OTHER CALENDARS

Heart of the Campus: Doe Library 1912-2012

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

Sponsor: Library

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

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

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

Speaker/Performer: Emmanuel Witzthum

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

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

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 >

Gale Antokal: The Spill

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

Speaker/Performer: Gale Antokal

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

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 This video correlates to Antokal's drawings of milk pouring down a staircase, originally made with pastel, graphite, ash and flour.

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

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 >

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

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

Sponsor: Bancroft Library

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

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