COLLEGE BOUND Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates and others want to create a “college-going” culture in the city. To that end, the mayor’s office, in conjunction with the Berkeley Alliance and UC Berkeley’s Center for Educational Partnerships is organizing the first city-wide College and Career Day on Friday. The idea is to help all students “visualize and prepare for a full range of post-secondary options through structural, motivational, and experiential college preparatory experiences.” More than 5,000 students will participate in city-wide events on College and Career Day. They will be encouraged to wear T-shirts with their favorite college logos, listen to their teachers describe their own paths to college, and various fun projects, such as a dorm room door decorating exercise. Mayor Bates will visit the King Child Development Center along with Oski the Bear, a school-wide assembly at Berkeley Technological Academy and a lunchtime rally at Berkeley High School. Details here.
AGE OF INNOCENCE Romp through Greenwich Village in the 1930s at a production of Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town by the Berkeley-based Youth Musical Theater Company. The musical, which opens Friday, Mar. 1, is based on Fields and Chodorov’s 1940 play My Sister Eileen. It follows the story of two sisters who have left their hometown of Columbus, Ohio, and are trying to make it on their own in New York. 16-year old Berkeley High junior Lena Mayer, plays Ruth, the older sister, and Catilin Cobb-Vialet, 17, a junior at Oakland Technical High School, plays Eileen. The play will be performed Mar. 1, 2, 8 and 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Julia Morgan Theater at 2640 College Avenue and Mar. 3 and 10 at 2 p.m. Click here for details.(...)
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