Past Events

Public Service Showcase

March 10, 2015
Public Service Showcase: Berkeley Arts Connect March 10, 2015
6-8:00 pm
First Presbyterian Church, Mears Room
2407 Dana St. Berkeley, CA

Interested in working in arts administration? Have you heard about the Berkeley Arts Connect program and want to learn more? Visit the Public Service Showcase on March 10 to meet other PSC interns, talk with staff, and to partner organizations.

UC Berkeley Undergraduate Students: to apply to the program for next year, 2015-16,...

Fall 2023 Poetry & the Senses Fellow Reading

December 12, 2023
Fall 2023 Poetry & the Senses Fellow Reading December 12, 2023 5:30 pm Online

The Arts Research Center (ARC) celebrates our Fall 2023 ARC Poetry & the Senses Fellows with a reading of work created during their fellowship semester. Please join us in welcoming thirteen extraordinary poets to ARC’s virtual stage:

Rick Lowe: “Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial”

November 17, 2014
Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial with Rick Lowe Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
November 17, 2014, 7:30-9:00pm
The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA

Lectures are free and open to the public.

Co-presented with the Regents Lecturer Program.

Reserve your ticket here.

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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!