Our Venues

Accepted into the National Register of Historic Places, The Berkeley City Club is a historic hotel, event space, fine dining restaurant, and private social club. Opened in 1930 to honor the need for a women’s activity center, The Club, also known as the “Little Castle,” was designed by Julia Morgan. As a center for social, cultural, recreational, and family activities in the East Bay, the Berkeley Women’s City Club gained over 4,000 female members.

The Calvin Simmons Theater (The Calvin) emerged in the performance arts and events world in 1915 when it opened as part of the larger Oakland Auditorium. Throughout its 90 years of operation, The Calvin has hosted many performing arts organizations that reflected the cultural richness of Oakland and history of America: Chinese opera, jazz, gospel, classical, African music and dance, as well as graduations, recitals, comedy shows, and school dance performances. The rehabilitation and reopening of The Calvin Simmons Theater ushers in the renewal of a much-needed home for arts and culture in Oakland and the Bay Area. The restored theatre space provides a medium-sized, state-of-the-art performance venue for local and touring artists. The Calvin Simmons Theater is located in The Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts, a world-class event center at the former Oakland Municipal Auditorium. Within its walls are 5 spectacular event spaces: a 25,000-square-foot arena, a 1,500-seat proscenium theatre, a speakeasy-style lounge, and 2 hotel-style ballrooms. Conveniently located on the edge of Lake Merritt near Oakland’s Downtown and Chinatown districts, this historic building hosted countless performances, concerts, and recitals in its original 90-year run.

Renovated in 2009 and named in honor of a noted Mills alumna and patroness of the arts, the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall is a stunning 414-seat, ADA-accessible venue that provides the perfect blend of form and function. The centerpiece of the Mills College Music Building, Littlefield Concert Hall is adorned with dark wooden beams, wrought iron and mica chandeliers, and a spectacular ceiling of richly colored tiles. Encircling the hall are gold-accented, multihued frescoes by artist Raymond Boynton depicting an array of mythological scenes.

The Piedmont Center for the Arts is dedicated to coalescing the arts communities of Piedmont and around the Bay Area. The Center offers an affordable rental venue where artists from the musical, performing, visual and literary arts have a physical space to perform and display their works of art, and where members of the Piedmont community can gather to experience these creations.

Founded in the late 19th century by a group of Berkeley women to promote good design practices in the Berkeley hills, the Hillside Club today is a community-based membership organization dedicated to supporting the arts and culture and preserving our landmark building.

Zellerbach Hall is a multi venue performance facility on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. It was designed by architect and professor Vernon DeMars and completed in 1968. The facility consists of two primary performance spaces: the 2,015 seat Zellerbach Auditorium, and the 500 seat Zellerbach Playhouse. Zellerbach Hall is located on the south side of the UC Berkeley campus at 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800, near the intersection of Telegraph Avenue and Bancroft Way. Zellerbach Cafe offers food and drink before concerts and during intermissions.