Special off-site free event at the Starline Social Club, 645 West Grand Ave, Oakland
Workshop
Participatory dance workshop inspired by & Connection and Change–themed artworks featured in Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection.
Workshop
Join dancer Olive McKeon for an experiential group encounter that explores how groups move, think, talk, and organize together.
A participatory artwork that responds to a collective loss-for-words to describe the changing world around us, focusing on language in Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection.
Create your own personal carte de visite inspired by those on view in Sojourner Truth, Photography, and the Fight Against Slavery.
Use Feldenkrais methods and listening meditations to explore new ways of perceiving visual works in relation to museum architecture. Inspired by Space, Time, Energy–themed works on view in Berkeley Eye.
Workshop
In this experimental workshop artist Stephanie Syjuco leads participants through a series of physical exercises and activities to transform modeling materials into vernacular versions of iconic objects.
A collage and drawing workshop to make a pop-up paper shrine, led by Dana Dart-McClean, including a performance by local musician Catherine Mehta.
A hands-on workshop that explores correspondences between ancient maps of acupuncture points and our experience of our bodies.
Learn how to make string figures, inspired by those on view in Architecture of Life, with folklorist and storyteller Ruth Stotter.
Explore the structure of built urban environments with 3-D paper models. With artist Jill McLennan.
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult
Look through a microscope to discover new levels of structure, beauty, and information in the world around us.
LA-based sound artist and educator Meara O’Reilly leads a workshop and presentation on alternative modes of music notation, considering how the visual language of music composition is a blueprint for the organization of sound.
Assemble an art exhibition from your imagination and make a mini museum, inspired by Marcel Duchamp. With artist Raphael Noz.
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult
Join artist Travis Meinolf for a series of participatory, site-based weaving workshops using backstrap looms that physically connect the weaver to the new BAMPFA building.