Sign Up at ASUC Studio to Learn the Art of Art Members of the campus community can indulge their creative spirits at the ASUC Art Studio, where instruction is offered in photography, ceramics, drawing, painting, video, digital imaging and other media. Classes begin Tuesday, Sept. 7, and run through Oct. 15. The studio is currently accepting preregistration by mail. Forms are available at the studio, located on the lower level of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union. In-person registration begins Monday, Aug. 23, and continues until the start date of the class or until enrollment is filled.
Space is limited, so early registration is advised.
Dancing in the Street at Berkeley Blues Festival Soulful music will fill the air Saturday, Aug. 28 at the fifth annual Berkeley Blues Festival. Located at Center Street between Shattuck and Oxford, the festival runs from 1 to 9 p.m. and features four critically-acclaimed blues bands, food from neighborhood restaurants and beers from local microbreweries. Participants may also enter drawings to win prizes. UC faculty, staff and graduate students are invited to audition for the campus-affiliated University of California Alumni Chorus, which this year will perform works by such varied composers as Domenic Argento, Stephen Sondheim and Carl Orff. Try-outs will be held in the lower level of the Cesar Chavez Center the evening of Monday, Aug. 23, and other times by arrangement.