Critic’s choice
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Workshop: Your Thriving Space
Saturday,
December 7 | 2 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Work with artists Marcela Pardo Ariza and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Rivera to create your own surrealist tiny set by assembling images and text in a prebuilt fifteen-inch cube.MORE about Your Thriving Space
Exhibit: Pleasure, Poison, Prescription, Prayer | The Worlds of Mind-Altering Substances
March 15
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December 15,
2019 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
The Hearst Museum considers the complex social and economic dynamics behind ten mind-altering drugs. MORE about Pleasure, Poison, Prescription, Prayer | The Worlds of Mind-Altering Substances
Workshop: Haptic Encounters Workshop
Sunday,
December 8 | 2 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Useless Initiatives Collective members River Black, Jillian Crochet, and Beatriz Escobar lead a workshop that explores radical proxemics between bodies and objects. MORE about Haptic Encounters Workshop
Workshop: Botanical Holiday Craft — Succulents and Tillandsias
Sunday,
December 8 | 1-3 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Make beautiful gifts and home decor using living succulents and tillandsias (air plants).MORE about Botanical Holiday Craft — Succulents and Tillandsias
Workshop: Film Composing in Real Time with Donald Sosin
Sunday,
December 8 | 1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
This special workshop is a chance to explore the arts of film scoring and silent film accompaniment with Donald Sosin, a composer, pianist, and conductor with over four decades of experience scoring for film, television, and live performance.MORE about Film Composing in Real Time with Donald Sosin
Lecture: Julia Robinson Centennial Public Lecture
Monday,
December 9 | 5-6 p.m. | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute will host a Symposium on the occasion of Julia Robinson’s 100th birthday.MORE about Julia Robinson Centennial Public Lecture
Workshop: Teaching with Wikipedia
Monday,
December 9 | 12-2 p.m. | Academic Innovation Studio - 117, level D Dwinelle Hall
Discuss how to build Wikipedia assignments into your courses and discover some of the new tools, which support and enhance teaching with Wikipedia.MORE about Teaching with Wikipedia
Reception: Holiday Pachanga and Mercado Navideño
Tuesday,
December 10 | 4-6 p.m. | Latinx Research Center, 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley
Food, music, and a Mercado Navideño featuring local artists and vendors selling original and handmade gifts including jewelry, healing goods, clothing, and more.MORE about Holiday Pachanga and Mercado Navideño
Presentation: The Future of Airports
Tuesday,
December 10 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | 412 McLaughlin Hall
Ten groups of students from the highly popular CE 153 Airport Design Class will present their final term projects.MORE about The Future of Airports
Sale: Berkeley Art Studio Holiday Pop-Up Shop
December 10
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17,
2019 every day | 12-10 p.m. | 3rd floor Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
Browse the Art Studio's selection of artist-made ceramics, drawings, paintings, prints, photographs and jewelry.MORE about Berkeley Art Studio Holiday Pop-Up Shop
Performance: Strange Connections
Wednesday,
December 11 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Three duets span global performance practices. MORE about Strange Connections
Film: The Long Shadow
Wednesday,
December 11 | 2-5 p.m. | Banatao Auditorium Sutardja Dai Hall
The Long Shadow presents a startling, unrecognized history that provides much needed context when considering the major issues impacting black/white relations in the United States today.MORE about <em>The Long Shadow</em>
Lecture: Toward a New American Narrative on the Peopling of America
Wednesday,
December 11 | 5-8 p.m. | Goldman Theater David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
What will the current demographic trends suggest the future will look like--how will the origins of migrants change, and what will that mean for the future of America?MORE about Toward a New American Narrative on the Peopling of America
Film: River’s Edge
Thursday,
December 12 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Director Tim Hunter draws on the true story of a sixteen-year-old Milpitas student who strangles his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, taking us inside a morbid brat pack whose members include Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, and Ione Skye.MORE about <em>River’s Edge</em>
Presentation: East Bay Science Cafe - Knotty Sculptures
Thursday,
December 12 | 7-8:30 p.m. | Cafe Leila, 1724 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley
This cafe talk will start with a gentle introduction to mathematical knots and ways to describe and classify all possible knots. MORE about East Bay Science Cafe - Knotty Sculptures
Performance: TDPS presents the 2019 Fall Choreography Showcase
December 12
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13,
2019 every day | 5-9 p.m. | Room 7 Zellerbach Hall
With the guidance of Professor Joe Goode, an award-winning dance theater artist, TDPS students present original solos and duets.MORE about TDPS presents the 2019 Fall Choreography Showcase
Conference: 2019 BITSS Annual Meeting
Friday,
December 13 | 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. | Wells Fargo Room Cheit Hall
The event brings together stakeholders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share knowledge and discuss the evolving movement toward research transparency and efforts to strengthen the standards of openness and integrity in the social sciences.MORE about 2019 BITSS Annual Meeting
Workshop: Gallery + Studio — A Landscape in Your Pocket
Saturday,
December 14 | 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
After an interactive tour of Hinges: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting, experiment with a range of drawing materials on Japanese paper to create value and tone, and build an imaginary landscape on your own miniature folding screen.MORE about Gallery + Studio — A Landscape in Your Pocket
Performance: Eighth Blackbird
Saturday,
December 14 | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
The group introduces us to a diverse cohort of exciting contemporary voices—mostly born in the 1980s and '90s—whose compositions are inspired by a thrilling range of topics, from Lewis Carroll stories to Afro-Caribbean traditions, Indian home cooking, and Icelandic glaciers. MORE about <em>Eighth Blackbird</em>
Roundtable Reading: The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Saturday,
December 14 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He’d be there still if he hadn’t followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone’s picnic basket.MORE about The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden