Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

What Gets Amplified

November 13, 2023

What Gets Amplified with Raven Chacon
Composer November 13, 2023 5:00 — 6:30 PM Arts Research Center (Hearst Field Annex, D23)

Event hosted by BCNM. You can find the original event page on their website here.

Raven Chacon will discuss his recent works, using scores and field recordings as the medium for...

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Craft Talk with dg nanouk okpik

October 5, 2023

Craft Talk with dg nanouk okpik Eskimo in the City: Reading and Writing for Life October 5, 2023 4 - 5:15 p.m. Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex, D23

Poet dg nanouk okpik will give a public Craft Talk, Eskimo in the City: Reading and Writing for Life, at 4pm at the Arts Research Center. Okpik will discuss the obstacles to and liberations of literacy and poetry in an intersectional Native framework. Her talk asks how...

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Poets Laureate Reading

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)

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Celebrating Kundiman: Cathy Linh Che, Chen Chen, & Jenny Xie

March 10, 2022

Celebrating Kundiman: Cathy Linh Che, Chen Chen, & Jenny Xie in conversation with Lindsay Choi & Sophia Hussain Thursday, March 10th 2022 5:00 – 6:30pm PST

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Poetry Reading featuring Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Natalie Diaz, and Aja Monet

April 26, 2021

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Natalie Diaz, and Aja Monet in conversation with ARC Poetry & the Senses Fellows reelaviolette botts-ward and Ken Ueno Monday, April 26, 2021 4:30-6:00pm PDT

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This event was funded by Engaging the Senses Foundation and co-sponsored by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, the Center for Race & Gender, and the Department of Ethnic Studies.

Special Note: The Arts Research...

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emerge/ncy [maps]: poetry reading with Safia Elhillo, Hieu Minh Nguyen, and Craig Santos Perez

February 23, 2021

emerge/ncy: [maps] poetry reading featuring Safia Elhillo, Hieu Minh Nguyen, and Craig Santos Perez Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021 4:00-5:30pm PST

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This event was funded by Engaging the Senses Foundation, and co-sponsored by the departments of English, Ethnic Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies, the Program in Critical Theory, and the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture.

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Syria’s Fraught Balance

February 19, 2020

Syria’s Fraught Balance: Movement, Politics, and Dabke Performance With Shayna Silverstein, followed by a conversation with Deena Chalabi Wednesday, February 19, 2020 | 5:00-7:00pm
Dwinelle Annex, Room 126, UC Berkeley

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Co-sponsored by Arts Research Center, the Music Department, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Department

Within the deep pessimism of the Syrian conflict remain moments of joyful action –...

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Critique/De-coloniality/Diaspora

May 6, 2019

Critique/De-coloniality/Diaspora Nadia Yala Kisukidi | How to Philosophize in a Dominated Country
Rocío Zambrana | Pasarse políticamente: Hopeful Acts of Protest in Puerto Rico
Monday, May 6, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
470 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley

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