**Due to the timing of the lecture and in solidarity with Abolition May, this event will be recorded separately and uploaded onto the Berkeley Arts + Design YouTube channel for public viewing on Tuesday, May 4.** Visit youtube.com/c/BerkeleyArtsDesign for updates. To learn more about Abolition May, visit: https://copsoffcampuscoalition.com/abolition-may/. In this dynamic artist talk, Gabrielle Civil discusses her own trajectory as a black feminist performance artist, highlighting key collaborations and inspirations, and promoting black feminist joy as a creative practice. Presented by UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and the Department of African American Studies. Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit MI. She has premiered fifty performance works around the world, most recently with Wild Beauty at the Velocity Dance Center in Seattle (2020) and in the Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival (2021). Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021) and the déjà vu (2022). Her performance stills and videos have been exhibited in art spaces in California, Ohio, Minnesota, Mexico, and Brazil. A 2019 Rema Hort Mann LA Emerging Artist, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space. ----------------------------------------- Arts + Design Mondays is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative. The series is co-curated by the African American Student Development Office; Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive; Berkeley Center for New Media and the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series; College of Environmental Design, the Arcus Endowment Diversity Platform Committee and the Arcus Chair in Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment; Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Future Histories Lab, a project of UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative; Graduate School of Journalism; California Humanities and Villa San Francisco. Technical support and presentation offered by UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science, Division of Arts & Humanities. The 2021 series of Arts + Design Mondays is made possible thanks to the generous financial support of Nancy Olson and Buzz Wiesenfeld. In-kind support provided by BAMPFA. For more information, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu/mondays. All events will be live captioned. If you require captioning to access a pre-recorded event on our site, please contact Paris Cotz at pariscotz@berkeley.edu. Please expect 7-10 days for captioning to be provided.