecture in Palestinian & Arab Studies, 6pm, Maude Fife Room (Cal). Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, poet, essayist, and translator, will give a lecture on topics that will probably include a Free Palestine. For one thing, “On our romantic jihads / the path is long and arduous / and fraught with prying neighbors” and for another, “You will need to state the reason for your visit. / Don’t say because the olives are ready for harvest / and I will coax the fruit from the trees / press it into liquid gold.” [UCB]

WHB April Book Club: Jane Eyre Part One, 6:30pm, Womb House Books (Temescal Alley). In case you missed it in high school or want to revisit this classic novel, you can read Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre with a group of grown ups today. Only the first half, with the nasty orphanage, and none of the scandal that you'll need to wait for part two to find out about (spoiler: there's noises in the attic). [eventbrite]

Anti-Repression Series: Experiences and Supporting Prisoners, 6:30pm, Hasta Muerte (Fruitvale). If you haven't spent time in a jail, my goodness, you sure got lucky or you just took too few risks along the way to middle age didn't you. It's the toilet in the middle of the holding cell for me. Solidarity across walls is always the right move. [BAFS]

[West Bay Bonus Event] Booksmith presents: Anna Dorn with Kate Folk / American Spirits, 7pm, The Booksmith (The Haight). If you haven't read Anna Dorn's Exalted (pubbed by Unnamed, you know we love them) it's fucking insane and perfect, so perfect, so perfectly LA and so online and the end is SO WEIRD GUYS, it freaked me out. Perfume and Pain is also amazing if way more like normal and healthier and with a much less bizarre happy ending (gonna blame Simon & Schuster for not rising to the expected weirdness) but also didn't leave me with as much ick to process (“as much” is still a lot in the Dorniverse). I know nothing about this new book but I don't need to, I am Dorn-fanning forever, plus come on, she's in conversation with the airplane erotica writer. I could go on but it's in the West Bay so now you have to decide if you want to trek toward the Pacific tonight or waffle for a while. [The Booksmith]

Lyrics & Dirges with featured reader Persis Karim, 7pm, Pegasus Books Downtown (Berkeley). Open mic, but you need to show up ahead of time to get on the list! With local Iranian-American poet and scholar Persis Karim as the featured reader. She explains her poems a lot, which can be helpful, even if Richards, Brooks, and Ransom would have a cow, man. [facebook]

Persistence of Vision Award: Lynne Sachs + Every Contact Leaves a Trace, 7pm, BAMPFA (Downtown Berkeley). Sometimes movies are more like poems than stories. SFFILM’s Persistence of Vision Award says, hey we like that. This year the award goes to Lynne Sachs, who will be here in person to talk about the ways that collecting business cards became traces of a life spent in contact and conversation, little anchors for memory to hang on. [BAMPFA]

Also: RPOC April Canvassing at Arizmendi Lakeshore (Grand Lake) / So Many Stars Book Talk with Author Caro De Robertis at TBD (Downtown Berkeley) / Geraldine Brooks with Ayelet Waldman - Memorial Days: A Memoir at Book Passage Corte Madera (North Bay) / Doris Kearns Goodwin: AN UNFINISHED LOVE STORY at Commonwealth Club (Palo Alto) / Premiere: Art & Everyday People: The Story of the Betti Ono Foundation at The New Parkway Theater (Uptown) / Miguel Ángel Hernández' The Pain of Others at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore (Elmwood)

Thursday, April 30

[West Bay Bonus Event] Poetry Reading with Caroline Mar, 1:30pm, Ocean Campus, Cloud Hall ( Ingleside ). Bay Area local and Oakland poet Caroline Mar gets on BART and MUNI to get to CCSF and delivers! [insta]

Silent Friend, 4pm, BAMPFA (Downtown Berkeley). A story of a tree (apparently almost all ginkgos now grow under human cultivation because we like them so much and there's almost nowhere in wild nature they exist anymore). Anyway! They've existed since the dinosaurs and in this movie the tree takes us back in time a ways, though still within the anthropocene, and through decades of evolving human thought. [BAMPFA]

The Fertility of Evil, 5pm, Townsend Center for the Humanities (Cal). Amara Lakhous’ novel has been translated into English by Alexander E. Elinson, and it’s got crime and North Africa, revolutionary cells, and the failure of post-colonial states, but I am sure they get the guy in the end. Lakhous, who writes in Arabic and Italian, comes to the US to tell us all about it. [UCB]

Archiving Slow Resistance: Korean Popular Culture and Everyday Care, 5:15pm, Institute of East Asian Studies (Cal). Can manufactured pop music be liberatory? Not when I am trapped in the car on a road trip with the KPOP Demon Hunters soundtrack. But convince me and celebrate issue 3 of MENT Magazine, “a publication dedicated to critical and creative perspectives on Korean pop culture.” [UCB]

Article Search Office Hours, 5:30pm, Oakland History Center, Main Library OPL (The Lake-ish). Now is THE TIME. Go find your perfect article to diorama. What else were you going to do for free on a Thursday night? [OPL]

Less Like a Fixed Point, 6pm, Bathers Library (Telegraph). Kirby Stenger talking and showing and celebrating their photo book of nature’s au natural portraits. Risos might even be in evidence. [Bathers tried to sneak this one past us by not having it on their official calendar, but Devon broke the news.]

From the Ground Up screening & presentation, 6pm, Oakland History Center in the Main Library (Lake-ish). I finally attended Barnali and Anirvan's Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour last weekend, and the labor these two have put into archival research to sift out and share the stories of South Asians in Berkeley is incredible! (If you want to go a little broader than Berkeley on South Asian American community history, check out SAADA). More than one of us was crying, more than once. And now there's a movie about the tour and the Manilatown Heritage Foundation exploring the intersections of Asian American community art, history, and archival work in the Oakland Bay Area! [Oakland Public Library]

Comics on Pregnancy and Parenthood, with Julia Wertz and Briana Loewinsohn, 7pm, Pegasus Books Downtown (Berkeley). Bay Area cartoonist Julia Wertz launches her new graphic memoir BURY ME ALREADY (It's Nice Down Here) in conversation with another local fave Briana Loewinsohn, author of Ephemera (2023) and Raised By Ghosts (2025). In case anyone wants to revisit early motherhood in the early days of covid, here's a book for you, with pictures. [Pegasus Books]

Field Notes from the Bay: An Evening of Live Storytelling, 7pm, Ocean Photographer of the Year exhibition (Alameda). Hear about the work of keeping our Bay and Delta alive and well in these stories from the field from scientists who are squelching through mud to remediate a century plus of damage. [San Francisco Estuary Institute]

Also: The Constitutional Right to Transition: Reconstruction and the Political History of Transphobia at Grimes Engineering Center (Ca,) / OPEN CENTER: Artists' Right Workshop by USF Law at Berkeley Art Center (Berkeley) / Water & AI: Governance, Innovation, and Justice at Pier 17 (West Bay) / Santa Rosa Zine Fest at Museum of Sonoma County / Taqueria Mila / Northwest Santa Rosa Library (Santa Rosa) / Writer's Circle at Nomadic Bookshop (Uptown) / COMPANION PLANTING: Selected Works by Ocean Escalanti at Tea on Piedmont (Piedmont Ave)

Friday, May 1

[West Bay Bonus Event] Test Plot Workday, 1pm, San Bruno Mountain (The Peninsula). Test Plot is the idea of cool ecological restoration schemers who practiced in LA first and then came north. Look, listen, learn, get your hands in the dirt and think about what the whole of our urbanized region used to grow like. [instagram]

[West Bay Bonus Event] May Day Activation, 2pm, Civic Center Plaza (Near City Hall). Join your local co-ops to mark International Workers' Day, and rally yourself into a holiday frenzy. [NOBAWC]

WORKERS UNITE! May Day Community Action, 2pm, Fruitvale Plaza (Fruitvale). March in Oakland with Oakland Sin Fronteras & EastSide Arts Alliance for International Worker's Day for all workers, con papeles or sin papeles. [ EastSide Arts Alliance]

Slow Time, Slow Motion: 1800/1968, 3pm, Wheeler Hall (Cal). Kind of a record scratch as we head back to the university which wonders slowly about 1968 and time with Mark Goble and Jonathan Sachs while people who punch a clock are out in the streets. [UC B]

The global history of Elon Musk, 4pm, Social Sciences Building (Cal). I like the future where we win, but Tarnoff and Slobodian are thinking through all the ways that Musk is shaping the present and future with his technoutopian fascism and also by just owning loads of infrastructure. [UCB]

[West Bay Bonus Event] Poetry Springs, 5pm, Alchemy Springs (West Bay). I am so, so tempted by this. Collective sauna-ing with poetry and a violin, for two hours and $50, thanks to the arty event imagineers over at Decentered Arts. [insta]

First Epistle to the Amphibian by Ricardo Domeneck, 5pm, Spanish and Portuguese Library (Cal). Campy poetic diva Ricardo Domeneck draws on Brazillian experimental traditions (see: concrete poetry for starters), and mashes it up with queer love and the body “in all its moisture and all its fluids.” We get to enjoy its amphibiosity in English now thanks to translator Chris Daniels. [UC B]

Holloway Poetry Series: Roberto Tejada, 5:30pm, Maude Fife Room (Cal). A poet whose life and words cross borders, Tejada was born in LA, and later edited Vuelta magazine in CDMX for a decade. Mixing art, politics, place, languages, and time, his most recent book also has a playlist to get you in the mood. [UC B]

The Art of Midlife 1: Yoked, 6pm, Local Economy (Used to Be Shafter). First of a series on being middle-aged, curated by Christie George. Today writers Bonnie Tsui (On Muscle) and Caroline Paul (Tough Broad) are going to talk about bodies, and why strength training and hiking the John Muir Trail suddenly seem like good ideas in our forties. [luma]

[South Bay Bonus Event] Flow and Flourish: Growing Poetry, Growing Plants, Growing Community, 7pm, Chopsticks Alley Art Gallery (San Jose). In Deep Deep South Oakland, poets Aileen Cassinetto (“There are no kings in America. / Only gilded men we can topple / again and again.”) and David Perez (Love in a Time of Robot Apocalypse from Write Bloody Publishing) guide a workshop exploring water, how to use less of it to grow gardens and farms, with creativity and community. [eventbrite]

Get-Hype Open-Mic, 7pm, Discover Community Cafe (West Oakland). Open Mic in West Oakland! Start the night off right with featured poet from Visalia, Michael Jasso. Bring your best comedy, your smoothest songs, and all the poems. You only get one shot!  [insta]

May Day: Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, 7pm, Fluid510 (Downtown). Study the enemy in order to defeat him. This is your last chance to sit down to talk Musk with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, and what to do about the techno-authoritarians wresting control of our world from the people. [insta]

MAYDAY, 9pm, Tamarack (Downtown). No poems, only dancing. Bread and roses, cigarettes and beer. “We may burn an effigy or two.”Always a good night in Oakland when something's getting set on fire. [insta]

Also: An Immersive Play: “Hey, Author!” at Dwinelle Hall (Cal) / Filipiñana at BAMPFA (Downtown Berkeley)

Saturday, May 2

Tule Boats Float, 1pm, Coyote Hills (Fremont). Learn how Ohlone peoples made tule reeds into boats, do the same. Parent participation and supervision are not required, unless you’re a child, and then it is. [East Bay Regional Park District]

Ancestors Taught Me, 1:30-3pm, at The Sanctuary (4020 Broadway). A poetry/writing workshop series in the Black radical tradition inspired by writer of the négritude movement, Martinican surrealist and anti-imperialist, Suzanne Césaire. [googledoc]

Motherland, 2pm, Dream Farm Commons (Oakland). Teatro Almas Libres is a theater troupe made up of farmworker and domestic workers women in Sonoma County, and they’ll be at Dream Farm, to read from their third play, Motherland, and answer questions. [DreamFarm]

Mohka House at OPL, 2pm, West Oakland Branch OPL (West Oakland). This guy loves to talk about Yemeni coffee and he will continue to do so, in this, the West Oakland OPL version of a traveling show he’s done all across town. Watch for an ORB correspondent. [OPL]

Clueless Crafting Matinee, 3pm, The New Parkway (Uptown). Knit yourself a cute sweater vest to match Cher and Dion during the best version of Emma ever brought to screen (lights will be up to reduce squinting during the movie). [The New Parkway]

Woolsey Depths, 4pm, Woolsey Courtyard (Berkeley). Poetry outside, in the sunlight, from Brazilian poet Ricardo Domeck and his translator Chris Daniels, sharing Domeck's new collection FIRST EPISTLE TO THE AMPHIBIANS, and Jesse Nathan will read, probably in English. Possibly a fourth reader, because mysteries abound. [insta]

The Alley Comes to Oakland, 5:30pm, The Punchdown (Downtown). The monthly casual poetry gathering usually on First Fridays in Vesuvio Alley is a day late and an alley short, but we’re doing our best here, with everyone taking Friday off to do what they will. Come say hi to Marthine and the crew of good listeners, before we head over to Bather’s at 7. [no link, just us, telling you about it]

Tripwire issue release! 7pm, Bathers Library (Telegraph). One of the more “causing trouble and being weird” of the poetry crews, Tripwire is releasing their 23rd issue at Bathers, and partying about it. Issue 23 has some writing about some of our favorite late-greats, Lyn and Joshua, check it out or just come through. There will be readings, by people. [insta]

Also: Creating Spaces: to Be, to Make, to Thrive in TK-12 Education at Junior Center Of Art & Science (The Lake) / Discuss New Yorker Short Stories Meeting 11 at Alameda Free Library (Formerly A Peninsula) / Bay Fest at Shorebird Park (Berkeley Marina) / Brandon Jew on Mister Jiu's in Chinatown: Recipes and Stories from the Birthplace of Chinese American Food at SF Ferry Plaza Market (West Bay) / Santa Rosa Zine Fest 2026 at Northwest Santa Rosa Library (North Bay) / Half-Way To Halloween Cat Man Bingo Fundraiser at Two Pitchers Beer Oakland & Lovely's Beer Garden (Uptown) / Wandering Across Generations at Clio’s Books (The Lake) / To her rhythym 与她流淌 | Piano Works & Poetic Dialogues with Ting Luo at Now Place 此间 (West Bay) / South Asian History & Culture Celebration at YWCA Berkeley/Oakland (Berkeley) / Open Mic and  “Bone Cleaning” film, at Malaya Botanicals (Alameda, CA) / Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour at 70 Alameda and Contra Costa county gardens and homes (Alameda and Contra Costa)

Sunday, May 3

Roots & Resources, 10am, New Village Oakland (Eastlake). East Lake, San Antonio, Cleveland Heights folks, this is for you! Come over and co-create a neighborhood resource map highlighting the people, skills, tools, and spaces that help our community thrive. Help in the garden, meet your neighbors. [luma]

CIGAW Group Outing: Nature Bath at Tilden Regional Park, 12 noon, Tilden Regional Park (The Hills). The open mic happening, Can I Get A Witness?, heads out to the woods. This is for those who have participated in the open mic before, to bond with each other and the trees. Community looks like people who keep showing up. [insta]

OPEN CENTER: A Participatory Gathering - Memory & Storytelling, 1pm, Berkeley Art Center (North Berkeley). Place is what humans create through embodied action, repeated visits and passing stories down. Place continues to exist in our minds and memories, just as our ghosts and residues linger after we leave. We voice the words and ideas, tells stories of the people whose lives shaped urs too. Share all of it. What's been lost to the world but that we can hold together? When war destroys and displaces, we can write the map of what we remember. Facilitated by Minoosh Zomorodinia, with traditional Persian dishes served to welcome everyone around the table. [eventbrite]

Strong Like Bamboo, 1pm, Oakland Asian Cultural Center (Chinatown). Strong Like Bamboo keeps the cross-ethnic vision of the Third World Liberation Front going and shares a vision of persistence in the face of racism and oppression, in stories! [Oakland Asian Cultural Center]

WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU, 2pm, Shapeshifters Cinema (Jack London Sq) Korean film about a poet meeting his girlfriend's family and hanging out with them. Bitterly comic, lots of talking. [Shapeshifters Cinema]

[West Bay Bonus Event] Nisha Srinivasa - The Synesthete's Rainbow: Poetry in the Colors of Love, 2pm, Book Passage Ferry Building (Embarcadero). Oakland author and teacher Nisha Srinivasa has written a “poetic novella” (two blockbusting genres combined): Synesthete's Rainbow: Poetry in the Colors of Love. A toxic situationship and unrequited longing for it to mean something end up creating an exploration of love and color. You know, something good better come from a broken heart. [Book Passage]

Water Mirror Echo, 3pm, Tarea Hall Pittman Library South Branch (Berkeley). Jeff Chang is not done talking about Oakland's own Bruce Lee! He wrote a whole book after all, there's more to say. [Berkeley Public Library]

Also: Food Drive at North Branch BPL (Northbrae) / Gaskill Coffee Time at 1041 Arlington Ave (Gaskill) / Coal Mine Experience at Black Diamond Mines (Antioch): Greathouse Visitor Center (Antioch) / 2026 Jewish Arts & Bookfest at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (Downtown Berkeley) / Gilman Jazz Festival at Gilman Brewing (West Berkeley) / This Is for You: Dreaming Up Radically Good Gifts at Local Economy (Rockridge) / Amílcar at BAMPFA (Downtown Berkeley) / The Arch at BAMPFA (Downtown Berkeley) / Those Who Whistle After Dark at BAMPFA (Downtown Berkeley)