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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Ingenuity Lab Monthly Challenge: June - Marble Machines

Workshop | June 2 – 30, 2012 every Sunday & Saturday | 12-4 p.m. |  Lawrence Hall of Science


Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)


Build a winding marble track of tubes, funnels, and bumpers. Experiment by building the track higher, making the turns steeper, or adding a loop-the-loop.


All Audiences, Children, General Public

All Audiences



Docent Tour

Tour/Open House | February 6, 2011 – December 29, 2013 every Sunday with exceptions | 1:30 p.m. |  Botanical Garden


Botanical Garden


With paid admission, we offer free docent-led tours year-round on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 PM.

Plants of the World - General Tour of the Garden
Explore the Garden’s incredible diversity of plants from six continents, including environments as diverse as deserts, tropical forests, redwood forests, and wetlands.



South Bay Young Blues: Cal-UCLA Sports and Picnic Event

Social Event | June 24 | 2-5 p.m. |  Fair Oaks Park


540 North Fair Oaks Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085

South Bay Young Blues (SBYB)


Come meet fellow Cal and UCLA alumni at our sports picnic! There will be an open field for ultimate frisbee, flag football, basketball, and more.

Not a sports person? Don't want to sweat? No worries, just come and eat some light snacks, drink, and just hang out with awesome Bears and Bruins!



To Kill a Mockingbird, Robert Mulligan (U.S., 1962): Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman

Film - Feature | June 24 | 4:45 p.m. |  PFA Theater


Michael Butler, REPertory Company

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive


New Print!
Student Pick!

Introduction/Michael Butler

Butler is artistic director of Walnut Creek’s Center REPertory Company, which recently staged a production of the Harper Lee story.

Like Harper Lee’s novel on which it is based, To Kill a Mockingbird is rooted in the America of the early 1960s, with its gathering struggle for civil rights, yet the film’s message of tolerance—told...   More >


$5.50 BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley students, $9.50 general admission, $6.50 UC Berkeley Faculty/Staff, Non-UC Berkeley Students, Seniors (65+), and Youth (17 & Under)



The Claremont Tango/Salsa Dance Series

Special Event | June 24 | 7 p.m. |  The Claremont Hotel, Club & Spa


41 Tunnel Road, Berkeley, CA 94705

The Claremont Hotel, Club & Spa


Join us the last Sunday of each month and let the passion of Argentine Tango and sultriness of Salsa dancing capture your hearts. All levels welcome. Cal Alumni Association (CAA) members save 50%.



Films of Nathaniel Dorsky: Devotional Songs

Film - Feature | June 24 | 7:30 p.m. |  PFA Theater


Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive


Nathaniel Dorsky (U.S., 2004–12)

In Person Nathaniel Dorsky

Song and Solitude 2006, 21 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection
Threnody 2004, 25 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection
The Visitation 2012, 18 mins, Silent, Color, 16mm, PFA Collection

Total running time: 64 mins

Wednesday / 6.27.12
Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman
7:00
Duel in the Sun...   More >


$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)



Exhibits and ongoing events


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


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.


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



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)


Emmanuel Witzthum

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 >



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)


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 >



Science On a Sphere®

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


Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)


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.


All Audiences, Children, General Public

All Audiences



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


Library


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



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)


Gale Antokal

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.



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


Bancroft Library


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



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


Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)


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.


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

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

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


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 >


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)

Buy tickets by calling 510-642-0808.



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


Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)


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.


All Audiences, Children

All Audiences, Children

Recommended for ages 4–8, with adult.

$4

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


Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)


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.


All Audiences, Children, General Public

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


Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)


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.


$4

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


Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)


The Northern Lights, created by highly charged particles colliding into our atmosphere, baffled humankind for centuries. In this Planetarium program, learn how ancient people explained them and how that compares to what we know today. Recommended for ages 8 and up.


All Audiences, Children, General Public

All Audiences

$4

Buy tickets by calling 510-642-5132.