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Sunday, November 6

Sunday, November 6, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, November 6, 2022
2 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

Sunday, November 6, 2022
2 PM

Co-presented by Art in the Parks and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy

Composer Raven Chacon debuts a new sound-work on Alcatraz, a sonic meditation on the histories of the island and its occupation for nineteen months beginning in November 1969 by the group Indians of All Tribes.
At Alcatraz Island

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This performance has a flat ticket price for all audiences. The ticket is non-refundable and includes a ticket for the 1:05 PM ferry from Pier 33 in San Francisco as well as the performance on Alcatraz.

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Sunday, November 6, 2022
5 PM
(78 mins)
Fluxfilm Anthology, which was compiled by George Maciunas, the founder of Fluxus, is a document consisting of short films ranging from ten seconds to ten minutes in length.
Sunday, November 6, 2022
7 PM
Danny Lyon,
United States,
1985,
(82 mins)
Combining footage and images of the exuberant child Willie Jarmillo once was with the prematurely aged man he has become, Lyon reveals the vulnerable, generous person within the tough exterior of a lost soul in this poignant record of the destructive effects of prison on one young man.

Monday, November 7

Tuesday, November 8

Tuesday, November 8, 2022
7 PM

Programmed by Sean Carson

Acclaimed Bay Area percussionist, recording artist, and producer PC Muñoz returns to BAMPFA with an evening of Debussy’s legendary “Clair de Lune,” rendered in three completely different ways.

Space for Full performances is limited

Tickets available soon
$14General Admission
$12Seniors / Students / Patrons with Disability
FREEBAMPFA Members / UCB Staff and Students / Youth
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Wednesday, November 9

Wednesday, November 9, 2022
12:15 PM
Tours of Undoing Time are led by students from the Berkeley Underground Scholars program, which supports formerly incarcerated and systems-impacted students.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
7 PM
(65 mins)
Jim Shedden, coeditor of the recently published Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada, presents films by four Canadian filmmakers who changed his concept of cinema.
  • Jim Shedden
    In Person
    Jim Shedden—a Toronto-based curator, publisher/editor, writer, music programmer, and filmmaker—is coeditor of Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada.

Thursday, November 10

Thursday, November 10, 2022
12:45 PM
Alex Saum-Pascual—a digital artist, poet, and UC Berkeley professor of contemporary Spanish literature and new media—discusses her academic and creative work on digital literature, examining the environmental impact of digital technologies.

Free and open to the public

Thursday, November 10, 2022
7 PM
(118 mins)

Cosponsored by the Arab Film and Media Institute

“Lyrical and uncompromising, the [trilogy of] films of Jocelyne Saab are at once landmark works of Lebanese cinema and masterpieces of the essay film form” (Film at Lincoln Center).
  • Jonathan Mackris
    Introduction
    Jonathan Mackris, who guest curated this series, is a doctoral student in film and media at UC Berkeley. For this program, he translated Nicole Brenez’s article “Jocelyne Saab, the Stars of War.”

Friday, November 11

Friday, November 11, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, November 11, 2022
7 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1968,
(97 mins)

Imported 35mm Print 

Pasolini’s first film shot in a bourgeois milieu is predicated on the theorem that “anything done by the bourgeoisie, however sincere, profound and noble it is, is on the wrong track.”

Saturday, November 12

Saturday, November 12, 2022
1 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, November 12, 2022
11:30 AM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Inspired by Hannah Levy’s use of contrasting materials, explore shapes, textures, and sewing as you make your own constructions.

Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under

  • Lizzy Blasingame
    Workshop led by
    Blasingame is an Oakland-based visual artist and educator with an MFA from San Francisco State University and a BA from UC Berkeley.
Series Family Events
Saturday, November 12, 2022
2 PM

Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners) / Recomendado para las edades de 8 años en adelante (niños menores son bienvenidos como oyentes)

For cousins Margie and Lupe, a year of discoveries culminates in a performance full of surprises as they find their own way to belong. Para las primas Margie y Lupe, un año de descubrimientos culmina en una actuación llena de sorpresas mientras encuentran su propia manera de pertenecer. 

Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under / Gratis para menores de 18 años y para un adulto por niño de 13 años o menos

  • Angela Loza
    Reading led by/ facilitada por
    Angela Loza is a librarian for / es bibliotecaria del West Contra Costa Unified School District.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
2 PM
To mark the reinstallation of the culpture The Hawk for Peace (1968) on campus, art historian Alex Taylor offers a lecture that considers the social orientation and political valences of Calder’s late stabiles, exemplifying his entanglement in the fraught politics of public space in the late 1960s.

Included with admission

Saturday, November 12, 2022
5 PM
Nana Janelidze,
Georgia,
2011,
(85 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Part historical essay, part re-created biography, Will There Be a Theatre Up There?! uses the tragic circumstances of the twentieth century as a backdrop for the chronicle of a Georgian family. With Salomé Alexi’s Felicità, a deadpan, hilarious short on the work of women. 

Tickets on sale August 18.

Saturday, November 12, 2022
7 PM
Garrett Bradley,
United States,
2020,
(81 mins)
Combining documentary and home movie footage, Bradley tells an epic story of extraordinary faith and unyielding persistence, following Sibil Fox Richardson’s decades-long quest to free her husband, Rob, from an unreasonably long prison sentence.
  • Leila Weefur
    Introduction
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland and a lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.