Performances
- Upcoming
Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Upcoming Events
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Saturday, September 12, 2026, 2 PMThe Unlearning
Composer and musician Theresa Wong performs her 2009 song cycle The Unlearning—a reflection on Goya’s The Disasters of War—as a duo with violinist and vocalist Carla Kihlstedt, accompanied by visual projections by filmmakers Daria Martin and Mao Mollona.
Tickets required. Gallery admission included with ticket purchase.
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Sunday, September 20, 2 PMPink Trash at Crescent Lawn, UC Berkeley
Maren Hassinger restages her iconic 1982 performance Pink Trash on UC Berkeley’s Crescent Lawn, joined for the first time by six UC Berkeley students in a work exploring the encounters between humans and nature in public space.
Co-presented by the UC Berkeley Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative
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Saturday, October 31, 1 PMSteffani Jemison and Leslie Cuyjet on Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi
Artist Steffani Jemison and choreographer Leslie Cuyjet perform a collaborative piece that reflects on the dynamic artistic relationship between Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi, the intense intimacy and attunement involved in longstanding artistic collaborations, and the powerful intergenerational legacy of the artists' collective works.
Past Events
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Thursday, June 25, 5–7PMBlack Life: Transition as Miracle
What happens when two performance artists—identities unknown to each other as well as to the audience until the day of the show—come together?
This improvisational performance concludes this yearlong series titled AS LONG AS THERE ARE CATASTROPHES, THERE WILL BE MIRACLES, organized by Black Life guest curator Gabriele Christian.
Included with gallery admission.
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Saturday, June 6, 1:30 PMMaren Hassinger Tributes and Wrenching News Workshop
For the opening of Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing, the artist’s most comprehensive retrospective to date, central figures in Hassinger’s life and career offer tributes to the artist and her ongoing legacy. Tributes will be given by artists, curators, and art historians including Linda Goode Bryant, Ava Hassinger, Kellie Jones, Leslie King-Hammond, Senga Nengudi, and Lowery Stokes Sims.
Following these remarks, Hassinger will lead the audience in a newspaper twisting workshop titled Wrenching News.
Tickets required.
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Friday, May 22, 3 PMBlack Life: Bloom as Miracle
What happens when two performance artists—identities unknown to each other as well as to the audience until the day of the show—suddenly collide?
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Saturday, February 7, 5 PMBlack Life: Memory as Miracle
What happens when two performance artists—identities unknown to each other as well as to the audience until the day of the show—come together?
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Sunday, February 1, 4:30 PMFriends of Perfection
Friends of Perfection is a Poet's Theater performance co-presented by Small Press Traffic and The Lab.
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Saturday, January 24, 2 PM시( )nawi( )fugue (an improvisation, an offering, a reading)
Artist Jesse Chun presents the inaugural activation of her new performance series 시( )nawi( )fugue in a collective, improvisational reading that invokes artistic matriarchs and cultivates spiritual kinship across generations.
Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley's Center for Korean Studies and the Arts Research Center.