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April 21, 2023

BAY AREA PREMIERE

The Story of Everything:
featuring the Storytelling of Kealoha


Friday, April 21, 2023

7pm | Doors open at 6:30pm

Wheeler Auditorium, Wheeler Hall

free & open to the public

Assisted listening technology on site

April 20, 2023

California Laureate Lee Herrick, Hawaiian Laureate Kealoha & Oakland Youth Laureate Nadia Elbgal

Thursday, April 20, 2023

5:00 – 6:30pm PDT
Durham Studio Theater, Dwinelle Hall (map here)

April 11, 2023

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 evenstranger 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 at the turn of the century, every voyage was reserved with at least two weapons: the pen and the camera.

Artist Talk with Cara Romero

in conversation with Prof Gregory Levine & Talia Dixon

Tuesday, April 11th 2023

11:00am – 12:30pm PDT

free & open to the public

Maude Fife Room 315 Wheeler Hall

In addition to her artist talk, Cara Romero will be doing studio visits with students in the MFA Art Practice program.

Watch Cara's artist talk here!

April 5, 2023

Poet Claire (Meuschke) Hong visited the Arts Research Center on March 2, 2023 for a craft talk following her reading through the Lunch Poems series. The full recording of the craft talk is available for viewing on ARC’s YouTube channel, here, and the Lunch Poems reading is available for viewing here.

March 23, 2023

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 three poets drew from similar wells of experience but imbued their poems with distinct styles and voices.

Noʻu Revilla, D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie, and Donovan Kūhiō Colleps

in conversation with Craig Santos Perez

Thursday, March 23rd, 2023

5:00 – 6:15pm PST

Watch the livestream here!


This event is presented by the Arts Research Center with the support of the Engaging the Senses Foundationand co-sponsorship from the Center for Race & Gender, and the Departments of English and Ethnic Studies.

March 22, 2023

What does it mean to be a diasporic Indigenous writer? Is there such a category as trans-pacific Indigenous writing? How does an Indigenous poet write while living apart from their homeland? On March 8, poets Michael Wasson & Alice Te Punga Somerville came together virtually with Arts Research Center director Beth Piatote to address these questions through readings of their work and a Q&A.

March 8, 2023

Michael Wasson & Alice Te Punga Somerville

in conversation with Beth Piatote

Wednesday, March 8th, 2023

2:00 – 3:15pm PST

Watch the recording here!


This event is presented by the Arts Research Center with support of Engaging the Senses Foundation, and co-sponsorship from the Center for Race & Gender and Departments of English and Ethnic Studies.


March 2, 2023

Claire Hong Poetry Reading & Craft Talk

February 22, 2023

How important is historical accuracy, and who determines an “accurate” account of the past? How does art allow us to access history in a more time-forward way? Dillon Chitto’s Indigifuturisitic play, Pueblo Revolt, sets out to answer these questions, reframing the 1680 Santa Fe Pueblo Revolt—the only successful Native uprising against colonial power in North America—through a modern lens. Following two orphaned brothers, Feem and Ba’homa, Pueblo Revolt watches what ordinary people do in the face of calamity.

February 6, 2023

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

February 6th, 2023

ARC SPRING 2023 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

in conversation with Laurie Arnold

with Beth Piatote as interlocutor


Watch the conversation here(link is external)!

February 2, 2023

Pueblo Revolt by Dillon Chitto
World Premiere of Rella Lossy Award Winning Play


January 23, 2023

The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley is sponsoring the symposium “ART/CITY” on March 16, 2012. Participants have been invited to respond to the prompt “in relation to the arts and civic life, the question I am wrestling with right now is…” in advance of the event. This guest posting is by JD Beltran, President of the San Francisco Arts Commission.

The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley is sponsoring the symposium “ART/CITY” on March 16, 2012. Participants have been invited to respond to the prompt “in relation to the arts and civic life, the question I am wrestling with right now is…” in advance of the event. This guest posting is by Dawn Weleski, artist and co-founder of Conflict Kitchen.

January 17, 2023

The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley is sponsoring the working session “Occupy as Form” on February 10, 2012. Participants have been invited to post some brief thoughts on the topic in advance of the event. This guest posting is by Blake Stimson, Professor of Art History and Cinema and Technocultural Studies Program at UC Davis.

 Keyword: Institutionality

December 16, 2022

London-based performance scholars and overall rainmakers Adrian Heathfield, Gavin Butt, and Lois Keidan of the Live Art Agency received a generous grant from the U.K.’s arts and humanities research council to fund a wide-ranging three-year research project.    It was inspiring to be a part of their first symposium on why PerformanceMatters, though it was also poignant to be with a wide network of U.K.

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.

Jake Skeets Craft Talk: The Memory Field

in conversation with ARC Director Beth Piatote

Thursday, October 6, 2022

4pm

Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23

May 5, 2022

Poetry & the Senses 2021/22 Fellows Reading

Thursday, May 5th, 2022

5:30 – 7pm PST

Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

This event is presented by ARC in partnership with Engaging the Senses Foundation