Wednesday,
May 9
Special budget meeting of the Berkeley Public
Library Board of Trustees, West Berkeley Senior
Center, 1900 Sixth St., Berkeley, 7 p.m., (510)
981-6195, www.berkeleypubliclibrary.
org.
Thursday,
May 10
National Women’s
Political Caucus meeting, Oakland City Hall, Hearing
Room 3, 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, 7 to 9 p.m.
Friday, May
11
“Touchable Stories,” multimedia
oral history exhibit about Richmond’s history,
1303 Canal Blvd., Richmond, 8 p.m., $12 general
admission, $6 Richmond residents, seniors and students,
reservations required www.touchablestories. org.
National TV-radio personality and
author Tavis Smiley host a will be in Oakland this weekend to
host a health and fitness expo at the Oakland Marriott
Convention Center May 11 and then lead a walk-a-thon
May 12. The expo is set for 8:30 a.m.; the walk
is slated to begin at 10 a.m.
Saturday,
May 12
National TV-radio personality
and author Tavis Smiley will lead a walk-a-thon
May 12. The walk is slated to begin at 10 a.m.
KFOG KaBoom!,
fireworks and concert with Kenny Wayne and Guster,
Piers 30-32, San Francisco, 4 to 10 p.m. Tickets,
$10. Advance tickets are available online at Ticketmaster.com
or Ticketmaster charge-by-phone.
“Touchable
Stories,” multimedia oral history exhibit
about Richmond’s history, 1303 Canal Blvd.,
Richmond, 2 and 6 p.m., $12 general admission,
$6 Richmond residents, seniors and students, reservations
required, www.touchablestories.org.
The 100 Black
Men of the Bay Area will host a dinner, fashion
show and dance at the Double Tree Hotel, Berkeley
Marina, 200 Marina Blvd, Berkeley, at 6 p.m. in
honor of Mothers Day and to raise funds for college
scholarships and mentoring programs.
The annual
California Wildflower Show takes place May 12 and
May 13 at the Oakland Museum of California the
weekend of May 12-13. The show is included with
museum admission.
The YMCA at 3265 Market St. in
San Francisco will host a program for a Saturday
cleanup as part of Operation Safe and Clean Streets.
The event at the YMCA features speakers, entertainment
and refreshments. The Saturday cleanup will be
preceded by a city effort May 11 to paint curbs,
trim trees, contact owners of blighted property
and tag abandoned autos. The event is co-sponsored
by City Council District 3, the office of the city
administrator, service delivery systems – area
1 (SDS-1), Beat 6 Neighborhood Crime Prevention
Council, Public Works Agency, Community and Economic
Development Agency, the Oakland Police Department
and the West Oakland Commerce Association. For
more information contact Annie Sloan, 238-2340;
Carletta Starks, 238- 7032, clstarks@oaklandnet.com , or Deborah Barnes, 238-6270, dbarnes@oaklandnet.com.
For additional information on the Great American
Clean-up, please contact Cookie Robles-Wong, 434-5126,
crobles@oaklandnet.com, or visit http://www.kab.org.
Sunday, May
13
The annual California Wildflower Show continues
May 13 at the Oakland Museum of California. The
Wildflower Show is a great place for moms on Sunday,
May 13, when the museum celebrates Mother’s Day with family activities (1–4
p.m.) and a concert (2–3 p.m.) with African
drumming and mariachi musicians. Admission is free
on May 13, one of the museum’s free Second
Sundays.
Friday, May
18
“Touch,” gospel
play, Stockton Memorial Civic Auditorium, 25 N.
Center St., Stockton, 7 p.m.
Saturday,
May 20
Jazz at the Chimes, “Almost Famous” jazz
musical, Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Ave.,
Oakland, 2 p.m., $10.
