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exhibitions

film series

event series

Black Life
Ongoing

Experience the vitality and range of cultural production in the African diaspora through this multidisciplinary event series.
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Family Events
Ongoing

Second Saturdays: Hands-on activities and participatory readings designed for kids and their families.
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Talks & Conversations
Ongoing

Artists, curators, scholars, and others share their insights on BAMPFA exhibitions, the arts, and other cultural topics.
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Full
Ongoing

Monthly Performance Series

Explore the BAMPFA galleries and discover exciting performances in our dramatic space on the night of each full moon.
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Readings
Ongoing

Meet the authors of new books and hear poets and other literary lights read their work.
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Performances
Ongoing

Music, dance, and other creative actions to inspire you at home.
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Workshops
Ongoing

Inspire your creativity, engage your senses, and expand your ideas.
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Five Tables
First Thursdays of each month

Five Tables is a monthly event coinciding with First Free Thursdays organized by the BAMPFA staff, and periodically by the Student Committee. Drop by the Florence Helzel Works on Paper Study Center for a curated behind-the-scenes experience.
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Art Wall: Caroline Kent
April 27–October 30, 2022

BAMPFA commissioned Chicago-based artist Caroline Kent to present The Sounds Among Us, a large-scale, self-reflective yet otherworldly meditation on the museum as a site of intimate performance and public engagement.
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Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping
May 8–November 27, 2022

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Film Preservation: Celebrating The Film Foundation
June 4–August 27, 2022

This series showcases an impressive range of world cinema that has been preserved thanks to a concerted effort by The Film Foundation and the World Cinema Project over more than thirty years.
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Indelible Moments: May I Have This Dance
June 12–August 25, 2022

A selection of films in which a dance scene crystallizes the experience of the movie, a moment leaving its imprint more than the plotline or even the characters.
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Forever Kinuyo Tanaka
July 8–August 28, 2022

Celebrated for her performances in films by iconic directors, Tanaka also made a significant contribution to the golden age of Japanese cinema as a director. This series features new restorations of all six of Tanaka’s films, along with works representative of the scope of her... View
Whitney Bradshaw: OUTCRY
July 13–November 8, 2022

This large-scale presentation of Bradshaw's photographic project features one hundred women engaging in unbridled self-expression as an act of defiance against patriarchal oppression. Running three times daily on the outdoor screen.
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by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022)
July 20, 2022–February 12, 2023

Best known as a core member of Fluxus, the first comprehensive exhibition of Knowles's work, spanning the entire breadth of her still-active career, from her intermedia works of the 1960s to participatory and relational art from the 2000s.
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Fluxus Reverb: Events, Scores, Boxes & More
July 20, 2022–February 12, 2023

An international movement of the 1960s and 1970s of artists working across disciplines and in a decidedly anti-commercial manner, this exhibition offers an opportunity to see Fluxus materials and many artworks in the form of a box, including numerous Fluxkits by a wide variety of... View
From the Front Page to the Front Lines: The Essential Sam Fuller
July 29–August 31, 2022

Ten essential films from Samuel Fuller’s influential oeuvre confront prejudice and inequity head-on, chronicling the grit, resilience, and soulful struggle of misfits, foot soldiers, petty criminals, detectives, and reporters surviving in the face of moral misgivings or... View
Free Outdoor Screenings—Indelible Moments: May I Have This Dance
August 4–25, 2022

Bring a blanket or lawn chair to BAMPFA’s huge outdoor LED screen for three free screenings.
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Undoing Time: Cinema and Histories of Incarceration
September 8–November 16, 2022

Including historical and contemporary documentaries, essay films, and works of fiction, this series reflects on the inherent racism and inhumanity of the prison industrial complex while celebrating courageous voices and acts of resistance from inside and outside of prison... View
Elaine May: Age of Irony
September 9–30, 2022

Highly regarded as a comedian, screenwriter, playwright, and actress, Elaine May had a more tempestuous ride as a film director—often at odds with the Hollywood studio executives. Her films are championed by many for their ironic humor, sense of spontaneity, authenticity, and... View
Hannah Levy / MATRIX 279
August 10, 2022–January 8, 2023

Hannah Levy’s tactile, creaturelike sculptures infuse the stripped-down lines of Modernist design with a visceral tension that is simultaneously sterile and erotic, amusing and disturbing.
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Georgian Cinema: Highlights from the BAMPFA Collection
October 29–November 27, 2022

Among the treasured special collections within our film archive are the rare and distinctive holdings of Georgian cinema produced during the Soviet era and since the country’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. This series features works by leading Georgian auteurs.
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Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration
September 3–December 18, 2022

Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration considers the foundational roots of confinement from philosophical, sociological, theological, and art historical perspectives to better understand the fact that today’s mass incarceration crisis has been centuries in the making.... View
African Film Festival
September 7–October 29, 2022

After two years of pandemic-related cancellations or virtual screenings, we are proud to welcome the African Film Festival back to BAMPFA. This year, open your eyes to new horizons, new heroes, and new narratives.
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