Past Events

Performance in the Americas Working Group

Performance in the Americas Townsend Center Working Group: Fall 2014 Thursdays from 3:00pm to 4:30pm, select dates below
Hosted by The Arts Research Center
Dwinelle Annex, Room 205

An interdisciplinary working group on performance and live arts practices in the American hemisphere. Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions.

A Week of Socially Engaged Art: October 6-12, 2014

A Week of Socially Engaged Art: October 6-12, 2014 Dive in and out of a week-long series of events, and meet artists and institutions that are making waves in the evolving practice of Socially Engaged Art!

This week, the Arts Research Center is partnering with the Center for Art and Inquiry at the Exploratorium as well as New York’s Blade of Grass, to program a series of Bay Area events that demonstrate the range and reach of socially engaged art! With Maya Lin at the David Brower Center, Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz Island, Rick Lowe in residence at the Arts Research Center, Paul Ramirez Jonas...

ARC Salon: Joe Goode Performance Group

September 27, 2014
Joe Goode Performance Group Wonderboy & 21 Effeminate Gestures Saturday, September 27 Salon Conversation 6-7:30pm at Caña, San Francisco Performance 8pm at ZSpace, San Francisco

Purchase $100 ticket here

Impact in the Arts Think Tank

January 17, 2014
Impact in the Arts Think Tank January 17, 2014

On January 17, the Arts Research Center brought together Bay Area leaders in the arts and culture and UC Berkeley arts, humanities, and social science professors to address social and economic ‘impact’ in different artistic models. This daylong think tank discussion kicked off a series of related but differentiated activities we are plotting this term to explore a variety of research and art practices that address social and economic questions in the arts.

Our conversation began with reflection on a broad collection of...

Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment: A Symposium in conjunction with Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts

August 13, 2012
Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment A Symposium in conjunction with Einstein on the Beach An Opera in Four Acts August 13, 2012

In October 2012, and in partnership with Cal Performances, ARC hosted a conversation on the restaging of the 1976 production of Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts, a landmark event in music, dance, theater, and opera. The production brought together the minimalism of composer Philip Glass and choreographer Lucinda Childs with director/designer Robert Wilson’s non-narrative approach to...

Michael Wasson & Alice Te Punga Somerville Reading

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.

Spring 2023 Co-Sponsored Events

Spring 2023 Co-Sponsored Events

ARC was thrilled to be co-sponsoring with Arts+ Design, Berkeley Center for New Media, Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, Center for Latin American Studies, Engaging the Senses Foundation, English Department's Lunch Poems series, Future Histories Lab, Stanford and SFMOMA, and the Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies in Spring of 2023!

Screening: The Story of Everything

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

Watch the trailer here!

Engaging the...

Artist Talk with Cara Romero

April 11, 2023
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!

Presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Art Practice, Ethnic Studies, and the...

2023 Flash Reading Series

Spring 2023 Flash Readings Featured poets for April 2023 National Poetry Month Andrea Abi Karam, Kaylan Black, Gloria Frym, Yona Harvey, Leticia Hernández-Linares, Rina Huang, Việt Lê, Muriel Leung, Adam Mansbach, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Dr. Alan Pealaez Lopez, Tony Robles & Natalia M. Vigil Each poet will read one of their poems related to the theme Reclamation.

New Readings curated each Friday in April on our YouTube Channel here.

This series is...