Spring 2025 Season

Each semester, ARC curates, presents, and co-sponsors a season of events, under a unifying theme, and in coordination with our many partners on campus.

The theme for 2024/25 is Duration.


Spring 2025 Events

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Symposium: El Archivo y sus formas en las Américas (The Archive & its Forms in the Americas)

January 23-24, 2025 | Location: Arts Research Center

Organized by Adriana Amante (University of Buenos Aires), Daylet Dominguez (UC Berkeley), with CLACS Director Natalia Brizuela, and presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in collaboration with the Arts Research Center.

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Artist Talk with Sarah Biscarra Dilley

January 30, 2025 at 4pm| Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean's Office of the Divsion of Arts & Humanities

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Workshop with Sarah Biscarra Dilley: Using Visual Art for Language Reclamation

January 31, 2025 at 10am | Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean's office of the Division of Arts & Humanities, held in collaboration with ARC's Indigenous Poetics Lab

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The Loft Hour: Cecily Nicholson + María Ochoa Gautier

February 13, 2025 at 12pm | Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities

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Artist Talk with Julia Keefe

February 18, 2025 at 5pm | Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean's office of the Division of Arts & Humanities

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Mother Language Day 2025

February 21, 2025 | Arts Research Center

Led by the Indigenous Poetics Lab at the Arts Research Center, in partnership with the DE in Indigenous Language Revitalization

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Fractured History: Martha Redbone Songwriting Workshop

February 27, 2025 at 4pm | Morrison Hall, Rm 250

This workshop is a collaboration between Cal Performances' Illuminations, the Department of Music, and the Arts Research Center

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The Loft Hour: Rizvana Bradley + Roshanak Kheshti

March 13, 2025 at 12pm | Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities

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Artist Talk & Seminar with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

March 13, 2025 – Artist Talk | Maude Fife Room

March 14, 2025 – Seminar: A Short History of the Blockade | Arts Research Center

Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and Department of Rhetoric

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Super Futures Haunt Qollective Performance and Artist Talk

March 18, 2025 | TBA

Co-presented by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies

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Chapbook Launch & Poetry Reading featuring Maurya Kerr, Vincente G. Perez, D'mani Thomas

April 3, 2025 at 5pm | Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center

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The Loft Hour: Andy Shanken + Stephanie Syjuco

April 10, 2025 at 12pm | Arts Research Center

Presented by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities

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Indigenous Performing Arts Residency: Playwright Drew Woodson

April 17 at 2pm, 2025 | Arts Research Center

April 18 at 7pm, 2025 | Arts Research Center

April 19 at 7pm, 2025 | Arts Research Center

Co-sponsored by a partnership between the Arts Research Center, the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, and AlterTheater, with support from generous donors to the Berkeley Crowdfunding initiative promoting Equity and Inclusion and the Venturous Theater Fund