Welcome, dear readers. How has your summer been so far?
We’ve been staying busy. As is typical for the season, sunglasses are a top
seller with us (but we digress). What do nostalgia, comics, and gardening have
in common? This issue of the Site
for Sore Eyes Berkeley monthly events blog, that’s what!
Does the summer invigorate you to the point where you
sometimes feel like busting a move and breaking out into a dance of some sort
or other? Are you into the music of bygone eras of bygone eras, and wonder what
live performances of these infectious rhythms were like? If ‘yes’ to one or
both questions, then tonight is your lucky night! For $13 ($10 for students)
you can listen to the tunes offered up by the Stompy Jones band at the Ashkenaz
Music & Dance Community Center at 9:00 tonight. And, as the band plays the melodies of the ‘30s, ‘40s
and ‘50s, you can learn a few new moves from the East Coast swing dance lesson,
taught by Nathan Dias. So ring up your reservations at (510) 525-5054 (or order
online), slip into your dancing shoes, and truck on down to 1317 San Pablo Avenue
for a (literal) night of song and dance.
We all know about
comic books and graphic novels, but are there any webcomic enthusiasts in our
readership? Are you curious about this new form of comic? If so, you may want to
meet up the Webcomic Underdogs as they hold their informal get together
tomorrow night, right here in Berkeley. The meeting will be at Café La
Renaissance (not too far from us) at 3045 Shattuck Avenue, beginning at 4:00PM.
For two hours, attendees can network and learn about anything and everything
that has to do with webcomics – from concept and art to marketing and
monetization. At 6:00, you have the option of joining the Webcomic Underdogs as
they journey to the art haven known as Tr!ckster (2631 Ashby
Avenue) for the opening of the exhibit, “Hither and Yon – the Art of Travel.”
(Oh, the phone number for Café La Renaissance is (510) 705-1846, and the number for Tr!ckster is (510) 665-8900.)
Our Sunday event is
one that will interest anyone who is a gardening enthusiast. Do those of you
with ‘green thumbs’ know about wick bedding planters? They are an economical
invention that saves time and water in tending to your garden. If you have a
garden or plan on starting one, consider registering for the Wick Bed Garden
Workshop to be held at Urban Adamah, an educational farm and community center
that is located at 1050 Parker Street. The registration price is $25, and
covers all materials. Start time is 2:00PM. If this sounds like you’d like to
attend call (510) 649-1595 or email nathan@urbanadamah.org NOW, so that your space and materials will be ready for you to
learn and go to work. (Yes, you will not only learn more about wick bedding
planters, but you will design, build, and keep your own. Happy gardening!)
Well, to quote the
song from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel,” it seems that “June is
bustin’ out all over” in Berkeley. We hope that this weekend is a fun one for
you, and that you take in one or more of the events listed above. For other
options, click
here. And (yeah, here it comes) if you do attend one
of these events, and you wear glasses or contact lenses – use them! Don’t you
want to see how to dance the new steps, view the comics, or examine the
gardens? We thought so.
Thanks for reading…enjoy the weekend…and keep your sites on
healthy vision.
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