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If you haven't already experienced Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto, now's your chance to taste in full—with 27 participating restaurants, shops and galleries offering plentiful food and wine, what are you waiting for?  The event, presented by the North Shattuck Association and the Berkeley Lions Club, will benefit the Lions Club Community Fund Charities.

Art, theater and technology converge onstage in Sara Kraft's world premiere of Hyperreal. Sure, we all know that technology informs our lives, but Kraft delves deeper to see how it also forms our lives. Examine our world, where experiences are often technical instead of physical and question what that makes us. A fusion of text, song, sound, movement and live interactive video, Hyperreal blurs the lines between the tangible and virtual. Don't miss this live performance that the local artists is acclaimed for.

Whether you own any art or not, now's your chance to learn everything you ever wanted to know about collecting. Understand how to determine the true value of a work of art and find out whether auction houses manipulate prices. The panel's experts include Fraenkel Galley Director Frish Brandt, Modernism’s Martin Mueller, Jessica Silverman of Silverman Gallery, George Krevsky of George Krevsky Gallery and Trish Bransten, director of Rena Bransten Gallery. You know, in preparation for your big collection someday.

The approach is astounding. Instead of taking turns, the artists sit around a table and paint one canvas simultaneously, creating a single image from a single inspiration. It must be true: great minds do think alike.

If you're looking for innovate, modern and animated, come to Sirron Norris. 3-D video games, live paintings by author and a variety of merchandise will be available at the gallery. Come armed and prepared to see pop-up versions of high rise buildings and awkward, yet cute, bunny figures. We guarantee it'll be cool with some wine.