BERKELEY TIMES

On the morning of Friday, May 20, BerkeleyX will be visiting Rob Allen of Blue Heron Bikes at one of the BIKE TO WHEREVER DAY Energizer Stations. Look for us at the intersection of Ohlone Greenway & Solano Ave. Here's the link (https://bikeeastbay.org/find-your-energizer-station-bike-wherever-day-2022). Join us!

These images are from a video Berkeley Times Update "Shelter in Place - May 2020," available soon on YouTube. Check it out and let me know what you think.

RESILIENCY FAIR 15-minute Courses

But that’s not all. To encourage exploration of the community, there will be a morning and afternoon session of 15-minute courses, demarked with the sounding of a GONG. The course list keeps growing, but so far, here’s the preliminary list of courses that will be offered in the name of resiliency:

Pimp My Bug Out Bag
Intro to Tai Chi
Intro to Mindfulness Meditation
Intro to Cyber Security
Intro to IRA Accounts
Intro to Acupressure
Sound Healings of all sorts
Intro to Moving Qi
Intro to Feldenkrais
Intro to Exercising Your Memory
Intro to Portuguese
Electric Motorcycle demonstrations
Duct Tape First Aide

In addition, there will be "adults only" sessions in the Bouncy House, when the kids will have to defer to the silliness of their parents and guardians.

More about the FAIR
This year’s FAIR combines a wide variety of activities provided by a wide variety of groups that were SMOKED OUT by the North Bay fires in October. The FAIR will open with a blessing offered by the Indigenous Peoples’ Day Powwow Committee. Later in the day, there will be a speech by Mayor Jesse Arreguín and poetry reading by City of Berkeley Poet Laureate Rafael Jesús González.

Partial list of activities:

FOOD CONTEST, hosted by the BYA Youth Gardeners
SEED SWAP, hosted by Transition Berkeley with support from Ecology Center
CROP SWAP, hosted by Transition Berkeley
DIY Garden Exhibition, hosted by Spiral Gardens
CHIA, hosted by David Drummond
Bilingual Health Fair (Spanish/English), hosted by Multicultural Institute; LifeLong Medical Care, & Berkeley Healthy Families
Emergency Evacuation Prep, hosted by BFD and Berkeley Disaster Prep Neighborhood Network
Family Preparedness, hosted by Octagon Consulting
Innovations in Expedition Gear, by SlingFin
“People Growing Food Growing People,” a free book of recipes will be distributed by the Berkeley Community Gardening Collaborative (while supplies last)
KING MIDDLE SCHOOL Close-Up Trip fundraiser
KIDS FUN ZONE, hosted by the Rec Division
ADULT FUN ZONE, hosted by the event Committee
Berkeley Folk Dancers, hosted by Melvin Mann
Sound Healing Instrument Petting Zoo, hosted by Emile Janse & Jordan Blake
Breath Experience, hosted by Gretchen Vandersice & Marty Barclay
Cartoons for our Times, hosted by Damon Guthrie
FRESH TACOS by familia Chavez