Explore the BAMPFA galleries and discover exciting performances in our dramatic space on the night of each full moon.
Read full descriptionChoreographer Risa Jaroslow and bassist/composer Lisa Mezzacappa collaborate on a performance featuring three bassists and three dancers interacting in tender, awkward, and funny ways.
Cosa Nostra Strings utilize their unique instrumentation of cello, viola, violin, trombone, bass, and percussion to invoke genres from chamber music to jazz to funk to eighties rock ballads. With an opening performance by the UC Berkeley Chamber Musicians.
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Programmed by Sean Carson
The Iota presents a site-specific performance of a fragmentary tragedy by Sophocles, Laocöon. Cellist Saul Richmond-Rakerd also performs.
Programmed by Sean Carson
Berkeley Ballet Theater and San Francisco Girls Chorus present excerpts from their new production exploring the impact of the women’s suffrage movement.
Recording artist PC Muñoz and a knockout array of Bay Area wordsmiths and musicians present an evening of literary and musical explorations inspired by the Beat Generation.
Programmed by PC Muñoz
We present videos by five cohabitating couples, who are also musical collaborators, created during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Choreographer Risa Jaroslow and bassist/composer Lisa Mezzacappa collaborate on a performance featuring three bassists and three dancers interacting in tender, awkward, and funny ways.