Sunday, April 7
Sunday, April 7, 2024
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
Sunday, April 7, 2024
1:30 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
Senegal,
1977,
4K Digital Restoration
In the guise of a political thriller set in the eighteenth century, Ceddo takes on taboo subjects—Islamic influence in Senegal, African support for the slave trade, the status of women—becoming a reflection on all forms of colonialism in Africa. “Like a contemporary Euripides, [Ousmane] Sembène has created a form of public, primal art” (Village Voice).
Series
Sembène 100
Sunday, April 7, 2024
2 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
Sunday, April 7, 2024
4 PM
Sarah Maldoror,
Angola,
1972,
(124 mins)
One of the first feature films made by a woman in Africa is an urgent call for political change. It is a fictionalized chronicle of the events leading up to a 1961 prison rebellion in Angola. With Foreword to Guns for Banta (Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc), an excavation of a lost film by Sarah Maldoror.
Monday, April 8
Tuesday, April 9
Wednesday, April 10
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
7 PM
Humberto Gómez Pérez,
Mexico,
2023,
(94 mins)
Ch’ul be explores the ancient collective commitments, devotion, and music that sustain the cycle of life in the Tsotsil community of San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas. With Chick Strand’s luminous portrait of musician Anselmo Aguascalientes.
Series
Documentary Voices 2024
Thursday, April 11
Thursday, April 11, 2024
11 AM–7 PM
For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.
Member-exclusive preview day of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1985,
(105 mins)
Digital Restoration
The short life and eventual death of a young female drifter forms the basis of Agnès Varda’s chilling look at alienation and idealism. “Like so many of the greatest films, it tells us a very specific story, strong and unadorned, about a very particular person” (Roger Ebert).
Series
Viva Varda!
Friday, April 12
Friday, April 12, 2024
11 AM–7 PM
For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.
Member-exclusive preview day of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.
Friday, April 12, 2024
2 PM-7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
Friday, April 12, 2024
4 PM
Black Life proudly celebrates writer, poet, and activist June Jordan and Poetry for the People, the arts and activism program Jordan founded in 1991 at UC Berkeley. This special celebration includes readings of Jordan’s writing selected by Black Life curator ruth gebreyesus, as well as a poetry workshop in collaboration with Jasmine Flowers.
Included with gallery admission
Series
Black Life
Friday, April 12, 2024
7 PM
Natalia Almada,
Mexico, United States,
2016,
(98 mins)
Academy Award–nominated actress Adriana Barraza stars as a solitary Mexico City bureaucrat whose daily routines are tracked with Jeanne Dielman–like focus in this austere tale of isolation and grief. “Almada has a documentarian’s eye for how truth reveals itself in seemingly nondescript details” (48 Hills).
In Conversation
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Natalia Almada
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Nicolás Pereda
Saturday, April 13
Saturday, April 13, 2024
1 PM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
Saturday, April 13, 2024
11 AM–7 PM
Celebrate the opening of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration with free gallery admission to the public on Saturday, April 13, from 11 AM to 7 PM.
Free and open to the public.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
11:30 AM–1:00 PM
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Make a personalized sculptural vessel inspired by Gabriel Chaile’s larger-than-life sculpture.
Sign up in the Art Lab ten minutes ahead of the session, in time to join us for the tour that starts at 11:30 AM.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 and under and for one adult per child 13 and under
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Raphael Noz
Workshop led byRaphael Noz holds an MS in education from Wheelock College and an MFA from California College of the Arts.
Series
Family Events
Saturday, April 13, 2024
11:30 AM–2 PM
Drop in and make art in BAMPFA's Crane Forum, next to the Art Wall. Materials will be provided.
Free and open to the public.
Series
Family Events
Saturday, April 13, 2024
2 PM
Senior Curator Anthony Graham, who organized BAMPFA’s presentation of the exhibition, discusses the themes of A Movement in Every Direction and offers insights and observations about selected artworks.
Included with gallery admission
Series
Exhibition Tours
Saturday, April 13, 2024
2 PM–3 PM
Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
En este evento, leeremos en español y inglés. Cuando Paloma va a México, espera honrar la memoria de su difunto padre devolviendo el anillo perdido de Frida Kahlo. Pero, ¿sus nuevos amigos quieren lo mismo?
At this event, we will be reading in Spanish and English. When Paloma goes to Mexico, she hopes to honor her late father’s memory by returning Frida Kahlo’s lost ring. But do her new friends want the same thing?
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 and under and for one adult per child 13 and under
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Angela Loza
Reading led byLibrarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District
Series
Family Events
Saturday, April 13, 2024
4:30 PM
Pierre-Henri Gibert,
France,
2023,
(71 mins)
Bay Area Premiere
A new documentary by Pierre-Henri Gibert chronicles Agnès Varda’s expansive career and fills in notable gaps from the previous autobiographical films The Beaches of Agnès and Varda by Agnès. Viva Varda! features rare archival material and interviews with Varda’s family members, friends, and collaborators. Shown with the posthumously completed Agnès Varda—Pier Paolo Pasolini—New York—1967.
Series
Viva Varda!
Saturday, April 13, 2024
7 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
France, Senegal,
1992,
(115 mins)
Digital Restoration
When the body of a murdered political activist goes missing from the morgue, his family’s attempts to retrieve it nearly escalate into a holy war. “A work of wry sophistication” (New York Times).
Series
Sembène 100
Through July 7
Through July 14
Through September 22
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