Spring 2019 Schedule Archive
Arts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Creativity: A New Approach - Series Introduction by Stan Lai
Stan Lai (playwright; creator of "AGO")
Video Forthcoming
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Adaption and Transformation: with Mary Zimmerman and Stan Lai
Stan Lai (playwright; creator of "AGO"), Mary Zimmerman (playwright; director)
Video Forthcoming
Thursday, February 7, 2019
The Peach Blossom Land: A Film by Stan Lai
Stan Lai (playwright; creator of "AGO")
Video Forthcoming
Thursday, February 14, 2019
The Undefended Heart: Buddhism and Performance with Joe Goode
Joe Goode (Artistic Director of Joe Goode Performance Group)
Video Forthcoming
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Speaking to the Moment: Creative Invention in Dance
Marni Thomas Wood (faculty member Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance)
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Performing the Unimaginable: Theater of War
Akram Khan (dancer/ choreographer), Rob Bailis (Cal Performances' interim artistic director)
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Curating Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction
Lucinda Barnes (BAMPFA Curator; expert on Hans Hofmann)
Video Forthcoming
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Making Dreamers: An Oratorio of Immigration
Jimmy Lopez (award-winning composer; composer of "Dreamers")
Thursday, April 4, 2019
The Village: Weaving Local Stories into Theater Epics
Stan Lai (playwright; creator of "AGO")
Participating Units: Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Organic Design: A Dream like a Dream and Ago
Stan Lai (playwright; creator of "AGO"), Sandra Woodall (award-winning costume designer)
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Calcutta to California: Sowing an American Lineage of Kathak Dance
Rachna Nivas (artist, choreographer, educator, and entrepreneur in Indian classical dance)
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Isabel Allende (author of The House of Spirits), Caridad Svich (theater-maker and playwright)
Course Description: Co-taught by Peter Glazer and Stan Lai, this series will explore the specific and metaphoric connections amongst Creative action - adapting Stan Lai's concepts and training - and the possibility of personal, cultural, and social transformation. How do we understand movement, migration, and change both metaphorically and literally? How do artists working in literature, visual art, film, performance, and design explore and enact transformation? Aside from featuring insight into the works and creative methods of Asia's Stan Lai, the series will also delve into current trends in Latino-American/Latino arts, as well as European and African art and performance.
Arts + Design Thursdays is made possible thanks to support from the Big Ideas Courses Program in the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley and from generous supporters of Berkeley Arts + Design.
For more information, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu/thursdays.