Terry Taplin🚰🏳️‍🌈🥑🌹🚲🚍✍️🏾

Did you know that the Berkeley City Council District 2 Office has a monthly newsletter? Our May 2026 edition went out today! 📰 View / Sign Up: terrytaplin.com/newsletter/

Check out the 12th Annual Bay Area Book Festival this upcoming weekend (May 29 - 31) in Downtown Berkeley featuring speakers, panels, workshops, exhibitions, and more! 📚 Register: baybookfest.org

Join the @CityofBerkeley at "Mindfulness Through the Ages", a free Mental Health Awareness Month event! Friday, May 29 | 4 - 7:30 pm West Berkeley Family Wellness Center 1900 6th Street Register: berkeleyca.gov/community-recr… More Info: 510-981-7624

Eid Mubarak! I wish you and your loved ones a joyous Eid al-Adha. May the divine blessings fill your life with peace, harmony, happiness, good health, and prosperity 🌙

Youths between the ages of 8 and 18 can compete at the @CityofBerkeley's Bill and Celina Rose 3-on-3 Youth Basketball Tournament! 🏀 Saturday, May 30 | 8 am - 5 pm San Pablo Park | 2800 Park Street Register: berkeleyca.gov/community-recr…

On this Memorial Day, we remember and honor the brave heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice and courageously gave their lives for our freedom 🇺🇸 🪦

Sun’s Out, Tongues Out! Find your summer sidekick at the @CityofBerkeley's Animal Care Services (1 Bolivar Drive) with free adoptions for May ☀️ 🐈‍⬛ 🐕 Monday - Saturday | 10 am - 4 pm Wednesday | 10 am - 7 pm Sunday | 11 am - 3 pm More Info: friendsofbacs.org

"Within this sculptural environment, bodies, objects, and ideas circulate in cyclical, sometimes parasitic relationships, highlighting tensions between creation and destruction, survival and excess – forces that shape both mythology and contemporary artistic practice."

"Here, cannibalism functions as a conceptual lens for examining consumption, desire, and extraction. It becomes a metaphor for how systems – social, political, and psychological – feed on what surrounds them."

Did you know that the @CityofBerkeley has a Cube Space Gallery downtown at 2010 Addison Street? Check out its current exhibition “Zahāk” by BSisters until July! More Info: berkeleyca.gov/community-recr…

Dark Greetings. Every night is Goth Day, but today we celebrate worldwide. I welcome and invoke the transfixing power of song and glamour to find beauty in even the darkest of times 🔮 🦇 Special shoutout to @kexp for haunting the airwaves today 🖤

Join Councilmember Ben Bartlett (District 3) and me for Office Hours! Meet your neighbors, share your concerns, and learn what the city can do to help. Tuesday, May 26 | 4 - 6 pm San Pablo Park | 2800 Park Street Southwest Side Near Tennis Courts

Check out @KalaInstitute's current and upcoming exhibitions! 🖼️ More Info: kala.org/gallery/exhibi… "…Or, the Whale" May 17 - August 9 "We’re a Mystery Which Will Never Happen Again" + "Amrita Singhal: Hello, Moon" May 26 - August 22 Opening Reception | May 31 | 2 - 4 pm

Hybrid Community Meeting Tuesday, May 26 | 6 - 8 pm Address and Zoom Link via RSVP City Council Meeting Tuesday, June 9 | 6 pm BUSD Board Room | 1231 Addison Street Zoom Link TBD

Come to a meeting and use an online survey by June 10 to inform the selection of the @CityofBerkeley's next director of police accountability! 🚨 Register / Take Survey / More Info: berkeleyca.gov/community-recr…

Join @CityofBerkeley at their Nature Journaling Club to develop closer connections with nature while sketching and water coloring the waterfront wildlife! 🌳 📒 Saturday, May 23 | 10 am - 12 pm Shorebird Park Nature Center 160 University Avenue Register: berkeleyca.gov/community-recr…

BUSD middle schoolers—join the @CityofBerkeley at their Teens Friday Night Splash Pool Party featuring a DJ and snacks! 🏊🏾 🎶 🧃 Friday, May 22 | 6 - 9 pm West Campus Pool | 2100 Browning Street Register: berkeleyca.gov/community-recr…

Join the @CityofBerkeley at their Poppin' Thursday Roller Skate Party featuring a DJ, a food truck, and spectator benches! 🛼 🎶 🌮 Thursday, May 21 | 6 - 8 pm Grove Park | 1730 Oregon Street Register: berkeleyca.gov/community-recr…