DBC First Floor and Outside
12:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Browse books, binocular kits, booklist. Stay for a family storytime (1-1:30 & 3:30-4pm) with songs stories and puppets. Make a cool bird craft, all materials provided. And you can even get a library card!
Location: 1st Floor, David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
12:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Come meet some of the many local organizations working toward a better future for the environment and our communities! Check out our “action table” for more information on how to take part in campaigns that support the planet and all its beautiful birds.
Location: David Brower Center (2150 Allston Way, Berkeley CA)
Time: 12-5pm
Organizations participating in 2023’s 3rd Annual Festival include:
California Institute for Community, Art & Nature, Golden Gate Bird Alliance, Berkeley Public Library, Bay Area Queer Zine Festival, Nature Sounds Society, Meyo Marrufo – Eastern Pomo Artist, UC Gill Tract, Heyday Press, Front Porch Farm.
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Join local artists hanging out in Berkeley Bird Festival Blue T-Shirts on the corner of Allston Way and Oxford in Berkeley (in front of Gather Restaurant) and /or in front of the Brower Center and spend the afternoon illustrating our local sidewalks with your original chalk drawings of beautiful birds. We are looking forward to seeing what kind of birds you create for our Birds on the Sidewalk Chalk Event!
Locations:
Gather Restaurant:
2200 Oxford Street (between Allston and Kittredge Streets) Berkeley, California 94704
David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, California 94704
Multi-colored chalk will be provided. Just drop by, no registration necessary.
This is an outdoor event.
DBC Second Floor and Terrace
12:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Make a bird zine with Bay Area Queer Zine Fest! Zines are DIY magazines that anybody can make and publish – we’ll guide you through the process of transforming a plain piece of paper into a bird-y minizine that you can share with friends and family. Reference books, collage materials, and art supplies will be provided.
Times: Please register at the link below and choose one of five time slots; 12 to 1pm, 1 to 2pm, 2 to 3pm, 3 to 4pm, or 4 to 5pm
(or, if you missed the registration period, just drop in to see if there’s a seat available when you arrive – check in with any BBF staff member in a blue BBF t-shirt when you arrive on the Terrace).
Location: 2nd Floor Terrace, David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Please note: this is an outdoor event.
Registration will open at 1pm on Friday, September 29 and close on October 14 at 11pm.
Please only choose one event session to allow room for others to register
12:00 pm
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5:00 pm
12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Details
Attract birds to your yard with a decorative bird house made from a dried gourd with Sumi Mullen, local artist, wildlife enthusiast & recent UC Berkeley graduate in Environmental Science, Policy and Management.
Sessions can accommodate a total of 12 people at two tables.
All materials are provided.
Time: Please register at the link provided and choose from five time slots; 12 to 1pm, 1 to 2pm, 2 to 3pm, or 3 to 4pm, and 4 to 5pm.
(or, if you missed the registration period, just drop in to see if there’s a seat available when you arrive – check in with any BBF staff member in a blue BBF t-shirt when you arrive on the Terrace).
Location: 2nd Floor Terrace, David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Please note: this is an outdoor event.
Registration opens on Friday, September 29 and closes on October 14 at 11pm.
Please only choose one event session to allow room for others to register.
12:00 pm
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5:00 pm
12:00 noon – 5:00 pm
Try out your hand at the basics of drawing and painting your favorite birds (or any birds for that matter) – with instruction from local artists who love drawing and painting our winged friends. Paper, paints, pencils, pastels, and crayons provided.
Each session can accommodate a total of 12 people at two tables of six.
Time: Please register at the link provided and choose from five time slots; 12 to 1pm, 1 to 2pm, 2 to 3pm, or 3 to 4pm, and 4 to 5pm.
(or, if you missed the registration period, just drop in to see if there’s a seat available when you arrive – check in with any BBF staff member in a blue BBF t-shirt when you arrive on the Terrace).
Location: 2nd Floor Terrace, David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Please note: this is an outdoor event.
Registration will open at 1pm on Friday, September 29 and close on October 14 at 11pm.
Please only choose one event session to allow room for others to register
12:00 pm
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5:00 pm
In-person Origami Instruction by the East Bay’s own Jun Hamamoto and her students from Folding Justice*. All origami materials are provided! Each session can accommodate a total of 18 people spread out around three large tables outdoors.
Times: Please register at the link below and choose one of five time slots; 12 to 1pm, 1 to 2pm, 2 to 3pm, 3 to 4pm, or 4 to 5pm
(or, if you missed the registration period, just drop in to see if there’s a seat available when you arrive – check in with any BBF staff member in a blue BBF t-shirt when you arrive on the Terrace).
Location: 2nd Floor Terrace, David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Please note: this is an outdoor event.
Click here for more information on the wonderful social healing work of Jun Hamamoto and Folding Justice.
Registration will open at 1pm on Friday, September 29 and close on October 14 at 11pm.
Please only choose one event session to allow room for others to register
12:00 pm
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5:00 pm
This five-hour, in-person, celebration of our winged friends features bird poetry, bird stories, bird art, bird sounds, and bird science with presentations from local writers, artists, naturalists and bird enthusiasts. Produced and hosted by Pamela Michael, Co-Founder and former Executive Director of River of Words — Children’s’ Environmental Art & Poetry* competition and Communications Director for the California Institute for Community, Art & Nature
Event is Live and runs continuously from 12 noon – 5 PM.
Drop in for 15 minutes or stay for the whole afternoon! We will have 40-50 socially distanced seats available in the Brower Center’s lovely second-floor Tamalpais Room. If Winged Wonderment’s seating is full when you arrive, seats are likely to open up soon. Check in at with the Winged Wonderment welcome table just outside the entrance to the Tamalpais Room for more information. Schedule of presenters will be posted on our site in mid-September (or as soon as we have it confirmed).
Location: David Brower Center, 2nd Floor Tamalpais Room, 2150 Allston Way Berkeley, California 94704
Registration is not required (First come, first served)
