Sunday, December 4
Sunday, December 4, 2022
1 PM
Take inspiration from the Fluxus scores and boxes on view in the exhibitions Fluxus Reverb: Events, Scores, Boxes & More and by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022), and come assemble your own Flux Kit in the Art Lab using reproductions of various scores from the BAMPFA Steven Leiber Conceptual Art Study Center, as well as ones we come up with as a group.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2022
Sunday, December 4, 2022
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, December 4, 2022
12:00 PM
A durational dance and film installation by choreographer Maurya Kerr
Included with gallery admission.
Sunday, December 4, 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
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
Sunday, December 4, 2022
3:30 PM
In conjunction with the BAMPFA exhibition Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration, Steve Fujimura introduces his debut poetry collection, Sad Asian Music.
Included with admission
Series
Readings
Sunday, December 4, 2022
5 PM
Buster Keaton,
United States,
1924,
(85 mins)
Sherlock Jr. will be Keaton’s most enduring commentary on the art of cinema. Buster plays a projectionist who dreams his way onto the screen and into a movie in which he resolves the conflicts of his own life. With The Frozen North and The Playhouse.
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Wayne Barker
On Piano
Series
Camera Man: Buster Keaton
Monday, December 5
Tuesday, December 6
Wednesday, December 7
Wednesday, December 7, 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, December 7, 2022
7:30 PM
Programmed by MK Chavez
Poetry, live painting, and tarot readings to celebrate the full moon.
Space for Full performances is limited.
| $14 | General Admission |
| $12 | Seniors / Students / Patrons with Disability |
| FREE | BAMPFA Members / UCB Staff and Students / Youth |
Series
Full 2022
Thursday, December 8
Thursday, December 8, 2022
4 PM
This event will be presented as a Zoom webinar.
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Betye Saar’s The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, created in 1972 and a highlight of the BAMPFA collection, artists and scholars explore the evolving significance of this iconic work.
This event will be presented as a Zoom webinar. Register online.
Series
Talks & Conversations 2022
Thursday, December 8, 2022
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1966,
(83 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
An embattled ex-yakuza tries to go it alone in Suzuki’s most exquisite collaboration with art director Takeo Kimura. “One of the most brilliant genre movies ever made” (Tony Rayns).
Series
Elegy to Seijun Suzuki
Friday, December 9
Friday, December 9, 2022
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, December 9, 2022
5:30 PM
Join us for a pre-album release celebration and musical performance by vocalist and multidisciplinary artist India Davis, performing her original songs interwoven with dance, theatrics, and video projections.
Included with gallery admission
Series
Black Life 2022
Friday, December 9, 2022
7 PM
Jack Blystone, Buster Keaton,
United States,
1923,
(89 mins)
Buster is heir to an Appalachian estate and, along with it, a Hatfield-McCoy-type feud. Our Hospitality, an American masterpiece, at once lyric and frenetic, is a sly satire. With The High Sign.
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Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Series
Camera Man: Buster Keaton
Saturday, December 10
Saturday, December 10, 2022
1 PM–7 PM
Saturday, December 10, 2022
11:30 AM
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Follow artist Alison Knowles’s example and generate poetic instructions for building a house!
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Erin McCluskey Wheeler
Workshop led byErin McCluskey Wheeler is an artist and writer based in Richmond, CA. She holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and currently works as a studio facilitator at NIAD Art Center.
Series
Family Events
Saturday, December 10, 2022
12:00 PM
A durational dance and film installation by choreographer Maurya Kerr
Included with gallery admission.
Saturday, December 10, 2022
2 PM
Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
Elliott’s life is messy in lots of ways, including his ADHD. But his passion for cooking calms and focuses him, and gives him a way to help a classmate who becomes a new friend.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Vickie Price
Reading led byVickie Price, librarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District
Series
Family Events
Saturday, December 10, 2022
4:30 PM
Borhane Alaouié,
Belgium, Lebanon, Tunisia,
1981,
(97 mins)
Cosponsored by the Arab Film and Media Institute
Two young people separated by the war make tapes for each other. “The monologues, by the well-known writer Ahmad Baydoun, which form the basis of this acutely observed, moving film, have acquired classical status in Lebanese cinema” (Alia Arasoughly).
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Jonathan Mackris
IntroductionJonathan Mackris, who guest curated this series, is a doctoral student in film and media at UC Berkeley.
Saturday, December 10, 2022
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1956,
(119 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A “double bill” of Suzuki rarities, this program includes Satan’s Town a heist film and early example of the directors inventive style and black humor; and Love Letter a surreal and haunting snowbound romance.
Series
Elegy to Seijun Suzuki
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through April 30
Through May 11
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