6.5.2023 ff, Berkeley, incl. Bay Area Book Festival

Bay Area Book Festival, www.baybookfest.org/schedule23/: What is Bay Area Book Festival? A bridge to everywhere. We believe books, and smart conversations about them, build bridges. At a time when so much divides us, we close the gap with programming that opens minds and hearts … Since 2015, Bay Area Book Festival has featured the boldest and most brilliant literary voices in conversations … with a focus on justice and diversity …

Incl.: „An Evening with Joan Baez: Trailblazing Musician, Artist, and Activist“, … Joan Baez is a dynamic force of nature. Her commitment to music and social activism has earned global recognition … Retired from active performing since 2019, she has devoted much of her time to the “Mischief Makers” series of paintings, portraits that immortalize risk-taking visionaries she has known and who have brought about social change through history, from Dr. Martin Luther King and Bob Dylan to the Dalai Lama and Patti Smith … – Baez will be joined on stage by Greg Sarris, who is in his fifteenth consecutive elected term as the Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria … Saturday, May 6 | 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM, Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, CA

B.R. Maybeck: First Church of Christ, Scientist, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Church_of_Christ,_Scientist_(Berkeley,_California): located at 2619 Dwight Way at Bowditch Street across the street from People’s Park …

The historic 1910 church was designed by … architect Bernard Ralph Maybeck (1862–1957), in a primarily American Craftsman style, with Byzantine Revival, Romanesque Revival, and Gothic Revival style elements … widely considered one of Maybeck’s masterpieces …

Berkeley in (Alameda County), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California (18.3.2023): … considered one of the most socially progressive cities in the United States … Berkeley is strongly identified with the rapid social changes, civic unrest, and political upheaval that characterized the late 1960s … Berkeley — especially Telegraph Avenue — became a focal point for the hippie movement, which spilled over the Bay from San Francisco … overlap between the hippie movement and the radical left … conflict over a parcel of university property south of the contiguous campus site that came to be called “People’s Park” … In the end, the park remained undeveloped, and remains so today … A culture of anti-establishment and sociopolitical activism marked the 1960s … The city … promotes greenery and the environment … is a leader in the nationwide effort to re-tree urban areas … also heavily involved in creek restoration and wetlands restoration, including a planned daylighting of Strawberry Creek along Center Street … Urban Creeks Council … Friends of the Five Creeks …