Talks & Conversations
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Artists, curators, scholars, and others share their insights on BAMPFA exhibitions, the arts, and other cultural topics.
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Artist’s Talk and Conversation: Lauren Rose D’Amato
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Upcoming Events
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Wednesday, May 8, 6:30–8:00 PMBerkeleyside Idea Makers: Fungi, Foraging and the Promise of Plant-based Meats
Join us for an immersive, lively conversation on plant-based meats, foraging adventures, and the captivating world of fungi.
Presented by Berkeleyside in partnership with BAMPFA
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Friday, May 10, 6:00 PMMFA Artists’ Talk
Meet the 2024 graduates of UC Berkeley’s Master of Fine Arts program as they talk about their recent work at the outset of BAMPFA’s fifty-fourth annual MFA exhibition. This year’s artists are Salimatu Amabebe, Anamaya Farthing-Kohl, Valencia James, and Nivedita Madigubba.
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Saturday, June 15, 1:30 PMFilm Screening and Conversation: Akea Brionne and Jamea Richmond-Edwards
A screening of films by Akea Brionne and Jamea Richmond-Edwards, two of the artists featured in A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, followed by a conversation with both artists and Senior Curator Anthony Graham.
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Wednesday, August 7, 5:00 PMArtist’s Talk and Conversation: Lauren Rose D’Amato
San Francisco–based artist Lauren Rose D’Amato addresses her newly commissioned Art Wall with Claire Frost, former BAMPFA Curatorial Associate.
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Wednesday, August 7, 6:00 PMArtist’s Talk and Conversation: Young Joon Kwak
Los Angeles–based artist Young Joon Kwak talks about their new sculptural installation, commissioned for MATRIX 285 / Young Joon Kwak: Resistance Pleasure, with Anthony Graham, Senior Curator.
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Saturday, September 21, 1:30 PMA Movement in Every Direction: Roundtable Discussion with Exhibition Artists and Curators
A roundtable discussion with the co-curators of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, and some of the featured artists. Moderated by BAMPFA Senior Curator Anthony Graham.
Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities
Past Events
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Saturday, April 6, 1 PMLijin Lecture: Yee I-Lann on TIKAR/MEJA/PLASTIK and Art and Film from Borneo
Artist Yee I-Lann presents BAMPFA’s 2024 endowed Lijin Lecture in conjunction with her Art Wall project, TIKAR/MEJA/PLASTIK. The Borneo-based multidisciplinary artist addresses this work in the context of her wider practice, and in relation to the art and film landscape in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on issues of climate crisis, precarious ecologies, and the creation of resilient communities. The lecture will be followed by a screening of short films from Borneo.
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Friday, April 5, 5 PMReading: Ocean Vuong
Ocean Vuong presents a poetry reading focusing on Time Is a Mother. In this latest poetry collection, he searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death and—in concert with the themes of his novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous—contends with loss and the meaning of family.
Presented by the Townsend Center for the Humanities in partnership with BAMPFA
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Thursday, April 24, 5 PMOcean Vuong in Conversation with Cathy Park Hong
Join writer and UC Berkeley professor of English Cathy Park Hong in conversation with Ocean Vuong, 2023–24 Avenali Chair in the Humanities, and the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, named one of the top ten books of 2019 by the Washington Post and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Presented by UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities in partnership with BAMPFA
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Thursday, March 28, 6:30 PMCalifornia Live!: Will AI Be Humanity’s Last Act?
UC Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell, one of the world’s leading AI researchers, converses with California magazine’s editor-in-chief, Pat Joseph, about the perils and potential promise of the AI revolution.
Special thanks to our event sponsor, Pepsi, the official beverage partner of UC Berkeley.
Copresented by California magazine and BAMPFA
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Sunday, March 17, 3 PMArtists’ Talks: Sadie Barnette & David Huffman
Artists Sadie Barnette and David Huffman speak informally about their own work on view in the galleries and touch on the thematic section of the exhibition in which their work is included.
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Saturday, February 10, 2024, 11 AM–1 PMMorning Program: Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism
The morning program of Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times features Debarati Sanyal, Judith Butler, and Claudia Rankine.
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Saturday, February 10, 2024, 2PM–5PMAfternoon Program: Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism
The afternoon program of Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times features Amir Aziz, Lisa Armstrong, Ronald Rael, and Luanne Redeye.
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Saturday, January 27, 3 PMDuane Linklater: mymothersside Roundtable on Indigenous Knowledge
Join us for a roundtable conversation on the occasion of the exhibition Duane Linklater: mymothersside focusing on Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing that inform the artist’s practice. The discussion explores topics such as language revitalization, basket weaving, and food sovereignty.
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