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Roundtable Reading: Bo at Ballard Creek by Kirkpatrick Hill

It’s the 1920s, and Bo is headed for an Alaska orphanage when she wins the hearts of two tough gold miners who set out to raise her, enthusiastically helped by all the kind people of the nearby Inuit village.
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Roundtable Reading: Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott

There are two rules when it comes to baby dragons: don’t let them out of the bag, and don’t feed them anything sweet. Before he knows it, Jaxon and his friends have broken both rules! Will Jax get the pint-sized dragons delivered safe and sound to the magical world where they belong?
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Gallery + Studio: Finding Form and Space in Black Abstraction

Explore the range of mark-making employed by artists in About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging and find fresh perceptions of space in their abstract works. Then, using acrylic paint and other materials, create a layered canvas of your own.
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Gallery + Studio: Shapes Are Facts—Looking and Making with Frederick Hammersley

Enjoy looking at the work of Frederick Hammersley, especially his puzzling and peculiar shapes! (Where do they come from?) Make a composition from your own intriguing cut-paper shapes and give it a special frame using our wide-ranging collection of collage materials.
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The White Balloon
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The Black Stallion
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Song of the Sea
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Livestream: Berkeley Peregrine Falcon Hatch Day

Stop by BAMPFA’s colossal outdoor screen on Addison Street between Shattuck and Oxford in downtown Berkeley on Thursday, April 25 to check out the livestream and meet our falcon experts! Berkeley’s most famous falcons—Annie and Grinnell—are nesting in the Campanile for the third consecu
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March of the Penguins
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Work and Play: Three Charlie Chaplin Shorts

These three shorts find Charlie Chaplin’s character at work and at play, often exasperated and hardly innocent. In Sunnyside, Charlie the handyman greets a Sunday morning in the eponymous village with little enthusiasm, and who can blame him?
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