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	We've done it together! The Centennial Campaign closes at $16 million!
	Cal Performances adds Haruki Murakami to 08/09 Season.
	Change your account details and preferences online.
	Single tickets for the 08/09 Season go on sale to the general public August 10.

We've done it together! The Centennial Campaign closes at $16 million!
Cal Performances successfully achieved and surpassed the $15 million goal for the Centennial Campaign with a June 30, 2008, final total of $16,045,000 in gifts and pledges. Further, by accomplishing this goal, Cal Performances is the recipient of an $800,000 Kresge Foundation Challenge grant. This is the single largest challenge grant The Kresge Foundation has ever made to a department on the UC Berkeley campus. Cal Performances marked these achievements with a Campaign Celebration on March 30, 2008. We thank our campaign leadership and all of our donors for enabling Cal Performances to begin its second century with the financial strength and resources to ensure that tomorrow's audiences continue to experience the artistic excellence that our audiences enjoy today.

Cal Performances adds Japan's Celebrated Writer Haruki Murakami to 08/09 Season.
Cal Performances announces an added event to the 2008/09 Season. Haruki Murakami, internationally recognized as Japan's leading novelist, writer and translator and winner of the Yomiuri Prize for his critically acclaimed The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, will give a reading and talk Saturday, October 11 at 8 pm at Zellerbach Hall. The author's numerous works, which have been translated into 36 languages, lead the reader along the intersection of the mundane and the sublime. A conversation with Roland Kelts, Tokyo University lecturer and author of Japanamerica, and a Q & A with the audience will conclude the evening. This event is presented in association with the Center for Japanese Studies at UC Berkeley.

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Cal Performances announces our 2008/09 Season!
Join us for a very special season at Cal Performances, the last in Robert Cole's 23-year tenure as Director of Cal Performances. Subscriptions are on sale now for our 2008/09 Season, including the West Coast premiere of Mark Morris's Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare, Cecilia Bartoli, Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Sellars's Kafka Fragments, starring Dawn Upshaw, Dianne Reeves, Laurie Anderson, the return of the Kirov and Bolshoi Ballets and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in a full, two-week residency. Our partnership with the San Francisco Opera also continues as we co-present three events together next season: soprano Angela Gheorghiu and tenor Salvatore Licitra, in concerts with Members of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, and the West Coast premiere of Jake Heggie's Three Decembers (Last Acts). And much more!

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