Jesse Chun: 시( )nawi( )fugue (an improvisation, an offering, a reading)
Saturday Feb 24, 2026 | 2pm
Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive
*co-sponsored event
Artist Jesse Chun presents the inaugural activation of her new performance series invoking artistic matriarchs and cultivating spiritual kinship across generations through an engagement with sound, music, open translation, and spoken word. Performers: Josiah Luis Alderete, Jesse Chun, Fadl Fakhouri, Kim Hyangsoori, Roger Kim, Claire Mirocha, Beth Piatote, Jennifer Redondas, and Diana SeoHyung.
Presented by the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive in partnership with UC Berkeley's Center for Korean Studies and the Arts Research Center. Community partnership support provided by GYOPO
Love Poems: Writing Workshop with Margaret Ross
Open to UC Berkeley students | Application open Jan 21st
Fri February 6, 2026 from 1 - 3pm
Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23
Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities
The Loft Hour: Chris Batterman Cháirez (Music) + Cathy Lu (Art Practice)
in conversation with Alex Saum-Pascual
Thurs February 12, 2026 from 12 - 1pm
Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23
Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities
June Jordan's Poetry for the People: Legacies and Futures
Featuring Xochiquetzal Candelaria, Aya de Leon, Marcos Ramirez, & Junichi Semitsu
Moderated by Paola Bacchetta, Chair Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies
Thurs February 26, 2026 from 3:30 - 5pm
Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23
*co-sponsored event
Presented by the Departments of African American and Gender and Women’s Studies and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center
Letterpress Workshop: Printing Image & Text
Open to UC Berkeley students | Application open Jan 26th
Two-day Workshop | Sat February 28 & Sun March 1, 2026 | 10am - 5pm
Location: The CODEX Foundation, 1331 Seventh St, Berkeley
Sponsored by the Arts Research Center with The CODEX Foundation, with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities
Native Seas: Students and Relatives of Papa Mau Visit the Bay Area
Mon March 9 - Fri March 13, 2026
*co-sponsored events
Native Seas is a week-long educational program curated by Sophia Perez, Berkeley Center for New Media's Indigenous Technologies coordinator and UC Berkeley PhD, that will bring several traditional navigators, including students and relatives of Papa Mau Piailug, from the Northern Mariana islands to campus.
Presented as part of BCNM's Indigenous Technologies program, New Media & Oceans program, and Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center
The Loft Hour: Tadiwa Madenga (English) + Juliana Ramírez Herrera (History of Art)
in conversation with Zamansele Nsele
Thurs, March 12, 2025 from 12 – 1pm
ARC, Hearst Field Annex D23
Hosted by the Arts Research Center with support by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities and co-sponsored by the Dept of English
Staged Reading: The Philippine Deep
A new play written by Abigail De Kosnik
Fri March 13 - Sat March 14, 2026
*co-sponsored events
The Philippine Deep, written by Abigail De Kosnik, tells the story of five generations of a family, spanning 150 years of history in the Philippines and in the United States.
Presented by the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center
Layli Long Soldier: Poetry Reading + Conversation with Solmaz Sharif
Wed April 1, 2026 at 5pm | Layli Long Soldier Poetry Reading, moderated by Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Thur April 2, 2026 at 5pm | A Conversation: Layli Long Soldier + Solmaz Sharif
Both events in Maude Fife Rm 315, Wheeler Hall
Whiting Award and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Layli Long Soldier will kick-off National Poetry Month with a two-day visit to UC Berkeley as an ARC Visiting Writer. She'll begin with a reading on April 1st, followed the next evening by a conversation on the practice of poetry between Long Soldier and Berkeley's own award winning poet Solmaz Sharif.
Presented by the Arts Research Center in collaboration with the Department of English, with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities
The Loft Hour: Shiben Banerji (History of Art) + Alexandra Lossada (English)
in conversation with Estelle Tarica
Thurs, April 9, 2026 from 12 – 1pm
Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23
Hosted by the Arts Research Center with support by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities and co-sponsored by the Dept of English
Sam Aros-Mitchell: ARC & TDPS Artist-in-Residence, Choreography & Dance
Indigenous Performing Arts Residency
April 20 - April 24, 2026
Dancer & choreographer Sam Aros-Mitchell will offer student masterclasses and a public performance during his week on campus, along with studio time for embodied research as the 4th artist-in-residence in the Indigenous Performing Arts Residency program.
Co-presented by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities