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Sunday, September 11

Sunday, September 11, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, September 11, 2022
12 PM

This event has been postponed to Sunday, Septemeber 25 at 1 PM.

Join local artists and educators Amy Bergstein and Alayna Tinney for some collaborative collage time in the Art Lab. All ages are welcome!

Postponed to Sunday, September 25

Included with admission

Sunday, September 11, 2022
4 PM

Programmed by Sean Carson

Touch Bass is a collaboration of choreographer Risa Jaroslow with bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa, featuring three dancers, three bassists, and three double basses in an exploration of our physical and emotional vulnerabilities.

Seating for Full performances is limited

Tickets:
SOLD OUT: Sep 10, 8 PM
Sep 11, 4 PM

$14General Admission
$12Seniors / Students / Patrons with Disability
FREEBAMPFA Members / UCB Staff and Students / Youth
Series Full 2022
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Sunday, September 11, 2022
5 PM
Elaine May,
United States,
1971,
(102 mins)
Starring Walter Matthau as a playboy who has squandered his wealth and must marry a rich woman or forfeit all his passions, and May as a nerdy heiress, A New Leaf “illustrates how fluidly May fuses verbal and physical comedy” (Manohla Dargis, New York Times).

Monday, September 12

Tuesday, September 13

Wednesday, September 14

Wednesday, September 14, 2022
12:15 PM
Graduate students —Claire Chun and Patricia de Nobrega-Gomes—offer tours of  by Alison Knowles on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM.

Included with admission

Wednesday, September 14, 2022
7 PM
(65 mins)
This brief survey of recent experimental animation features films by new and established local film artists, from pixelated, live-action documentary to abstract hallucinations, all with songs, performances, and soundscapes.
In Conversation
  • Meghana Bisineer
  • Lydia Greer
  • Allison Leigh Holt
  • Kathleen Quillian
  • Scott Stark
  • Jeffrey Skoller
    Jeffrey Skoller is a filmmaker, writer, and associate professor of film and media at UC Berkeley, as well as cocurator of Alternative Visions. 

Thursday, September 15

Thursday, September 15, 2022
12:45 PM
Anne Bluethenthal troubles the paradigm of Western dance with content-driven choreographies that face difficult issues of the day with eloquence and passion.

Free and open to the public

Thursday, September 15, 2022
7 PM
Rosine Mbakam,
Belgium, Cameroon,
2016,
(76 mins)
“The filmmaker reinventing how African women are portrayed in movies” (NPR), Mbakam turns the camera on her own remarkable mother and her generation in this captivating documentary.

Friday, September 16

Friday, September 16, 2022
11:30 AM
Angel Island in San Francisco Bay is a crucial spot marking the history of exclusionary, race-based immigration policy. Its immigration station has sometimes been called “the Ellis Island of the West.” In this lecture, Ed Tepporn will discuss how activists saved this site, current day efforts, and its meaning for the future.

The event will also be livestreamed via Zoom webinar

Free and open to the public

Friday, September 16, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, September 16, 2022
7 PM
Warren Beatty, Buck Henry,
United States,
1978,
(101 mins)
This fantasy-comedy about a young man (Beatty) who is mistakenly taken to heaven by his guardian angel earned May her first Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Saturday, September 17

Saturday, September 17, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, September 17, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
Enjoy free gallery admission all day in celebration of our latest exhibition Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration, and don't miss the talk with curator Julio Morales at 2 PM.

Free gallery admission

Saturday, September 17, 2022
2 PM
Julio Morales, senior curator at the Arizona State University Art Museum, who organized Undoing Time, offers insights into the works of twelve contemporary artists featured in the exhbiition.

Free gallery admission

Saturday, September 17, 2022
7 PM
Elaine May,
United States,
1976,
(106 mins)

Digital Restoration

Excellent performances by Peter Falk and John Cassavetes, who play petty gangsters in a lonely night’s landscape, on the run from death, mark this distinctive work, written and directed by May.