Berkeley Hillside Club
Past Events
Many events have been hosted previously at the Berkeley Hillside Club. HistoryGuide currently has 45 past event listings in its database, shown below.
| Date | Event Information |
|---|---|
| 09/30/09 | Diane Ackerman: The Healing Power of Nature. Diane Ackerman provides us with an impassioned celebration of the possibilities of human consciousness during these, our numbere… (Community - Lecture) 510-848-6767. |
| 10/06/09 | Nurtureshock: New Thinking About Children. Po Bronson and Ashley Merrymans' New York Magazine articles on the science of parenting won the magazine journalism award from t… (Community - Lecture) 510-848-6767. |
| 02/14/10 | Tenderness: A KPFA Valentine Evening with Two Films by Haydn Reiss. Filmmaker Haydn Reiss will be on hand to present the East Bay premiere of "Every War Has Two Losers" - a poet's meditation on pe… (Performance - Movies) 510-848-6767. |
| 04/20/10 | Charles Bowden - Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields. Bowden reports: "The US government is pretending the Mexican army is some partner in some war against drugs. In fact, what's goi… (Community - Lecture) 510-848-6767. |
| 06/24/10 | Nicholas Carr - The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains. Mr. Carr presents a probing exploration of exactly how the Internet is rewiring our synapses and dangerously upending our cultur… (Community - Lecture) 510-848-6767. |
| 08/13/10 | Andrew Bacevich - Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War. The bestselling author of The Limits of Power discusses his new book. (Community - Lecture) 510-848-6767. |
| 11/04/10 | Nir Rosen: Aftermath - America's Wars in the Muslim World. Both a personal history and an unsparing account of what America has wrought in Iraq and the region, the result is a hair-raisin… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 01/16/11 | Richard Wolff: Capitalism Hits the Fan - The Global Economic Meltdown. Wolff's explanation differs sharply from most of the others by politicians, media commentators, and academics. Step by step, sho… (Community - Lecture) 800-838-3006. |
| 03/06/11 | Lust for Justice, The Radical Life & Law of J. Tony Serra. Tony Serra is a living embodiment of the anti-establishment hero. After graduating from UC Berkeley's Boalt School of Law in 196… 800-838-3006. |
| 05/20/11 | An Evening with Robert Bly. Since the 1960s, Robert Bly has written poetry ... based in the natural world, the visionary, and the realm of the irrational. A… (Performance - Staged Reading) 510-967-4495. |
| 07/14/11 | Christian Parenti - Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change & Violence. Hosted by Richard Wolinski, award-winning writer Christian Parenti travels the frontlines of climate change to reveal its econom… (Community - Book Club / Book Talk) 510-967-4495. |
| 09/19/11 | Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of his Funny Stuff. Live on stage. (Performance - Comedic) |
| 10/12/11 | Mark Vonnegut: Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. (Community - Book Club / Book Talk) 510-967-4495. |
| 10/14/11 | Daniel Yergin: The Quest: Energy, Security and Remaking of the Modern World. Yergin proves conclusively that energy is the primary engine of global and economic change, and is crucial to the battle over cl… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 03/13/12 | Hari Kunzru: Gods Without Men. Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape-shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, yet cen… (Community - Book Club / Book Talk) 650-704-7844. |
| 04/17/12 | Peter Beinart: The Crisis of Zionism. Peter Beinart lays out in chilling detail how today's Jews are failing at both challenges and how the next generation must embra… (Community - Jewish) |
| 06/19/12 | Medea Benjamin: Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control. Hosted by Laura Prives. The wily, nationally recognized progressive activist Medea Benjamin, cofounder of CODEPINK and Global Ex… (Miscellaneous) 510-967-4495. |
| 02/17/13 | Sasha Lilley Catastrophism, Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse & Rebirth. Sasha Lilley, a writer and radio broadcaster, is the co-founder and host of the critically acclaimed program of radical ideas, K… (Community) 510-967-4495. |
| 01/27/14 | The Future Is Here: Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee are predominately hopeful, even exhilarated by the new inventions on the horizon - futuristi… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 03/19/14 | Peter Dale Scott: Deep Politics, Dark Events. Peter Dale Scott's most recent books are The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America and American War Machine...… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 04/21/14 | Nomi Prins: Presidents' Bankers: Hidden Alliances Drive American Power. Nomi Prins is an American author, journalist, and Senior Fellow at Demos. She has worked as a director at Goldman-Sachs and as a… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 06/11/14 | Laurence Tribe: Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court & theConstitution. From Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, this Supreme Court under Chief Justice John… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 10/23/14 | Molly Antopol: The UnAmericans. A work of fiction that exposes the deepest emotions that tie people together and break relationships apart through various twent… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 02/10/15 | Eric Topol: The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands. The future of medicine is here. Low-cost smartphone attachments can measure your blood glucose and blood pressure - and can do a… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 04/08/15 | Penny Rosenwasser: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears. Penny Rosenwasser is the author of Visionary Voices, Women on Power: Conversations with Shamans, Activists, Teachers, Artists an… (Retail - Book, CD Signing) 510-967-4495. |
| 06/18/15 | Michelle Goldberg: The Goddess Pose: The Audacious life of Indra Devi. Michelle Goldberg discusses "The Goddess Pose: The Audacious life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West" wi… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 01/20/16 | Laurence Shoup: Wall Street's Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations. Mickey Huff, the host, is director of Project Censored and serves on the board of the Media Freedom Foundation. (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 03/09/16 | Rebecca Solnit: Hope in the Dark: Untold Stories, Wild Possibilities. Offering a dazzling account of some of the least expected of those changes, Solnit proposes a vision of cause-and-effect relatio… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 03/30/16 | Leonard Pitt: My Brain is on Fire: Paris & Other Obsessions. My Brain On Fire is Leonard Pitt's story of growing up as a total misfit in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s. (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 06/09/16 | Steven Hill: Raw Deal: The 'Uber Economy' and Runaway Capitalism. This book could not be timely. With every jarring day our seems to be more seriously broken, the social contract erased, what re… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 06/15/16 | Rebecca Gordon: U.S. Officials Should Stand Trial Post 9/11 War Crimes. To this day, the people of the United States have never had anything like a full accounting of all that has been done in our nam… 510-967-4495. |
| 07/13/16 | Mark Danner: Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War. In SPIRAL: Trapped in the Forever War award-winning journalist Mark Danner offers readers a shrewd analysis of why America's War… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 09/15/16 | Nick Schou: Spooked: How CIA Manipulates Media & Hoodwinks Hollywood. Journalists covering national security have a tough gig-they need to stay close to sources inside the government, but many of th… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 11/15/16 | Medea Benjamin: Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US-Saudi Connection. The co-founder of Code Pink & Global Exchange explores the relationship between the US & Saudi Arabia, a country infamous for re… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 03/07/17 | Gary Taubes: The Case Against Sugar. From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat comes a groundbreaking, eye-opening expose that makes the convincing case that su… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 03/29/17 | Andi Zeisler & Aya DeLeon: We Were Feminists Once. Andi Zeisler & Aya DeLeon speak about We Were Feminists Once: From Riot GRRRL to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Politica… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 05/02/17 | Susan Faludi: In the Darkroom. KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents In The Darkroom, hosted by Kris Welch. Susan Faludi's extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of ident… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 09/20/17 | Margaret Randall: KPFA's Tribute To Writer, Poet, Feminist & Activist. This rare tribute by KPFA is presented to honor the life & work of an author who has shown exceptional creativity & a lifelong s… (Community) 510-967-4495. |
| 03/20/18 | Sunaina Maira: BOYCOTT! The Academy and Justice for Palestine. The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the pa… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 04/12/18 | Charlan Nemeth: Defense of Troublemakers: Power of Dissent in Life. Americans have decided by consensus that consensus is good. Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong. She raises an… (Retail - Book, CD Signing) 510-967-4495. |
| 06/07/18 | Medea Benjamin Inside Iran: The Real History & Politics of Iran. Medea Benjamin is one of America's best-known & most effective activists, co-founding Code Pink & Global Exchange. KPFA Radio 94… (Retail - Book, CD Signing) 510-967-4495. |
| 05/02/19 | Tony Perrottet: Cuba Libre! Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution. Cuba Libre! is an absorbing look back at a liberation movement that captured the world's imagination with its spectacular drama,… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 08/14/19 | Dan Kovalik: Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: U.S. Creating a Coup for Oil. Since 1999, the US has been conniving to overthrow his government and to roll back the Bolivarian Revolution which he ushered in… (Retail - Book, CD Signing) 510-967-4495. |
| 02/04/20 | Peter J Honigsberg & Steve Wasserman: Forgotten Voices From Guantanamo. Now, in A Place Outside the Law, Peter Jan Honigsberg, offers the most comprehensive picture to date of the lives that were deep… (Community - Lecture) 510-967-4495. |
| 02/29/20 | Almost Speechless. The professional vocal ensemble Volti continues its 41st season of "singing without a net" in a concert program exploring the v… (Arts - Concerts) 415-771-3352. |
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