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  Botanical Garden: Corspe flower 'Odora' blooms June 28 – July 7, 2008 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Botanical Garden
Exhibit: MATRIX/REDUX at the Berkeley Art Museum March 9 – July 20, 2008 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum
Exhibit: Joan Jonas multimedia installation October 12, 2007 – July 31, 2008 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum
Painting: 'Ten Moments in the Twentieth Century,' paintings by John McNamara February 7 – July 31, 2008 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Stephens Hall
Exhibit: Prints by masters from Rembrandt to Matisse June 14 – August 3, 2008 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum
Photography: Bruce Conner, 'Mabuhay Gardens' June 4 – August 3, 2008 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum
 Conference: Iranian Women Studies Foundation July 4 – 6, 2008 every day | Wheeler Auditorium
Register online.  Film: 'Dr. No' Saturday, July 5 | 8:45 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater
 ASUC Art Studio: Poetry writing class with Cody Gates Tuesday, July 8 | 6:30-9:30 p.m. | Lower Level ASUC Stores (King Student Union)
Enrollment opens June 5. Enroll online, or by calling 510-642-3065. Film: John Ford's 'Stagecoach' Tuesday, July 8 | 7:30 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater
 Lawrence Hall of Science: Nature's engineers Wednesday, July 9 | 12-2:45 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science
Film: Josef von Sternberg’s 'The Shanghai Gesture' Wednesday, July 9 | 7:30 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater
ASUC Art Studio: Short story writing class with Josh Mohr Thursday, July 10 | 7-9 p.m. | Lower Level ASUC Stores (King Student Union)
Enrollment opens June 5. Enroll online, or by calling 510-642-3065. Botanical Garden: Conservation and cocktails Thursday, July 10 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Botanical Garden
Register by calling 510-643-2755. Film: 'The Killing,' directed by Stanley Kubrick Friday, July 11 | 8:45 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater
Film: 'The Apartment' with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine Saturday, July 12 | 6:30 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater
 World music: Nefasha Ayer Sunday, July 13 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. | Botanical Garden
Register by calling 510-643-2755. Film: 'The Great Escape' with Steve McQueen Sunday, July 13 | 4 p.m. | Pacific Film Archive Theater
 Energy: Solar Taxi makes a pit stop Monday, July 14 | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Bldg.
ASUC Art Studio: Introduction to Final Cut Pro with Joanna Silber Monday, July 14 | 7-9 p.m. | Lower Level ASUC Stores (King Student Union)
Enrollment opens June 5. Enroll online, or by calling 510-642-3065. Notify the calendar editor of a correction to Critic's Choice or the campuswide calendar. |
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The giant corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) is an indescribable sight, and for one day, it also has an indescribably awful smell. The flower bud is now 42 inches. On average the height of a Titan Arum bloom reaches 5 feet. Odora, affectionately named by garden staff, is now available for viewing in the tropical house where you can also see a typical tropical giant leaf and last year's 4 foot tall fruiting stalk with ripe fruit produced from the pollination of 
MATRIX/REDUX celebrates thirty years of the MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art, spotlighting the vibrant and diverse work of many of the cutting-edge artists featured in the program over the past three decades.
Joan Jonas found inspiration for "The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things" (2004-05) in a 1960s trip to Arizona, where she witnessed several Hopi rituals. The resulting work incorporates reflections on Western art by German art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929), who visited the American Southwest in the 19th century. Jonas continued to develop the piece, adding live performances with music composed by jazz musician Jason Moran for performances at Dia: Beacon in New York in 2005-06. Footage from those performances has been added to the work.
The paintings in this exhibit, inspired by photographs, depict memorable moments in the twentieth century. Artist John McNamara explains that "The events have been reconstructed so as to allow what we have learned from hindsight to be reflected in each painting."
For half a century, the Morrison Library’s unique graphic arts loan program has been bringing original art to students. The collection began in 1958 under the direction of professor Herwin Schaefer, who believed that the best way to foster an appreciation of art is for students to live with original prints for a semester. This exhibition celebrates the program’s anniversary with prints by masters from Rembrandt to Matisse, once in the loan collection and now held by the Berkeley Art Museum. It may surprise you to see what UC Berkeley students once hung on their dormitory walls.
If rock ’n’ roll rose out of a culture of opposition, then the mid-seventies was a bad patch for rock ’n’ roll. Corporate rock smothered the airwaves, while beat-heavy disco swept through the club scene. In the midst of this malaise, punk, that dark, rousing outburst, was finding its first expression in a marginalized scene that embodied the ardent anarchy indigenous to youth culture. Bruce Conner’s photographs from the legendary San Francisco nightclub, the Mabuhay Gardens, document the demimonde of three-chord chaos that was the seventies punk scene, when acts like the Avengers, Negative Trend, and the Mutants were in their anarchic heyday.
The theme of the 19th Iranian Women's Studies Foundation Conference is "The Essential Needs of the Iranian Woman Today." Keynote speaker, Cherrie Moraga, is a poet, playwright, and essayist, and the co-editor of "This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color." Other speakers from from Iran, Canada, France, and Germany will discuss topics ranging from traditional images of women in cinema to the impact of global economic and political forces on women in the middle east. Music, art, and theater will round out the conference. See the website for the 
The first film in the Bond franchise, "Dr. No" stars thirty-two-year-old Sean Connery as the very model of the suave secret agent who gave new meaning to the term “undercover.” Double agents, double entendres, double martinis—being a spy had to be the preferred livelihood for a generation of swingin’ bachelors. For this initial Bond vivant, everything is already in place—Maurice Binder’s signature credits, the staccato melody of John Barry’s “Bond theme,” and Ursula Andress’s bikini—well, that’s barely in place.
Poetry is unlike any other form of writing, yet it informs them all. The focus of this 6-week course will be the writing of your poetry. The class will read a small sampling of contemporary poetry, as well as explore poetry from a number of times, cultures and experiences, all with the aim of broadening and enriching the set of tools with which to construct poems of your own. 
Widely credited with resurrecting the Western genre, director John Ford’s "Stagecoach" balanced epic action with rich characterization, and established both John Wayne and Monument Valley as monuments of the screen. The plot brings together nine disparate characters, including drunken Doc (Thomas Mitchell), fallen Dallas (Claire Trevor), and the wanted Ringo Kid (Wayne), on a stagecoach traversing Apache country. Ford deftly evokes the evolving social dynamics of this Grand Hotel–like microcosm, revealing hypocrisies as well as surprising moments of tolerance.
Animals are born engineers. Find out how several creatures make their homes when 
Set in the polyglot Shanghai pleasure dome of one Mother Gin Sling (Ona Munson), every frame is crammed with orientalist clutter, in this Josef von Sternberg melodrama. Among the casino’s many denizens are Gene Tierney as Poppy, whose preferred addiction is not the opium poppy but the roulette wheel; Victor Mature as the object of her petulant affections, “Dr. Omar of Shanghai . . . and Gomorrah”; and Walter Huston as Sir Guy Charteris, a capitalist with big plans for the district (the tenants “seem to have power, but they’ll have less when we’re through with them”). 
Discover how to breathe life into characters, write dialogue that leaps off the page, and pace both plot and character-driven scenes in a way that compels readers to continue turning pages until the end. Each class session will be divided among careful examination of short stories and novel excerpts, guided writing exercises, and constructive feedback on students’ work. By the end of the six-week session, students should have one fully developed scene and a stockpile of ideas, character sketches, and inspiration to continue writing successfully on their own.
Join curator, Holly Forbes, as she describes the Botanical Garden’s involvement in saving rare California natives. Hear the story of the rediscovery of the Mt. Diablo Buckwheat, a petite pink flower that had not been seen in 70 years, and see specimens while sampling cocktails provided by Hangar One Vodka/Craft Distilleries. 
Stanley Kubrick’s high-voltage suspense thriller (made when he was twenty-seven) stars big Sterling Hayden as an ex-con who masterminds a $2 million holdup of a heavily guarded racetrack. His cohorts include a colorless little cashier (Elisha Cook, Jr.), prodded by his wife’s demands for more dough; a racketeering cop; the track bartender; a chess-player wrestler, and a grinning sharpshooter. Kubrick’s direction of his own script is incisive, and Lucien Ballard’s excellent cinematography is augmented by well-chosen stock racetrack footage. “Not to be missed.”—Chicago Reader
"The Apartment" is an acid tale of sex and corporate success. Jack Lemmon is an insurance-company drone whose only chance of picking his way out of the rat-maze is to give over his apartment for the sexual trysts of his superiors in the hope of being promoted. The behemoth company headquarters whose layout presages "Brazil," the office party laced with Christmas jeer, the satiric jabs at corporate-speak are writer Billy Wilder’s angle on the new boys in uniform: the gray flannel suits.
Nefasha Ayer, loosely translated from Amharic as “the wind that travels”, explores a transcontinental melodic odyssey of multiple musicians who find themselves caught between national identities, cultures, and politics. The project joins together the talented song-writing capacity of Meklit Hadero with guitarist/composer-arranger, Todd Brown, South-Indian Carnatic Jazz composer/saxophonist, Prasant Radhakrishnan, drummer/tablaist, Sameer Gupta, composer/bassist/flautist, Eliyahu Sills, and Ethiopian born hip-hop artist, Gabriel Teodros.
This classic of the WWII-can-be-fun genre merges fact-based epic with great escapist entertainment. In a maximum-security Nazi stalag, Allied officers accept their sworn duty: either to escape, or barring that, “to harass the enemy to the best of their ability.” So, in 1944, Richard Attenborough of the RAF plans a breakout for 250. This intricate operation requires an array of determined operators, including Donald Pleasence the forger, James Garner the scrounger of forbidden goods, Charles Bronson the claustrophobic tunnel man, and American independent Steve McQueen, cool man of the solitary “cooler.”
With a full component of batteries, the 
Whether you want to make a documentary, a narrative or assemble scenes from home videos, digital non-linear editing provides you with a wide range of creative options. This 6-week class will be an intensive introduction to digital video editing and will cover capturing, beginning and intermediate editing techniques, use of effects and transitions, working with audio, creating titles and motion graphics, and outputting video projects. Plan to bring video footage, preferably in the mini-dv format, to the first class.