Past Events

Reimagining Progress: Production, Consumption and Alternative Economies

May 5, 2014
Reimagining Progress: Production, Consumption and Alternative Economies May 5, 2014 David Brower Center We are living as if we have an extra planet at our disposal.

–Jim Leape, Director General, World Wildlife Fund International

We face an urgent problem: our current consumption patterns outstrip our planet’s available resources, and yet our society continues to produce massive amounts of cheap, disposable goods. With its complex history as a center of international commerce, radical politics, technological innovation, and cultural experimentation, the Bay...

Public Art/Housing Publics: Conversations on Art and Social Justice

November 21, 2014
Public Art/Housing Publics: Conversations on Art and Social Justice

Open to the public, RSVP requested

Note: Symposium participants are welcome to attend the Museum’s L@TE event, though a paid admission is required.

Public Art/Housing Publics: Conversations on Art and Social Justice is co-sponsored by The Arts Research Center, the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and UC-...

The Aerial View in Motion

December 4, 2017
The Aerial View in Motion with Bull.Miletic Monday, December 4, at 6:30pm at BAMPFA Artist Talk with Art + Science Artists-in-Residence Bull.Miletic
as part of Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA

Watch the recording here!

Claire Hong Poetry Reading & Craft Talk

March 2, 2023
Claire Hong Poetry Reading & Craft Talk

Fall 2021 Flash Reading Series

Poetry & the Senses Flash Reading Series Fall 2021 Weekly Releases

In spring 2021, ARC piloted a new Flash Reading Series featuring two dozen Bay Area community poets. We are thrilled to continue this series this fall, adding a dozen more Bay Area poets to our growing archive, with more to be added in spring. In addition to larger monthly readings (here) this series extends the number of voices we want to hear from, and carry with us, in these...

Poetry & the Senses Spring 2021 Fellows Reading

May 10, 2021
Poetry & the Senses Spring 2021 Fellows Reading Monday, May 10th 2021 4:30-6:00pm PDT

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The Arts Research Center celebrated the 2021 Spring Poetry Fellows with a reading featuring: reelaviolette botts-ward, Vethea Cole, Elizabeth Feng, Sara Mumolo, Ramona Naddaff, Ken Ueno, Noah Warren, and Maw Shein Win. This event was a part of ARC’s Poetry and the Senses initiative generously sponsored by Engaging the Senses Foundation.

Flash Reading Series

In spring 2021, ARC piloted a new Flash Reading Series featuring two dozen Bay Area poets. reading one of their poems in relation to the theme “emerge/ncy”. In addition to ARC’s larger monthly readings, this series extended the number of voices we wanted to hear from, and carry with us, in these changing times – from emerging to established poets. Ongoing, we will add new Bay Area poets each April during National Poetry Month.

Over time, the series has turned into a growing online archive of Bay Area poets. These 52 short recorded readings are...

Danez Smith and Patricia Smith

December 3, 2020
Danez Smith and Patricia Smith | Readings + Conversation Thursday, December 3, 2020, 5:00-6:30 PST

This event took place online.
Find the full recording here.

Visual Activism: Day With(out) Art

November 30, 2020
Day With(out) Art 2020: TRANSMISSIONS Monday, November 30

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The Arts Research Center was proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020 by presenting TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States. The video program brings together artists working across the world: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Las Indetectables (Chile...

Visual Activism: Ajuan Mance

November 24, 2020
Ajuan Mance: 1001 Black Men Tuesday, November 24
11:30-12:30pm PST

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Ajuan Mance is a Professor of English at Mills College and a lifelong artist and writer. She holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. In both her scholarly writing and her visual art, Ajuan explores the complexities of race, gender, and identity in the U.S. The creator of the 1001 Black Men online sketchbook, Ajuan has participated in solo...