Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Recurring shows are placed on their next date. Every listing was read off the venue's own page by a person; prices are the printed ones.

• Oct28Wednesday Exhibition TourWEDNESDAYS · 12:15 PM · next Wed, Oct 28, 12:15 PMGraduate students lead lunchtime tours of BAMPFA's current shows, alternating between Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing and Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection. Tours start Wednesdays at 12:15 PM (upcoming: October 21 and 28, November 4, 11, 18 and 25), with further tours on several Sundays at 2 PM, at 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, across from Downtown Berkeley BART. They are included with museum admission. On Free First Thursday (November 5, on our calendar) gallery entry is free, and that day also has a curator's tour of the Hassinger show.Included with admission
• Oct31Performance / Entanglement: Steffani Jemison and Leslie Cuyjet on Maren Hassinger and Senga NengudiSaturday, 1:00 PMTickets required · gallery admission included (price not printed)
• Nov5Free First Thursday1ST THURSDAY · ALL DAY · next Thu, Nov 5, 11:00 AMBAMPFA opens its galleries free all day on the first Thursday of the month, which currently means Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing and the collection show Some Particular Heaven. Upcoming dates are Nov 5 and Dec 3 at 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, directly across from Downtown Berkeley BART. Film screenings are ticketed separately, and on Nov 5 the free day coincides with a curator's tour of the Hassinger show at 1:15 pm.Free gallery admission
• Nov5Curator's Tour: Anthony Graham on Maren Hassinger: Living Moving GrowingThursday, 1:15 PMPrice not printed on listing
• Nov5Wrenching News WorkshopThursday, 3:00 PMVisitors help grow Wrenching News, a work in the Maren Hassinger exhibition, by rolling and tying newsprint under the direction of Julia Goodman and following Hassinger's guidelines; the group's work is added to the installation, which keeps expanding through the run of the show. It starts at 3 PM on Thursday, November 5, at BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, across from Downtown Berkeley BART; no end time is listed. It is included with admission, and November 5 is a Free First Thursday, so gallery entry is free that day (on our calendar). It is the last scheduled session of the series, which began in July.Included with admission
• Nov6Harakiri: The Cinema of Masaki KobayashiNov 6 – Nov 22Price not published on listing
• Nov8Mapping UtopiasSunday, 1:00 PMPrice not printed · space limited, RSVP required
• Nov8Contempt: Jean-Luc Godard's Early FilmsSunday, 6:30 PMPrice not published on listing
• Nov13Waikiki Brothers with Director Yim Soon-rye in PersonFriday, 4:00 PMPrice not published on listing
• Nov14Gallery + Studio: Love Notes for the FutureSaturday, 11:30 AMFree for kids 13 and under and one accompanying adult per child
• Nov14Artists' Conversation: Emory Douglas and William RhodesSaturday, 1:00 PMTickets required · includes gallery admission
• Nov14Roundtable Reading: The Vanishing of Lake PeigneurSaturday, 2:30 PMFree for kids 13 and under and one accompanying adult per child
• Nov15Communal Land Care with TERREMOTO and Test PlotSunday, 4:30 PMPrice not printed on listing
• Nov20CineSpin: He Who Gets Slapped with Live JazzFriday, 7:30 PMFree · tickets at admissions desk from 6:30 pm
• Nov21Panel on Hassinger's Moving Image WorkSaturday, 1:00 PMPrice not printed on listing
• Nov21Raging Bull: Martin Scorsese PicturesSaturday, 6:30 PMPrice not published on listing

The last 1 of 1 past event we listed here — useful for a sense of what this venue actually programmes.

1. Mosse Lecture: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus on Curating Living ArchivesOct 16, 2026