Sunday, May 5
Sunday, May 5, 2024
1 PM
Oakland-based artist Melinda Katz leads this cyanotype workshop using mildly photosensitive paper, found objects, sunlight, and time to produce unique images in Prussian blue and white.
Included with admission
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Workshops
Sunday, May 5, 2024
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
Sunday, May 5, 2024
2 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
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Exhibition Tours
Sunday, May 5, 2024
3:30 PM
Agnès Varda, JR,
France,
2017,
(89 mins)
Agnès Varda teams up with hipster artist JR on a road trip across rural France, meeting the locals and creating large-scale portraits. One of Varda’s last films, and a first-rate achievement in her brilliant career.
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Viva Varda!
Sunday, May 5, 2024
5:30 PM
Edward Yang,
Taiwan,
2000,
(173 mins)
35mm Archival Print
A wedding and a wake bookend Edward Yang’s look at a year in the life of one multigenerational middle-class family in Taipei. “The work of a master in full command of the resources of his art” (New York Times). Released in 2000, it was still named to many Best Films of the 2000s lists.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories
Monday, May 6
Tuesday, May 7
Wednesday, May 8
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
6:30 PM
Presented by Berkeleyside in partnership with BAMPFA
Join us for an immersive, lively conversation on plant-based meats, foraging adventures, and the captivating world of fungi.
BAMPFA members receive a special discount on Idea Makers tickets! Contact us at bampfamember@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-2365 for your promo code.
$10–20. Tickets sold by Berkeleyside on Eventbrite.
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Talks & Conversations
Thursday, May 9
Friday, May 10
Friday, May 10, 2024
12:00 PM–3:00 PM
(180 mins)
On the outdoor screen
Come by the BAMPFA outdoor screen on Friday afternoons in May to follow along as Berkeley's fuzzy falcon chicks continue to grow and develop.
Friday, May 10, 2024
2 PM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
Friday, May 10, 2024
6:00 PM
Meet the 2024 graduates of UC Berkeley’s Master of Fine Arts program as they talk about their recent work at the outset of BAMPFA’s fifty-fourth annual MFA exhibition. This year’s artists are Salimatu Amabebe, Anamaya Farthing-Kohl, Valencia James, and Nivedita Madigubba.
Included with gallery admission
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Talks & Conversations 2023
Saturday, May 11
Saturday, May 11, 2024
1 PM–7 PM
Drop-In Art Making
The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Series
Workshops
Saturday, May 11, 2024
11:30 AM–1 PM
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
See how shapes, geometry, and surface design have been used by artists in BAMPFA’s collection and make a vibrant abstraction of your own.
Sign up in the Art Lab ten minutes ahead of the session, in time to join us for the tour that starts at 11:30 AM.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 and under and for one adult per child 13 and under
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Priyanka D’Souza
Workshop led byPriyanka D’Souza is a visual artist, writer, and poet from Mumbai who works with crip time and protest and the concept of the ajai’b (wondrous/strange), particularly as applied to borderlands and anom
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Family Events
Saturday, May 11, 2024
2 PM–3 PM
Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
Freddie Ruiz faces off against a mysterious amulet—a family heirloom infused with evil spirits. Can he and his cousin triumph over its strong powers?
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 and under and for one adult per child 13 and under
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Rachel Budge
Reading led byLibrarian, Emerson Elementary School, Berkeley
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Family Events
Saturday, May 11, 2024
5:30 PM
Edward Yang,
1991,
(240 mins)
Gangsters, musicians, lovers, and street punks populate the gorgeous frames of Edward Yang’s portrait of coming of age—or trying to—in the politically charged Taiwan of the 1960s. Yang’s—and Taiwanese cinema’s—version of such epoch-defining films as The Godfather or 1900.
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Edward Yang’s Taipei Stories
Through July 7
Through July 14
Through September 22
Through July 3
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