Category Archives : New and Noteworthy


Review: Artist Talk by Cara Romero by Menat Allah El Attmah

When learning the Novel, you learn that the first novel emerged in the late 17th century. Such novels recorded voyages to strange new lands and even stranger bodies who peopled the land. On their return, there grew a complete market to consume the literature that was the spectacle of difference. With the innovation of photographs […]


Review: Poetry Reading with Noʻu Revilla, D. Kealiʻi Mackenzie and Donovan Kūhiō Colleps by Eva Whitney

How is nature poetic? How can Indigenous languages create a new sense of intimacy with one’s environment? On Thursday, March 23rd, three Hawaiian poets came together with author and professor Dr. Craig Santos Perez to explore these questions through a reading of their work. Featuring D. Kealiʻi Mackenzie, Donovan Kūhiō Colleps, and Noʻu Revilla, the […]


Fall 2023 Events

Welcome to fall 2023 at the Arts Research Center! We are excited to sponsor and co-sponsor a dynamic series of events including: poetry readings, craft talks, and a writing workshop with writers that include aracelis girmay, J. Michael Martinez, Claudia Rankine, Solmaz Sharif, Robert Sullivan, and dg nanouk okpik artist/choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater (ARC’s fall […]


02/06 Theater as a Site of Public History: Dillon Chitto in conversation with Laurie Arnold

Award winning playwright Dillon Chitto will be ARC’s visiting Artist-in-Residence for spring 2023. His February 6 – 9 visit to Berkeley coincides with the world premiere of his first play, Pueblo Revolt. Dillon Chitto is a Mississippi Choctaw and Pueblo playwright originally from Santa Fe, NM, currently living in Chicago, IL. He is the Literary […]


Review: Jake Skeets – The Memory Field

by Marisa Lin, October 6, 2022 Fall 2022 Poetry Reading and Craft Talk, held on October 6th 2022 (event info here). The full recording of the event is available for viewing on our YouTube channel, here. The Land Remembers: The Memory Field by Jake Skeets “The landscape is associated with memory,” said Jake Skeets in his October craft […]