Week of May 11, 2025

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Sunday, May 11

Sunday, May 11, 2025
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
Sunday, May 11, 2025
1 PM–7 PM
BAMPFA will open late on Sunday, March 10. Museum hours: 1 PM–7PM.
Sunday, May 11, 2025
6:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1980,
(122 mins)
A former gangster’s moll (Gena Rowlands) takes on the mob—while protecting a Puerto Rican orphan—in pre-gentrification, graffiti-tagged early 1980s New York. “A commercial film . . . turned into a slice of pure avant-garde” (Dave Kehr).

Monday, May 12

Tuesday, May 13

Wednesday, May 14

Wednesday, May 14, 2025
5 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5 PM on select days from Wednesday, May 10–Sunday, May 25, 2025.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
7:00 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1978,
(144 mins)
John Cassavetes’s tribute to acting, actors, and the search for artistic integrity centers around a successful stage actress (Gena Rowlands) grappling with her character. “Cassavetes’s most cleverly constructed film” (New Yorker).

Thursday, May 15

Thursday, May 15, 2025
5 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5 PM on select days from Wednesday, May 10–Sunday, May 25, 2025.

Friday, May 16

Friday, May 16, 2025
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, May 16, 2025
5 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5 PM on select days from Wednesday, May 10–Sunday, May 25, 2025.
Friday, May 16, 2025
5:30 PM
Hear from the 2025 graduates of UC Berkeley’s Master of Fine Arts program—Viviana Martinez Carlos, Priyanka D’Souza, Arianna Khmelniuk, Jasmine Nyende, bryant terry, and Zekarias Thompson—on the occasion of BAMPFA’s fifty-fifth annual MFA exhibition.

Included with admission

Saturday, May 17

Saturday, May 17, 2025
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
Saturday, May 17, 2025
5 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5 PM on select days from Wednesday, May 10–Sunday, May 25, 2025.