Performances

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

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  • Zero Charisma

  • Upcoming
    Films
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    Events
  • Selected
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  • Past
    Films
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Upcoming Events

  • Saturday, June 15, 5:00 PM

    Zero Charisma

    Join us for a performance by Oakland-based sound artist Zero Charisma. Fueled by her origin story as a queer, Black, and Indigenous Afrofuturist, Zero Charisma’s ethereal music envelops listeners in a dreamlike state, exploring stories of our spiritual realities.

    BAMPFA
  • Friday, August 16, 7:30 PM

    Brontez Purnell

    Brontez Purnell and his six-piece band perform songs by his uncle J. J. Malone, a blues musician who migrated to Oakland from Alabama in the 1960s. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration.

    BAMPFA

    Programmed by Sean Carson

Past Events

  • Wednesday, March 13, 7:30 PM

    Nite Bjuti

    Nite Bjuti is an improvising Afro-Caribbean trio tapping electronics, vocalism, bass, Haitian drum rhythms, sampling, and spoken word to create a sound that is “one of the most exciting and original I’ve heard this year” (BBC). The trio will also lead an interactive conversation on archives, sonic storytelling, and collaboration following their performance.

    BAMPFA

    Presented as part of an artist residency with the Black Studies Collaboratory, housed in the Department of African American Studies

  • Wednesday, February 21, 7:30 PM

    Modest Livelihood with Live Score

    A screening of the silent film Modest Livelihood, by Duane Linklater and Brian Jungen, is accompanied by a new score performed by a trio of local musicians. The score is written by eagles with eyes closed, a musical project consisting of Duane Linklater and Tobias Linklater, exploring the generative experience of watching films together as intergenerational collaborators, father and son, and two Indigenous artists.

    BAMPFA

    Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Duane Linklater: mymothersside

  • Saturday, February 10, 2024, 1PM , 5PM

    slow dark dances

    Dance performances that creatively embody the ideas explored in Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times.

    BAMPFA