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29 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, June 29, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Fabric Postcard Workshop Art Workshop Sunday, June 29, 2025 1 PM Fabric Postcard Workshop Discover the joy of working with fabric and thread and create your own miniature quilt! Included with admission. Space is limited; Admission is first come, first served. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Sunday, June 29, 2025 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Él Film Sunday, June 29, 2025 5 PM Él Luis Buñuel, Mexico, 1953, (93 mins) 4K Digital Restoration A psychological thriller: one of Luis Buñuel’s rawest, angriest indictments of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the Surrealist master’s great excursion into dark melodrama, where civilization can find no answer to the raging urges of the irrational id. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Solaris Film Sunday, June 29, 2025 7 PM Solaris Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1972, (167 mins) Digital Restoration In Andrei Tarkovsky’s influential 1972 masterwork, based on a famous novel by Stanisław Lem, “the alien world is one immense ocean, the ocean is a brain, and the brain may be our own” (Village Voice). A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for the June 29 screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	30	1	2 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Wednesday, July 2, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM They Live by Night Film In-Person Wednesday, July 2, 2025 7 PM They Live by Night Nicholas Ray, United States, 1948, (95 mins) 35mm Archival Print Nicholas Ray’s lyrical, passionate debut follows a pair of fugitive innocents. It influenced films from Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou to Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. David Thomson Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film. Series In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	3 All Day Free First Thursday Art Families Free Thursday, July 3, 2025 All Day Free First Thursday First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day. Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Thursday, July 3, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 1:15 PM Curator Tour: Elaine Yau on Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Thursday, July 3, 2025 1:15 PM Curator Tour: Elaine Yau on Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California BAMPFA Associate Curator and Academic Liaison Elaine Yau shares in-depth stories of individual quilts in the exhibition that illuminate the bonds of love, kinship, commemoration, and innovative artistry entwined in their making. This Curator’s Tour has a limited capacity with space available on a first come, first served basis only. Due to strong interest, we recommend arriving 30 minutes early, but cannot guarantee admission to the tour. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 2:15 PM Curator Tour: Matthew Villar Miranda on Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Thursday, July 3, 2025 2:15 PM Curator Tour: Matthew Villar Miranda on Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California BAMPFA Curatorial Associate shares in-depth stories of individual quilts in the exhibition that illuminate the bonds of love, kinship, commemoration, and innovative artistry entwined in their making. This Curator’s Tour has a limited capacity with space available on a first come, first served basis only. Due to strong interest, we recommend arriving 30 minutes early, but cannot guarantee admission to the tour. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Film Thursday, July 3, 2025 7 PM When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1960, (111 mins) BAMPFA Collection Essential Mikio Naruse. “An elegant essay in black-and-white CinemaScope and tinkling cocktail jazz, this tale of a bar hostess’s attempt to escape her lot could give heartbreak lessons to [Rainer Werner] Fassbinder and [Douglas] Sirk” (Village Voice). Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	4 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, July 4, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Nashville Film Friday, July 4, 2025 5 PM Nashville Robert Altman, United States, 1975, (160 mins) As the bicentennial of American independence looms, the titular “Country Music Capital of the World” becomes an unholy soup of politics, art, patriotism, religion, and money—showbiz, America. Buoyed by a cast of dozens, Nashville “is a satire, a comedy, a musical, a melodrama” (Vincent Canby, New York Times). A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series Robert Altman at 100 SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	5 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, July 5, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Leave Her to Heaven Film Saturday, July 5, 2025 4:30 PM Leave Her to Heaven John M. Stahl, United States, 1945, (110 mins) 35mm Archival Print Intoxicating Gene Tierney (Laura) is the femme fatale par excellence in this astounding Technicolor noir classic, now beautifully restored, about a young novelist (Cornel Wilde) whose new bride’s extreme jealousy plunges their nuptial heaven into hellish depths of psychic disorder. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Mirror Film Saturday, July 5, 2025 7 PM Mirror Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1975, (106 mins) Andrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work, a collection of memories of a young boy coming of age, invented “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream” (Ingmar Bergman). A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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6 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, July 6, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral Art Tours Sunday, July 6, 2025 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: To Exalt The Ephemeral UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Vermiglio Film Sunday, July 6, 2025 4:30 PM Vermiglio Maura Delpero, Italy, 2024, (119 mins) East Bay Premiere Winner of the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM That Cold Day in the Park Film Sunday, July 6, 2025 7 PM That Cold Day in the Park Robert Altman, Canada, United States, 1969, (107 mins) Restored 35mm Archival Print In this class-conscious psychosexual thriller, Sandy Dennis plays Frances Austen, a lonely, repressed woman who takes a lonely young man into her home and won’t let go. Series Robert Altman at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	7	8	9 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Wednesday, July 9, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Stalker Film Wednesday, July 9, 2025 7 PM Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1979, (163 mins) Digital Restoration A writer, a scientist, and their “stalker” guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. “A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant). A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	10 7 PM Hideko the Bus Conductor Film Thursday, July 10, 2025 7 PM Hideko the Bus Conductor Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1941, (117 mins) Hideko Takamine stars as the teenage ticket taker for a bus line that has seen better days in this charming comedy, the first of her seventeen films with Mikio Naruse. Screening with The Whole Family Works, a chronicle of a family’s struggle to make ends meet during the depression and the war with China, the social costs of which are never mentioned but keenly felt. Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	11 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, July 11, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Miss Julie Film In-Person Friday, July 11, 2025 7 PM Miss Julie Alf Sjöberg, Sweden, 1951, (89 mins) Digital Restoration Celebrated for its unique cinematic style (and censored upon its first release in the United States for its adult content), Alf Sjöberg’s Miss Julie was an important turning point in Scandinavian cinema for its depiction of the battle of the sexes and classes. Arne Lunde Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion Arne Lunde is Research Professor in European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA. Series Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	12 11:30 AM–1 PM Gallery+Studio / Mixed-Media Posters: United We Win! Families Workshop Saturday, July 12, 2025 11:30 AM–1 PM Gallery+Studio / Mixed-Media Posters: United We Win! For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s) Make a quilt-inspired mixed-media poster celebrating Bay Area history. Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child. Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs. William Rhodes Workshop led by Series Family Events Google Calendar ICS 1 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, July 12, 2025 1 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2:30 PM–3:30 PM Roundtable Reading / Willodeen by Katherine Applegate Families Saturday, July 12, 2025 2:30 PM–3:30 PM Roundtable Reading / Willodeen by Katherine Applegate Recommended for ages 7 and up with accompanying adult(s) At Roundtable Reading, young readers read aloud to one another from the opening pages of a good book. This month, we read a timely tale about our fragile Earth and one girl’s fierce determination to make a difference. Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child. Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs. Vickie Price Reading led by Librarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District Series Family Events Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Lightning Film Saturday, July 12, 2025 4:30 PM Lightning Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1952, (85 mins) Adapted from a Fumiko Hayashi novel, and starring Mikio Naruse’s favorite actress, Hideko Takamine, this major work illuminates one of the director’s key themes: entrapment within the family system. Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Touch of Evil Film Saturday, July 12, 2025 7 PM Touch of Evil Orson Welles, United States, 1958/98, (111 mins) 4K Digital Restoration This is the 1998 reedit by Walter Murch of Touch of Evil, featuring a cast of castaways led by Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Joseph Calleia, with appearances by Marlene Dietrich, Akim Tamiroff, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Dennis Weaver—all swept grimly along by Russell Metty’s ever-frenetic camerawork. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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13 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, July 13, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Sunday, July 13, 2025 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Intermezzo Film In-Person Sunday, July 13, 2025 4 PM Intermezzo Gustaf Molander, Sweden, 1936, (93 mins) Digital Restoration In the Swedish romantic melodrama that landed her a Hollywood contract, Ingrid Bergman plays a budding pianist swept off her feet by a renowned violinist. Arne Lunde Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion Arne Lunde is Research Professor in European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA. Series Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Images Film Sunday, July 13, 2025 7 PM Images Robert Altman, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States, 1972, (101 mins) Susannah York won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role (or roles?) as Cathryn, a woman experiencing psychosis on holiday at her country home. “One of the finest psychological thrillers ever made” (Judith Crist, New York Magazine). Series Robert Altman at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	14	15	16 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Wednesday, July 16, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Floating Clouds Film Wednesday, July 16, 2025 7 PM Floating Clouds Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1955, (123 mins) This epic story of wartime lovers separated by a wretched peace is a richly evocative portrait of postwar Tokyo and an endlessly fascinating character study. It is revered in Japan as the ultimate masterpiece of Mikio Naruse’s career and a high point for star Hideko Takamine. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	17 7 PM Nostalghia Film Thursday, July 17, 2025 7 PM Nostalghia Andrei Tarkovsky, Italy, USSR, 1983, (125 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Andrei Tarkovsky’s breathtaking journey through the ruined but magical spaces of Tuscany follows a Russian man who feels the longing for home, closure, and the absolute that the film’s title describes. “Not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours” (J. Hoberman). A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	18 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, July 18, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Nightmare Alley Film In-Person Friday, July 18, 2025 7 PM Nightmare Alley Edmund Goulding, United States, 1947, (110 mins) 4K Digital Restoration “Wildly unpredictable circus and penthouse noir with gorgeous scumbag Tyrone Power, at the height of his doomed charms. . . . After viewing this picaresque and cathartic film, you will never again misuse the word ‘geek’” (Guy Maddin). A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Eddie Muller Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion Eddie Muller is founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, director of the Noir City film festival, host of Noir Alley on TCM, and a novelist. Series In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	19 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, July 19, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 5 PM The Count of the Old Town Film Saturday, July 19, 2025 5 PM The Count of the Old Town Edvin Adolphson, Sigurd Wallén , Sweden, 1935, (83 mins) Digital Restoration A freewheeling comedy about a gang of ruffians on an all-day bender in Stockholm's Old Town, featuring an eighteen-year-old Ingrid Bergman. Series Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Flowing Film Saturday, July 19, 2025 7 PM Flowing Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1956, (116 mins) It’s hard to find a more impressive trio of actresses than Hideko Takamine, Kinuyo Tanaka, and Isuzu Yamada. Mikio Naruse’s tale of geishas in decline is “a tangle of subtle relationships. . . . Quietly brilliant filmmaking” (Village Voice). Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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20 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, July 20, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Sunday, July 20, 2025 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM A Photographic Memory Film In-Person Sunday, July 20, 2025 4:30 PM A Photographic Memory Rachel Elizabeth Seed, United States, 2024, (87 mins) Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards A New York Times Critic’s Pick, A Photographic Memory is an intimate portrait of filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s trailblazing mother, Sheila Turner Seed, who was a vibrant and pioneering journalist, photographer, and filmmaker. “Vividly introspective . . . sumptuous” (Carlos Aguilar, Variety). Rachel Elizabeth Seed Introduction Rachel Elizabeth Seed will introduce the July 20 screening. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM The Sacrifice Film Sunday, July 20, 2025 6:30 PM The Sacrifice Andrei Tarkovsky, France, Sweden, 1986, (149 mins) 4K Digital Restoration A retired actor and his family find themselves on a remote Baltic island when word arrives of nuclear war in Andrei Tarkovsky’s elegiac final film. “An epic vision. . . . Spiritual mastery. . . . A work of genius” (David Robinson, The Times). Series Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	21	22	23 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Wednesday, July 23, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Long Goodbye Film Wednesday, July 23, 2025 7 PM The Long Goodbye Robert Altman, United States, 1973, (112 mins) 35mm Archival Print Also screens Friday / 6.13.25 (with introduction) Updating Raymond Chandler’s noir pulp for the psychedelic 1970s, Leigh Brackett and Robert Altman pitch a bewildered and bereft Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) into a murder mystery involving a sun-dried siren (Nina van Pallandt) and her washed-out Ernest Hemingway-esque author husband (Sterling Hayden). Series Robert Altman at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	24 7 PM The Phenix City Story Film In-Person Thursday, July 24, 2025 7 PM The Phenix City Story Phil Karlson, United States, 1955, (100 mins) “Filmed on location in Alabama with a documentary-like look, the movie captured the ambiance and tenor of its Deep South setting better than almost any other fact-based movie of its era” (Bruce Eder, AllMovie). Eddie Muller Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion Eddie Muller is founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, director of the Noir City film festival, and a novelist. Series In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	25 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, July 25, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7 PM A Wife’s Heart Film Friday, July 25, 2025 7 PM A Wife’s Heart Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1956, (98 mins) Hideko Takamine plays a young woman working to raise enough money to open her own coffee shop. When her family takes the money to fund her sister’s wedding, she arranges a loan, but her husband is wary of the loan officer (Toshiro Mifune). Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	26 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, July 26, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 5 PM Black Life: Gabrielle Civil Performance Saturday, July 26, 2025 5 PM Black Life: Gabrielle Civil Gabrielle Civil activates her latest performance memoir, In & Out of Place, highlighting her experience making Black feminist performance art in Mexico. Featuring live reading, art gestures, images, and short videos, she will recall swimming in Elizabeth Catlett's pool in Cuernevaca, singing Nina Simone with mariachis in Mexico City, becoming a live Mexican mammy doll, and more. Included with admission Series Black Life Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Elvira Madigan Film Saturday, July 26, 2025 7 PM Elvira Madigan Bo Widerberg, Sweden, 1967, (90 mins) “Elvira Madigan is indeed remarkably beautiful, almost every frame would make a painting, and yet the film is alive and cinematic, not simply photographs of pretty pictures” (Roger Ebert). Series Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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27 3–6 PM EARTH SEED: A People’s Journey of Radical Hospitality Open Captioned Film Free In-Person Sunday, July 27, 2025 3–6 PM EARTH SEED: A People’s Journey of Radical Hospitality (180 mins) Free admission Open Captioned Copresented by BAMPFA, Black Studies Collaboratory at UC Berkeley, Museum of the African Diaspora, and People’s Kitchen Collective Join us for a special screening of the People’s Kitchen Collective’s (PKC) documentary EARTH SEED: A People’s Journey of Radical Hospitality. The two-hour screening will be followed by a panel discussion with PKC cofounder, Black Studies Collaboratory Cohort Member, and most recent Museum of the African Diaspora Chef in Residence Jocelyn Jackson, along with another special guest from the film. Free admission. Tickets will be available first come, first served at the admissions desk beginning at 2 PM. If you are interested in attending and would like a reminder for the event, please RSVP here. Series Talks & Conversations Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, July 27, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 1 PM Improvisational Quilt Print Workshop Art Workshop Sunday, July 27, 2025 1 PM Improvisational Quilt Print Workshop Join artist Matt Katsaros for an afternoon of improvisational quiltmaking through the lens of collage and risograph printing. Included with admission. Space is limited; Admission is first come, first served. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Sunday, July 27, 2025 2 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean Film Sunday, July 27, 2025 7 PM Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean Robert Altman, United States, 1982, (109 mins) Restored 35mm Archival Print Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, and Kathy Bates star in Robert Altman’s tale of the members of a James Dean fan club reuniting in a small Texas town. Series Robert Altman at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	28	29	30 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Art Tours Wednesday, July 30, 2025 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Él Film Wednesday, July 30, 2025 7 PM Él Luis Buñuel, Mexico, 1953, (93 mins) 4K Digital Restoration A psychological thriller: one of Luis Buñuel’s rawest, angriest indictments of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the Surrealist master’s great excursion into dark melodrama, where civilization can find no answer to the raging urges of the irrational id. Series Special Screenings 2025 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	31 7 PM Untamed Film Thursday, July 31, 2025 7 PM Untamed Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1957, (121 mins) Oshima (Hideko Takamine) experiences a series of failed relationships as she works toward financial independence and self-realization. “Hideko Takamine’s performance . . . is among her most active and energetic and her character is one of the most liberated in [Mikio] Naruse’s oeuvre.” Series Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, August 1, 2025 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer Film Friday, August 1, 2025 7 PM Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer Andrei A. Tarkovsky, Italy, Russia, Sweden, 2019, (102 mins) An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky in his own words—his memories, his vision of art, and his reflections on the meaning of human existence—made by his son, Andrei A. Tarkovsky, in 2019. Series Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS	2 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, August 2, 2025 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Drop-In Art Making The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Gosford Park Film Saturday, August 2, 2025 4 PM Gosford Park Robert Altman, United Kingdom, 2001, (137 mins) 35mm Archival Print In 1932 the wealthy and their servants descend on the titular English manor for a hunting party that quickly transforms into a comic and biting upstairs-downstairs murder mystery. “A beautifully proportioned work in which 30 fairly well defined characters don’t seem excessive” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). Series Robert Altman at 100 Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Summer with Monika Film In-Person Saturday, August 2, 2025 7 PM Summer with Monika Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1953, (96 mins) Digital Restoration Inspired by the earthy eroticism of Harriet Andersson, in the first of her many roles for him, Ingmar Bergman had a major international breakthrough with this sensual and ultimately ravaging tale of young love. Linda Haverty Rugg Introduction Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley. Series Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs Get Tickets Google Calendar ICS