Thursday 3/21 at noon
The Loft Hour: Iggy Cortez Juan David Rubio Restrepo, in conversation with Salar Mameni


Watch Reclamation Poetry Readings on ARC’s Youtube



This Month at ARC


Esther Belin: Lunch Poems Reading + Craft Talk

Thursday, March 7, 2024

12-1pm: Lunch Poems Reading
Morrison Library

4-5:15pm: Craft Talk: Diné Land/Sound(scape) as Poetics
ARC, Hearst Field Annex D23

more here!

Stitching Keffiyehs:
Moving Images from Palestine

CO-SPONSORED EXHIBIT, THROUGH MARCH 13th

curated by
Tamar Beja, Asma Kazmi, & Gazelle Samizay

featuring artists
Razan AlSalah, Zeina Barakeh, Mona Rouhana Benyamin, Samia Halaby, Mona Hatoum, Jumana Manna, Larissa Sansour, Oraib Toukan

Worth Ryder Art Gallery
more info & schedule here

The Loft Hour: Iggy Cortez Juan David Rubio Restrepo

in conversation with Salar Mameni 

Thurs, Mar 21, 2024
12 – 1pm
Hearst Field Annex D23

Read more here!


Ongoing at ARC

The Loft Hour: Conversations with New Arts Faculty

Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a year-long series of five gatherings that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. Join us in welcoming our esteemed new colleagues:

Marié Abe (Music)
Iggy Cortez (Film & Media)
Timmia DeRoy (TDPS)
Darian Longmire (Art Practice)
Zamansele Nsele (History of Art)
Cathy Park Hong (English)
Luanne Redeye (Art Practice)
Juan David Rubio Restrepo (Music)
Solmaz Sharif (English)
Nicole Starosielski (Film & Media)


More info and year-long schedule here

Revisit the Reclamation Poetry Gathering

RECLAMATION gathered 19 fellows chosen to participate in the 2023 Poetry & the Senses program for a weekend of readings, conversations, and workshops. They were joined by facilitators Natalie Diaz, Craig Santos Perez, and Beth Piatote.

Three readings, hosted at BAMPFA, were free & open to the public, along with a book signing. Fellows enjoyed two workshops: Ekphrastic Writing with Natalie Diaz & Craig Santos Perez on Friday, followed by a Workshop on Scores with Tanya Lukin Linklater on Saturday. A welcome dinner and closing reception warmly bookended the weekend, the culminating event of ARCs Poetry and the Senses inititative.


Please visit our image gallery and access videos of the readings here!


Note from the Director

Spring term is here, and with it comes another semester of learning, growing, and working together. I’m happy to share the full slate of events at the ARC, which includes a major culminating event: the Reclamation Poetry Gathering in February; and an inaugural event: the Indigenous Performing Arts Residency in April, featuring four staged reading of Diné Nishłį (I am a Sacred Being): A Boarding School Play, by Blossom Johnson. The new Indigenous Performing Arts Residency is co-created and co-sponsored with our partners in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, and the community theater organization, AlterTheater. We are also looking forward to our ongoing collaborations with Lunch Poems, featuring Esther Belin in March; and with the Townsend Center, co-sponsoring Ocean Vuong in April. Our signature series, The Loft Hour, continues with new faculty conversations over lunch in February, March, and April. The Indigenous Poetics Lab will perform for Mother Language Day in February, keep an eye on our Instagram for poetry prompts to celebrate National Poetry Month in April, and much more!

Beth Piatote
Director, Arts Research Center



We proudly co-sponsored these events in 2023/2024!

This fall, we co-sponsor events with the:

Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies

Berkeley Center for New Media 

Berkeley Theater, Dance and Performance Studies

Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Department of Art Practice

Department of Ethnic Studies 

Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Culture

Department of Music 

Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities

Department of Rhetoric

Engaging the Senses Foundation 

English Department

Holloway Poetry Series 

Insitut Ramon Llull 

Maghsoodnia Poetry Fund

Townsend Center for Humanities

Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study