Performance

Cal Day 2016

On Cal Day, learn about the campus’ new Arts + Design Initiative and its efforts to feature, fortify, and mobilize existing excellence in the arts and design while fostering new forms of dynamic collaboration, innovation, and public access across all arts and design fields, on our campus, and in public life.

Join Professor Shannon Jackson, Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts and Design, and learn about campus spaces that nurture the arts, expose our students to new ideas, and present groundbreaking new work to our public. The tour will weave through maker spaces,...

Thinking across the Arts and Design at Berkeley: The Architecture of Life Public Talks, Spring 2016

In January of 2016 a new chapter in the story of arts and design at Berkeley begins with a new building: the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will open its doors at a new location and will present the exhibition “Architecture of Life.” In partnership with BAMPFA, and in collaboration with the many scholars, artists, and departments across the UC Berkeley campus, a series of public talks will be offered in the spring associated with the Big Ideas course: Thinking Across the Arts and Design at Berkeley: The Architecture of Life...

Open City/Art City Art and Ideas Festival

October 3, 2014
Open City/Art City October 3-4th hosted by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) and The Institute for the Future

This Art and Ideas Festival will engage the public through a creative and generative weekend that looks at how we transform a city. The October 3 & 4th weekend will consist of IFTF’s Maker Cities’ Conference and Open Cities/Art Cities Art and Ideas Festival, which through art installations, speakers, participatory activities, performances, music, food, and play, they will invite the Bay Area community to reimagine the city’s urban spaces, and forge new models of innovation...

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

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...

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!