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UC BERKELEY ARTS NEWSMAY 2008
The monthly bulletin of the Consortium for the Arts / Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley
announcing arts-related events across the UC Berkeley campus, many free of charge.

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FEATURED MAY ARTS EVENTS SPONSORED BY THE CONSORTIUM FOR THE ARTS
& ARTS RESEARCH CENTER
ART AND THE TRANSNATIONAL CARIBBEAN
A mini-seminar with Dr. Leon Wainwright

Aubrey Williams and Entwined Art Histories at the End of Empire
Thursday, May 1, 12:30pm-2pm, Doe Library, Room 308B
Migrating Between Guyana and British Pop: Frank Bowling, RA
Tuesday, May 6, 10am-12pm, Doe Library, Room 308B
New Provincialisms: Art, Curating, and Blackness
Thursday, May 8, 12pm-2pm, Doe Library, Room 308B
Dr. Wainwright will also present Difference at Materials Limits: Trinidad's "Indian Art" and World Art
Inclusionism
as part of the World-Making and World Art Conference at the Berkeley Art Museum Theater
on May 10th. (See below.)
Image shown: Aubrey Williams, Shostakovitch 3rd Symphony Opus 20, 198,1, oil on canvas,
1320 x 2030mm, Tate Collection purchase 1993.

Please click here for full description of all talks and presenter's bio.


PUBLICATION PARTY for Maganda Magazine,
Issue 21: Legal

Saturday, May 3, 2-5pm
Martin Luther King Student Union, Tilden Room, 5th Floor
Free admission
Maganda magazine, a student-run literary and arts publication celebrating
Pilipino/American and allied cultures, will unveil Legal, its 21st issue, at an event
featuring live performances, music, and an open mike. Legal contains poetry,
photography, visual arts, prose, music, and articles by students from UC Berkeley,
as well as from other universities, along with alumni and community members.
A CD is included with the magazine which features musical submissions, a music video,
and audio of spoken word/open mike performances.
Made possible in part by support from the Consortium for the Arts.

COMMUNITY ROUNDTABLE:
Transnational Dialogues: Sustaining Community Across the Border / Diálogos Transnacionales: Sosteniendo la comunidad a través de la frontera
Sunday, May 4, 3pm
Berkeley Art Museum Theater
Free admission to galleries and event all day
Spanish-language tour available at 1pm
Please click here for full event description.

Image: Enrique Chagoya: Thesis/Antithesis, 1989; Charcoal and pastel on paper; 80 x 80 inches; Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco, Gift of Viacom and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network. Photo: © Enrique Chagoya.

WORLD-MAKING AND WORLD ART
Saturday, May 9th and Sunday, May 10th
10am-5pm
Berkeley Art Museum Theater
Free admission


Please click here for full conference schedule.


Image: Frank Bowling, Mirror, 1966, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 84 inches.


OTHER MAY ARTS EVENTS ON CAMPUS

May 1: UC Jazz Big Band, Student Musical Activities, Lower Sproul Plaza, 12 noon, free.

May 1: Lunch Poems, student reading by winners of Academy of American Poets award and others,
Morrison Library in Doe Library, 12:10pm, free.

May 1: Lytle Shaw, Holloway Series Poetry Reading, Department of English, Maude Fife Room,
315 Wheeler, 6:30pm, free.

May 1: UC Jazz Ensembles: Vocal Show, Student Musical Activities, 20 Cesar Chavez,
basement level (Choral Rehearsal Hall), 7pm, free.

May 1: Director’s Showcase: Program 2, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies,
Durham Studio Theater, 7pm, free.

May 2: Noteworthy: Fantastic Sproul, Student Musical Activities, Sather Gate, 3pm, free.

May 2: Director’s Showcase: Program 1, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies,
Durham Studio Theater, 5pm, free.

May 2: The Little Prince, Cal Performances and San Francisco Opera, Zellerbach Hall, 7:30pm,
$60/50/40. (Sightlines pre-performance talk by director Francesca Zembello 6:30-7:00 p.m.)

May 2: Director’s Showcase: Program 2, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies,
Durham Studio Theater, 8pm, free.

May 3: The Little Prince, Cal Performances and San Francisco Opera, Zellerbach Hall, 7:30pm, $60/50/40.

May 3: Gamelan Sari Rara, Department of Music, Hertz Concert Hall, 8pm, $12/8/4.

May 4: InsideThe Little Prince” workshops, Cal Performances and San Francisco Opera,
Alumni House, Bancroft Way at Dana Avenue, 11am & 1pm, free, advanced reservation encouraged.

May 4: Bilingual guided tour, Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia, Berkeley Art Museum, 1pm and 2pm, free admission.

May 4: Perfect Fifth: Spring Concert, Student Musical Activities, Hearst Mining Building Lobby, 4pm, $10/6.

May 4: The Little Prince, Cal Performances and San Francisco Opera, Zellerbach Hall, 3pm, $60/50/40.

May 4: Paul Lewis, piano recital, Cal Performances, Hertz Hall, 3pm, $42.

May 5: Screening: Recent Works from the Eisner Prize competition by UC Berkeley Students,
with artists in person, PFA Theater, 4pm, free.

May 7: New music by graduate composers in the seminar of Cindy Cox: Amadeus Regucera,
Jimmy Lopez and Damon Waitkus, Department of Music, Hertz Concert Hall, 12:15-1pm, free. 

May 7: UC Men's Octet: Super Sproul, Student Musical Activities, Sather Gate, 1-4pm, free.

May 7: Screening: Memento, with short The Red Book, with lecture by Professor Marilyn Fabe,
Pacific Film Archive, 3pm, $9.50/6.50/5.50.

May 8: Guided tour, Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia, Berkeley Art Museum,12:15pm, free with museum admission.

May 9: UC California Golden Overtones: Super Sproul, Student Musical Activities, Sather Gate, 1-4pm, free.

May 9: Spring Choreography Workshop, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies,
Durham Studio Theater, 4:30pm & 8pm, free.

May 9: Opening reception, Downtown Berkeley: A Photographic Investigation, exhibition and book project
from Janet Delaney’s documentary photography course, Wurster Hall, 1st floor lobby, 5-8pm, free.

May 9: The Little Prince, Cal Performances and San Francisco Opera, Zellerbach Hall, 7:30pm, $60/50/40.

May 9: UC Jazz Ensembles: Spring Concert, featuring three Advanced Combos and the Big Band,
Student Musical Activities, International House, 8pm, $10/6.

May 9: UC Men's and Women's Chorales Show, Student Musical Activities, 20 Cesar Chavez,
basement level (Choral Rehearsal Hall), 6pm AND 8pm, $8/5.

May 10: The Little Prince, Cal Performances and San Francisco Opera, Zellerbach Hall, 7:30pm, $60/50/40.

May 10: Cal Jazz Choir: Spring Show, Student Musical Activities, 20 Cesar Chavez, basement level
(Choral Rehearsal Hall), 8pm, $8/6.

May 11: CATCH Electric Guitar Quartet, CNMAT, 1750 Arch Street, 8pm, $10/5.

May 11: Guided tour, Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia, Berkeley Art Museum, 2pm, free with museum admission.

May 11: The Little Prince, Cal Performances and San Francisco Opera, Zellerbach Hall, 3pm, $60/50/40.

May 11: UC Jazz Combo Concert, featuring three Intermediate Combos, Student Musical Activities,
20 Cesar Chavez, basement level (Choral Rehearsal Hall), 8pm, free.

May 15: Guided tour, Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia, Berkeley Art Museum,12:15pm, free with museum admission.

May 16: Members' opening reception, These Canyons: 38th UC Berkeley M.F.A. Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum,
6:30pm, free for museum members.

May 18: Guided tour, Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia, Berkeley Art Museum, 2pm, free with museum admission.

May 18: Artists’ Talks, UC Berkeley M.F.A. Exhibition Berkeley Art Museum, 3pm, free with museum admission.

May 23: Opening reception, 2008 Master of Architecture Graduate Thesis Projects, Department of Architecture,
108 Wurster Hall Gallery, free.

May 28: The Anderson Project: Ex Machina, Robert Lepage and Yves Jaques, Cal Performances, Zellerbach
Playhouse, 8pm, $62.

May 29: The Anderson Project: Ex Machina, Robert Lepage and Yves Jaques, Cal Performances, Zellerbach
Playhouse, 8pm, $62.

May 30: Audra McDonald, soprano, Cal Performances, Zellerbach Hall, 8pm, $68/48/36.

May 30: The Anderson Project: Ex Machina, Robert Lepage and Yves Jaques, Cal Performances,
Zellerbach Playhouse, 8pm, $62. 

May 31: Nuccia Focile (soprano) & Paul Charles Clarke (tenor) with Berkeley Symphony Orchestra,
Cal Performances, Hertz Concert Hall, 8pm, $48.

May 31: The Anderson Project: Ex Machina, Robert Lepage and Yves Jaques, Cal Performances,
Zellerbach Playhouse, 8pm, $62.


EXHIBITIONS ONGOING:

through May 5: photography exhibition: Ami Vitale Photographs: Kashmir, Graduate School of Journalism, North Gate Hall, free

through May 9: Maxi Spina: Reflective Formations, Department of Architecture, 108 Wurster Gallery, free

through May 15: Cycle of Life - Awakening: Works by Asian Women Artists, Institute for East Asian Studies Gallery, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, free

through June 1: Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg, Berkeley Art Museum

through July 20: MATRIX/REDUX, Berkeley Art Museum

through July 31: Parting the Curtain: Asian Art Revealed, Berkeley Art Museum

through July 31: Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, Berkeley Art Museum


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