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September 18: Free Online Film Showing
Sunday, September 18, 2022, 4-6 pm: FREE ONLINE EVENT – Garden of the Peaceful Dragon Film showing followed by Q & A with director Daniel Peddle Space is limited – sign up on Eventbrite Garden of the Peaceful Dragon is an intimate and transformative portrait of Burley Luvell Benford III, the first African-American senior class president at Berkeley…
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July 10 : Edythe Boone, Artist’s Talk and Art Sale
Sunday, July 10, 2022, 2-4 pm Meet Edythe “Edy” Boone, one of the artists featured in the current exhibit on African Americans in Berkeley: Art, Entertainment, Literature, Sports on a Sunday afternoon (when there is free adjacent parking). Ms. Boone will give a talk at 3 pm. Both the Green Room, where she will show her…
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June 12: Out: The Glenn Burke Story (with filmmaker Doug Harris)
Glenn Burke, a pioneer in the national LGBTQ community, played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland A’s in the late 1970s before being banned from the game because of his off-field sexual preference. Filmmaker Doug Harris teamed with Comcast SportsNet/NBC Universal as a producer/director for this critically acclaimed 2010 documentary about Major League Baseball’s…
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June 11: Walking Tour, “Pearls on a Greenway”
This walk explores the history of West Berkeley and the Santa Fe right of way, along which we will experience the parks that have been created over the past 45 years since the city of Berkeley purchased it from the Santa Fe Railroad. It will cross Codornices Creek and Strawberry Creek, the nation’s first daylighted…
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African Americans in Berkeley: Art, Entertainment, Literature, Sports, 1940–2010
The Berkeley Historical Society & Museum presents Year 3 of African Americans in Berkeley, building upon the foundation of African Americans in Berkeley: Four Families introduced in 2019 and African Americans in Berkeley’s History and Legacy presented in 2021. Highlights of Year 3 are significant contributions made by Berkeley African Americans in the worlds of art, entertainment, literature and sports…
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Opening Celebration for African Americans in Berkeley: Art, Entertainment, Literature, Sports
Sunday, April 24, 2022, 3–5 pm Join the curatorial and advisory teams, headed by Stephanie Anne Johnson and Harvey Smith, Berkeley Historical Society volunteers, and local dignitaries for the grand opening of the new exhibition, the third in our series on the history of African Americans in Berkeley. Introductory remarks will take place in the…
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Homes for the People: Catherine Bauer’s 20th Century Vision and Today’s Housing Crisis
Thursday, April 21, 2022, 7:00 pm on Zoom Matthew Lasner, Ph.D., interviewed by Harvey Smith Catherine Bauer (later Catherine Bauer Wurster) was an important American advocate for affordable, quality public housing. Following a brief annual business meeting, the program will begin with a brief video presentation by Barbara Penner on the life of Catherine Bauer…
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Housing Panel
Berkeley’s Housing Crisis: Past Experience, Future Options Online Event, Thursday, March 3, 7:30 pm Space Is Limited – Sign up now for free or with a donation of any size. There are just 13 free tickets left. The Berkeley Historical Society & Museum is pleased to present a panel of experts to discuss and demystify our affordable-housing crisis, looking at both the…
A Window on the Past, "Exactly Opposite the Golden Gate"