Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, August 10–August 16
Happy first week of school to those participating in the project of public education! Bather’s Library Summer Symposium early bird tickets are available now, schedule to be revealed in short order! Clear your calendar for the last week of August: we’re doing ART together. On behalf of ORB, at the Symposium Cassie Thornton will reveal how she’s curating a class war (against Piedmont), but also botanical drawing, collage, poetry, and drag, to say the least. As a warm up, get your tickets to the ORB launchiversary party on 8/20 at Eli’s.
So much else! If you like to read, specifically out loud, to children, you can volunteer to do that regularly. The Bay Area Anarchist Free School’s new schedule for the fall is up and it starts with a “Fuck Flock” presentation this weekend. Orpheus Descending by Tenessee Williams plays for two more weeks at the black box theatre in FLAX that houses the Oakland Theatre Project, and outdoors, the Full Monty musical is being performed in the hills this week (without nudity I would imagine? More of a half monty amiright). There’s more Kubrick at BAMPFA, Cat Video Fest at The New Parkway, a shitton of opera from West Edge at the Scottish Rite Center as previewed by Pauline, and last but not ever ever least of your weekend possibilities: Oakland Pride is parading on Sunday. And so, this could be the month you finally fix things: your heart, your clothes, your entanglement with the culture of convenience over care. And in that spirit, you’re getting all the theory about what we are doing when we throw away things in this calendar. An Ontology of Trash, by Greg Kennedy (recommended to me by a psychologist friend studying disposability in contemporary dating culture) is your guide this week. He connects our attitude toward disposable objects and only valuing people until the shine wears off and the tarnish shows, and he points out that it’s all on the road to self-destruction of the human project through genocide and climate change. We’ll slow down and pick up a needle, some pliers, and even a smidgen of Heidegger to map our way to a different future. -MS, AB, TC
Tuesday, August 11
Adam Johnson in Conversation with Librarian Ian Hetzner, 6pm, Main Oakland Library (The Lake-ish). Podcast guy and media critic Adam Johnson, author of How to Sell a Genocide: the Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza, talks with Oakland librarian Ian Hetzner about his analysis of the machine of complicity in genocide that the mainstream media activated to give Israel and the US cover and quell dissent. [OPL]
Radio Club, 6pm, Local Economy (Rockridge). If you also want to be a podcast guy, or you already are, you can find your fellow faces for radio here. Audio makers and musicians will share short recordings of a work-in-progress and podcastrix Anjuli Sastry will guide discussion and workshopping with listeners and fellow sound nerds. [luma]
Hemming & Mending Clothes By Hand with Bea Byrne, 6pm, Rockridge Branch OPL (College Ave). Repair is a skill and a choice: practice it on pants and other garments with Bea Byrne. Per An Ontology of Trash: "In itself there is no good reason why the perfectly functional cup must be thrown out upon its being emptied. Nor can we attribute the mystery to mere convention, to the irrational mores of consumer society.... We must ask what it is about the being of commodities as such that they so readily turn to trash. At the same time, we must ask what it is about ourselves that we so easily trash the increasing majority of beings that we encounter in the world?" [OPL]
Wood Street, 6:30pm, The New Parkway Theater (Uptown). Come see the movie about the city displacing unhoused Oakland neighbors who have made a community together thanks to local governments dumping people where they thought no one would notice, until it was time to shuffle along again so the Ballers could have a parking lot. [The New Parkway]
[West Bay Bonus Event Number One] Thirst Draft x Decentered Open Mic, 7pm, Decentered Studio (Leather District). A special edition of the monthly open mic featuring Thirst Draft: write to a prompt that everyone will get when they walk in the door: what will you create in an hour flat? You still get just three minutes to perform so don't get too precious about it! [partiful]
[West Bay Bonus Event Number Two ] Happy Endings Show, 7:30pm, Make Out Room (The Mission). Local writers on relationships of all kinds, especially the kind that fall apart: Oakland's Daniel Lavery (Texts from Jane Eyre, Meeting New People), Nazelah Jamison (poet, performance artist), Rebecca Rubenstein (interviewer, essayist), Parini Shroff (The Bandit Queens and Some People) and the mysterious SKH who mostly reviews ranch dressing. [insta]
Also: Beyond D&D: roleplaying game night at Main Oakland Library (The Lake-ish) / [SOLD OUT] The Romantasy Fan Book Club: Arcana Academy at Book Society (Elmwood)
Wednesday, August 12
The Bike Fix, 2:30pm, Martin Luther King Jr. Branch OPL (Deep East). Fix flat tires, slipping chains, and more! From An Ontology of Trash: "'Trash' means a manner of physically relating to other beings. It is a mode of comportment, treating things without care, negatively, and destructively. By calling the disposables trash, I wish to draw attention to the way in which we exist as consumers in the throwaway society. We exist, for the most part, in a way that violently negates beings rather than takes care of them." [OPL]
Your Turn! A Community Board Game Night , 5:30pm, West Branch BPL (West Berkeley). A monthly board game night with host Kitty Stryker—this makes it onto the main calendar because Stryker is also an author of books, and specifically one who advocates for consent and avoiding burnout, and will help you practice those within new adventures in gamesmanship maybe. [BPL]
SOLD OUT Fix it - Break It! Lamp Repair Workshop, 6pm, Local Economy (Rockridge). You could have learned to fix a lamp here, but too many other people read An Ontology of Trash and decided to learn rewiring today. Kennedy is familiar with his Heidegger, so "The ontology of trash thus works out to be the history of human embodied being-in-the-world that takes seriously the physiological changes wrought by technology on our embodiment... The same behavior that engenders trash also endangers humanity. Trash represents a desecration of beings that contradicts our role as stewards and preservers of Being." [luma]
Stacey Yu: Kitten, 6:30pm, Books Inc. (Alameda Once and Future Peninsula). I was at the Alameda store the other day and poked around in Stacey Yu's new novel that was displayed up on the counter — and it gets weird and dark, guys. There's a cat who is too beloved and people whose idea of care for her is not in her best interests after all, and which causes all kinds of other relationship damage. In conversation with local author Addie Woolridge. [eventbrite]
The Berkeley Slam Feat. Jordan Ranft, 8pm, The Starry Plough Pub (Berkeley). Slam with writing workshop beforehand at 7pm, North Bay poet Jordan Ranft is the feature! YOU make up the judging panel AND the performers! [eventbrite]
Also: Daniel Squadron - The Fourth Branch at Book Passage Corte Madera (North Bay)
Thursday, August 13
Leamos Autoras, 4:30pm, Central Library (Downtown Berkeley). ¡Bienvenides al primer club de lectura en español de la Biblioteca Pública de Berkeley!¡Empezamos nuestro quinto año como club! ¿Ya te has apuntado? Este Agosto, leemos El buen mal por, Samanta Schweblin (en inglés) [BPL]
Meet the Author: Maggie Tokuda-Hall, 6pm, Main Oakland Library (The Lake-ish). President Emeritus of Authors Against Book Bans (AABB) and Oakland-based children's book author Maggie Tokuda-Hall talks about her determined, committed work to speak up for writers, libraries, and schools creating the freedom for children to read and learn about this big broad world we all share. With librarian Ian Hetzner, who is having a busy week. [OPL]
[West Bay Bonus Event] New American Writing Release Party and Readings, 6pm, Mechanics Institute (FiDi). This is an occasion that only happens once a year: celebrate the release of New American Writing Issue 43! An iconic, multi-decade long commitment in print to contemporary American poetry keeps going, spreading from the Bay to impact the nation. With special readings from Amy de Rouvray (West Bay poet), Ha Kiet Chau (Eleven Miles to June), Kit Robinson (author of dozens of books of poetry, what a life), Stephen Ratliffe (longtime Bolinas poet, typing poems about the day every day), and Cintia Santana (The Disordered Alphabet, “somehow, feathers / somehow, found”). [eventbrite]
Sense and Sensibility Screening at The New Parkway, 6:30pm, The New Parkway (Uptown). Continuing the year long course from Womb House Books in yearning! Come see Ang Lee and Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility, with all your '90s British faves. [New Parkway]
[West Bay Bonus Event the Briniest] Saint Joseph's Art Society & Lo-Fi Oyster Co. present Flore Laurentienne, 7pm, Saint Joseph's Art Society (SoMa). Lo-Fi Oyster Co. is "an oyster, jazz, and natural wine platform" so you never know exactly if there will be actual oysters served, but today they are on the menu in the most fabulous former church in the West Bay, alongside a Quebecois landscape translated into synth music. Check it out for the vibbbbessssss. [thethirdplace.is]
[West Bay Bonus Event the Weirdest] Club Chicxulub Returns, 7pm, Ocean Ale House (Ingleside). The speculative fiction reading series is back! Host Lauren C Johnson reads from her debut novel The West Façade, Devanand Addison Bhat will read both fiction and make music, and there are more readers besides: Matt Scott Carney, Rohan Dacosta, Kristina Ten, Kristin Eade -- man, we're lucky to live here in this density of writerly energy. [insta]
Subversive Cinema: Jafa Panahi's Taxi, 8pm, Nomadic Bookshop (Uptown). Made in secret on account of his 20-year ban from filmmaking in Iran, Jafar Panahi's Taxi is a bit of docufiction made with a dash-boarded mounted camera. Jonathan Rosenbaum once lamented that Panahi “seems to be valued in the West more for his persecution than for his filmmaking.” Here’s a chance to do your bit to change that. [Nomadic Bookshop]
Also: The Present Moment Game at Local Economy (Rockridge) / Hybrid Drag Show: Oakland Pride Ice Cream Social at Root'd in the 510 (Temescal) / West Oakland Board Game Meetup at Discover Community Cafe (West Oakland) / NO WAR ON CUBA benefit show at Tamarack (Downtown) / SOLD OUT Bats in the Evening at Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park (The Hills)
Friday, August 14
The Bike Fix, 2:30pm, 81st Avenue Branch OPL (Deep East). Minor bike fixes for free! "Waste offends us to the extent that it reflects back to us our own shortcomings, our failure to preserve the value that we originally invested in an object... When things degrade beyond our control, we think it unfortunate, but do not feel responsible.... What this points to is the importance of care regarding the phenomenon of waste. When, despite, or even due to our earnest effort to the contrary, we end up destroying a valuable object, we feel more inclined to treat it as an accident than a waste.... It seems then, that waste results from carelessness—that is, from a neglect or failure to care for the things we have valued." [OPL]
Readers Rendezvous in the Garden, 4pm, Garden Location upon RSVP (Berkeley). Join writer Ashia Ajani for one of her several garden days this weekend! This one is to read and discuss "Touching the Earth" by bell hooks. Organized by Aminah Hanif-Cruz of Black Girl Environmentalist, bring a mug for tea and a nice hat for the afternoon sun. [luma]
Fairyland for Grownups (21+), 6pm, Children's Fairyland (The Lake). The original puppet show at the lake, open one night only to all fairies and lovers of tales who have crested childhood and slid down the other side. [Fairyland]
Poetry! 6pm, Tamarack (Downtown). So far, this is what we know about the poems: they will be here, and they will be said aloud by Emily Wallis Hughes (her books published by Spuyten Duyvil, her job editorial director at Fence), Tika Simone (internet says she is a Canadian songwriter and performer who is kind of a big shot) & an unknown third — a throuple of poets! That’s how you know it’s going to be a good Friday night. [Tamarack Poetry Schedule]
String & Shadow Puppet Theater, 6:30pm, Jean Sweeney Open Space Park (Alameda the Temporary Island). Puppet summer isn't over yet! Paper mache, puppets, and cardboard create a night at the opera for all ages before the sun sets. Our only question: should ORB send our opera critic, our puppet vibe reporter, or solicit reviews from our children as part of our commitment to meaningful work experience for the elementary school set. [rhythmix]
Bill Rhoden in conversation with Moses Moody of the Golden State Warriors: 40 Million Dollar Slaves, 6:30pm, Marcus Books (Longfellow). Rhoden is a former sports columnist for the New York Times, but don’t hold that against him. It’s the 20th anniversary of his Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete, a book that took a lot of shit from white critics for the title alone, though the subsequent two decades have borne him out on the essential power dynamics in play. He’s talking with Dubs guard Moses Moody, who is cool as hell.[eventbrite]
25th Anniversary of "In the Light of Reverence" with Guest Corrina Gould, 7pm, David Brower Center (Downtown Berkeley). Honoring twenty five years since its premiere, this screening of Toby McLeod's deeply attentive film documenting the Lakota, Hopi, and Winnemem Wintu efforts to protect Devils Tower in Wyoming, the Colorado Plateau in the Southwest, and Mount Shasta in California is followed by a conversation between the director and Sogoroa Te Land Trust founder Corrina Gould (Ohlone). [eventbrite]
Robert Hass' "A Third Commonness", 7pm, Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore (Elmwood). Robert Hass has been a Bay Area poetry stalwart for decades: teacher, translator, anchor of poetry's connection to people and to land. He is in conversation today with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, about his newest book, collecting his prose about poetry: A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World, "as much a love letter to landscape as it is a sprawling exploration of poetic heritage." He just got back from teaching a course on WB Yeats this summer, so the bees of the Lake Isle of Innisfree may still be buzzing around him. [Mrs D's]
Musical Legacies of the African Diaspora, 7pm, Clio’s Books (The Lake). Cuban music scholar Eva Silot Bravo and Umi Vaughan who writes with empathy and funk about African diasporic music will share insights into the ritual and rhythm of these traditions, with samples of the sounds to anchor the discussion. [eventbrite]
Hours for Jerome, Parts 1 & 2, 7pm, BAMPFA (Downtown Berkeley). A two-part silent experimental film influenced by the disjunctive poetry of John Ashbery? Yeah, sure, why not. [bampfa]
Bathers Poetry Cohort Extravaganza Reading, 7:30pm, Bather's Library (Telegraph). Reading organized by poet Regina Napolitano and featuring more local poets: Kelly Donohue, Loisa Fenichell, Jeffrey Gray, Naya Kallison, Lydia Koehn, and Daniel Silber-Baker. The Bather's art group cohorts have been going for about a year now: find out what the poets have been up to, whacking away at their words all this time. [insta]
Also: Earthseed Remnants at ARTogether (Downtown) / An Unpractical Guide to Roleplay Games at Local Economy (Rockridge) / Friday Nights at OMCA with Ashley Mehta at OMCA (The Lake-ish) / Trans Grief & Joy Open Mic! at Nomadic Bookshop (Uptown)
Saturday, August 15
Bookstore Romance Day, all day, Pegasus Books and Books Inc (Solano Ave, Alameda, and More). Find your happily ever after at a discount at Pegasus, Books Inc (who is hosting trivia, pictionary, and a book swap), and other participating bookstores. [Pegasus]
Women in Wilderness: Paleontology Hike, 8am, Sunol: Visitor Center (Deep South East Oakland). Walk and learn and wear sunscreen on this hike a local wilderness! It says "Learn about women conservationists" and also paleontology, which is a lot to cover. [EBRPD]
Sugar Cloud Seance, noon, Winslow House Project (Oakland Part of Vallejo). "Durational sound & light." Artists of various kinds will perform, there is a "seance epilogue" by Keith Evans and a poem by Denise Levertov on the agenda, too. This place leaks creative juices but you know, in a good way. Come sop some of them up. [insta]
[West Bay Bonus Event] Watch a Banned Book!: Valley of the Dolls, 12:30pm, The Roxie (The Mission). An interactive viewing party, courtesy of Books Not Bans, for a movie so bad it…might just be bad. Stick around for Patty Duke yanking off Susan Hayward’s wig. Local burlesque legend Sgt. Die Weis will provide preshow entertainment, and Fabulosa Books will be there with all the banned books. [insta]
ANTILANDS 2026, 2pm, The Shore Behind the Bandstand (The Lake). I really like the original copy, so just leaving it as is: “Come join us to celebrate our disdain for the festival across the bay!!! This year Antilands will be on August 15th, so you can make the regrettable decision to go to Outsidelands the week before, AND ALSO come wash away those memories at Antilands the following weekend:- Enjoy the comfort and ease of a BYOB lifestyle- Talk to yet another Bay Area person about your phone detox strategy- Dance the last life out of your Tevas that have been begging to be thrown out for 3 years- Say hi to any doggies that come by while on a walk- Tell yourself that it’s totally ok to house 3 buzz balls to yourself in your 30s as long as you pass as 27- Watch someone swim in Lake Merritt and gain superpowers.” (Xander, is it you? Did we finally get an $185.20 per month subscriber?) [partiful]
Seasonal Mending Circle, 2pm, Local Economy (College Ave). Come together with Marthine and a small crew of menders to sew up holes, and learn about interfacing (we'll bring the iron and ironing board and the scrapbags). In An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy diagnoses us with capitalism, then prescribes exactly what we're doing here today: "Sitting confined to a computer for a day of data-entry can severely exhaust and tax the body such that it numbly craves commodities. The high-tech proletariat, which now includes most of the middle class, has lost even the remotest physical connection to the production of the commodities they consume.... The body cannot even begin to comprehend what does not physically present itself to its grasp... the phenomenon of trash is the excretion of the technologically alienated body." [luma]
Nest of Tongues: A Book Launch With Randy Ribay, 2pm, Oakland Asian Cultural Center (Chinatown). This is exciting! Ara Chawdhury shares a preview of her animated movie about a baby shapeshifter set in a world drawn from central Philippines folklore. Then hear Randy Ribay on his newest YA novel, Nest of Tongues, which should appeal to the K-Pop Demon Hunter fans out there: it's "a story about Filipino American teenage siblings/manananggals trying to survive as they’re hunted down by a legendary Filipino monster slayer." [OACC]
Wrenching News Workshops, 3pm, BAMPFA (Downtown Berkeley). Join artist Julia Goodman in creating a collaborative artwork that's part of the show featuring Maren Hassinger's work. Follow Hassinger’s specifications to turn the disposable material of newsprint into art. Fight against "impermanence, that chief characteristic of disposables, a likely derivative of the temporal void created by the possibility of human extinction" (you know the source). [bampfa]
Promises, 3:30pm, BAMPFA (Downtown Berkeley). Part of the running series on East Bay filmmakers. Israeli and Palestinian children from near Jerusalem and the West Bank reflect on their experiences of ongoing war in this documentary from 25 years ago. [bampfa]
D.E.A.R (Drop Everything And READ), 4pm, Chapter 510 (Old Oakland). Celebrate Black books, Black girls, and families who read together with Oakland Public Library and Sistah Scifi. [insta]
THEY HAVE NAMES, 5pm, Sumud Mural (Uptown). A staged reading of a text by Palestinian writer Mo Sati, telling stories and reciting the names of those killed in Gaza so they won't be lost to memory. [insta]
Woolsey Heights, 7pm, DM for Location (South Berkeley). A reading in a living room featuring Zoe Goldstein who writes on the intersections of waste, queerness, and anti-colonial literature, Courtney Bush (poet and author of Learning from Joyland), and Eric Benick (published in Antiphony, and "Listen I’m not polyamorous either but the rent is getting out of control / What if you and I—you know"). [insta]
RegularsOnly BONFIRE 2026, 7pm, Location upon RSVP (Emeryville). OK so I guess this is not JUST Pendarvis's birthday party but it is ALSO Pendarvis's birthday party. Celebrate the East Bay’s favorite man about town, occasional lyric-spitter, and always on the scene cultural critic Pendarvis Harshaw around a big bonfire and have a damn good time! [eventbrite]
Jail Support Fundraiser Party, 7:30pm, Tamarack (Downtown). Come through to support the folks ready to offer support, a ride, and help to those released from Santa Rita jail. Abolition starts with showing up for everyone who is getting run through and out of the justice system and bringing them pizza, a ride, or whatever they need. [insta]
Also: Family Movie Morning: Elio at Dimond Branch OPL (The Dimond) / Free Back to School Haircuts and Braiding at Martin Luther King Jr. Branch OPL (Deep East) / Gardening Workshop: Native Plants at Piedmont Avenue Branch OPL (Piedmont the Avenue, Not the Enemy Territory) / Tattooer Talk on Art and Methods with Leslie Mah and Xochitlpili 'Prince' Faulkner at Tarea Hall Pittman South Branch BPL (South Berkeley) / Lina Chopra Haldar's "DEAR MATH, WE'RE NOT FRIENDS" at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore (Elmwood) / Mushi Mushi V at Helvella Art (Fruitvale)
Sunday, August 16
Queer Ol' Time Poetry Reading, 11am, Bancroft Community Garden (Berkeley). Queer poetry series in the garden! Readers: alexis n garcia who "glitches traditional poetic form to construct trans time & non-linear meaning-making," Ashia Ajani (Heirloom is a favorite, Tending the Vines is next!), Sarah Nnenna Loveth Nwafor (goes by Nnenna and published the collection Situationship Bingo and whose gender is Igbo and Black Lesbian), and ry, who is mysterious. Pack a lunch and look at bees and butterflies while enjoying a very queer constellation of Oakland's finest edging into Berkeley. [insta]
Spotlight Sundays: Local Short Film Showcase and Conversation with Cinemama, 1pm, OMCA (The Lake). Watch two local short films connecting to the OMCA exhibition on local artist Mildred Howard. “Welcome to the Neighborhood” follows the Howard family themselves and Mildred’s mother Mable’s fight to call Berkeley home. “Blú Honey” by poet Donté Clark, is a lyric ode to four generations of Black men in Richmond. A conversation follows with the filmmakers.[museumca]
Five Films by Nathaniel Dorsky, 1:30pm, BAMPFA (Downtown Berkeley). Watch some pretty silent movies made by Nathaniel Dorsky after the tech existed to have added sound, but he opted out. [bampfa]
[West Bay Bonus Event] Bookbinding As Memorywork, 2pm, Now Place (West Bay Chinatown). How to make an archive from ephemera, fighting the entropy of disarray and decay? Bind it, hold it, stitch it, staple it to make a book, the embodied, tactile container for what we want to hold onto. Make your own importance. [insta]
[West Bay Bonus Event the East Bayest] What is (Contemporary) Poetry?, 2pm, Right Window at ATA (The Mission). East Bay poet Laura Moriarty (Which Walks, and much more) gathers some local favorites across the bridge to answer the ever present question, “What is (Contemporary) Poetry?” East Bay writers Brian Ang, Kevin Lo, Ivan Sokolov, and ORB's own Pauline Kerschen answer! [insta]
Mending: Machine Edition, 2pm, Main Oakland Library (The Lake-ish). "A society preoccupied with concealing its wastes must have, so to speak, something important to hide from itself. Rather than countenance its own negligence, a wastrel society might take Herculean pains to sweep its waste under the carpet. Beneath the strain of this impossible task a society can grow inured to its increasing absurdity," points out Greg Kenndy in An Ontology of Trash. Come to the library and use a sewing machine to fix up what's damaged in your closet. [OPL]
August Book Swap, 3pm, Root’d in the 510 (Temescal). Hard Copy is a new literary event meet up: today, bring a book, swap it for someone else's, puff and pass. [insta]
Jazz on Sunday in the Park, 3pm, Doyle Hollis Park (San Pablo Corridor). We jazzed it up in the library basement with a piano and sax-led quartet last week, but this looks even better: all women big band swing in the Doyle Street Park, celebrating the music of Melba Liston and Mary Lou Williams. Wear a good hat and get ready to dance! [OPL]
The Gyre, 5pm, Clio’s Books (The Lake). Stacy Carlson's new historical novel The Gyre from Alternating Current Press follows Arkady Afanasyev, who retreats to the polar North to find himself, God and the wild. In conversation with Oakland poet Paul Corman-Roberts as the writers explore ideas of pilgrimage and quests, how writers create the worlds they want to find, and more. [eventbrite]
Nostalgic For Nothing Cinema : George Jackson/San Quentin, 6pm, Moments Co-op (Downtown). George Jackson's books are still banned for reading in the entire California penitentiary system (alongside Dorsey Nunn's What Kind of Bird Can't Fly and UC Press's Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, gee I wonder what these books have in common), but on the outside you can read and learn about Black revolutionary uprisings against the state. Watch 1971's “George Jackson/San Quentin” and discuss excerpts from his book with other attendees in honor of Black August. [insta]
[West Bay Bonus Event the Beatest] Lew Welch Centennial Tickets, 6pm, Counterculture Museum (North Beach). In honor of Lew Welch's centenary, should he have survived his last mountain wander. Celebrate the poetry of the working man, the Bay Area docks, the Beats and all they have given us. [Counterculture Museum]
Also: 12th annual San José Poetry Festival at Poetry Center San Jose (Deep South Oakland) / Postcard Comics Workshop with Krusty Wheatfield at BAMPFA (Downtown Berkeley) / Hopkins Bikeway Victory Party at Cedar Rose Park (North Berkeley)