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Review – Celebrating Cave Canem Reading

Celebrating Cave Canem: Cornelius Eady, Morgan Parker, & Cameron Awkward Rich, in conversation with Chiyuma Elliott & Vincente Perez By: Menat Allah El Attma, November 29, 2021 Why not start at the darkest place? Morgan Parker, before reciting any poetry from the page, speaks it naturally. Imagine her words: yourself, to begin with darkness. If we […]


Calling the Elders: Writing Prompts

A Queer and Trans Writing Workshop fall 2021/spring 2022 WRITING PROMPTS Please note: this program ran during the 2021/22 school year. Calling the Elders was developed and run by Julia McKeown (they/them) in their position as Graduate Equity Director of the Queer Alliance Resource Center, and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the Graduate […]


Co-Sponsored Events Spring 2022

Berkeley Center for New Media Margarita Kuleva, “The Right to Be Creative” Monday, March 14 | 5:00 — 6:30 PM | Online Find out more here! How do you make art when the right to be creative is contested, and how do dissident artists in Russia make their voices heard? Margarita Kuleva will present her research on digital art communities […]


Poetry at Berkeley

At UC Berkeley, we are lucky to have a wealth of poetry experiences designed for our students, faculty and staff, and broader communities. Events are all free and open to the public, and some require pre-registration; in this continued hybrid moment, some are in person and others are livestreamed and live captioned. Below are some […]


Affiliate Partners & Co-Sponsors

Over the past few years, the Arts Research Center has been lucky to enjoy the partnership and co-sponsorship support of an incredible array of organizations, drawn from across the campus and beyond. We are grateful to the following departments, centers, colleges, museums, and foundations for helping us to build and extend our shared community. Current […]


Fall 2021 Poetry Fellows Reading: Dec 8

The Arts Research Center will celebrate the 2021 Fall Poetry Fellows with a reading of work created during their fellowship semester. This event will feature undergrad fellows Anastasia Le and Gisselle Medina; graduate fellows Lindsay Choi and Vincente Perez; faculty fellows Ahmad Diab and Jesse Nathan; and community fellows Maurya Kerr and D’mani Thomas, and be […]


Day With(out) Art 2021: Dec 1

The Arts Research Center is proud to partner with Visual AIDS and California College of the Arts for Day With(out) Art 2021 by presenting ENDURING CARE, a video program highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. The program features newly commissioned work by Katherine Cheairs, Cristóbal Guerra, Danny Kilbride, Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad […]


Camille T. Dungy & Ross Gay: Nov 17

Camille T. Dungy & Ross Gay: Black Nature, Poetry, and Coexistence in conversation with Aya de León and Maurya Kerr Wednesday, November 17th 2021 5:00 – 6:30pm PST Watch the livestream on YouTube here. This event is presented by the Arts Research Center and Engaging the Senses Foundation, and co-sponsored by the Black Studies Collaboratory, […]