Fractions From a Number Line Approach

Workshop | July 30 – August 3, 2012 every day | 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. | 222 Lawrence Hall of Science

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

From July 30 through Aug. 3, 2012, the Bay Area Mathematics Project (BAMP) invites teachers from grades 3 through 6 to participate in the Fractions from a Number Line Approach Institute, which will offer unique opportunities to view the development of fraction concepts and skills through the lens of the California Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CaCCSS-M). The California Mathematics...   More >

Registration required:$100 Individual or Limited School/District Support, $300 District or School Sponsorship

Registration info: Register by July 13 online, or by calling Carolyn Billingsley at 510-642-7154.

Solar Exchange West

Conference/Symposium | August 1 | 9 a.m.-7 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium

Sponsor: College of Engineering

A day of discovery and dialogue on the latest emerging topics, innovations and trends within the solar industry. In addition, there will be opportunity for dialogue on the extensive needs of manufacturers and developers of solar power.

The day will include networking sessions that provide opportunities to develop your knowledge on the solar industry, gather new perspectives, learn new methods...   More >

Scholar Information Meetings (SIMs)

Orientation | August 1 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | International House, Sproul Room

Sponsor: Berkeley International Office(BIO))

Newly arrived J-1 postdocs, professors, researchers,short-term scholars, and visiting student researchers are required to attend this meeting to validate their arrival in the U.S. Information on immigration regulations, travel, employment, resources for families, health insurance and other practical information will be discussed.

Your final immigration document review will be completed at the...   More >

Summer Fun Day: Bubbly Sidewalk Paint

Miscellaneous | August 1 | 12-2 p.m. |  Lawrence Hall of Science

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Prepare to get messy and create your own sidewalk paint.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Caregiver Grief

Workshop | August 1 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. |  Tang Center, University Health Services

Speaker/Performer: Maureen Kelly, Ed.D, LCSW, Elder Care Counselor, CARE Services for Faculty and Staff

Sponsor: Tang Center (University Health Services)

In this workshop we will identify various losses associated with aging and how these changes may be experienced by an elder, by the caregiver, and by other family members; discuss grieving as an active and important process; and try to differentiate grief from depression. Strategies for self-care will be shared. Resources provided. Enroll online.

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

Intercultural Literacy: Use Your Emotional Intelligence to Bridge Cultural Styles at Work

Workshop | August 1 | 1-5 p.m. | International House, Sproul Room

Speaker: T. Glen Sebera, Renaissance Consulting Group

Speaker/Performer: breidi Truscott Roberts, International House

Sponsor: COrWE

If you are a UCB staff member who works with international students, scholars, researchers or postdocs, you should take advantage of this great opportunity to improve your skills on how to work effectively across cultures.

Target audience: Staff

Open to audience: Staff

Attendance restrictions: Open to UCB Staff only

Barbecue Dinner: With Agua Fresca Bar!

Social Event | August 1 | 6-8 p.m. | International House, 2nd Floor Dining Commons & Heller Patio

Sponsor: International House

I-House Dining Services serves up a feast of grilled meats, vegetables, salads and an agua fresca bar!
Menu: Hamburgers, Sausage, Hot Dogs, BBQ Chicken, Vegie Burgers and Grilled Vegetable, Potato Salad, Coleslaw, Corn on the Cob, BBQ Baked Beans and Assorted Melons, Aqua Fresca Bar
Guest Price $ 10.00
Please come and join us.
Free for I-House residents with meal card.
$10 public. Flexible...   More >

Mamma Roma, Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1962): Bellissima: Leading Ladies of the Italian Screen

Film - Series | August 1 | 7 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Mamma Roma captures the dispirited world of a spirited prostitute and her efforts to rise above her trade toward a petit bourgeois life for herself and her grown son. In stone ruins and suburban housing projects, Pasolini finds a combination of the seamy and the lyric, the ugly and the classical, rough trade tempered by raw beauty. His dreamlike edits open neorealism to a transcendent modernity,...   More >

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

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.

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.

Surround Yourself with Creative People: work by students in Advanced Ceramics from Spring 2012

Exhibit - Sculpture | June 28 – August 3, 2012 every day | César E. Chávez Student Center, Breezeway

Performer Group:

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

The Berkeley Art Studio is proud to announce their latest show, SURROUND YOURSELF WITH CREATIVE PEOPLE, work by students in Advanced Ceramics from Spring 2012. This showing of work displays the depth and breadth of creative ceramic work at the studio. Taking its name from a set of guiding principles for "How to Stay Creative," this show illustrates the collaborative community at the Art Studio...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

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 >

Science On a Sphere®

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

Sponsor: 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.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Berkeley Art Studio :: Early Fall Session: Drawing, Ceramics, Painting, and Photography classes!

Course | July 12 – September 10, 2012 every day | César E. Chávez Student Center, Sproul Plaza Breezeway

Performer Group:

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Berkeley Art Studio registration is now open to the entire community as well as UC Students, Faculty, and Staff. We offer classes in ceramics,painting, drawing, and photography. Sign up for a 7 week class today!

Target audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Open to audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Attendance restrictions: Sorry! No children under 18.

Registration required:$220 Ceramics Class (Non-Student Price), $160 Ceramics Class (UCB Student price), $190 Drawing, Painting or Photography (Non-Student Price), $140 Drawing, Painting or Photography (UCB Student Price)

Registration info: Classes fill up fast, register today!. Registration opens July 12. Register by September 12 online, or by calling 510-642-6161, or by emailing artstudio@berkeley.edu.

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.

Natural Discourse: Artists, Architects, Scientists and Poets in the Garden

Exhibit - Multimedia | July 14, 2012 – January 20, 2013 every day with exceptions | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Botanical Garden

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

'Natural Discourse: Artists, Architects, Scientists & Poets in the Garden' is a collaborative project between The UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley and a multi-disciplinary group of artists, writers, architects and researchers who have been invited to spend time in the Garden's extraordinary collection of plants, engage with the horticulturalists and develop new site specific
work. The resulting...   More >

Open to audience: All Audiences

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 >

Tools of the Trade

Exhibit - Multimedia | July 10 – September 4, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Wurster Hall, Library/ 210

Sponsor: Environmental Design Archives

Designers use tools for learning the art of design, for teaching, and for communicating ideas in the studio, the office, the field, and on the site.

People often see the results of design: the buildings and landscapes that inform our everyday world. Rarely do we get to see the tools that make the design of this world possible. This exhibition features tangible items that...   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

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

At The Edge: Recent Aquisitions

Exhibit - Artifacts | July 18 – December 23, 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

This exhibition presents a selection of works that have entered our collection over the past two years. This is our first opportunity to show most of these works, some of which have never before been exhibited anywhere.

The title, At the Edge, evokes the ways in which these works convey a sense of reaching—and sometimes crossing—limits of perception and experience. Among the works on view are...   More >

Tickets:$0 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley staff, faculty, and students, $10 General admission, $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons, ages 13-17

Lutz Bacher: Matrix 242

Exhibit - Photography | July 18 – October 7, 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

Since Lutz Bacher’s first MATRIX exhibition in 1993, the Berkeley-based artist has become a leading figure in contemporary art; she was the subject of a retrospective at MoMA PS1 in 2009 and was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. MATRIX 242 presents an important but rarely seen series from 2006–07 that sheds light on the artist’s often elusive practice.

Bien Hoa is is based on a set of ten...   More >

Tickets:$0 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley staff, faculty, and students, $10 General admission, $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons, ages 13-17

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.

D-L Alvarez: Matrix 243

Exhibit - Painting | July 18 – October 7, 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

D-L Alvarez’s first solo museum exhibition presents a haunting meditation on the violent end of innocence. Alvarez, an Oakland-based artist, focuses on the uncanny moments when social and domestic deviance collide.

In Alvarez’s drawing series, The Closet (2006–07), we see an abstracted image of Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978), repelling the attacks of a masked psychopath...   More >

Tickets:$0 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley staff, faculty, and students, $10 General admission, $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons, ages 13-17

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Tickets required:$4

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-5132.

Fractions From a Number Line Approach

Workshop | July 30 – August 3, 2012 every day | 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. | 222 Lawrence Hall of Science

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

From July 30 through Aug. 3, 2012, the Bay Area Mathematics Project (BAMP) invites teachers from grades 3 through 6 to participate in the Fractions from a Number Line Approach Institute, which will offer unique opportunities to view the development of fraction concepts and skills through the lens of the California Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CaCCSS-M). The California Mathematics...   More >

Registration required:$100 Individual or Limited School/District Support, $300 District or School Sponsorship

Registration info: Register by July 13 online, or by calling Carolyn Billingsley at 510-642-7154.

Docent Tour

Tour/Open House | February 10, 2011 – December 26, 2013 every Thursday with exceptions | 1:30 p.m. |  Botanical Garden

Sponsor: 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.

Ecological Restoration Through Art

Lecture | July 10 – August 7, 2012 every Tuesday & Thursday | 3-4:30 p.m. | 101 Morgan Hall

Speaker: Ren Ming Zhu, Dean, Research Institute of Environmental Art of Zhejiang University

Sponsor: Berkeley Summer Sessions

Ren Ming Zhu, an artist and scholar from China, leads this lecture series covering his efforts to rehabilitate ecology -- island, desolate sand, wetland, bare cliffs, roads -- through art. This lecture series is free.

MCB Summer Seminar Series

Seminar | August 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall

Speakers: Stephane Gourguechon: "Regulation of mitosis in Giardia is independent of the Anaphase Promoting Complex or Ubiquitination", UCB (Cande Lab); Ofer Rog: "In vivo visualization of chromosome synapsis in C. elegans", UCB (Dernburg Lab)

Sponsor: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

Concerts in the Redwood Grove: Emily Jane White + Foxtails Brigade

Performing Arts - Music | August 2 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Botanical Garden, Redwood Grove

Featured Performers: Emily Jane White; Foxtails Brigade

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

Dark & Pretty, Victorian neo-folk
EMILY JANE WHITE has a haunting singing voice and music that draws from the blues, old folk, and Americana. FOXTAILS BRIGADE present an ornate kind of dark chamber pop with intricately played classical guitar and pitch perfect vocals. Come hear these two sirens in the dreamy redwood grove.

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Tickets required:$12/ $10 for members; Youth $5; Under 5 free

Ticket info: Buy tickets online, or by calling 510-643-2755, or by emailing garden@berkeley.edu.

Fight Club, David Fincher (U.S., 1999): Cool World

Film - Series | August 2 | 7 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Edward Norton and Brad Pitt: two sides of the cool coin, one controlled and sweet-talkin’, the other, unruly and carefree. For David Fincher’s concussive cult film, Norton plays a nameless everyman bored with his white-collar job and suffering from insomnia. When he meets Tyler Durden (Pitt), a soap salesman, the solution to his sleepless nights is apparently a knockout. The two form a...   More >

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

IISA Summer Series: America Must Be...

Film - Feature | June 7 – August 2, 2012 every Thursday with exceptions | 8-10 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

Sponsor: ASUC (Associated Students of the University of California)

IISA presents the Summer 2012 series of Italian Movie Nights: "America Must Be...".   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.

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.

Berkeley Art Studio :: Early Fall Session: Drawing, Ceramics, Painting, and Photography classes!

Course | July 12 – September 10, 2012 every day | César E. Chávez Student Center, Sproul Plaza Breezeway

Performer Group:

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Berkeley Art Studio registration is now open to the entire community as well as UC Students, Faculty, and Staff. We offer classes in ceramics,painting, drawing, and photography. Sign up for a 7 week class today!

Target audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Open to audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Attendance restrictions: Sorry! No children under 18.

Registration required:$220 Ceramics Class (Non-Student Price), $160 Ceramics Class (UCB Student price), $190 Drawing, Painting or Photography (Non-Student Price), $140 Drawing, Painting or Photography (UCB Student Price)

Registration info: Classes fill up fast, register today!. Registration opens July 12. Register by September 12 online, or by calling 510-642-6161, or by emailing artstudio@berkeley.edu.

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.

Science On a Sphere®

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

Sponsor: 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.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Surround Yourself with Creative People: work by students in Advanced Ceramics from Spring 2012

Exhibit - Sculpture | June 28 – August 3, 2012 every day | César E. Chávez Student Center, Breezeway

Performer Group:

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

The Berkeley Art Studio is proud to announce their latest show, SURROUND YOURSELF WITH CREATIVE PEOPLE, work by students in Advanced Ceramics from Spring 2012. This showing of work displays the depth and breadth of creative ceramic work at the studio. Taking its name from a set of guiding principles for "How to Stay Creative," this show illustrates the collaborative community at the Art Studio...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Natural Discourse: Artists, Architects, Scientists and Poets in the Garden

Exhibit - Multimedia | July 14, 2012 – January 20, 2013 every day with exceptions | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Botanical Garden

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

'Natural Discourse: Artists, Architects, Scientists & Poets in the Garden' is a collaborative project between The UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley and a multi-disciplinary group of artists, writers, architects and researchers who have been invited to spend time in the Garden's extraordinary collection of plants, engage with the horticulturalists and develop new site specific
work. The resulting...   More >

Open to audience: All Audiences

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 >

Free Thursday

Tour/Open House | March 4, 2010 – December 3, 2015 the first Thursday of the month every month | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Botanical Garden

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

Enjoy free admission to the UC Botanical Garden on the first Thursday of the month. Parking is limited.

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

Tools of the Trade

Exhibit - Multimedia | July 10 – September 4, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Wurster Hall, Library/ 210

Sponsor: Environmental Design Archives

Designers use tools for learning the art of design, for teaching, and for communicating ideas in the studio, the office, the field, and on the site.

People often see the results of design: the buildings and landscapes that inform our everyday world. Rarely do we get to see the tools that make the design of this world possible. This exhibition features tangible items that...   More >

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

D-L Alvarez: Matrix 243

Exhibit - Painting | July 18 – October 7, 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

D-L Alvarez’s first solo museum exhibition presents a haunting meditation on the violent end of innocence. Alvarez, an Oakland-based artist, focuses on the uncanny moments when social and domestic deviance collide.

In Alvarez’s drawing series, The Closet (2006–07), we see an abstracted image of Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978), repelling the attacks of a masked psychopath...   More >

Tickets:$0 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley staff, faculty, and students, $10 General admission, $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons, ages 13-17

At The Edge: Recent Aquisitions

Exhibit - Artifacts | July 18 – December 23, 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

This exhibition presents a selection of works that have entered our collection over the past two years. This is our first opportunity to show most of these works, some of which have never before been exhibited anywhere.

The title, At the Edge, evokes the ways in which these works convey a sense of reaching—and sometimes crossing—limits of perception and experience. Among the works on view are...   More >

Tickets:$0 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley staff, faculty, and students, $10 General admission, $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons, ages 13-17

Lutz Bacher: Matrix 242

Exhibit - Photography | July 18 – October 7, 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

Since Lutz Bacher’s first MATRIX exhibition in 1993, the Berkeley-based artist has become a leading figure in contemporary art; she was the subject of a retrospective at MoMA PS1 in 2009 and was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. MATRIX 242 presents an important but rarely seen series from 2006–07 that sheds light on the artist’s often elusive practice.

Bien Hoa is is based on a set of ten...   More >

Tickets:$0 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley staff, faculty, and students, $10 General admission, $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons, ages 13-17

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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Tickets required:$4

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-5132.

Fractions From a Number Line Approach

Workshop | July 30 – August 3, 2012 every day | 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. | 222 Lawrence Hall of Science

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

From July 30 through Aug. 3, 2012, the Bay Area Mathematics Project (BAMP) invites teachers from grades 3 through 6 to participate in the Fractions from a Number Line Approach Institute, which will offer unique opportunities to view the development of fraction concepts and skills through the lens of the California Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CaCCSS-M). The California Mathematics...   More >

Registration required:$100 Individual or Limited School/District Support, $300 District or School Sponsorship

Registration info: Register by July 13 online, or by calling Carolyn Billingsley at 510-642-7154.

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

Bordering China: Modernity and Sustainability: A Conference Held in Conjunction with the Berkeley Summer Research Institute

Conference/Symposium | August 3 | 4 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

For much of the 20th century China defined its quest for modernity in terms of the industrialization and urbanization of its economy and landscape. This conference addresses issues of sustainability: social equity, the power politics of resource allocations, the humanistic constructions of people and nature, and the contestations over ecological imperialism, both historic and present day.

Imitation of Life, John M. Stahl (U.S., 1934): Universal Pictures: Celebrating 100 Years

Film - Series | August 3 | 7 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

In director John Stahl’s transformation of Fannie Hurst’s warhorse tearjerker, the lives of a black maid (Louise Beavers) and a white widow (Claudette Colbert) intersect in a scheme to manufacture pancake batter, but their common bond is a self-manufactured suffering at the hands of their daughters. Colbert’s hypocritical self-sacrifice is presented with amazing objectivity; and the drama of Miss...   More >

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

Summer Symphony: Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Brahms

Performing Arts - Music | August 3 – 4, 2012 every day | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall

Sponsor: Department of Music

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, JANE KIM, conductor

Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, "Enigma", GARRETT WELLENSTEIN, conductor

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, MELISSA PANLASIGUI, conductor

Tickets not required: $10 suggested donation at the door

To Sir, with Love, James Clavell (U.S., 1967): Cool World

Film - Series | August 3 | 9:10 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sidney Poitier added class to the classroom, first in Blackboard Jungle (1955) as a young punk pushing other pupils to no-good, then as Mark Thackeray, concerned teacher, in the Lulu-driven drama, To Sir, With Love. And though Poitier was one half of The Defiant Ones, it was his composure that kept him cool. And cool is what he cultivates in the classroom of North Quay High School, where an...   More >

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

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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

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 >

Surround Yourself with Creative People: work by students in Advanced Ceramics from Spring 2012

Exhibit - Sculpture | June 28 – August 3, 2012 every day | César E. Chávez Student Center, Breezeway

Performer Group:

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

The Berkeley Art Studio is proud to announce their latest show, SURROUND YOURSELF WITH CREATIVE PEOPLE, work by students in Advanced Ceramics from Spring 2012. This showing of work displays the depth and breadth of creative ceramic work at the studio. Taking its name from a set of guiding principles for "How to Stay Creative," this show illustrates the collaborative community at the Art Studio...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: 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

Sponsor: Library

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

Berkeley Art Studio :: Early Fall Session: Drawing, Ceramics, Painting, and Photography classes!

Course | July 12 – September 10, 2012 every day | César E. Chávez Student Center, Sproul Plaza Breezeway

Performer Group:

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Berkeley Art Studio registration is now open to the entire community as well as UC Students, Faculty, and Staff. We offer classes in ceramics,painting, drawing, and photography. Sign up for a 7 week class today!

Target audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Open to audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Attendance restrictions: Sorry! No children under 18.

Registration required:$220 Ceramics Class (Non-Student Price), $160 Ceramics Class (UCB Student price), $190 Drawing, Painting or Photography (Non-Student Price), $140 Drawing, Painting or Photography (UCB Student Price)

Registration info: Classes fill up fast, register today!. Registration opens July 12. Register by September 12 online, or by calling 510-642-6161, or by emailing artstudio@berkeley.edu.

Natural Discourse: Artists, Architects, Scientists and Poets in the Garden

Exhibit - Multimedia | July 14, 2012 – January 20, 2013 every day with exceptions | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Botanical Garden

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

'Natural Discourse: Artists, Architects, Scientists & Poets in the Garden' is a collaborative project between The UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley and a multi-disciplinary group of artists, writers, architects and researchers who have been invited to spend time in the Garden's extraordinary collection of plants, engage with the horticulturalists and develop new site specific
work. The resulting...   More >

Open to audience: All Audiences

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 >

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

Tools of the Trade

Exhibit - Multimedia | July 10 – September 4, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Wurster Hall, Library/ 210

Sponsor: Environmental Design Archives

Designers use tools for learning the art of design, for teaching, and for communicating ideas in the studio, the office, the field, and on the site.

People often see the results of design: the buildings and landscapes that inform our everyday world. Rarely do we get to see the tools that make the design of this world possible. This exhibition features tangible items that...   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

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.

D-L Alvarez: Matrix 243

Exhibit - Painting | July 18 – October 7, 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

D-L Alvarez’s first solo museum exhibition presents a haunting meditation on the violent end of innocence. Alvarez, an Oakland-based artist, focuses on the uncanny moments when social and domestic deviance collide.

In Alvarez’s drawing series, The Closet (2006–07), we see an abstracted image of Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978), repelling the attacks of a masked psychopath...   More >

Tickets:$0 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley staff, faculty, and students, $10 General admission, $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons, ages 13-17

Lutz Bacher: Matrix 242

Exhibit - Photography | July 18 – October 7, 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

Since Lutz Bacher’s first MATRIX exhibition in 1993, the Berkeley-based artist has become a leading figure in contemporary art; she was the subject of a retrospective at MoMA PS1 in 2009 and was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. MATRIX 242 presents an important but rarely seen series from 2006–07 that sheds light on the artist’s often elusive practice.

Bien Hoa is is based on a set of ten...   More >

Tickets:$0 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley staff, faculty, and students, $10 General admission, $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons, ages 13-17

At The Edge: Recent Aquisitions

Exhibit - Artifacts | July 18 – December 23, 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

This exhibition presents a selection of works that have entered our collection over the past two years. This is our first opportunity to show most of these works, some of which have never before been exhibited anywhere.

The title, At the Edge, evokes the ways in which these works convey a sense of reaching—and sometimes crossing—limits of perception and experience. Among the works on view are...   More >

Tickets:$0 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley staff, faculty, and students, $10 General admission, $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons, ages 13-17

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Tickets required:$4

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-5132.

Summer Birding Walk

Tour/Open House | August 4 | 9-10:30 a.m. |  Botanical Garden

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

Summer Birding Walk
Saturday, August 4, 9 -10:30 am
Listen to the sounds of summer! Join Phila Rogers, expert birder, and Chris Carmichael, the Garden's Associate Director for Collections and Horticulture, on a morning walk to discover the Garden's bird life. Advance registration required: $20, $17 members; registration required

Registration required:$20, $17 members; registration required

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

Ingenuity Lab Monthly Challenge: August - Race Cars

Workshop | August 4 – 26, 2012 every Sunday & Saturday | 12-4 p.m. |  Lawrence Hall of Science

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Race your custom-built Lego car down our times track. Test different wheels, weights, and gearing to see if your car can win the race.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Docent Tour

Tour/Open House | February 12, 2011 – December 28, 2013 every Saturday with exceptions | 1:30 p.m. |  Botanical Garden

Sponsor: 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.

My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Alexei Guerman (U.S.S.R., 1984): Russian Inferno: The Films of Alexei Guerman

Film - Series | August 4 | 6 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Few films have merged realism and nightmare as easily as Guerman’s hypnotic treatise on life in Russia during the 1930s, painstakingly researched and re-created to achieve a near-documentary portrait of the era, yet technically so masterful and spellbinding it could be science fiction. In a crowded communal flat there live several friends, families, and strangers, chief among them the police...   More >

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

Summer Cinema on Center Street: The Atomic Brain (Joseph V. Mascelli, 1963)

Film - Feature | August 4 | 7:30-10:30 p.m. |  Center Street, between Shattuck Ave. and Oxford Street

Location:  , Berkeley, CA 94704

Sponsors: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Downtown Berkeley Association

An aging spinster finances the brain transplant experiments of a mad scientist in the hope that her brain can be transplanted into the bod of a younger babe. Two au pairs, yes, a pair of them, are abducted and used for these crazed experiments, turning them into empty-headed zombies. Eventually, the demented doctor replaces the model's brain with one taken from a feline. Meow. The original catwoman.

Shree 420, Raj Kapoor (India, 1955): The Eternal Poet: Raj Kapoor and the Golden Age of Indian Cinema

Film - Series | August 4 | 8 p.m. |  PFA Theater

Sponsors: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Center for South Asia Studies

(a.k.a. Mr. 420). A country hick finds that honesty won’t get him far in the city in Raj Kapoor’s delirious underdog tale, informed in equal parts by India’s post-Partition urban realities and Frank Capra’s joyful thirties comedies. The vagabond Kapoor (in full Chaplinesque tramp persona) rises from the gutter to the penthouse with no help from the government, but through a life of crime. Will...   More >

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

Summer Symphony: Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Brahms

Performing Arts - Music | August 3 – 4, 2012 every day | 8-10 p.m. |  Hertz Concert Hall

Sponsor: Department of Music

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, JANE KIM, conductor

Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, "Enigma", GARRETT WELLENSTEIN, conductor

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, MELISSA PANLASIGUI, conductor

Tickets not required: $10 suggested donation at the door

Berkeley Art Studio :: Early Fall Session: Drawing, Ceramics, Painting, and Photography classes!

Course | July 12 – September 10, 2012 every day | César E. Chávez Student Center, Sproul Plaza Breezeway

Performer Group:

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Berkeley Art Studio registration is now open to the entire community as well as UC Students, Faculty, and Staff. We offer classes in ceramics,painting, drawing, and photography. Sign up for a 7 week class today!

Target audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Open to audiences: Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Attendance restrictions: Sorry! No children under 18.

Registration required:$220 Ceramics Class (Non-Student Price), $160 Ceramics Class (UCB Student price), $190 Drawing, Painting or Photography (Non-Student Price), $140 Drawing, Painting or Photography (UCB Student Price)

Registration info: Classes fill up fast, register today!. Registration opens July 12. Register by September 12 online, or by calling 510-642-6161, or by emailing artstudio@berkeley.edu.

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.

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 >

Science On a Sphere®

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

Sponsor: 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.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Natural Discourse: Artists, Architects, Scientists and Poets in the Garden

Exhibit - Multimedia | July 14, 2012 – January 20, 2013 every day with exceptions | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Botanical Garden

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

'Natural Discourse: Artists, Architects, Scientists & Poets in the Garden' is a collaborative project between The UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley and a multi-disciplinary group of artists, writers, architects and researchers who have been invited to spend time in the Garden's extraordinary collection of plants, engage with the horticulturalists and develop new site specific
work. The resulting...   More >

Open to audience: All Audiences

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

D-L Alvarez: Matrix 243

Exhibit - Painting | July 18 – October 7, 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

D-L Alvarez’s first solo museum exhibition presents a haunting meditation on the violent end of innocence. Alvarez, an Oakland-based artist, focuses on the uncanny moments when social and domestic deviance collide.

In Alvarez’s drawing series, The Closet (2006–07), we see an abstracted image of Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978), repelling the attacks of a masked psychopath...   More >

Tickets:$0 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley staff, faculty, and students, $10 General admission, $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons, ages 13-17

At The Edge: Recent Aquisitions

Exhibit - Artifacts | July 18 – December 23, 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

This exhibition presents a selection of works that have entered our collection over the past two years. This is our first opportunity to show most of these works, some of which have never before been exhibited anywhere.

The title, At the Edge, evokes the ways in which these works convey a sense of reaching—and sometimes crossing—limits of perception and experience. Among the works on view are...   More >

Tickets:$0 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley staff, faculty, and students, $10 General admission, $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons, ages 13-17

Lutz Bacher: Matrix 242

Exhibit - Photography | July 18 – October 7, 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

Since Lutz Bacher’s first MATRIX exhibition in 1993, the Berkeley-based artist has become a leading figure in contemporary art; she was the subject of a retrospective at MoMA PS1 in 2009 and was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. MATRIX 242 presents an important but rarely seen series from 2006–07 that sheds light on the artist’s often elusive practice.

Bien Hoa is is based on a set of ten...   More >

Tickets:$0 BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley staff, faculty, and students, $10 General admission, $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons, ages 13-17

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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

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

Sponsor: 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.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Children, General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Tickets required:$4

Ticket info: Buy tickets by calling 510-642-5132.