June 2021

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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
6:00 PM
In conjunction with BAMPFA’s presentation of Kathleen Collins’s Losing Ground, watch a live conversation and Q&A about Collins’s work with Nina Collins, Eisa Davis, Geetha Ramanathan, Dawn L. Troupe, and John Wilkins.
Recorded Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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Thursday, June 3, 2021
4:30 PM
Hear the 2020 graduates of UC Berkeley’s Master of Fine Arts program talk about their work on view at BAMPFA.
Presented Thursday, June 3, 4:30 PM PDT
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Thursday, June 10, 2021
6:00 PM
Artists Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Olaitan Callender-Scott, Angela Hennessy, and Ramekon O’Arwisters share new work created with fabrics from the collection of the late Eli Leon, an Oakland-based collector, scholar, and champion of African American quiltmakers.
Presented Thursday, June 10, 2021, 6 PM PDT
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Friday, June 11, 2021
All Day
Pedro González-Rubio ,
Mexico,
2009,
(73 mins)
This effortlessly beautiful film follows a Mayan father and his young son as they spend a summer working (and playing) along the Mexican Caribbean coast.
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available June 11–13
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  • Members
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Saturday, June 12, 2021
All Day
Pedro González-Rubio ,
Mexico,
2009,
(73 mins)
This effortlessly beautiful film follows a Mayan father and his young son as they spend a summer working (and playing) along the Mexican Caribbean coast.
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available June 11–13
Saturday, June 12, 2021
12:30 pm

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

With Rosie Lee Tompkins’s quilts as inspiration, explore symbols, patterns, and text in a drawing workshop focused on world building with artist Veronica Graham.
Presented Saturday, June 12, 12:30 PM PDT
  • Veronica Graham
    With artist
    Veronica Graham is a printmaker, new media artist, and educator, and the founder of Most Ancient, a design studio focused on experimental comics and exploration games.
Series Family Events
Saturday, June 12, 2021
2:30 PM

Recommended for ages 8 and up

Picking up where The One and Only Ivan left off, this story finds Chihuahua mutt Bob happily visiting his best friends, gorilla Ivan and elephant Ruby, in their wildlife sanctuary home. After a hurricane sweeps through the sanctuary, Bob courageously helps his friends to survive.
Presented Saturday, June 12, 2:30 PM PDT
  • Jennifer Deaver
    Reading led by
    Jennifer Deaver is a school librarian for the West Contra Costa Unified School District.
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Sunday, June 13, 2021
All Day
Pedro González-Rubio ,
Mexico,
2009,
(73 mins)
This effortlessly beautiful film follows a Mayan father and his young son as they spend a summer working (and playing) along the Mexican Caribbean coast.
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available June 11–13
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Thursday, June 17, 2021
4:00 PM
Art historian Julia F. Andrews presents a lecture reflecting on the rise of women as artists and as female subjects for art, in the context of the evolving status of women in twentieth-century China.
Presented Thursday, June 17, 2021
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
4:30 PM
Hear the 2021 graduates of UC Berkeley’s Master of Fine Arts program talk about their work on view at BAMPFA.
Presented Wednesday, June 23, 4:30 PM PDT
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Thursday, June 24, 2021
4 PM

Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above.

Join us for a conversation with Susan Oxtoby, BAMPFA director of film and senior film curator, who will speak about Ulrike Ottinger’s work in relationship to the Matrix 276 exhibition and the streaming spotlight series East Meets West: The Films of Ulrike Ottinger, both on view through July 18. 
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Friday, June 25, 2021
6:00 PM
Artist Sam Vernon offers a talk on the occasion of a new print project made in collaboration with the BAMPFA Film Library. Register for this event and receive a print piece in the mail!
Presented Friday, June 25, 6 PM PDT
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Saturday, June 26, 2021
7:00 PM

Programmed by Sean Carson

We present the online premiere of two episodes of The Electronic Lover, a new “audio opera” by Bay Area composer Lisa Mezzacappa and New York writer Beth Lisick. The cast and creators join us for a conversation.
Recorded Saturday, June 26, 2021, 7 PM PST
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Sunday, June 27, 2021
7:00 PM
Recent alumni of the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts program for young artists premiere their work-in-progress video opera, developed with the mentorship of writer Beth Lisick and composer Lisa Mezzacappa.
Presented Sunday, June 27, 2021, 7 PM PST
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