"Birds in the Moon" & Friends: Outdoor Festival

2070 Allston Way,Berkeley CA 94704

28 August, 2021

Description

Join an amazing FREE Downtown Berkeley Festival of Opera, Music, Spoken Word and Dance! Six performances in two days, curated by SLAM, La Peña Cultural Center, California Institute for Community, Art & Nature, and California Jazz Conservatory. Among incredible poets, culture bearers, opera singers and jazz musicians, we will be able to enjoy the music of latin fusion band CALMAO accompanied by Cumbia Dancers from Colombia. SEE FULL PROGRAM BELOW: Saturday 28th August 3:00 PM SPOKEN WORD IN ACTION Poets from SPARC poetry by Bay Area Creative perform an hour long set of spoken word. 5:00 PM CALMAO A latin fusion band that blends traditional Colombian and Caribbean sounds with New Soul, Hip Hop, Funk and Latin Jazz. Plus: special guest Cumbia Dancers from Colombia. 6:45 PM BIRDS IN THE MOON An exclusive Berkeley preview of a mobile chamber opera featuring Maria Elena Altany, Austin Spangler & The Friction Quartet | www.birdsinthemoon.org Sunday 29th August 3:00 PM RE-INDIGENIZING CALIFORNIA California ICAN presents three remarkable California Indian culture bearers: Cafe Ohlone Co-Founders Vincent Medina (Chochenyo Ohlone) & Louis Trevino (Rumsen Ohlone) together with Storyteller Eric Wilder (Kashia Pomo) for a profoundly beautiful presentation with California’s first peoples via words, image and song. 5:00 PM THE ELECTRIC SQUEEZEBOX ORCHESTRA San Francisco Bay Area’s own 17-piece big band that plays music composed and arranged by its members, which include some of the very best of the Bay Area’s jazz musicians. 6:45 PM BIRDS IN THE MOON An exclusive Berkeley preview of a mobile chamber opera featuring Maria Elena Altany, Austin Spangler & The Friction Quartet. Organized by Birds in the Moon project | www.birdsinthemoon.org Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,The Downtown Berkeley Association & Meyer Sound. La Peña Cultural Center is a community cultural center with a national reputation and a global vision that promotes peace, social justice and cultural understanding through the arts, education and social action.As a welcoming gathering place, La Peña provides opportunities for artists to share diverse cultural traditions, to create and perform their work, and to support and interface with diverse social movements.Annually, La Peña presents over 200 events with emerging and established artists; organizes an arts education program; produces new works by local artists, presents internationally and nationally renowned artists, and houses a Latin American cafe which complements the organization's mission.