Sunday, November 3
Sunday, November 3, 2024
11 AM-7 PM
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
Sunday, November 3, 2024
1:00 PM
Space is limited; RSVP required
Join local artist Alayna Tinney for a beginner-friendly dive into risograph printing.
Space is limited; RSVP required
Series
Workshops
Sunday, November 3, 2024
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection 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
Sunday, November 3, 2024
2:00 PM
Luis Alejandro Yero,
Cuba, Germany, Norway,
2023,
(93 mins)
Follow four queer Cuban migrants navigating isolation amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Calls from Moscow, one of the most striking documentaries of contemporary Cuban cinema. This special screening is preceded by Gretel Marín’s Roads of Lava, another beautiful portrayal of queer activism and anti-racist pedagogies within Havana.
Series
Cuban Cinema without Borders
Sunday, November 3, 2024
4:30 PM
Patrick Cazals,
France,
2003,
(91 mins)
This insightful portrait of a wounded, but fiercely independent Sergei Parajanov deals with his various talents as a painter, designer, and collage artist. Followed by Parajanov’s rare short film Arabesque on the Pirosmani Theme and Patrick Cazals’s portrait of Parajanov’s muse, Georgian actor Sofiko Chiaureli.
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Patrick Cazals
In Person
Monday, November 4
Tuesday, November 5
Wednesday, November 6
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
12:15 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection 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
Thursday, November 7
Thursday, November 7, 2024
11 AM-7 PM
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
Thursday, November 7, 2024
1:15 PM
Tausif Noor explores how artists have taken up ideas of ephemerality to comment on the nature of memory and acts of memorialization across different media. Noor is BAMPFA Curatorial Associate and cocurator of To Exalt the Ephemeral.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
Thursday, November 7, 2024
7:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China,
2024,
(111 mins)
Jia Zhangke delivers an epic look at the romantic destiny of his perennial heroine, Qiao Qiao. Spanning twenty-one years of a country going through profound transformation, the film provides a new perspective on contemporary China.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Jia Zhangke
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Michael Berry
Michael Berry is a Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies at UCLA.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
Friday, November 8
Friday, November 8, 2024
2 PM-7 PM
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
Friday, November 8, 2024
3:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, Hong Kong,
1997,
(112 mins)
A small-time, undermotivated pickpocket finds himself on the wrong end of China’s economic leap forward in Jia Zhangke’s debut feature, a milestone in contemporary Chinese cinema.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Jia Zhangke
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Michael Berry
Michael Berry is a Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies at UCLA.
Friday, November 8, 2024
7:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, Hong Kong,
2000,
(155 mins)
A performance troupe struggles to keep up during China’s 1980s move from communism to capitalism. “Might be the greatest film to come out of mainland China” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Jia Zhangke
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Michael Berry
Michael Berry is a Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies at UCLA.
Saturday, November 9
Saturday, November 9, 2024
1 PM-7 PM
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
Saturday, November 9, 2024
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Inspired by Rose D’Amato’s Art Wall, use sign-painting techniques such as stenciling and image layering to create a personal billboard-like pop-up design.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 and under and for one adult per child 13 and under
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Marcela Florez
Workshop led byMarcela Florez holds an MFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute and has taught at Southern Exposure, LA Commons, the de Young Museum, and BAMPFA.
Series
Family Events
Saturday, November 9, 2024
2:30 PM-3:30 PM
Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
Jump into the story of a country cricket who finds himself in the big city, and pick up a copy of the book to finish reading at home. / Sumérgete en la historia de un grillo de campo que se encuentra en la gran ciudad y toma una copia del libro para terminar de leer en casa.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 and under and for one adult per child 13 and under
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Angela Loza
Reading led byLibrarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District
Series
Family Events
Saturday, November 9, 2024
3:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China,
2006,
(108 mins)
The controversial Three Gorges Dam project frames two stories in Jia Zhangke’s examination of a city under (de)construction. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Jia Zhangke
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Weihong Bao
Weihong Bao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
Saturday, November 9, 2024
7:00 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, Japan,
2002,
(112 mins)
A sympathetic, impressionistic portrait of youth so alienated that they’ve nothing to rebel against, much less for, Unknown Pleasures is “as true a picture of contemporary existence as we could hope for now” (Kent Jones, Film Comment).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Jia Zhangke
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Andrew F. Jones
Andrew F. Jones is Professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley.
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