Music, dance, and other creative actions to inspire you at home.
Read full descriptionAccomplished international recording artist and Oakland native Femi Andrades (FEMI) brings her latest project, “The Gypsy Chronicles,” to our performance space.
This event has been postponed to Friday, June 3.
Acclaimed Bay Area percussionist, recording artist, and producer PC Muñoz returns to BAMPFA with an evening of Debussy’s legendary “Clair de Lune,” rendered in three completely different ways.
This event has been postponed due to COVID-19 related operational concerns. Learn more
The Future Is Female, Sarah Cahill’s seven-hour marathon investigation and reframing of the piano literature, allows audience members to listen for any length of time, come and go, and walk around the space.
Explore the galleries and discover exciting performances in our dramatic space on the night of each full moon.
Programmed by William Skeen
Explore the galleries and discover exciting performances in our dramatic space on the night of each full moon.
Programmed by William Skeen
The return of live music in the museum, featuring one of the Bay Area’s premiere Baroque music ensembles in collaboration with soprano Michele Kennedy on the night of the full moon.
Period instrumentalists of the Contra Costa Trio reflect on the exhibition The Enduring Mark: Six Centuries of Drawing from the Gray Collection in a concert recorded at BAMPFA.
Programmed by William Skeen
The Korean musical group Ensemble PHASE performs excerpts from composer Edward Schocker’s new work Self_Less, along with traditional Korean music
Programmed by Thingamajigs
An eleven-hour marathon experience of word and sound with poet Stephen Ratcliffe and the Thingamajigs Performance Group, followed by a live Q&A.
Programmed by Thingamajigs
Hear from members of local ensembles who developed ways to make music together during the pandemic.
Programmed by Thingamajigs
Local jazz harp legend Destiny Muhammad presents her new work Rosie Lee Tompkins: Guided by Something More Powerful, an improvised sonic suite livestreamed from the gallery of Tompkins’s artwork.
Artists Sudhu Tewari and Theresa Wong discuss real estate redlining and equity and share from their sonic portfolios
Programmed by Thingamajigs
Recent alumni of the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts program for young artists premiere their work-in-progress video opera, developed with the mentorship of writer Beth Lisick and composer Lisa Mezzacappa.
We present the online premiere of two episodes of The Electronic Lover, a new “audio opera” by Bay Area composer Lisa Mezzacappa and New York writer Beth Lisick. The cast and creators join us for a conversation.
Programmed by Sean Carson
Choreographer Kathryn Roszak presents a second program of recent ballet works by local women choreographers, featuring Smuin Ballet, Berkeley Ballet Theater, Diablo Ballet, and Danse Lumière.
Programmed by Kathryn Roszak
Choreographer Kathryn Roszak presents recent ballet works by local women choreographers, featuring Smuin Ballet, Berkeley Ballet Theater, Diablo Ballet, and Danse Lumière.
Berkeley’s own SPELLLING weaves rich sonic textures into dramatic compositions that are equal parts dream-state ritual and earthy funk, showing off her expressive vocal styles.
Music producer Dax Pierson discusses his work with Black Life cocurator Ryanaustin Dennis.
Post:Ballet presents the premiere of La Folia, a ballet duet, along with other works.
Programmed by Sean Carson
Powerhouse vocalist and songwriter Destani Wolf mixes live performance and multimedia in this special event.
Programmed by Sean Carson
Artist Michele Pred presents a feminist digital art parade that combines recordings of two parades performed in New York and Oakland with live music, guest speakers, sing-alongs, and more.
Poet Anne Lesley Selcer and artist Guta Galli present a collaborative video and are interviewed by Alix Blevins.
Programmed by Alix Blevins
A livestream performance by Cosa Nostra Strings, a five-piece powerhouse crew of conservatory-trained classical musicians who bring a provocative, precise, punk-rock personality to a diversity of genres and styles.
Programmed by Sean Carson
Composer and electroacoustic musician Zachary James Watkins investigates “high vibration resonance” in this livestream performance from isolation.
Programmed by Sean Carson
Join us for this livestream of Music for Hard Times, a work of experimental music commissioned by The Living Earth Show as a sonic resource for comfort and calming.
A new dance work from inkBoat followed by a live interview and participatory exercise.
Bassist Lisa Mezzacappa and guitarist John Finkbeiner perform from New, Improved Recording in Oakland, California.
Cellist Isaac Pastor-Chermak and pianist Alison Lee team up for an exclusive at-home performance of a Beethoven sonata, in celebration of his 250th birthday in December 2020.
Violist Charlton Lee and cellist Kathryn Bates of Del Sol Quartet perform from home, including two pieces composed during shelter-in-place.
Theresa Wong and Ellen Fullman reveal their music recording process while sheltering in place at home.
Prodigious percussionist Kevin Carnes, along with friends and family, created this video, a meditation on what pandemic isolation means in musical and social terms.
Husband-and-wife duo Adam Theis and Shaina Evoniuk of Jazz Mafia perform from home.