Educational Events in El Cerrito, CA

A week-long camp to develop strong building and programming skills essential for the FIRST LEGO League program. Dates: Monday, August 10- Thursday, August 13 Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Location: Jewish Community High School Cost: $350 Recommended Ages: Rising 6th - 8th Graders Simulated Tournament: SUPERPOWERED Robot Game (2022) Four-day EV3/FIRST LEGO League camp develops strong building and programming skills essential for the FIRST LEGO League program for students 9 to 14 years old. The previous year's FIRST LEGO League game (SUPERPOWERED) is used as a challenge to provide a fun activity while the students are learning. Students will be provided with a solid foundation in programming with the EV3 programming language. The class will largely be self-paced, with each group of students working to develop an understanding of the system and ultimately competing in a simulated FLL challenge by the end of the week. Experienced FLL students will have the opportunity to work deeper and develop a stronger set of problem-solving skills. The camp will be maxed at 12 students to allow a high degree of individualized experimentation and learning. All camps are taught by experienced instructor, John Hagen, who has been working with FLL Robotics Competitions since 2007. Need more info? Contact: JCHS Robotics teacher John Hagen

Discover a powerful lineage of Jewish women who challenged norms, claimed their voices, and redefined what it means to lead with courage. Together we’ll peer into the bold, complex, and often subversive ways Jewish women across time have resisted, reshaped, and reimagined the worlds they inherited. From the biblical courage of Ruth, the moral tenacity of Judith, and the defiance of Vashti, to the modern-day boundary-breakers Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bella Abzug, and Barbra Streisand, we will trace a heritage of resistance that is spiritual, political, and deeply personal. Through text study and discussion, we'll consider what it means to challenge authority, live as a heroine, and act with audacity and as well as how these stories might inform our lives today. Rabbi Batshir Torchio is a ritual and spiritual practitioner who has been engaging with folks for lifecycle events and learning. She was ordained at AJRCA in Los Angeles, where she learned with rabbis and scholars from across the broad spectrum of Jewish movements. Batshir is moved by the translation and ownership of ancient ritual into contemporary meaning; to “make the old new, and the new, holy.” (Rav Kook) In addition to her role as Senior Jewish Educator at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Batshir also guides tours through Israel and Poland, and is a life-cycle officiant, both locally and abroad.

Join the CCSC Mural Project if you want to learn more about San Francisco Chinatown! Join the CCSC Mural Project! Dive into the alleys of Chinatown with the CCSC Mural Project! This fun, interactive event lets you connect with the community and experience Chinese culture in San Francisco. Whether you're a tourist or a local, this is the perfect chance to discover what Chinatown has to offer. Don't miss out on the chance to tour the heart of chinatown, try the chinese specialties, give back to the community, see local talents and make some new friends along the way! At this event you will: Go on a guided walking tour of Chinatown's murals 🎨 Experience chinese art and culture 🏮 Make a difference in the community by cleaning the streets* 🧹 Try hidden gems and delecacies from across Chinatown 🥡🥟 *Participants will be provided trash pickers and bags to pick up trash and beautify streets along the mural tour route.

Join Key Jo Lee, Chief of Curatorial Affairs & Public Programs at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD); Delphine Sims, Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); and Oakland- and DC-based DJ and producer Darling Cool for a conversation where photography, contemporary art, and sound come into dialogue. The program draws from BLACK IN BERLIN, presented by the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, featuring Ethiopian-born, Berlin-based photographer Yero Adugna Eticha’s multi-year portrait project documenting the diversity of Black life in Germany, alongside UNBOUND: Art, Blackness & the Universe, MoAD’s group exhibition exploring Blackness through abstraction, spirituality, speculation, and expansive possibility. Threaded throughout the conversation, Darling Cool’s musical interludes offer an embodied experience tracing Black diasporic sound from past to present — moving through memory, migration, and diasporic experience. Together, the speakers will consider how photographic archives and contemporary artistic practices open new ways of understanding Black archives, memory, and futures across place and time. This event is presented in partnership with the Museum of African Diaspora. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Delphine Sims is an Assistant Curator in the Department of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She completed her PhD in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley with a focus on Blackness and landscape photography in the United States. For her dissertation research Delphine was awarded predoctoral fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts within the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She previously held curatorial roles within the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Exhibitions she curated and co-curated include, (Re)Constructing History, Around Group F.64, About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging and the forthcoming Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds. In addition to exhibition catalogs, her writing can be found in Aperture, Matte magazine, and the Believer. Key Jo Lee (@keyjolee) is chief of curatorial affairs and public programs at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco. In this role, Lee oversees the strategic direction for the museum’s exhibitions and programs; leads globally on identifying and promoting emerging artists from the African diaspora; and works to expand MoAD’s reach and influence locally, nationally, and internationally. She is responsible for the overall management and execution of the museum’s curatorial vision, including its exhibitions, publications, and public and educational programs, and plays an important role in the organization’s outreach, communications, and digital strategy. Lee has a master’s degree from and is PhD candidate in History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University. Her first book, Perceptual Drift: Black Art and an Ethics of Looking, was published by Yale University Press and The Cleveland Museum of Art in January 2023. Darling Cool is a musically eclectic DJ, producer, and event curator making fresh and meaningful waves on her bicoastal adventures living and playing between DC and Oakland. While you can catch her selecting classics, deep cuts, remixes, and edits from across various genres of music—she places a heavy emphasis on sharing soul-moving, dance-heavy beats influenced by her Nigerian and German roots, and inspired by the wide-range of house music she was raised on. She has rocked stages from San Francisco to DC to NY and beyond, playing on direct support for Jayda G, Drama, and on bills with Kaytranada, Salvatore Gannaci, MK, JYOTY, Andre Power, Snakehips, and more. Darling Cool is ½ of A Party Called Butter, creator of Black Girls Link Up, and ⅓ of the renowned Bussdown Collective.