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11 AM-5 PM
  • Activity
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  • Families
Sunday, December 1, 2024
11 AM-5 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Sunday, December 1, 2024
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

Sunday, December 1, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

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11 AM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Thursday, December 5, 2024
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
All Day
  • Art
  • Families
  • Free
Thursday, December 5, 2024
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
Thursday, December 5, 2024
1:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

Thursday, December 5, 2024
6:30 PM

A BAMPFA and Berkeleyside partnership

In celebration of Berkeleyside’s fifteenth anniversary, this episode of the noted Idea Makers series focuses on local journalism and the role it plays in our democracy.

BAMPFA members receive a special discount: bampfamember@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2365 for promo code.

All ticket holders receive free admission to the galleries on the day of the event.

Check-in begins at 6:00 PM; the program states promptly at 6:30 PM.

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2 PM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, December 6, 2024
2 PM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
7:00 PM
Friday, December 6, 2024
7:00 PM
Víctor Erice,
Argentina, Spain,
2023,
(169 mins)
Revered Spanish auteur Víctor Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive, El Sur, and The Quince Tree Sun) returns with his fourth feature, a meditation on memory, absence, and the magic of cinema—a “poignant cinematic swan song” (Hollywood Reporter). 
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11 AM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, December 7, 2024
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
3:00 PM
Saturday, December 7, 2024
3:00 PM
Maureen Gosling,
United States,
2023,
(107 mins)
For decades Barbara Dane lent her stellar singing voice to social-justice movements in the Bay Area and beyond, garnering an impressive FBI file along the way. “A true unsung hero of American music” (Boston Globe).
In Person
  • Maureen Gosling
  • Jed Riffe
    Jed Riffe is the producer of The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane.
  • Nina Menéndez
    Nina Menéndez is an executive producer of The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane.
6:30 PM
  • Film
  • Performance
Saturday, December 7, 2024
6:30 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1926,
(75 mins)
A fascinating early attempt to illustrate psychoanalysis on film. Written under the supervision of three students of Sigmund Freud, Secrets of a Soul is filled with strikingly beautiful images.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
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11 AM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, December 8, 2024
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Sunday, December 8, 2024
1:00 PM
Come to the Art Lab for a special postcard making extravaganza featuring a vast collection of rubber stamps created by postal artist and rubber stamp designer Leavenworth Jackson.

Included with admission

Series Workshops
Sunday, December 8, 2024
1:30 PM
Marion Cajori,
United States,
1993,
(88 mins)

New Digital Restoration

In Marion Cajori’s elliptical and intimate documentary, Joan Mitchell—the creator of an eloquent vocabulary of abstract gesture, color, and light—speaks about painting and life. Screens with Meg Partridge’s Academy Award–nominated portrait of photographer Imogen Cunningham.
  • Meg Partridge
    Introduction
    Meg Partridge will introduce her film, Portrait of Imogen.
Sunday, December 8, 2024
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

4:00 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, December 8, 2024
4:00 PM
Kelly Duane de la Vega, Jessica Anthony, Zandashé Brown,
United States,
2022,
(96 mins)
A searing look at the culture that overturned Roe v. Wade, In the Bones is a cinematic journey through Mississippi that provides a poetic and sometimes painful portrait of American culture through the ordinary lives of women and children.
In Person
  • Kelly Duane de la Vega
  • Jessica Anthony
  • Clare Major
  • Mario Furloni
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

7:00 PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
7:00 PM
Cédric Kahn,
France,
2023,
(115 mins)
New York Times Critic’s Pick: “An electrifying courtroom drama” that delves into the sensationalized 1976 trial of Pierre Goldman. The film communicates so much about the complexity of Jewish identity in recent European history.
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7:00 PM
  • Film
  • Performance
Thursday, December 12, 2024
7:00 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1927,
(106 mins)
One of G. W. Pabst’s rarely seen triumphs of lyrical realism—“among the culminating works of silent cinema, a grand attempt to synthesize Soviet montage, Hollywood action-melodrama, and German mise-en-scène” (J. Hoberman, Village Voice).
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
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2 PM-7 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, December 13, 2024
2 PM-7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Friday, December 13, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

For all members

For one weekend only, BAMPFA members get 20% off at the BAMPFA Store!

Members-only sale

7:00 PM
Friday, December 13, 2024
7:00 PM
Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France,
1953,
(147 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Four desperate men are hired by a ruthless oil company to drive trucks filled with explosives across a mountainous South American country in one of the toughest noirs ever filmed. Starring Yves Montand. 
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1 PM-5 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, December 14, 2024
1 PM-5 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Saturday, December 14, 2024
11 AM–5 PM

For all members

For one weekend only, BAMPFA members get 20% off at the BAMPFA Store!

Members-only sale

11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Saturday, December 14, 2024
11:30 AM–1:00 PM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Inspired by Robert Irwin’s Untitled, work with light, shadows, color, and space to make an experimental sculpture that changes according to its surrounding conditions.

Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child. 

Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs.

  • Tania Osorio Harp
    Workshop led by
    Tania Osorio Harp is an architect and PhD student at UC Berkeley.
Series Family Events
1:30 PM
Saturday, December 14, 2024
1:30 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1954,
(207 mins)

4K Digital Restoration
Also screens on Sunday, November 24

A ragtag group of samurai bands together to protect a village from bandits in Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, often cited as one of the ten best films ever made.

Presented with a 10-minute intermission

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

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Saturday, December 14, 2024
2:30 PM–3:30 PM

Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)

Get swept away in the sudden adventures of Kate and her brother Tom when they steam away on their own locomotive train and see the world around them with new eyes.

Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child 13.

Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs.

  • Jackie Overlid
    Reading led by
    Librarian, Washington Elementary School, Berkeley
Series Family Events
Saturday, December 14, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
Saturday, December 14, 2024
6:30 PM
Jacques Demy,
France,
1964,
(92 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

For those who love the 1960s, French culture, Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Demy, design, romance, musicals, or cinema itself, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg stands alone, unmatched.
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11 AM-5 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, December 15, 2024
11 AM-5 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Sunday, December 15, 2024
11 AM–5 PM

For all members

For one weekend only, BAMPFA members get 20% off at the BAMPFA Store!

Members-only sale

1:30 PM
  • Film
Sunday, December 15, 2024
1:30 PM
Agnes Martin,
United States,
1976,
(85 mins)
Gabriel, Agnes Martin’s cinematic celebration of freedom, happiness, and the beauty of the natural world, screens with Bruce Conner’s The White Rose, an elegiac ode to painter Jay DeFeo and her monumental masterpiece. 
Sunday, December 15, 2024
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

4:00 PM
Sunday, December 15, 2024
4:00 PM
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1957,
(101 mins)
Marecello Mastroianni stars in a romantic, sublimely artificial adaptation of a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story about people drifting along crossing, doubling paths.
Sunday, December 15, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2024
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

Wednesday, December 18, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
7:00 PM
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
7:00 PM
Claire Denis,
France,
1990,
(91 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

In Claire Denis’s surprising second film, Isaach de Bankolé and Alex Descas play immigrants who train birds for cockfights on the outskirts of Paris. The film “has a seedy, claustrophobic power that says as much about human as about animal exploitation” (Time Out).
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Thursday, December 19, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
7:00 PM
Thursday, December 19, 2024
7:00 PM
Pietro Germi,
Italy,
1961,
(104 mins)
Marcello Mastroianni in Pietro Germi’s Sicilian farce is “a terrific entertainment” (Chicago Reader).
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2 PM-5 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Friday, December 20, 2024
2 PM-5 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
Friday, December 20, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
7:00 PM
  • Film
  • Performance
Friday, December 20, 2024
7:00 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1925,
(154 mins)
The Joyless Street “is not only one of the most important films of the Weimar Republic, it is also one of the most spectacular censorship cases of the era” (Jan-Christopher Horak).
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
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11 AM–5 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Saturday, December 21, 2024
11 AM–5 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
3:30 PM
Saturday, December 21, 2024
3:30 PM
Charles Chaplin,
United States,
1936,
(87 mins)

Recommended for ages 8 & up

Charlie Chaplin’s politically outspoken film also contains some of his funniest scenes, in which he causes complete chaos simply by being human.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
6:00 PM
Saturday, December 21, 2024
6:00 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1960,
(175 mins)
A Federico Fellini masterpiece eddying around Marcello Mastroianni’s definitive performance as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence he sensationalizes.
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11 AM–5 PM
  • Activity
  • Art
  • Families
Sunday, December 22, 2024
11 AM–5 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series Workshops
1:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, December 22, 2024
1:30 PM
Marcie Begleiter,
Germany, United States,
2016,
(123 mins)
Marcie Begleiter’s compelling documentary is an indispensable aid to understanding and appreciating the groundbreaking work of artist Eva Hesse. Screens with Obata’s Yosemite, which reflects on the painter and educator’s life and his relationship with Yosemite’s landscapes. 
Introductions
  • Margot Norton
    Margot Norton is Chief Curator at BAMPFA.
  • Adam Prieto
    Adam Prieto will introduce his film, Obata’s Yosemite.
4:30 PM
  • Film
  • Performance
Sunday, December 22, 2024
4:30 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1928,
(98 mins)
Notable for its complex portrait of a marriage and fluid camerawork, and as an index of G. W. Pabst’s ongoing interest in female psychology, this cool, understated film may be his most modern.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
Sunday, December 22, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2024
All Day
BAMPFA wil be CLOSED on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Thursday, December 26, 2024
All Day
BAMPFA wil be CLOSED on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Friday, December 27, 2024
All Day
BAMPFA wil be CLOSED on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Saturday, December 28, 2024
All Day
BAMPFA wil be CLOSED on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Sunday, December 29, 2024
All Day
BAMPFA wil be CLOSED on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Thursday, January 2, 2025
All Day
BAMPFA wil be CLOSED on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Friday, January 3, 2025
All Day
BAMPFA wil be CLOSED on select days during the winter holiday season.
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Saturday, January 4, 2025
All Day
BAMPFA wil be CLOSED on select days during the winter holiday season.