Sunday, December 3
Sunday, December 3, 2023
1 PM
Offering a variety of fun, colorful beads and string, this class honors one of the most important aspects of life—friendship—and inspires us to create spirited gifts for each other as we enter the final month of 2023.
Included with gallery admission
Series
Workshops 2023
Sunday, December 3, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, December 3, 2023
11:15 AM
BAMPFA Education staff offers a highly descriptive tour of several artworks in the exhibition for blind and low-vision visitors.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
Sunday, December 3, 2023
2 PM
In conversation with Leigh Raiford, Julia Bryan-Wilson introduces her new book, Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face (Yale University Press, 2023), a radical rethinking of the art of renowned sculptor Louise Nevelson (1899–1988).
Included with gallery admission
Series
Readings
Sunday, December 3, 2023
4:30 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1932,
(90 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
A comedy about a typical wage earner with two delightfully atypical sons. “One of the wisest and most charming films ever made” (Village Voice).
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Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Monday, December 4
Tuesday, December 5
Wednesday, December 6
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
12:15 PM
Exhibition tours of Duane Linklater: mymothersside are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1979,
(82 mins)
An ordinary German barber-turned-soldier (Klaus Kinski) puts up with all manner of slights and insults until, finally, he cracks in Werner Herzog’s adaptation of the acclaimed absurdist, anti-militarist play. “Kinski is a riveting screen presence who threatens to burst beyond the medium” (New York Times).
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
7:30 PM
Programmed by Sean Carson; Presented in conjunction with the exhibition What Has Been and What Could Be
Red Fast Luck (multi-instrumentalists David Boyce and PC Muñoz) present 1972 (Re)Mixtape, radical de-/reconstructions of some of 1972’s greatest songs, with special guest Femi and more!
Space is limited. Tickets required.
Series
Performances 2023
Thursday, December 7
Thursday, December 7, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, December 7, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
Thursday, December 7, 2023
4 PM–7 PM
What can art, architecture, design, and performance practices offer to current debates on climate change and environmental justice? This Five Tables presentation highlights artworks in the BAMPFA collection that reflect, mediate, and delve into the interconnected ecologies of life.
Included with gallery admission
Series
Talks & Conversations 2023
Thursday, December 7, 2023
7 PM
Selcen Ergun,
Germany, Serbia, Turkey,
2022,
(93 mins)
A chilling, mysterious, and stunning debut film. “Selcen Ergun’s acute and wide-awake direction emphasizes the undertones of a rigid patriarchal society while brilliantly setting the atmosphere for this anti fairy-tale” (Toronto International Film Festival).
Series
Special Screenings 2024
Friday, December 8
Friday, December 8, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
For all members
For one weekend only, all BAMPFA members get 20 percent off at the BAMPFA Store!
Members-only sale
Friday, December 8, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, December 8, 2023
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1930,
(112 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
That Night’s Wife is a crime melodrama inspired by Fritz Lang and American thrillers. As ever, Yasujiro Ozu tests the conventions as he employs them. Screening with Woman of Tokyo, a Depression-era romantic melodrama that is “a subtle riot of discordant formal devices. . . . Ozu never made another film like this one, and neither has anyone else” (J. Hoberman).
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Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Saturday, December 9
Saturday, December 9, 2023
1 PM–7 PM
Saturday, December 9, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
For all members
For one weekend only, all BAMPFA members get 20 percent off at the BAMPFA Store!
Members-only sale
Saturday, December 9, 2023
11:30 AM
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Use geometry, color, repeating patterns, and personally significant dates to build a triangular calendar that’s all about you!
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Mary Curtis Ratcliff
Workshop led byAfter studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and cofounding the video collective Videofreex in New York, Mary Curtis Ratcliff moved to the Bay Area, where she makes sculpture, mixed m
Series
Family Events 2022-2023
Saturday, December 9, 2023
2 PM
Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
As millions of people back on Earth follow his progress on Mars, will Resilience have the courage and determination to succeed, survive, and live up to his name?
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Cheryl Meibos
Reading led bylibrarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District
Series
Family Events 2022-2023
Saturday, December 9, 2023
5 PM
Programmed by Thea Matthews
Join us for a poetry reading with MK Chavez, Maw Shein Win, and Shelley Wong!
Included with gallery admission.
Series
Readings
Saturday, December 9, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany, United States,
1979,
(107 mins)
Werner Herzog’s reworking of the F. W. Murnau silent film showcases a ghoulish Klaus Kinski as das Vampyre, spreading death and disease in a small German town with only pretty bride Isabelle Adjani to stop him. “Opulently beautiful” (The Nation).
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