OTHER CALENDARS

Life After Lawn: Toward a New American Front Yard

Conference/Symposium | June 15 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | Botanical Garden | Canceled

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

Learn about exciting and regionally appropriate lawn alternatives. Join Anthony Garza, Supervisor of Horticulture & Grounds, for this presentation and discussion about how to get started, planning for success, using great grasses and grass-like plants in different settings, and tackling maintenance. Registration required; $12, $8 members.

Registration required:$12, $8 members

Registration info: Register by calling 510-643-2755, or by emailing garden@berkeley.edu.

New insights into the Arp2/3 complex actin nucleation mechanism

Seminar | June 15 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 174 Koshland Hall

Featured Speaker: Shae Padrick, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Biochemistry

Sponsor: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

Health*Matters Walking Group

Social Event | March 9 – December 31, 2012 every Monday, Wednesday & Friday with exceptions | 12:10 p.m. | Campanile (Sather Tower)

Sponsor: Health*Matters

The Walking Group meets every MWF, 12:10 pm, at the Campanile. Fit 30-40 minutes of walking into your work day for the benefits of social support, stress relief, and renewed energy. No enrollment required. Check the website for special events.

Open to audiences: Faculty, Staff

Adjoint methods for nonlinear PDE 2

Seminar | June 15 | 3-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Speaker: Craig Evans, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Department of Mathematics

Tutorial on systems of conservation laws 2: Riemann problems

Seminar | June 15 | 4-5 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Speaker: Tak Kwong Wong, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Department of Mathematics

In this talk we will study the Riemann problems for the systems of conservation laws in one space dimension. After a brief introduction to the simple waves, rarefaction waves, shocks and contact discontinuities, we will present Lax's celebrated theorem (1957), in which he solved the Riemann problems by using these simple waves.

Three Czech New Wave Classics: Fruit of Paradise

Film - Feature | June 15 | 7 p.m. | PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Vera Chytilová (Czechoslovakia, 1970)

(Ovoce stromu rajskych jime, a.k.a. We Eat the Fruit of the Tree of Paradise). The companion piece to Daisies, Chytilová's little-seen masterwork Fruit of Paradise is a dazzlingly complex, formally rigorous allegory of Adam and Eve. Chytilová's color schemes and juxtapositions brought the art of montage to new heights, while Fruit's mad expressionism and... More >

Tickets:$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and youth (17 & under), $9.50 Adults (18-64)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman

Film - Feature | June 15 | 8:50 p.m. | PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Henry King (U.S., 1952)

This flavorful Hemingway adaptation spans the globe from 1950s Africa to 1920s Paris and 1930s Spain, and back again, as it follows the recollections of a hard-drinking writer (Peck) on death’s door during an African safari. As the macho artist reflecting on a lifetime of drinking, hunting, and womanizing, Peck uses his full range of masculine charms to convince as a... More >

Exhibits and ongoing events

The Magnes Effect: Five Decades of Collecting

Exhibit - Artifacts | January 22 – August 10, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Bancroft Library

In its first five decades The Magnes has made a global impact on Jewish culture through pioneering collecting practices and communal activism. It incubated the first Jewish film festival in the world and inspired the international revival of Klezmer music. It established the model for the study of regional Jewish history in America, explored the visual and materials dimensions of Jewish life, and... More >

Heart of the Campus: Doe Library 1912-2012

Exhibit - Artifacts | March 12 – August 24, 2012 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | Doe Library, Brown Gallery

Sponsor: Library

This exhibit of library history is held in conjunction with the centennial celebrations for Doe Library taking place this spring.

Dissolving Localities | Berkeley Jerusalem: A multimedia project by Emmanuel Witzthum

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 22 – July 4, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Speaker/Performer: Emmanuel Witzthum

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Department of Music

Dissolving Localities | Berkeley Jerusalem will extend Witzthum's recent project, where artists were invited to "perform" the city of Jerusalem as a musical/visual instrument. By interweaving recorded sights and sounds, they created an expanding open-source multimedia montage. During his residency in Berkeley, Witzthum will build an audiovisual dialogue between Jerusalem, his hometown, and... More >

Moffitt Library: Viewing the Past, Envisioning the Future

Exhibit - Multimedia | April 20 – August 17, 2012 every day with exceptions | Moffitt Undergraduate Library | Note change in date

Sponsor: Library

Spread out over three cases on the third floor of the Moffitt Library, this exhibit will provide an overview of the history of Moffitt Library as well as expound on plans for its future.

Photographs, books, newspaper articles, blueprints, and video will chronicle the personalities and events that shaped Moffitt Library from its inception in the 1950s to its prospective revitalization.

Attendance restrictions: Anyone wishing to enter Moffitt Library must show a current UC ID, UC Berkeley Library Borrower's Card, or Stanford ID.

Science On a Sphere®

Exhibit - Multimedia | May 4, 2012 – December 31, 2013 every day with exceptions | Lawrence Hall of Science

Explore extreme phenomena best seen on a globe, including a climate change model for the next 100 years, glacial ice formation, the spreading of the supercontinent Pangea into today's continents, and realtime earthquake locations.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

All Hail to the Chief: A History of US Presidential Visits to Cal, 1891-2002

Exhibit - Artifacts | April 9 – November 30, 2012 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | Doe Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd Floor corridor between Doe Library and The Bancroft Library

Sponsor: Bancroft Library

Drawing on records and documents in the University Archives, this exhibition highlights campus visits by ten US Presidents.

Gale Antokal: The Spill

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 22 – July 4, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)

Speaker/Performer: Gale Antokal

Sponsors: The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, Bancroft Library

Starting from drawings in her series, We Are So Lightly Here (2003-2006), Gale Antokal, a Berkeley based artist, has created an original video piece, to be projected on the lobby wall. This video correlates to Antokal's drawings of milk pouring down a staircase, originally made with pastel, graphite, ash and flour.

In the Shadow of Hiroshima: Childrens’ Visions of Life

Exhibit - Multimedia | June 12 – September 12, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Japanese Studies (CJS)

"In the Shadow of Hiroshima: Childrens’ Visions of Life" is an exhibit that evokes war, horror, and devastation—with hardly a trace of any of these depicted in the works themselves.

“Hiroshima” is a city whose name is inextricably linked with the moment in August 1945 when it became the victim of the first atomic bomb attack. While the images of its destruction are widely known, less... More >

Shedding Light on the Layers of a Lamp: Creation, Production, and Symbolism at Tell en-Nasbeh

Exhibit - Artifacts | March 21 – October 5, 2012 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 10 a.m.-3 p.m. | Badè Museum Gallery, Holbrook Building, Pacific School of Religion

Location: 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709

Speaker/Performer: Aaron Brody, Director, Badè Museum Gallery

Sponsor: Badè Museum

An exhibit running from March 21, 2012 to Fall, 2012 at the Badè Museum Gallery. The museum gallery is open Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 10am-3pm.

“A lamp is not merely that which gives light; it is the quintessence of cheer and security which, on a larger scale, the sun radiates upon the world”
~Smith, “The Household Lamp of Palestine in Old Testament Times,” 1964

A Place at the Table: A Gathering of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Text, Image, and Voice

Exhibit - Multimedia | April 5 – July 9, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | Bancroft Library, Gallery

Sponsor: Bancroft Library

You have been invited to a grand party. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas are your hosts. Gathered in one room there are over 150 years of Americans who embody a rainbow of diversity, but have one thing in common--a non-normative sexual orientation.

Tony Hawk Rad Science

Exhibit - Multimedia | June 2 – September 3, 2012 every day | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science, Exhibit floor

Learn the science behind extreme sports at Tony Hawk | Rad Science and see how skateboard legend Tony Hawk joins forces with physics to make 900-degree revolutions in midair, ride up vertical walls, and fly over rails.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Alumni, Children, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff

Open to audiences: All Audiences, Alumni, Children, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff

Attendance restrictions: Museum admission required

The Reading Room

Reading - Literary | January 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that... More >

Tickets required:Free BAM/PFA Members UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees Children (12 & under), $10 Adults (18-64), $7 Non-UC Berkeley students Senior citizens (65 & over) Disabled persons Young adults (13-17)

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.

State Of Mind: New California Art circa 1970

Exhibit - Multimedia | February 29 – June 17, 2012 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Have you ever heard the sound of ice melting? State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, part of Pacific Standard Time, offers an in-depth exploration of Conceptual art made by both Northern and Southern California artists during a pivotal period in contemporary art. The more than 150 works of art on display—many rarely seen or newly discovered—are organized by themes, such as the street, the... More >

A Sky Full of Stars – 1:00 p.m.

Presentation | June 9 – August 26, 2012 every day | 1-1:45 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science

What's that in the sky? We use our friendly Planetarium as a time machine to speed through a day, observing the sky from the Sun to the stars. Once night falls, the audience can stargaze at the Big Dipper, and imagine pictures in the stars. Then we can planet-hop within our Solar System to visit planets up close. What can you see in a sky full of stars?
Recommended for ages 4–8, with adult.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children

Open to audiences: All Audiences, Children

Attendance restrictions: Recommended for ages 4–8, with adult.

Tickets required:$4

Ticket info: Purchased at the Visitor Services desk. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-5132.

Animal Discovery Room

Miscellaneous | June 11 – August 26, 2012 every day | 1:30-4 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science

Skateboarders aren't the only ones who use the forces of physics. Through hands-on animal encounters, learn about what role physics plays in helping birds, frogs, lizards, and other animals do their own amazing physical feats like fly, swim, and catch food.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Constellations Tonight—2:00 p.m.: Planetarium Program

Presentation | February 4 – August 26, 2012 every day with exceptions | 2-2:45 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science, Planetarium

The lore of the stars and other treasures of the sky come to Earth in our planetarium. Using a simple star map, learn to identify the most prominent constellations of the season in the planetarium sky. Keep your map to help you find the constellations in the real nighttime sky.

Tickets required:$4

Ticket info: Tickets are sold at the Visitor Services Desk on a first-come, first-served basis. Everyone must have their own ticket. Planetarium Passes must be exchanged at the Visitor Services Desk for tickets.

Northern Lights—3:00 p.m.

Presentation | June 9 – August 26, 2012 every day | 3-3:45 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science, Planetarium