Susan Moffatt, Lenora Lee, and Ava Roy discuss San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island and Alcatraz Island as creative catalysts and settings for their site-inspired performances addressing migration, incarceration, and resistance.

Fall 2022 Schedule Archive

Berkeley Arts + Design

Arts + Design Thursdays

Actors on a stage raise their arms to the ceiling.

Fall 2022 Schedule Archive: A+D Thursdays

Berkeley Arts + Design

Fall 2022 Schedule
A+D Thursdays: Creativity in Practice

 

Thursday, September 1, 12:45pm

Barnali Ghosh is covered up in scarves, with the caption reading "Wear your damn masks"

Fall 2022 Schedule Archive: A+D Fridays

Berkeley Arts + Design

Fall 2022 Schedule
A+D Fridays: A Year on Angel Island

 

Audience dancing and waving in the BAMPFA Osher Theater

Spring 2022 Schedule Archive: Arts + Design Fridays

Berkeley Arts + Design

Spring 2022 Schedule
Arts + Design Fridays: Perseverance, Renewal, and Reflection in a Changing World

 

Reparations Now! colorful mural painted on residential street in South Berkeley.

Berkeley may explore making reparations to Black residents

Frances Dinkelspiel

Berkeley may take a first step Tuesday toward acknowledging the harm slavery and systemic racism has done to Blacks by hiring a consultant to develop a reparations process for the city.

photo of concrete interior balconies and office floor of newly engineered UC Berkeley Art Museum

The Berkeley Art Museum, a Modernist Landmark, is Reengineered and Redesigned

Kenneth Caldwell

In case you were wondering how the Berkeley Art Museum, a Brutalist structure close to Northern California’s Hayward Fault, was converted into a new state-of-the-art incubator lab, a simple answer can be found in the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub’s new logo (by design firm twoxfour), on which an abstraction of the building’s unusual radial floor plan h

White walls with art work and a gallery floor space with 3D installations.

Faces, furniture, flowers are alchemically transformed at Berkeley Art Center

Jaimie Baron

Midas: how art becomes life and life becomes art, a new Berkeley Art Center group show organized by longtime Bay Area resident, artist, and curator Squeak Carnwath, embodies so much of what is uniquely lovable about Berkeley.

A colorful mural depicting people of color eating and growing food.

Berkeley's affordable housing talks will include plans to retain artists, 'cultural workers'

Supriya Yelimeli

Berkeley’s ongoing discussion to create 9,000 homes over the next decade will include plans to accommodate artists with affordable housing that meets their needs, including flexible live-work spaces throughout the city.

Students walking down sidewalk in front of Hearst Museum of Anthropology

After 70 Years, UC Berkeley Museum Returns Massacre Remains to Wiyot Tribe

Emily Wilson

SAN FRANCISCO — Ted Hernandez, tribal historical preservation officer of the Wiyot Tribe, said bringing home the remains of ancestors from the University of California, Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology has been a long process, involving many people.

Seattle's Bell Street is the kind of street redesign they want for avenue, and the photo shows a pedestrian-friendly plaza.

City backs bus lane for Telegraph Avenue, but merchants aren't on board

Nico Savidge

Some of Berkeley’s most recognizable blocks are poised for a major makeover.