Terry Taplin🚰🏳️‍🌈🥑🌹🚲🚍✍️🏾

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Eid Mubarak! I wish you and your loved ones a joyous Eid al-Fitr. May the divine blessings fill your life with happiness and open all the doors of success.

Check out Holton Studio Frame-Makers and Gallery’s new exhibition, “Spring Favorites”! 🖼 🍃 March 21 - April 18 | 2100 Fifth Street Open House | March 21 | 1 - 3 pm More Info: holtonframes.com/gallery/

Join @BikeEastBay at their Beyond Driver’s Ed: Bike Smart, Drive Smart Workshop for an engaging session that dives into the rules of the road! 🚲 🚗 Saturday, March 21 | 1:30 - 2:30 pm South Branch Library | 1901 Russell Street Register: bikeeastbay.org/event/beyond-d…

Celebrate the end of Ramadan with elaichi co. at their Chand Raat Night Market featuring chai, food, bags, games, jewelry, henna, and more! 🌙 🍵 🍪 👝 🎲 💎 Thursday, March 19 | 8 - 11 pm 2161 Allston Way Register: partiful.com/e/1EtiUxSBzB8O…

Join @Persian_Center for Chaharshanbe Suri, a ritual of fire and renewal marking the passage from darkness to light, to bid farewell to the cold of winter and welcome the renewal of spring! 🔥🍃 Tuesday, March 17 | 6 - 10 pm 2029 Durant Avenue More Info: persiancenter.org

Sláinte and Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! May the road rise up to meet you and the wind be always at your back ☘️

Huge thanks to our Public Works Department’s Transportation Division for making Berkeley one of the first cities to reach 100% compliance. This was made possible in part by Measure FF - thank you Berkeley residents! I am so proud of our unwavering commitment to safe streets.

Last week, I joined the @CityofBerkeley team at Strawberry Creek Park to celebrate the completion of our AB 413 daylighting project to red curb over 1000 crosswalks citywide.

Ribbon Cutting and Open House Friday, March 27 | 4 - 6 pm Davis Law, PC | 2907 Claremont Avenue

Check out what is happening with the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce in March! 💼 🎀 ✂️ Register: berkeleychamber.com Ribbon Cutting and Business After Hours Thursday, March 19 | 4 - 6 pm Senior Alternatives | 2350 San Pablo Avenue

“The Waiting Period” By Brian Copeland Thursday, March 19 | 7 pm

Check out what is new @ILoveTheMarsh (2120 Allston Way) in March! 🎭 Get Tickets: themarsh.org/shows_and_even… “Looking For Justice (In All The Wrong Places)” By Amy Oppenheimer March 1 - 29 “Pass the Nails and Shame the Devil” By Pearl Louise March 7 - April 18

"Swamps, spines, salt marshes, and cuttlefish are oracles of a world in flux. These works do not simply document a world unraveling; they gesture toward new ways of sensing and assembling life from its remnants, divining what futures might still be born from what remains."

"Bodies become sites of alchemical transformation: dissected, preserved, electrified, yet beneath this material fragmentation lies a persistent longing for connection, for the umbilical, for the moist nothing from which all things emerged."

Check out 120710 Gallery's current exhibition, "One Molecule Said Yes to Another (And Life Was Born)"! 🖼 March 7 - 28 | 1207 10th Street Closing Reception | 12 - 4 pm More Info: 120710.art/show/25/

Take a survey by March 18 to help shape a variety of proposals for how the @CityofBerkeley would manage on-street parking near transit stations, on its busiest streets, and in business districts! 🅿️ More Info: berkeleyca.gov/community-recr…

Check out the Berkeley Poetry Festival from March 16 to 22, featuring workshops, readings, open mics, performances, queer celebration, and awards! 📝 More Info: berkeleypoetryfestival.com

Join the @CityofBerkeley at their Berkeley Pier-Ferry Project Draft Environmental Impact Report virtual community meeting! ⛴️ Monday, March 16 | 6 - 7:30 pm Register: berkeleyca.gov/community-recr… Submit Written Comments (By April 13): lmcnulty@berkeleyca.gov