Fall 2019 Schedule Archive
Arts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA

For Christina Azahar, a Ph.D. student in ethnomusicology, music festivals are more than a good time. She recently returned to Berkeley after a year as a Fulbright Fellow in Chile, conducting research for her dissertation on the intersection of feminism and popular music in Chile.

Spring 2019 Schedule Archive
Arts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Spring 2019 Schedule Archive
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA

Monday, January 28, 2019

Art & The City: Cultural Planning in the Bay Area

The Bay Area Book Festival is well known for bringing world-renowned writers to Downtown Berkeley every spring, but one of this year’s most promising panels doesn’t feature a novelist, poet or essayist, but rather, three comic book creators.

If art is to operate politically, then it must be on its own terms.

Any theater geek worth their salt knows “West Side Story.” Originally envisioned by Jerome Robbins and featuring music by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, the musical is a revolutionary and still-relevant exploration of the divisions that plague American society.

On a clear, chilly Sunday evening in January, Tia Cabral is leading a seance. Her performance at San Francisco rock club the Rickshaw Stop feels less like a typical show and more like something you might stumble upon in a wooded clearing, perhaps after receiving directions on a weathered scroll.

“Documentary Voices,” the latest film series at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, engages with a cinematic subgenre that is often overlooked and relegated to the boring, formulaic or predictable. This series, however, proves these categorizations wrong.

The Berkeley Art Museum will forgive you if you have never heard of Dimensionism.

Even the curator of the museum’s new exhibit explains that she first came across mention of the “Dimensionist Manifesto” in 2010, in a book about science and geometry in modern art.