Sunday, March 5
Sunday, March 5, 2023
1 PM
Come and learn the basics of risograph printing with Max Stadnik of Tiny Splendor Press and Max’s Garage. Take inspiration from a selection of Tiny Splendor print work, and create a two-color poster image of your own design. Bring either a digital image saved as a PDF or any original artwork on paper to work with. No experience required; the workshop is first come, first served.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2023
Sunday, March 5, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 5, 2023
2 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
Sunday, March 5, 2023
3 PM
Artist and author George McCalman introduces his new book, Illustrated Black History, which reimagines our idea of Black history with a series of vivid portraits of 145 Black pioneers throughout America’s four-hundred-year history. Each is celebrated with a painting or drawing accompanied by a brief biography of their contribution to activism, science, politics, business, medicine, technology, food, entertainment, or the arts.
Included with admission
Series
Readings
Sunday, March 5, 2023
5 PM
Robert Gardner,
United States,
1964,
(98 mins)
One of the most influential ethnographic films of the 1960s, Dead Birds is director Robert Gardner’s interpretation of life among the Dani people of West Papua. With shorts from his Baliem Valley 1961 series.
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Ernst Karel
IntroductionErnst Karel works in the area of reality-based audio, including sound recording, electroacoustic music, experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, image-sound c
Series
Documentary Voices 2023
Monday, March 6
Tuesday, March 7
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
7:30 PM
Berkeley Ballet Theater and Post:ballet present excerpts from Still Be Here, a new collaboration with Kronos Quartet featuring original scores commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire.
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
Wednesday, March 8
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
12:30 PM
BSC Fellow Rashad Arman Timmons engages Michael Brown Sr. and Cal Brown in conversation about their continued fight to keep the memory and legacy of Michael Brown Jr. alive. The discussion considers the enduring significance of Ferguson in the nation’s racial landscape and ponders Black grief as a resource for social transformation. This event offers the opportunity to dialogue with the Brown family and think collaboratively about how to build a world free of racial violence.
Free and open to the public
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
7 PM
Ernst Karel, Veronika Kusumaryati ,
United States,
2020,
(97 mins)
This fascinating sonic ethnography, which draws on the audio archive from Robert Gardner’s 1961 expedition to West Papua, is “a mind-expanding inquiry on anthropology” (Manohla Dargis, New York Times).
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Ernst Karel
In PersonErnst Karel works in the area of reality-based audio, including sound recording, electroacoustic music, experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, image-sound c
Series
Documentary Voices 2023
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
7:30 PM
Berkeley Ballet Theater and Post:ballet present excerpts from Still Be Here, a new collaboration with Kronos Quartet featuring original scores commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire.
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
Thursday, March 9
Thursday, March 9, 2023
12 PM
How have video artists addressed issues of race and colonialism, including artists historically privileged by these relations of power? Coinciding with the opening of her provocative exhibition, Out of Africa, Julie Rodrigues Widholm discusses her curatorial principles, the contemporary context for this grouping of works, and the specific photographs and videos on view by William Kentridge, Richard Mosse, Doug Aitken, Steve McQueen and Carrie Mae Weems.
Free and open to the public
Series
Video Art in Context
Thursday, March 9, 2023
4 PM
This event will be presented as a Zoom webinar.
Complementing his new Art Wall project below/here/above/ahead/was, New York–based Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer offers a presentation designed to provoke thought and prompt questions about public art.
This event will be presented as a Zoom webinar.
Series
Talks & Conversations 2023
Thursday, March 9, 2023
7 PM
Susan Sollins, Charles Atlas,
United States,
2010,
(77 mins)
The 2010 documentary William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible offers an excellent orientation to the artist’s work. Paired with six short films by William Kentridge, including his early films, collaborations, and Journey to the Moon, a tribute to the seminal French filmmaker Georges Méliès.
Friday, March 10
Friday, March 10, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, March 10, 2023
7 PM
Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
France, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, United Kingdom,
2015,
(127 mins)
A strange sleeping sickness befalls a group of soldiers in Weerasethakul’s mesmeric treatise on dreams, history, and magical thinking. “Cinema as the stuff dreams are made of” (Slant Magazine). With The Anthem.
Saturday, March 11
Saturday, March 11, 2023
1 PM–7 PM
Saturday, March 11, 2023
11:30 AM
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Inspired by the textures and colors in Rina Kimche’s art, make an abstract sculpture of your own from found objects.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Natasha Loewy
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Natasha Loewy
Workshop led byNatasha Loewy holds an MFA from San Francisco State University and a teaching credential in art from Mills College.
Series
Family Events 2022-2023
Saturday, March 11, 2023
2 PM
Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
Seventh grade is all about figuring out who you are—good thing Maggie Diaz has the perfect plan!
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Rachel Budge
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Rachel Budge
Reading led byReading led by Rachel Budge, librarian, Emerson Elementary School, Berkeley
Series
Family Events 2022-2023
Saturday, March 11, 2023
7 PM
(83 mins)
Drawings for Projection is a central project of William Kentridge’s career. The series of eleven animated films, which the artist has been working on for more than thirty years, follows two characters, Soho Eckstein and Felix Teitelbaum, and deals with themes of self-portraiture, memory, loss, cultural displacement, and political oppression.
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Through July 3
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