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Taste of Oakland Festival: Noon-6 p.m. Aug. 4 and Sept. 1, Jack London Square, Oakland. Celebrate Oakland and the Bay Area’s unique culture of independent and iconic musicians, culinary talents and technology innovations. https://tasteofoakland.com/. Shiver We Timbers! A Peripatetic Pick-Yer-Own Pirate Adventure: Through Aug. 12. The adventure begins when the players set theatrical sail on the high seas, but when they can’t decide what course to take, it’s up to the audience to weigh in and choose their own adventure, which will alter the story and outcome — sometimes resulting in the epic demise of one or all of the actors, or the audience themselves. The tour will visit San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Santa Clara, Fremont, Pleasanton and Port Costa. Free. Donations accepted. http://peripateticplayers.org/schedule.

Simple white satin pants and leotards kept the focus on the bodies in motion, It now seems prescient that BSJ commissioned Jessica Lang’s “Eighty One” for the 2013 season, The company’s first foray into the tech-dance nexus, it features post-robotic movement and a computer-based, gesture-controlled theremin score played live by composter Jakub Ciupinski (how nice to have live music, which has mostly been sacrificed in the past two years as a cost-cutting measure), Lang whittled the ballet vocabulary down to micro-jetes, eggbeater chaine turns and fierce tendus, linked by invisible transitions and topped with flicking arms, Solos merge into synchronized lines like particles of space dust pulled together by gravity, The effect was hypnotic, and the audience surrendered happily, Alex Kramer’s traveling pirouettes a la seconde stood out among the otherwise ensemble group, clad in gray and ballerina slipper necklace, available in matte silver or matte gold, ballet dancer gift, toe shoe, cubic zirconium, dance perfor pale blue Lycra..

Samuel Carl Adams: The young composer, son of Pulitzer-Prize winning John Adams, grew up in the East Bay, performs as a jazz bassist, studied composition at Stanford and Yale, and lives in Brooklyn. Tilson Thomas, whose New World Symphony co-commissioned “Drift and Providence” with the San Francisco Symphony, says the piece utilizes sampling techniques and is concerned with “atmospheres — elegant things happening within a field of sound.” Paired with Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, “Drift and Providence” has its West Coast premiere Sept. 27 at the Mondavi Center in Davis, and Sept. 28-30 at Davies. The orchestra also will perform the work during its March 2013 visit to Carnegie Hall. (On the subject of sons of established composers and performers, Tilson Thomas said he “wants to find out more” about Gabriel Kahane, the indie-composer and singer-songwriter, who is the son of pianist-conductor Jeffrey Kahane.).

Sobel was with a crowd of people who had gathered at Mandela’s home in the leafy Johannesburg neighborhood of Houghton where Mandela spent his last sickly months, A dozen doves were released into the skies and people sang tribal songs, the national anthem, God Bless Africa — the anthem of the anti-apartheid struggle — and Christian hymns, Many wore traditional garb of Zulu, Xhosa and South Africa’s other ethnic groups, One carried a ballerina slipper necklace, available in matte silver or matte gold, ballet dancer gift, toe shoe, cubic zirconium, dance perfor sign saying: “He will rule the universe with God.”..

Roger Moore, 89. The suavely insouciant star of seven James Bond films. May 23. Cortez Kennedy, 48. The Hall of Fame defensive tackle was a dominating force for the Seattle Seahawks in the 1990s. May 23. Laura Biagiotti, 73. An Italian fashion designer who conquered global markets with her soft, loose women’s clothes and luxurious knits that won her the nickname “Queen of Cashmere.” May 26. Jim Bunning, 85. A Hall of Fame pitcher who went on to serve in Congress. May 26. Gregg Allman, 69. A music legend whose bluesy vocals and soulful touch on the Hammond B-3 organ helped propel The Allman Brothers Band to superstardom and spawn Southern rock. May 27. Cancer.