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Terry Taplin
@taplinterry.bsky.social
Berkeley D2 Councilmember. Poet. Classicist. Cyclist. Urbanist. Go Gaels!
Celebrate Shabe Yalda and the Winter Solstice with Middle East Market and Cafe and Yara the Community Project! ❄️ 🍉 🥜 🍷 📖

Wednesday, December 17 | 6 - 10 pm
2056 San Pablo Avenue

Register: partiful.com/e/z6Qjg9Niuj...
December 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Join Chabad of the East Bay at their Chanukah Menorah Lighting Celebration and Parade, featuring live music, latkes, donuts, crafts, and games! 🕍 🕎 🎶 🥔 🍩 🎨 🎲

Sunday, December 14 | 3:30 - 6 pm
4th Street and Delaware Plaza

Register: berkeley.chabadsuite.net/civicrm/even...
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Check out the Berkeley Repertory Theatre's upcoming show, "Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story Told by Jefferson Mays", which runs from December 16 to 21! 🎭 🎄

Get Tickets: www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/a-chri...
December 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Winter Holiday Stroll
Tuesday, December 16 | 2 - 5 pm
South Berkeley Farmers' Market
Adeline Street and 63rd Street
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Shop local and shop small for the holidays in The Lorin District! 🎁

Kavamore Press' Pop-In Winter Fair
2828 McGee Avenue
Saturday, December 13 | 12 - 6 pm
Masked Healthy Hours | 10 am - 12 pm
Sunday, December 14 | 12 - 6 pm
Kids Secret Shop | | 10 am - 12 pm
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Berkeley Supper Club
Hanukkah Party
Sunday, December 21
5 - 9 pm
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Celebrate the holidays with Urban Adamah (1151 Sixth Street)! 🕍 🕎

Get Tickets: urbanadamah.org/events-works...

Hanukkah on the Farm
with Octopretzel
Monday, December 15
5 - 6:30 pm

Jewish Families of Color
Chanukah Celebration
Saturday, December 20
3:30 - 5:30 pm
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Check out the Berkeley Potters Guild's Holiday Show and Sale - this year's theme is “Through a Green Lens ~ Echoes of Earth, Vessels of Hope” 🏺

December 13, 14, 20 - 24
11 am - 5 pm | 731 Jones Street

More Info: berkeleypotters.com/guild-annual...
December 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Check out @berkhist.bsky.social's Holiday Book Sale! 📖 🎁

December 11 and 12 | 1 - 4 pm
1931 Center Street

You can also bid in their online auction on a lifetime membership that includes several of their publications!

Bid (By December 11): hotelshattuckplaza.betterworld.org/auctions/191...
December 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Join Donkey & Goat Winery at their Pét Nat Winter Artist Market, featuring artisan goods, festive beats, local cuisine, and crafts for kids! 🍷 🎁 🎶 🌮 🎨

Saturday, December 13 | 11 am - 5 pm
1340 Fifth Street

More Info: www.donkeyandgoat.com/events/event...
December 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Celebrate the holidays with the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay (1414 Walnut Street)! 🕍 🕎

Get Tickets: jcceastbay.org/events/

Family Chanukah Festival: Spark!
Sunday, December 14 | 2 - 4:30 pm

Older Adult Chanukah Luncheon
Thursday, December 18 | 11 am - 1 pm
December 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The art pieces must also offer nesting and shelter for birds and non-stinging insects!
December 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
@berkeleyca.gov is seeking artists for the creation of two vertical public art pieces in a future park being developed on the former Santa Fe railroad track bed in West Berkeley! 🌳

More Info / Apply By January 12: berkeleyca.gov/community-re...
December 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Exhibit Info: www.berkeleyartcenter.org/black-point-...

Then, spend a cozy afternoon at their Winter Welcome connecting with community members and Executive Director Gisela Insuaste!

Sunday, December 14 | 2 - 4 pm

Register: www.berkeleyartcenter.org/events
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Check out the Berkeley Art Center's upcoming exhibition, “[Obstructed view of the house through the trees with the road visible on the left side in the foreground.] or, black point reinterpretive site”! 🖼

December 13 - March 29
Opening Reception | 3 - 5 pm
1275 Walnut Street
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Tickets are still on sale for Berkeley Ballet's upcoming performance of “The Nutcracker Bird” - check it out! 🩰

December 13 and 14 | 1 pm and 5 pm
Oakland Scottish Rite Center
1547 Lakeside Drive

Get Tickets: www.berkeleyballet.org/nutcracker
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Check out what is happening at Cal Performances (101 Zellerbach Hall) in December! 🎶 🎻 ⛪ 🏳️‍🌈

More Info: calperformances.org/2025-26-seas...

Ensemble Cherubim Chamber Chorus (Dec 13)

Soweto Gospel Choir (Dec 14)

San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (Dec 20)
December 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Join @lunadance.bsky.social at their free Family Dance Film Festival, a day-long celebration spotlighting cinematic and choreographic inventions! 🎥 💃🏾 🕺🏾

Sunday, December 13
9:30 am | 1 pm
2:30 pm | 4 pm
931 Ashby Avenue

Register: lunadancecreativity.org/product/fami...
December 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Join Berkeley Humane and Headlands Brewing at their Adoption Fair and destress with dogs and puppies - 10% of sales will be donated! 🍺 🐶

Thursday, December 11 | 1 - 4 pm
2465 Bancroft Way
December 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Donate to the Pacific Center for Human Growth's From Joy to Justice Peer-to-Peer Fundraiser or help fundraise (no experience necessary) - your donations support LGBTQ+ mental health! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Donate: www.pacificcenter.org/donate

Fundraise: [email protected]
December 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Join the Hotel Shattuck Plaza at their 1910 Gala Soirée, celebrating 115 years as a historic Berkeley landmark and featuring a 7-course dinner, wine, champagne, live music, dancing, casino games, and a silent auction benefiting @berkhist.bsky.social, Berkeley Humane, and Dorothy Day House! 🏨🥘🍷🍾🎶💃🏾🎰💰
December 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Check out Berkeley Art Studio's Holiday Pop-Up Shop, featuring unique, handmade gifts! 🎁 🏺 🧣 🖼️ 💎 👋🏾

December 5 - 14
Monday - Friday | 11 am - 8 pm
Saturday - Sunday | 11 am - 6 pm
UC Berkeley’s MLK Jr. Building
5th Floor, Tilden Room

More Info: 510-642-6161 or artstudio.berkeley.edu/holiday-pop-...
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Our office got a behind the scenes tour with @maryannekluth.bsky.social, the artist whose exhibit, “Après moi, le déluge” is currently on display at @berkeleyca.gov's Cube Space Gallery at 2010 Addison Street - check it out until January! 🖼️

More Info: berkeleyca.gov/community-re...
December 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Celebrate the holidays with free matinees at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood - tickets available at box office (2966 College Avenue) Fridays before screening! 🎥

More Info: rialtocinemas.com/coming-soon-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM