Marketing Yourself for Your Next Job: Resume Writing (BECAR301)

Workshop | May 18 | 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of 42'

Speaker/Performer: TBA, University Health Services

Sponsor: Tang Center (University Health Services)

Create a resume that gets attention and results.

Target audiences: Faculty, Staff

Open to audiences: Faculty, Staff

Enrollment required

Enrollment info: Enroll online.

It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism

Special Event | May 18 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 109 Moses Hall

Panelist/Discussants: Thomas Mann, Author, Brookings Institution; Norm Ornstein, Author, American Enterprise Institution

Sponsor: Institute of Governmental Studies

This is special session of the Research Workshop on American Politics with authors Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein discussing their newly published book, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, that argues the Republican Party is to blame for the collapsing of the American political system.

Folklore End of Year Event

Special Event | May 18 | 12-2 p.m. |  Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Sponsors: Folklore Program, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Graduate Assembly

Come celebrate another successful year for the Folklore Program and its series of Folklore Roundtable events! Speeches and opportunity to meet with current graduate students.

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

Dancing for Fun and Fitness

Workshop | February 17 – May 18, 2012 the third Friday of the month every month | 12:10-1 p.m. | Hearst Gymnasium, Room 251

Sponsor: Health*Matters & Recreational Sports

Fit some fun and fitness into your day with these free, drop-in beginner dance classes including ballet, belly dancing, hip hop, salsa, and more. No partner required.

Open to audiences: Faculty, Staff

Enrollment required

Enrollment info: Enroll at UCB Learning Center. Enroll online, or by calling 510-643-4646.

Pines Lab Seminar: The geometry of zero-field NMR

Seminar | May 18 | 12:30 p.m. | 221 Stanley Hall

Speaker/Performer: Mark Butler, Pines Lab

Sponsor: QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences

DNA-Engineered Plasmonic Nanogap Bioprobes: Nano Seminar Series

Seminar | May 18 | 2-3 p.m. | 390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Speaker/Performer: Prof. Jwa-Min Nam, Seoul National University, Chemistry

Sponsor: Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute

I will describe DNA-based synthetic strategies to build up new types of plasmonic nanogap Au/Ag structures. The use of these plasmonic nanostructures as excellent optical signal enhancement platforms to address the above-mentioned issues in SERS will be mainly shown.

Biosensing applications using these plasmonic nanogap structures will also be shown and discussed.

Baseball vs. UCLA

Sport - Intercollegiate - Baseball/Softball | May 18 | 2:30 p.m. |  Evans Field

Sponsor: Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports

Cal Baseball hosts UCLA in conference action at Evans Diamond.

Inner Mongolia: Grassland, Desert, City, People

Panel Discussion | May 18 | 3-5 p.m. | IEAS conference room, sixth floor conference room | Note change in location

Location: 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA 94720

Moderator: You-tien Hsing, Geography, UC Berkeley

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

Based on recent fieldwork, the panelists will explore the social and ecological issues in Inner Mongolia.

BPAWG Shared Services Update

Meeting | May 18 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 60 Barrows Hall

Sponsor: BPAWG

Business Process Analysis Group hosts OE Shared Services for Update.

Gallery Talk: Xiaoyu Weng: Asian Contemporary Arts Week San Francisco

Lecture | May 18 | 5 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Sponsor: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

As part of Asian Contemporary Arts Week San Francisco, independent curator Xiaoyu Weng talks informally about three major works by celebrated contemporary Chinese artists in the BAM/PFA collection: the monumental photograph To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond by Zhang Huan, Xu Bing’s Scroll, and Li Jin’s large hand scroll Harvest II. The works will be on view in the Bancroft Lobby.

Tickets:$Free All patrons

15th-Annual Student Reading Series

Special Event | May 18 | 7 p.m. |  Diesel, A Bookstore

Location: 5433 College Ave., Oakland, CA

Sponsor: UC Berkeley Extension

Come hear students in the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing share their works of poetry, nonfiction and fiction at our annual student reading series.

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

Abstract Expressionisms: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 18 – June 10, 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

Come spend some time with the work of seminal Abstract Expressionists this winter and spring at BAM/PFA. Forceful paintings by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, William Baziotes, Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, and others hang in light-filled Gallery A, while Gallery C displays rarely seen works on paper by artists including Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, Antonio Saura, and Norman Bluhm.

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)

State Of Mind: New California Art circa 1970

Exhibit - Multimedia | February 29 – June 17, 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

Have you ever heard the sound of ice melting? State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, part of Pacific Standard Time, offers an in-depth exploration of Conceptual art made by both Northern and Southern California artists during a pivotal period in contemporary art. The more than 150 works of art on display—many rarely seen or newly discovered—are organized by themes, such as the street, the...   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)

Tables of Content: Ray Johnson and Robert Warner Bob Box Archive / MATRIX 241

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 27 – May 20, 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

In 1988, New York–based collagist Robert Warner began a correspondence with the enigmatic artist Ray Johnson. Until Johnson’s death in 1995, Ray and Bob continued their exchange, mostly by mail and telephone, and only occasionally in person. Over the course of their relationship Warner received hundred of pieces of mail art from Johnson, ranging from collages to a hand-delivered piece of...   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)

Andy Warhol: Polaroids MATRIX 240

Exhibit - Photography | January 27 – May 20, 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

I’ve never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty.—Andy Warhol

From 1970 to 1987 Andy Warhol took scores of Polaroid and black-and-white photographs, the vast majority of which were never seen by the public. These images often served as the basis for his commissioned portraits, silk-screen paintings, drawings, and prints. In 2007, to commemorate its twentieth anniversary, the Andy Warhol...   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)

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.

The 42nd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Exhibit - Multimedia | May 18 – June 8, 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

Be among the first to encounter the work of seven exceptional artists as they embark on their careers in the Forty-Second Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition. The artists work not only with the committed faculty of the Department of Art Practice, but also with curators, registrars, editors, visitor liaisons, security staff, education programmers,...   More >

Tickets:FREE BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $7 non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, young adults (13-17), $10 Adults (18-64)

Dana Davis: As Is: A Photography Exhibition

Exhibit - Photography | April 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Artist, and Berkeley Art Studio instructor, Dana Davis reveals his newest body of work: "As Is". Davis finds inspiration in discarded Barbie dolls found in thrift shops and photographed hanging in their bags; gestures cast in polyvinyl bags, heads down, eyes open, naked, mussed. The photographs engage the imagination, reflecting the familiar but also containing windows of ambiguity where...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

The National Cemetery of Finland in Photos: A Poignant Idyll

Exhibit - Photography | February 17 – June 4, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 1-4 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer: Eric Kotila, Institute of European Studies

Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Finnish Studies Program (FSP), Department of Scandinavian, Finlandia Foundation

Expansive Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki manages in microcosm to present the history of Finland in an aesthetically magical, symbolically rich environment.

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.

School of Public Health 2012 Commencement Ceremony

Special Event | May 19 | 8:30-11:30 a.m. |  Zellerbach Hall

Featured Speaker: Ms. Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO, PolicyLink

Sponsor: Public Health, School of

The School of Public Health will be conferring academic degrees to the graduating Class of 2012 on Saturday, May 19, 2012.

Target audiences: Students - Graduate, Students - Undergraduate, Cal Parents

Attendance restrictions: Restricted to graduating students and their guests. All guests (age 2 and older) must have a ticket to gain admittance to the Commencement ceremony.

Tickets required

A Walk through the Garden of Old Roses

Tour/Open House | May 19 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. |  Botanical Garden

Sponsor: Botanical Garden

Join Horticulturist Peter Klement for a lovely morning stroll through the Garden of Old Roses at the peak of its bloom. Discover the rose’s rich historical background and listen to amazing ethnobotanical tales. Registration required; space is limited; $15, $10 members.

Registration required:$15, $10 members

Registration info: Space is limited. Register by calling 510-643-2755, or by emailing garden@berkeley.edu.

Reconciling Science and the Imagination in the Construction of the Deep Prehistoric Past

Lecture | May 19 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building

Speaker: Ruth Tringham, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Science@Cal

Ruth Tringham, Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley, gives a free public talk how archaeologists reconstruct the lives of people living in the deep, prehistoric past.

Target audience: General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Flying High—1:00 p.m.: Planetarium Program

Presentation | February 4 – June 3, 2012 every Sunday & Saturday with exceptions | 1-1:45 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science, Planetarium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Take an imaginary trip into space. Start the excursion by speeding through a whole day in our planetarium "time machine" and then identifying the Big Dipper. Take off with the launch of a spaceship and learn how things move in space, how astronauts eat food in a weightless environment, and how satellites are put into orbit. Don’t worry, you’ll return safe and sound!

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.

Baseball vs. UCLA

Sport - Intercollegiate - Baseball/Softball | May 19 | 1 p.m. |  Evans Field

Sponsor: Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports

Cal Baseball hosts UCLA in conference action at Evans Diamond.

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.

Transit of Venus—3:00 p.m.: Planetarium Program

Presentation | February 4 – June 3, 2012 every Sunday & Saturday with exceptions | 3-3:45 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science, Planetarium

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

On June 5, 2012, Venus will pass directly in front of the Sun—an event so rare, no human alive today will witness it again! Learn how studying transits taught us exactly how big our Solar System is, and how they may be the key to discovering other “Earths” in other star systems!

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.

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.

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 >

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.

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

Desert Mazar: Sacred Sites in Western China

Exhibit - Photography | March 1 – June 1, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Buddhist Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Silk Road Initiative, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

Wedged between the Mongol and Kazakh steppes, mainland China, and the high ranges of the Pamirs and Himalayas, the desert expanse of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been a crossroads of languages, cultures and religions. Across the region, the spiritual landscape is marked by mazar, the Uighur term for tombs. Mazar may be as simple as a cave or flags secured to scraps of brush, but they...   More >

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.

Tables of Content: Ray Johnson and Robert Warner Bob Box Archive / MATRIX 241

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 27 – May 20, 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

In 1988, New York–based collagist Robert Warner began a correspondence with the enigmatic artist Ray Johnson. Until Johnson’s death in 1995, Ray and Bob continued their exchange, mostly by mail and telephone, and only occasionally in person. Over the course of their relationship Warner received hundred of pieces of mail art from Johnson, ranging from collages to a hand-delivered piece of...   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)

Abstract Expressionisms: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 18 – June 10, 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

Come spend some time with the work of seminal Abstract Expressionists this winter and spring at BAM/PFA. Forceful paintings by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, William Baziotes, Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, and others hang in light-filled Gallery A, while Gallery C displays rarely seen works on paper by artists including Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, Antonio Saura, and Norman Bluhm.

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)

Andy Warhol: Polaroids MATRIX 240

Exhibit - Photography | January 27 – May 20, 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

I’ve never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty.—Andy Warhol

From 1970 to 1987 Andy Warhol took scores of Polaroid and black-and-white photographs, the vast majority of which were never seen by the public. These images often served as the basis for his commissioned portraits, silk-screen paintings, drawings, and prints. In 2007, to commemorate its twentieth anniversary, the Andy Warhol...   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)

State Of Mind: New California Art circa 1970

Exhibit - Multimedia | February 29 – June 17, 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

Have you ever heard the sound of ice melting? State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, part of Pacific Standard Time, offers an in-depth exploration of Conceptual art made by both Northern and Southern California artists during a pivotal period in contemporary art. The more than 150 works of art on display—many rarely seen or newly discovered—are organized by themes, such as the street, the...   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)

The 42nd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Exhibit - Multimedia | May 18 – June 8, 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

Be among the first to encounter the work of seven exceptional artists as they embark on their careers in the Forty-Second Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition. The artists work not only with the committed faculty of the Department of Art Practice, but also with curators, registrars, editors, visitor liaisons, security staff, education programmers,...   More >

Tickets:FREE BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $7 non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, young adults (13-17), $10 Adults (18-64)

Dana Davis: As Is: A Photography Exhibition

Exhibit - Photography | April 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Artist, and Berkeley Art Studio instructor, Dana Davis reveals his newest body of work: "As Is". Davis finds inspiration in discarded Barbie dolls found in thrift shops and photographed hanging in their bags; gestures cast in polyvinyl bags, heads down, eyes open, naked, mussed. The photographs engage the imagination, reflecting the familiar but also containing windows of ambiguity where...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

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.

Culture and Consequence: Navigating Successfully in the Global Age: Road Scholar Program at I-House: May 20 - 26

Conference/Symposium | May 20 |  International House

Speaker/Performer: Joe Lurie, Noted Berkeley interculturalist

Sponsors: International House, Cal Alumni Association, Road Scholar: Educational Travel and Learning Vacations

Join us at International House Berkeley on an exceptional global journey as we explore how cultural concepts of time, distance, communication, health, power and child rearing impact our perceptions and influence daily interactions and world events. Learn why we look at the same thing yet see something different. Discover how to hear what is not said and to question without asking....   More >

Registration:$779

Registration info: Register online, or by calling 1-800-454-5768.

Berkeley Art Studio :: Summer Session: Classes in Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Photography

Course | May 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Summer 2012 art classes are now posted online and open for registration! The Berkeley Art Studio will now offer one Summer session that has been extended to 9-weeks. Register on our website 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: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

Registration info: Register online.

Partial Solar Eclipse

Special Event | May 20 | 1-8 p.m. |  Lawrence Hall of Science

Sponsor: Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)

Witness the first partial solar eclipse since 2002. Learn about the phenomenon and:

-View the eclipse through specially designed solar telescopes.

-Discover how eclipses work through free demonstrations in the Planetarium from 1:00-4:00 p.m.

-Talk with our friendly astronomy staff.

Target audiences: All Audiences, Alumni, Children, General Public, Cal Parents

Open to audiences: All Audiences, Alumni, Children, General Public, Cal Parents

Attendance restrictions: Free observing on the Plaza. General admission from 1-5:00 p.m. $5 ($4 for members) for indoor activities after 5:00 p.m.

Baseball vs. UCLA

Sport - Intercollegiate - Baseball/Softball | May 20 | 1 p.m. |  Evans Field

Sponsor: Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports

Cal Baseball hosts UCLA in conference action at Evans Diamond.

Docent Tour

Tour/Open House | February 6, 2011 – December 29, 2013 every Sunday 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.

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.

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 >

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 >

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.

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

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.

Desert Mazar: Sacred Sites in Western China

Exhibit - Photography | March 1 – June 1, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Buddhist Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Silk Road Initiative, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

Wedged between the Mongol and Kazakh steppes, mainland China, and the high ranges of the Pamirs and Himalayas, the desert expanse of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been a crossroads of languages, cultures and religions. Across the region, the spiritual landscape is marked by mazar, the Uighur term for tombs. Mazar may be as simple as a cave or flags secured to scraps of brush, but they...   More >

State Of Mind: New California Art circa 1970

Exhibit - Multimedia | February 29 – June 17, 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

Have you ever heard the sound of ice melting? State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, part of Pacific Standard Time, offers an in-depth exploration of Conceptual art made by both Northern and Southern California artists during a pivotal period in contemporary art. The more than 150 works of art on display—many rarely seen or newly discovered—are organized by themes, such as the street, the...   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)

Tables of Content: Ray Johnson and Robert Warner Bob Box Archive / MATRIX 241

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 27 – May 20, 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

In 1988, New York–based collagist Robert Warner began a correspondence with the enigmatic artist Ray Johnson. Until Johnson’s death in 1995, Ray and Bob continued their exchange, mostly by mail and telephone, and only occasionally in person. Over the course of their relationship Warner received hundred of pieces of mail art from Johnson, ranging from collages to a hand-delivered piece of...   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)

Andy Warhol: Polaroids MATRIX 240

Exhibit - Photography | January 27 – May 20, 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

I’ve never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty.—Andy Warhol

From 1970 to 1987 Andy Warhol took scores of Polaroid and black-and-white photographs, the vast majority of which were never seen by the public. These images often served as the basis for his commissioned portraits, silk-screen paintings, drawings, and prints. In 2007, to commemorate its twentieth anniversary, the Andy Warhol...   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)

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.

The 42nd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

Exhibit - Multimedia | May 18 – June 8, 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

Be among the first to encounter the work of seven exceptional artists as they embark on their careers in the Forty-Second Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition. The artists work not only with the committed faculty of the Department of Art Practice, but also with curators, registrars, editors, visitor liaisons, security staff, education programmers,...   More >

Tickets:FREE BAM/PFA Members and UC Berkeley, staff, students, and faculty, $7 non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, young adults (13-17), $10 Adults (18-64)

Abstract Expressionisms: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection

Exhibit - Multimedia | January 18 – June 10, 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

Come spend some time with the work of seminal Abstract Expressionists this winter and spring at BAM/PFA. Forceful paintings by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, William Baziotes, Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, and others hang in light-filled Gallery A, while Gallery C displays rarely seen works on paper by artists including Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, Antonio Saura, and Norman Bluhm.

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)

Dana Davis: As Is: A Photography Exhibition

Exhibit - Photography | April 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Artist, and Berkeley Art Studio instructor, Dana Davis reveals his newest body of work: "As Is". Davis finds inspiration in discarded Barbie dolls found in thrift shops and photographed hanging in their bags; gestures cast in polyvinyl bags, heads down, eyes open, naked, mussed. The photographs engage the imagination, reflecting the familiar but also containing windows of ambiguity where...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

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.

AB 1825 Sexual Harassment Prevention Education: Life Theater Services

Information Session | May 21 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum, Auditorium

Location: 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

Speaker/Performer: Maria Lucero Padilla, Campus Climate and Compliance

Sponsor: Office of Ethics, Risk and Compliance Services

Campus Climate and Compliance is pleased to announce a new option for AB 1825 Sexual Harassment Prevention Education. Emmy Award winning Life Theater Services presents an exhilarating, educational and fun alternative to the UCOP generated Sexual Harassment Prevention on-line training and meets AB 1825 Sexual Harassment Prevention compliance education for faculty, managers and supervisors.

Target audiences: Faculty, Staff, Students - Graduate

Open to audiences: Faculty, Staff, Students - Graduate

RSVP recommended

RSVP info: RSVP by May 18 by calling Maria Lucero Padilla at 510-643-9707, or by emailing Maria Lucero Padilla at mlucerop@berkeley.edu.

Transition Services Program:Social Networking

Workshop | May 21 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | Chase Bank Building, Suite 751

Location: 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704

Sponsor: Human Resources

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Enrollment recommended

Enrollment info: Enrollment opens January 2. Enroll by June 30 by calling 510-642-1621, or by emailing transitions@berkeley.edu.

Berkeley Art Studio :: Summer Session: Classes in Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Photography

Course | May 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Summer 2012 art classes are now posted online and open for registration! The Berkeley Art Studio will now offer one Summer session that has been extended to 9-weeks. Register on our website 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: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

Registration info: Register 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

Special Physical Chemistry Seminar: I. Quantum Properties of Discrete Breathers in Multi-Dimensional Systems II. Advantages of Long-Time Semi-Classical Dynamics for Practical Systems

Seminar | May 21 | 2-3 p.m. | Hildebrand Hall, Chemistry Library, Room E

Speaker: Dr. Kirill Igumenshchev, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester

Sponsor: Department of Chemistry

Fourth Age Salon

Social Event | May 21 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 41C University Hall

Sponsor: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)

Are you an OLLI member 80 years of age or older? Fourth Age Salons are an opportunity for OLLI to better understand the learning needs and interests of members over 80.

RSVP required

RSVP info: RSVP by calling Sandra von Doetinchem at 510.642.9934, or by emailing Sandra von Doetinchem at sandra.doetinchem@berkeley.edu.

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

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.

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.

Desert Mazar: Sacred Sites in Western China

Exhibit - Photography | March 1 – June 1, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Buddhist Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Silk Road Initiative, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

Wedged between the Mongol and Kazakh steppes, mainland China, and the high ranges of the Pamirs and Himalayas, the desert expanse of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been a crossroads of languages, cultures and religions. Across the region, the spiritual landscape is marked by mazar, the Uighur term for tombs. Mazar may be as simple as a cave or flags secured to scraps of brush, but they...   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.

Dana Davis: As Is: A Photography Exhibition

Exhibit - Photography | April 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Artist, and Berkeley Art Studio instructor, Dana Davis reveals his newest body of work: "As Is". Davis finds inspiration in discarded Barbie dolls found in thrift shops and photographed hanging in their bags; gestures cast in polyvinyl bags, heads down, eyes open, naked, mussed. The photographs engage the imagination, reflecting the familiar but also containing windows of ambiguity where...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

The National Cemetery of Finland in Photos: A Poignant Idyll

Exhibit - Photography | February 17 – June 4, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 1-4 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer: Eric Kotila, Institute of European Studies

Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Finnish Studies Program (FSP), Department of Scandinavian, Finlandia Foundation

Expansive Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki manages in microcosm to present the history of Finland in an aesthetically magical, symbolically rich environment.

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.

Designed Construction of Functional Nanostructured Inorganic and Hybrid Materials

Lecture | May 22 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Bldg. 66-Auditorium

Speaker/Performer: Prof. Clement Sanchez, Université Pierre et Marie Curie

Sponsor: College of Chemistry

Understanding Your Work Related Values (BECAR103)

Workshop | May 22 | 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of 42'

Speaker/Performer: TBA, University Health Services

Sponsor: Tang Center (University Health Services)

Identifying and clarifying your most important values is fundamental in career planning.

Target audiences: Faculty, Staff

Open to audiences: Faculty, Staff

Enrollment required

Berkeley Art Studio :: Summer Session: Classes in Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Photography

Course | May 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Summer 2012 art classes are now posted online and open for registration! The Berkeley Art Studio will now offer one Summer session that has been extended to 9-weeks. Register on our website 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: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

Registration info: Register online.

Introduction to Domestic Adoption

Workshop | May 22 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club

Speakers/Performers: Anne Gyemant Paris, Managing Attorney, Adopt SF- Gyemant Paris Law; Michelle Nobriga, Director of Adoption Services, Adopt SF- Gyemant Paris Law

Sponsor: Work/Life Program for Faculty and Staff

If you are considering creating your family through adoption, this class is for you! Learn the best way to get started, the differences between agency adoption, independent, and open adoption, average costs of adoption and how to manage expectations during the adoption process. Enroll online. 642-7883

Meditation Group

Miscellaneous | October 25, 2011 – December 25, 2012 every Tuesday | 12:10-12:50 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Health Promotion Conf. Rm 2nd fl

Sponsor: Tang Center (University Health Services)

Please join us for a free midweek meditation session with a short reading followed by 30 minutes of silent meditation.

Beginners welcome!

Knitting at Noon - Cancelled for Spring 2012

Miscellaneous | March 15, 2011 – June 26, 2012 every Tuesday with exceptions | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Free Speech Movement Café (Moffitt Library), Outside tables at Free Speech Movement Cafe | Canceled

Sponsor: Jill Marchant

This event has been canceled for Spring 2012.

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Transition Services Program:Interview Prep

Workshop | May 22 | 1-4 p.m. | Chase Bank Building, Suite 751

Location: 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704

Sponsor: Human Resources

Be prepared - the key to having a successful interview: interview process, communication, research, follow-up.

Enrollment recommended

Enrollment info: Enrollment opens January 2. Enroll by June 30 by calling 510-642-1621, or by emailing transitions@berkeley.edu.

Maxwell Lecture Series on Environmental Health:: Keeping Food Safe: Pesticides and Microbial Contamination in our Produce

Colloquium | May 22 | 1-2 p.m. | 714c University Hall

Speaker/Performer: Dr. Barry Eisenberg, Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health

Sponsor: Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health

Dr. Barry Eisenberg, Vice President for Food Safety with the United Fresh Produce Association, will discuss pesticide and microbial contamination and prevention in fresh produce.

LSD Seminar: Cynthia McMurray: From Molecules to Man: genomic instability to neurodegeneration and aging

Seminar | May 22 | 4-5 p.m. |  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Location: 717 Potter Street, Berkeley, CA 94720

Speaker: Cynthia McMurray, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Sponsor: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Control of oxidative damage in cells is central to questions of genome integrity and aging, and disease. Although oxidative damage has long been associated with ageing and neurological disease, mechanistic connections of oxidation to these phenotypes have remained elusive. Both in vivo and in vitro results inn mice and in humans support a ‘toxic oxidation’ model in which OGG1 initiates an...   More >

Subjectivity and Culture Working Group

Workshop | October 11, 2011 – May 22, 2012 every other Tuesday | 5-7 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, Gifford Room, second floor

Sponsor: Townsend Center for the Humanities

The Subjectivity and Culture working group aims to foster conversations about understandings of subjectivity and the brain in social and cultural contexts.

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

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.

Desert Mazar: Sacred Sites in Western China

Exhibit - Photography | March 1 – June 1, 2012 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Buddhist Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Silk Road Initiative, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

Wedged between the Mongol and Kazakh steppes, mainland China, and the high ranges of the Pamirs and Himalayas, the desert expanse of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been a crossroads of languages, cultures and religions. Across the region, the spiritual landscape is marked by mazar, the Uighur term for tombs. Mazar may be as simple as a cave or flags secured to scraps of brush, but they...   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

Dana Davis: As Is: A Photography Exhibition

Exhibit - Photography | April 20 – June 4, 2012 every day | 12-10 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, Berkeley Art Studio

Sponsor: ASUC Art Studio

Artist, and Berkeley Art Studio instructor, Dana Davis reveals his newest body of work: "As Is". Davis finds inspiration in discarded Barbie dolls found in thrift shops and photographed hanging in their bags; gestures cast in polyvinyl bags, heads down, eyes open, naked, mussed. The photographs engage the imagination, reflecting the familiar but also containing windows of ambiguity where...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Attendance restrictions: Please note: The Berkeley Art Studio is closed from July 1, 2012-July 7, 2012

The National Cemetery of Finland in Photos: A Poignant Idyll

Exhibit - Photography | February 17 – June 4, 2012 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 1-4 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer: Eric Kotila, Institute of European Studies

Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Finnish Studies Program (FSP), Department of Scandinavian, Finlandia Foundation

Expansive Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki manages in microcosm to present the history of Finland in an aesthetically magical, symbolically rich environment.

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.