Point Richmond Music (PRM) concerts are free and take place on the second Friday of each month, June through September, beginning at 5:30 PM. The outdoor concerts are held at the corner of Park Place and Washington Avenue in historic downtown Point Richmond. The 2010 season will also include a final Friday concert on September 24th.Each concert features a no-host bar, raffle, face-painting for children and art exhibitions by the Arts of Point Richmond and the Point Richmond Art Collective. Participating local restaurants and businesses will offer discounts and coupons on concert dates. PRM’s 2010 Line-upFriday, June 11 –5:30 PM-6:30 PM - Ed Reed, jazz balladeer and song stylist. http://www.edreedsings.com/6:45 PM-7:45 PM -  Sekhou Senegal, Assane & Ousseyane Kouyate, brothers born and raised in Senegal, combining traditional West African instrumentation with bass, keyboards, and percussion drum. http://sekhousenegal.com/Friday, July 9 –5:30 PM-6:30 PM - Craig Horton, blues singer and guitarist, with a five decade history of “blues with an attitude.” http://www.myspace.com/craighortonblues6:45 PM-7:45 PM - Blind Lemon Phillips, with vocalist and guitarist Charley Phillips backed by the "Lemondrops" featuring blues belter Mz Dee and the “Lemon Squeezers,” a full horn section. http://www.blindlemonphillips.com/      Friday, August 13 –5:30 PM-6:30 PM - Wendy Waller, Jazz, New Orleans-style grooves and American roots music. http://www.wendywaller.com/6:45 PM-7:45 PM - Lloyd’s Garage, garage rock influenced by hill-country blues and southern rock, http://www.lloydsgarage.com/Friday, September 10 –5:30 PM-6:30 PM - Je Conte, “Northern California rock ‘n' roll” (influenced by rock, blues and funk). http://www.jeconte.com/6:45 PM-7:45 PM - Kickin’ the Mule, soul/R&B, blues, and funk featuring Oakland soul legend, Freddie Hughes. http://www.myspace.com/kickinthemuleFriday, September 24 –5:30 PM-6:30 PM - Trio Paz, an infectious musical mix of Flamenco Rumba, Latin, and Brazilian. http://triopaz.com/6:45 PM-7:45 PM - El Desayuno, a Bay Area group, fusing Latin Jazz with Soul, Salsa and World Beat. http://www.eldesayuno.com/About Point Richmond Music:Point Richmond Music (PRM) provides free outdoor summer concerts as a way to build community through the unifying language of music. The all volunteer PRM committee shares a vision of celebrating diversity and promoting the arts. PRM concerts offer a gathering place for people of all ages, ethnicities, and walks of life, who come together to enjoy musical talent of many genres from Richmond, the Bay Area and beyond. Nearly 10 years of this collaborative effort have been made possible through donations of time and money from local businesses and volunteers. For more information, please visit  www.pointrichmondmusic.com# # #

Reaching across several centuries and over the highest mountains in the world, Buddhism spread from India through the narrow corridors of Central Asia into Tibet, where it has remained the primary ethical and moral compass of the Tibetan people. Explore this journey in Himalayan Pilgrimage through exceptionally beautiful objects of sculpture and painting dating from the ninth to the eighteenth centuries and drawn from a private collection on long-term loan to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The central image, a five-foot-tall seated Buddha, provides the axis and symbolic core of the exhibition. This sculpture of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni is seen in a gesture of “touching the earth,” or bhumisparsa mudra, in which he calls on the earth to witness his enlightenment. From this, the central figure and the basic principle of Buddhist thought, the exhibition goes on to explore the cosmic realms of Vajrayana, the Diamond Vehicle of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism.Julia M. WhiteSenior Curator for Asian Art

The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday. Please see museum website for ticket information http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/visit

40 images of "People"are on exhibit at Red Oak Realty in Berkeley, CA. These are photos taken by many members of the Berkeley Camera Club with images focusing on people from many perspectives. Reception to be held on Friday September 10 at Red Oak Realty from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.

July 14–December 5

Drawn primarily from the museum’s recent acquisitions of contemporary art, this exhibition explores a wide range of art through the lens of the concept of “hauntology,” a term coined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida in 1993 to refer to the study of social, psychological, and cultural conditions in the post-Communist period.

Please see website for admission prices: http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/visit

CITY OF EMERYVILLE  �œ   REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

POET LAUREATE, 2010-2012

The City of Emeryville is requesting proposals from professional poets who live or work in Emeryville to serve as the City’s first Poet Laureate.   Through establishment of a two-year appointment of a City of Emeryville Poet Laureate, the City Council desires to bring greater attention to the literary arts to the community, and to expand the City’s support of a range of creative endeavors.  

For more information contact: Lisa Sullivan, City of Emeryville, City Hall, 1333 Park Avenue, Emeryville, CA 94608, TEL: (510) 596-4393, lsullivan@ci.emeryville.ca.us.  Copies of the complete Request for Proposals are available at the kiosk in the lobby of City Hall, 1333 Park Avenue, Emeryville during normal business hours: Monday-Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, and online at www.ci.emeryville.ca.us.

PLEASE NOTE: APPLICATION MATERIALS MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN 5:00 PM ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2010.  

CITY OF EMERYVILLE  �œ   POET LAUREATE, 2010-2012

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

The City of Emeryville is requesting proposals from professional poets who live or work in Emeryville to serve as the City’s first Poet Laureate.   Through establishment of a two-year appointment of a City of Emeryville Poet Laureate, the City Council desires to bring greater attention to the literary arts to the community, and to expand the City’s support of a range of creative endeavors.  

  BACKGROUND

Located at the foot of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, Emeryville began over a century ago as a small tract of land north of Oakland and is now headquarters for major high-tech, creative arts and biotech corporations, and a regional retail destination.  Emeryville has a residential population of 10,000 representing an ethnically and culturally diverse mix of people.   The area draws over 20,000 workers daily. 

Since 1993, the City of Emeryville has had a robust Art in Public Places Program.  Over 100 works of art have been installed in the public realm since the program began.  

Mayor Ruth Atkin has brought forth the idea for a Poet Laureate to support awareness of the literary arts in the city and schools.  The goal is to build upon the success of prior efforts in the visual arts such as the City’s Art in Public Places Program, the Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, an exhibition of local artists held in October, and Youth Arts Day, and to extend this success to the poetic arts. 

At its June 15, 2010 meeting, the City of Emeryville City Council established the first City of Emeryville Poet Laureate Program, a significant new cultural project. 

Guidelines of the Emeryville Poet Laureate Program

·        The Poet Laureate will serve as the City’s literary ambassador during a two-year term from October 2010 to October 2012.

·        The selected poet must live or work in Emeryville, and be at least 18 years of age.

·        The selected poet must demonstrate a commitment to poetry through prior publication and submission of a body of work of no less than ten poems, and/or a performance record such as spoken word, poetry slams, film, new media or other performance-related venues. 

·        The selected poet must embrace a willingness to engage the community in a discourse about poetry, to present his or her work to the public and Emeryville K-12 students.

·        The selected poet must be willing to allow selected poems to be published on the City website, to be duplicated as posters for distribution at events or in the schools, to be framed for installation in City Hall, and possibly for use in visual art installations, and agree to be photographed or video graphed at readings and other events for distribution in City newsletters and broadcast on City-sponsored cable television. 

Duties of the Emeryville Poet Laureate

Schedule of Appointment

The schedule for implementation of this project will coordinate with the following significant cultural events that occur each October on the local, state and national levels: the Celebration of the Arts Exhibit; National Arts and Humanities Month; California Arts Day; and 510 Arts Month with the East Bay Cultural Corridor. The latter is a newly implemented effort in 2009 among the cities of Emeryville, Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond to raise awareness of the cultural arts in the East Bay.  The appointment of the Poet Laureate could occur in October of every other year. A reading could be scheduled each year in April during National Poetry Month.

Honorarium

Poet Laureate will be paid an honorarium of $1,500 for the two-year term to be distributed in a yearly stipend of $750 in January 2011 and 2012. 

Program Schedule

The three-person selection panel will be comprised of two (2) literary experts and one (1) community member. The selection panel will meet to review the submissions and forward its recommendation to the City Council for consideration. 

The City Council would reserve the right to postpone the program for a second round of submissions in the case of a small number of entries, or if submitted entries do not meet the program criteria.

Selection panelist is comprised of persons who (either themselves or a spouse) are not candidates for the Poet Laureate.  Similarly, members of City Staff or elected positions will not be able to submit to the program.

Requirements for Submission of Qualifications

Eight (8) collated packets (8 ½” x 11”), each containing the following materials, typed in 12 point font:

§         Letter of Interest.  A statement maximum of maximum one page that outlines why you are interested in serving as the City of Emeryville Poet Laureate in 2010-2012.  If relevant, please outline any ideas for a cultural or public outreach project that you wish to undertake during the program term. The letter should state that you have reviewed this Request for Proposals, and that you agree to the requirements of the post.

§         Work Samples. Ten (10) published poems by you, the submitting poet.  You may also supply CD-ROMs (eight (8) copies) of performance work or links to performance work posted on the web.

§         Experience.  Provide curriculum vitae or resume, any available lists of publications, awards and/or performances, and any other information or previously related experience. Please do not exceed three pages.

APPLICATION MATERIALS MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN 5:00 PM ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2010.

SEND TO:

Lisa Sullivan

City of Emeryville

Economic Development and Housing Department

1333 Park Avenue

Emeryville, CA 94608

TEL: (510) 596-4393, EMAIL: lsullivan@ci.emeryville.ca.us

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Aurora Theatre Company opens its 19th season with Alice Childress’ vibrant, humorous, and heartbreaking look at racism through the lens of the theater, TROUBLE IN MIND. Set during the early years of the Civil Rights movement, this disconcerting yet disarmingly funny look at the inequalities of American life in the 1950’s highlights the half-truths we tell ourselves about race relations and societal progress in America. <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:windowtext;} p {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} -->

Robin Stanton (Speech & Debate, Betrayed, Permanent Collection) directs this play about race, identity, and opportunity, featuring Bay Area favorite Margo Hall in her Aurora Theatre Company debut.

Selections by Lauren Davis and Carrie Lederer

Opening Reception: Monday August 21st 5:30 - 7:30pm

Jurors Lauren Davies, Kala Art Institute, and Carrie Lederer. Bedford Gallery, chose 34 artist from a pool of 306 entries for Berkeley Art Center's annual juried exhibition. The result is a lively mix of unconventional work from an eclectic assortment of artists working in a variety of media.

Julie Alvarado, Sung Jae Bang, Edyth Bresnahan, Jason Byers, Haelee Choi, Gary Comoglio, Dee Conway, Teresa Cunniff, Ashley Eberlein, Lisa Espenmiller. Mark Faigenbaum, Barbara Foster, Michael Fram, Mik Gaspay, Nancy Genn, Narangker Glover, Randall Heath, Lee Hunter, Edith Hillinger, John Hundt, Eric Larson, Nancy Mintz, Gary Nakamoto, Camilla Newhagen. Hillary Pecis, Lena Reynoso, Samuelle Richardson, Clare Rickman, Michael Ross, Deborah Service, Kimberly Sikora, Donna Wan, Allison Watkins, Susan Wolf.

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and CultureAugust 25–December 12A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition, which will feature a selection of more than 100 works of art from one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America.

The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday. Please see website for admission prices: http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/visit

Unlogo: Jeff Crouse

September 1–November 30

Online only: netart.bampfa.berkeley.edu.

Exhibition Opens September 1

With an iPhone app and a website, this online exhibition enables individuals to use a phone to identify logos occurring in cellular photographs and to replace them with images drawn from an online databank. Anyone can view and contribute to the databank, suggesting and uploading images that may be substituted for a particular logo, hence undoing the original logo—Unlogo.

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Corporate branding coupled with new media transforms our already cluttered visual environment into a pulsing tesseract of capital. Commercial television and video digitally blur some logos while promoting others. Music videos were introduced as short films and commercials for albums, but today’s music videos are commercials within commercials (Lady Gaga’s music video Telephone features nine product placements.) However, new media also offer new forms of resistance and play.

Enter Unlogo, a new artwork by Jeff Crouse that uses corporate technologies to new ends. Unlogo is an iPhone app and website. The app can be used by individuals to identify logos that may occur in photographs they take with their phone and to replace them with images drawn from an online databank. The website allows anyone to view and contribute to the databank, suggesting and uploading images that may be substituted for a particular logo.

Unlogo follows the history of tactical media art projects and adds its own contemporary twists. It allows individuals to moderate not only the temporary act of viewing a magazine, billboard, or screen without corporate messages, but gives people the

opportunity to opt out of having these messages permanently imprinted into the photographic record of their lives. In allowing viewers to identify what constitutes a logo and its alternate, Unlogo asks us to consider our own role in media culture. What image will you suggest as a logo-alternate? Your Facebook pic? Your garage-band skateboard sticker?

Jeff Crouse’s often-humorous artworks take the forms of games, robots, software code, and Internet art and have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival. He has received an Obie award, a Rhizome grant, and is a Senior Fellow at the Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, New York.

Richard Rinehart, Digital Media Director and Adjunct Curator

Unlogo was co-curated by Steve Dietz, Jaime Austin, and Richard Rinehart and is co-presented by BAM/PFA and ZER01.

Berkeley Camera Club will hold an exhibit "Eclectic" with images taken by many members of the club. Viewing is available any time the restaurant is open and at the reception to be held on Wednesday, September 15 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. For more information contact mreeva@comcast.net

Unseen Cinema 

To mark the 10th anniversary of Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film, 1893-1941, we present two programs from the twenty-program series organized by curator Bruce Posner, producer/preservationist David Shepard, and Anthology Film Archives and Deutsches Filmmuseum.Revolutions in Technique and Form

Tonight’s program features classics of the avant-garde including Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand’s Manhatta, “a radical modern masterpiece. . .  one of the first American avant-garde films and a forerunner of the ‘city symphony’ films,” according to Posner. Man Ray’s Le Retour á la raison, Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy’s Ballet mécanique, and Marcel Duchamp’s Anémic cinéma are grouped with examples of early American cinema that exhibit post-modernistic tendencies.

Eiffel Tower from Trocadero Palace (1 min), Palace of Electricity (1 min), Champs de Mars (2 mins), Panorama of Eiffel Tower (2 mins), Scene from the Elevator Ascending Eiffel Tower (2 mins) (All: Edison Manufacturing: James White, William Heise, 1900, Silent, B&W, 16fps). Suspense (Lois Weber, Philips Smalley, 1913, 8 mins, Silent, B&W). Triptych Film Poem (c. Unidentified filmmaker, 1925, 4 mins, Silent, B&W). Manhatta (Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand, 1920, 11 mins, Silent, B&W, 16fps).  Le Retour à la raison (Return to Reason) (Man Ray, 1923, 3 mins, Silent, B&W, 16fps). Anémic cinéma (Marcel Duchamp, 1924-26, 7 mins, Silent, B&W, 20fps).  Ballet mécanique (Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, 1923-24, 16 mins, B&W, Sound on CD, 20fps). Soul of the Cypress with interpolated scenes (Dudley Murphy, 1920, 13 mins, B&W/Color tinted, Sound on cassette, 22 fps).  Ella Lola, a la Trilby (Edison Manufacturing: James White, William Heise, 1898, 1 mins, Silent, B&W, 22fps). M. Lavelle, Physical Culture, No.1 (American Mutoscope & Biograph: Frederick S. Armitage, 1905, 1 min, Silent, B&W, 18fps).

• (Total running time: c. 70 mins, 35mm, From Anthology Film Archives, British Film Institute, Det Dankse Filminstitut, Library of Congress)

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Shakespeare on Screen

Henry V

Laurence Olivier (U.K., 1945)

Made during World War II and chosen partly for its England-at-war setting and nationalist rhetoric, Olivier’s directorial debut transcended this background through his inspired juxtaposition of stage and cinema, and by the presence of a virtual Who’s Who of British theatrical performers. It opens as a staged performance, with the narrator wondering, “Can this unworthy scaffold bring forth so great an object?” The film quickly answers this rhetorical jab by moving toward another layer of fantasy, stylized matte backdrops and brightly soaked Technicolor capturing a middle ground between theater and film. The world truly becomes its stage, however, as it then leaps toward realism—or fantasy: “real” world location shooting, highlighted by a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt that embraced all the potential of the cinematic medium. For Olivier the film “tells of the unconquerable spirit of the English people.” It was so successful that even the usually jaded critic James Agee wrote, “I am not a Tory, a monarchist, a medievalist, an Englishman, or a lover of war: but the beauty and power of this traditional exercise was such that, watching it, I wished I was, thought I was, and was proud of it.”—Jason Sanders • Written by Olivier, Alan Dent, based on the play by William Shakespeare. Photographed by Robert Krasker. With Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Renée Asherson. (137 mins, Color, 35mm, From MGM)

Gallery & L@TE Event Admission Free for Residents in 

Hayward, Richmond, Crockett, Ell Sobrante 

Zipcodes: 94850, 94525, 94541, 94545, 94803

Thousands of East Bay residents have opportunities to visit the BAM/PFA galleries and attend L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA free of charge through the end of 2010.

Residents from selected East Bay zip codes are eligible for free admission on each of the dates listed below. Thanks to generous underwriting from Bank of America, the Zip Code Program patrons will have access to all of the BAM/PFA galleries and exhibitions, including Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (through December 12, 2010), Hauntology (through December 5, 2010), and the interactive indoor seating sculpture Thom Faulders: BAMscape (through November 30, 2011).



Zip Code Program patrons also receive free admission to any L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA performances that may coincide with designated free days. L@TE is the newest and most eclectic destination for art and performance in the East Bay. L@TE programming offers a little something for everyone—musical performances, expanded cinema screenings, performance art, spoken word, and more. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. on most L@TE Fridays. To find out more about upcoming L@TE events, visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/late.



Only residents from the zip codes invited on the designated dates will be admitted free of charge. Up to four children under the age of 18 will be admitted with a parent. Each visiting adult must show a valid photo ID with proof of residency. The following items or combinations are acceptable:

•                Driver’s license or state ID card

•                Photo ID plus postmarked envelope, postcard, or magazine label with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

•                Photo ID plus utility bill (gas/electric/cable), bank statement, or letter from a government agency with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

Free concert: Je Conte followed by Kickin' the Mule.

Kids and dogs welcome. Dancing in the streets.

Eight East Bay artists explore the figure in oil, acrylics, watercolor and graphite.  They are Rebeca Garcia-Gonzalez, Karen Zullo Sherr, Vicki Salzman, Georgianna Greenwood, Deborah Rogin, Diana Blackwell, Meredith Steele and Kathleen Flannigan.

The East Bay Figure Painters group was formed by artists who found themselves returning to art full time after other careers or after raising a family.  Some were trying to fit art into their lives along with day jobs.  All were looking for a supportive community. 

“Sustaining a lifetime of creative work is an art in itself,” says one of the group’s founders.  “People find that when they finally have the time there’s little extra money for a studio or supplies, and when they have the money there is not enough time. “  With this challenge, they hired professional models and found a location run by a local art collective.  Along the way they set out to change the feelings of isolation most artists struggle with.  Two years later, the group is thriving and holding its first show at the Firehouse Gallery in Berkeley.  Their drawings and paintings all revolve around the figure, but there’s a diversity of approaches and media the viewer will find engaging.  The group will be sharing the gallery with the paintings of Patricia K. Kelly.

The opening reception will feature refreshments, live music, and a slide show of the artists interacting with models to set, mark, light, and paint the pose.

House of Bamboo

Samuel Fuller (U.S., 1952)

Restored Print!

Aided by the double-lock-jawed presences of the Roberts, Ryan and Stack, Samuel Fuller combines two favorite topics, crime and GIs, with this gangster film involving crooked ex-soldiers organizing a syndicate in occupied Japan. Surly military cop Robert Stack goes undercover to infiltrate the cartel, led by the suavely psychotic Robert Ryan, and falls for the Japanese widow of a slain gangster. In the first postwar Hollywood film shot in Japan, astonishing CinemaScope images of Tokyo street life illuminate the backdrop for a new war, one between violent mobsters and vicious cops, with both sides displaying amazing lows in Ugly Americanism. The narrative quickly eliminates any moral ascendancy of cops over robbers, as generalized American thuggery runs riot amid a landscape of racial and cultural difference. “The police are much more violent and disagreeable than the criminals,” Fuller explained, a point proven in the infamous ending: a blazing gunfight set in, of all places, a children’s amusement park.—Jason Sanders • Written by Harry Kleiner. Photographed by Joe MacDonald. With Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Sessue Hayakawa. (102 mins, Color, 35mm, ‘Scope, From 20th Century Fox, permission Criterion)

Followed at 9:00 PM by Flash Gordon. Same-day second screening discount just $4!

L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA

Beginning of Edo Period 

7:30  (Doors 5 p.m., DJ 6:30 p.m.)

Programmed by Tomo Yasuda

The sound of the koto, a traditional Japanese stringed instrument, provides the “soundtrack” for a live painting—a work of visual art completed as a public performance—by the duo the Bahama Kangaroos (artists Naoki Onodera and Yukako Ezoe Onodera). Shoko Hikage and Kanoko Nishi perform traditional works for koto ranging from the beginning of the Edo period to contemporary compositions.  Beginning of the Edo Period is programmed in conjunction with the exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons.

See http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/clarkcenter for more information on the exhibition.

Galleries Open Until 9 p.m.

Free Gallery & L@TE Event Admission for Hayward, Richmond, Crockett & Ell Sobrante Residents in Zip Codes 94850, 94525, 94541, 94545, 94803

See http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/visit/zipcode for details

L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA      

Beginning of Edo Period 

(Doors 5 p.m., DJ 6:30 p.m.)

Programmed by Tomo Yasuda

The sound of the koto, a traditional Japanese stringed instrument, provides the “soundtrack” for a live painting—a work of visual art completed as a public performance—by the duo the Bahama Kangaroos (artists Naoki Onodera and Yukako Ezoe Onodera). Shoko Hikage and Kanoko Nishi perform traditional works for koto ranging from the beginning of the Edo period to contemporary compositions.  Beginning of the Edo Period is programmed in conjunction with the exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons.

See http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/clarkcenter for more information on the exhibition.

Galleries Open Until 9 p.m.

BURKE SCHUCHMANN AND BRIAN GANZ. Cello and piano, with guest flutist Yael Ronen. Beethoven, Barber, Bruch, Chopin, and Haydn. 8 p.m., Friday, September 10. First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley. 2407 Dana St., Berkeley. $25;  $20, senior;  $18, students. (510) 234-4502. Wheelchair accessible.  Burkepalomarin@earthlink.net.

Drawn From Life: Comic Books and Graphic Novels Adapted

Flash Gordon

Mike Hodges (U.S., 1980)

Based on the 1930s comic strip by Alex Raymond, this wanky rendering is Star Wars designed by Fredericks of Hollywood, a future that’s all camp and cleavage. The voluptuous cartoon-like setting is further festooned by its Queen soundtrack—Flash, FLASH, FLASH! The mongrel planet Mongo is home to Ming the Merciless (Max Von Sydow), a bald-pated tyrant, draped in crimson drapery with a collar like a TV dish. He gets great reception everywhere except on earth, where his terra technology has induced a flurry of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Hot to stop these unnatural disasters, Dr. Zarkov (Topol) kidnaps the New York Jets’ quarterback, our hero of padded shoulder and surfer ’do, Flash Gordon (Sam J. Jones), and his cherubic arm-charm Dale Arden (Melody Anderson), and makes it like Mach 10 to Mongo. This randy rock is filled with oversexed goddesses like Princess Aura (Ornella Muti), boasting zero-gravity couture and off-planet appeal. Luckily, in space no one can hear you moan.—Steve Seid

• Written by Lorenzo Semple, Jr. and Michael Allin, based on characters created by Alex Raymond for the comic strip of the same name. Photographed by Gil Taylor. With Sam J. Jones, Ornella Muti, Timothy Dalton, Topol. (115 mins, Color, 35mm, From Universal Pictures)  

Preceded at 7:00 PM by House of Bamboo. Same-day second screening discount just $4!

 I Hear What You See: The Old-Time World of Kenny Hall

Chris Simon (U.S., 2010)

Bay Area Premiere

Kenny Hall, Chris Simon, and Alice Gerrard in Person

Live Performance (starting at 3:30) by Kenny Hall & the Sweet’s Mill String Band

Old-time fiddler/mandolin player Kenny Hall may be blind, but he sees landscapes and atmospheres in the musical keys he plays. F is the ocean; B#, a cloudy day; D is warm like the Sacramento Valley. You could say whenever he plays his instrument, he evokes a sense of the world—Kenny’s world, a world that is generous, plucky, infectious, and well-weathered. Considered one of the more important practitioners of traditional music, Hall, now in his eighties, has shunned the limelight, preferring instead the joy of unvarnished performance, the backyard shindig, and the chance to pass on the thousand-plus songs he’s mastered. Chris Simon’s bouncy portrait catches Kenny Hall at his best: among friends and fellow players, conjuring a folksy world, filled with cranky wisdom and an embracing warmth like Fresno in June. Sounds like the key of D.—Steve Seid

Presented in conjunction with the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention

• Photographed by Simon. (45 mins, Color, Digibeta, From the filmmaker)

Followed by:

Sprout Wings and Fly

Les Blank, Alice Gerrard, Cece Conway (U.S., 1983)

A portrait of then-78-year-old Tommy Jarrell, considered the best of the old fiddle players, whose expressive style was rich with folksy filigree. As an exceptional vocalist and storyteller, Jarrell helped carry forward the ways of regional wisdom. 

• Photographed by Blank. (30 mins, Color, 16mm, From Flower Films) 

Followed by Hellboy at 8:45 PM. Same-day second screening discount just $4!

Special Events: Dance and the State in East Asia Conference

6:30  Yang Bang Xi: The Eight Model Works

Yan Ting Yuen (The Netherlands, 2005)

Introduced by Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak and Chen Xiaomei

Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak, Professor of Theatre and Director of the Asian Theatre Program, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, was the first non-Chinese to perform Jingiu (Chinese opera) in the People's Republic of China, and has published extensively on the subject. A survivor of the Cultural Revolution, Chen Xiaomei, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Davis, is the author of Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporary China.

During China’s Cultural Revolution, productions such as Red Detachment of Women or The White-Haired Girl featured ballerinas pirouetting with rifles held aloft, or male dancers executing venal landlords. On screen and stage these fiercely propagandistic stories, part Chinese classical ballad, part MGM musical, in which songs praising Mao always seemed to coincide with a glorious sunrise, were termed yang ban xi, and they were the only form of art allowed.  Eight of the most popular revolutionary operas (essentially dramatic ballets with song) were termed “the 8 Model Works.” Captured on film in gorgeous Technicolor and Scope, their influence was incalculable; the main performers became instant stars, revered throughout China. Today, young Chinese who crowd Starbucks cafes and modern discotheques are starting to learn about the very different world that was China just decades ago, yet the yang ban xi remain curiously alive, as two vibrant contemporary dance numbers done for this film attest.—Film Forum

Yang Bang Xi is presented in conjunction with the Corporeal Nationalisms: Dance and the State in East Asia conference, presented by the Center for Chinese Studies and eight other co-sponsoring UC Berkeley departments, at UC Berkeley, September 10-12. Open to the public. For more information about the conference, visit ieas.berkeley.edu/events/.

• Written by Yuen. Photographed by Edwin Verstegen. (90 mins, In English and Mandarin with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From Shadow Distribution)

Preceded at 4:00 PM by I Hear What You See and followed by Hellboy at 8:45 PM. Same-day second screening discount just $4!

Hellboy

Guillermo del Toro (U.S., 2004)

Mike Mignola, Comic Artist, in Person

Mike Mignola is best known as the artist behind the Hellboy series, but he has also written the mini-series Zombieworld, several Batmans, the Hellboy spin-off B.P.R.D., and The Amazing Screw-On Head, among many others.

When Rasputin (Karel Roden) rends the portal to Hell, out pops a crimson-tinted mini-demon, complete with sledgehammer fist, horns a-plenty, a bit more than a tell-tale tail, and an impish humor. Hellboy, as he is dubbed, eventually finds employment as an agent of the U.S. government (the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense), fighting the gooey forces of evil alongside fellow comrades of hellish origin. Director Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) takes artist Mike Mignola’s infernal comic creatures and tosses them into a fantastically rendered dire-rama of crepuscular corridors, monstrously mannered settings, and tentacled terrors. Ron Perlman’s red-baiting Hellboy is a working-class hero who chomps cigars; swills beer; groans over his latest flame (Selma Blair), a pyro-kinetic operative; and kicks satanic posteriors with a devil-may-care relish. Following Mignola’s no-bull bravado, del Toro presents Hellboy as a gruff and sarcastic superhero, busily accomplishing his demonic deeds, but always wishing it was easy being red.—Steve Seid

• Written by del Toro and Peter Briggs, based on the Dark Horse Comic created by Mike Mignola. Photographed by Guillermo Navarro. With Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden. (122 mins, Color, 35mm, From Sony Pictures)

Preceded at 4 PM by I Hear What You See and by Yang Ban Xi: The Eight Model Works at 6:30. Same-day second screening discount just $4!

Brent Green/MATRIX 232

Exhibition Closes

Brent Green is a maker of moving things—animated films, kinetic objects, and other eccentric inventions. His MATRIX exhibition coincides with the release of his first feature film, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, a fable of love, loss, and compulsive construction.

Join one million artists participating in a weekend of creative greetings of peace.  Make your mark with a giant chalk drawing in our courtyard, participating with other countries circling the globe including Chile, Egypt, England, Germany and Mexico.

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Dieterle/Max Reinhardt (U.S., 1935)

Archival Print

The influential German theater director Max Reinhardt brings together ballet, classical music, literature, and Expressionist art for this generous Hollywood-by-way-of-Berlin Shakespeare adaptation, a fusing of his ornate theatrical aesthetics with the zippy professionalism of Warner Bros., who hired him after his acclaimed 1934 Hollywood Bowl staging of the play. The musical prelude—a magical symphony of playful fairies and lovers in love with love—sets the tone for one of the studio system’s most sumptuous films, and also introduces the work’s other major (and unseen) character: Mendelssohn’s score. Olivia de Havilland (who starred in the stage production) joins a classic Warner Bros. cast of James Cagney (Bottom), Dick Powell, comic Joe E. Brown, and the teenage Mickey Rooney (Puck), while experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger makes his film debut as an Indian changeling prince. “Boasting the most elaborate fantasy sequences of any Hollywood talkie before The Wizard of Oz,” wrote J. Hoberman, “Reinhardt’s Dream is a triumph of vulgarity.”— Garbiñe Ortega.

• Written by Charles Kenyon, Mary McCall, based on the play by William Shakespeare. Photographed by Hal Mohr. With James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, Dick Powell. (132 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Library of Congresss, permission Warner Bros.)

Followed by The Hustler at 6:30 PM. Same-day second screening discount just $4!

The Hustler

Robert Rosen (U.S., 1961)

New Print!

Even in black-and-white, a young Paul Newman’s vibrant blue eyes sparkle against a thousand pool tables in Robert Rosen’s classic piece of nocturnal Americana, which daringly brought CinemaScope out of the Wild West and Roman epics and into the dirty, nicotine-stained confines of a pool hall. Fast Eddie, brash as only Paul Newman can be, is the raucous prince of the pool halls, hustling all he meets until he’s finally put in his place by the king of the cue, Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason). Tossed back into the gutter, a now-not-so-fast Eddie (helped by his alcoholic flame, Piper Laurie) aims to get back up, one mark at a time. Newman’s sculpted features contrast well with Gleason’s more gluttonous ones, but even more so with the carefully preserved surroundings, which dutifully capture what Gleason called “the dirty antiseptic look of poolrooms—spots on the floor, toilets stuffed up, but the tables brushed immaculately, like green jewels in the mud.”—Jason Sanders

• Written by Sidney Carroll, Rosen, based on a novel by Walter Tevis. Photographed by Eugene Shuftan. With Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott, Piper Laurie. (134 mins, B&W, 35mm, ‘Scope, From Criterion Pictures)

Preceded at 4:00 PM by A Midsummer Night's Dream. Same-day second screening discount just $4!

      Berkeley Chamber Performances (BCP) opens its 18th season with one of the Bay Area’s newest and most exciting ensembles, TRIO BRILLANTE.  Featuring classical treasures by Glinka, Francaix, Mendelssohn, and Mozart, the TRIO performs on Tuesday, September 14, at 8 p.m. at the Berkeley City Club. Audience members are invited to attend a complementary wine and cheese reception following the concert with an opportunity to meet and talk with the musicians: Tom Rose, clarinet; Caroline Lee, viola; and Betty Woo, piano. 

Alternative Visions

Unseen Cinema

The Amateur as Auteur

Amateurs Joseph Cornell, Ted Huff, and Archie Stewart made films outside the limelight of commercial cinema production and distribution. Their home-spun films incorporate a range of avant-garde strategies and techniques, many expounded in Movie Makers, the journal of the Amateur Cinema League. Tonight’s program includes films which Cornell completed, drawing on found footage, and ones edited by local filmmaker Lawrence Jordan according to Cornell’s written instructions. Cornell’s films were rarely shown in his lifetime.

Little Geezer: His Rise and Fall (Theodore Huff, 1932, 11 mins, Silent, B&W). Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936,  20 mins, 16fps, Sound on cassette, B&W/Tinted). Excerpts from Reel 66 (Archie Stewart, 1936, c. 10 mins, B&W/Color). Cotillion (Joseph Cornell, c.1938, 7 mins, Silent, B&W). Unidentified film (Unidentified filmmaker, c. 1900, 1 min, Silent, B&W, Originally 35mm). Thimble Theater (Joseph Cornell, c. 1940, 5 mins, Silent, B&W/Color). Midnight Party (Joseph Cornell, c. 1938, 3 mins, Silent, B&W). The Children's Party (Joseph Cornell, c. 1938, 8 mins, Silent, B&W). Carousel: Animal Opera (Joseph Cornell, c. 1940, 6 mins, B&W). Jack's Dream (Joseph Cornell, c. 1940, 4 mins, B&W/Color).

• (Total running time: 75 mins, 16mm, From Anthology Film Archives, George Eastman House, Lawrence Jordan, Library of Congress, Northeast Historic Films)

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour 

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

This frenetic cartoon-of-a-movie is about Oyl. Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall) that is. Her spindly limbs and her what’s-that-about pout guide her through the rickety fishing village of Sweethaven, where the jumbled streets are awash with wackidasicalness. When Popeye (Robin Williams) washes ashore looking for his long-lost dad, his squinty eyes espy the Oyl of his dreams, but she’s about to be betrothed to the behemoth Bluto. Robert Altman was the unexpected captain for this cantankerous adaptation, based not on the popular cartoons, but on the original 1930s E. C. Segar strip. With a script by Jules Feiffer (himself a cartoonist), a cast of overly antic actors, and a whimsical visual aesthetic, Popeye is in a constant totter back toward its inanimate instigator, the drawn strip. Popeye’s prosthetic biceps, Wimpy’s giant batch of burgers, Olive’s colossal clodhoppers—it’s flesh-and-blood fading to flat. As the salty sailor, Robin Williams mumbles asides in gravelly eloquence, battles Bluto with impossible panache, and avoids, when possible, that food group known as leafy greens.—Steve Seid

• Written by Jules Feiffer, based on characters created by E. C. Segar. Photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno. With Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Paul Dooley, Ray Walston. (114 mins, Color, 35mm, From Paramount Pictures)

Guest curator, San Francisco artist Scot Velardo brings the photography of three artists:Jacqui Galle: Jacqui's current project involves shooting taxidermy as décor in home interiors across the country. She finds great satisfaction in examining how a room defines an individual, and in the taxidermy project endeavors to bring about a sense of surprise, surrealism and beauty.  www.jacquigalle.comSheila Menezes: Life in the San Francisco Mission District, living above an ice cream store and kitty-corner to the "baddest bar in the city", continues to inspire her street-photography heartbeat. The urban landscapes displayed represent her travels around the States…Westside to Eastside: Las Vegas, Seattle and New York. www.sheilamenezes.comJen Siska: There is not an hour that goes by in her day when she is not seeing something she is inspired by and has to photograph. At times it can be the most ordinary things where she finds beauty: light, people, food, nature, laughter, the sky, telephone wires, buildings, the list is endless. This show is a collage of snapshots that give insight into a day in her life.  www.jensiska.com

L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA 

7:30 Radical L@TE: Advance to Full Fury—Sound and Image Performances 

(Doors 5 p.m., DJ 6:30 p.m.)Programmed by Kathy Geritz, Steve Seid, and Christine MetropoulosRadical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000, BAM/PFA’s book on alternative cinema in the Bay Area, ends with the year 2000. To celebrate artists who have emerged since that millennial turn, we give you a searing set of ever-morphing, optically insistent, and sonically frenzied sound and light performances by Andrew Benson and Joshua Churchill; Seth Horvitz; and Curtis Tamm and Michael Campos-Quinn.Galleries Open Until 9 p.m.

Artwork addressing themes of language, translation and borders from children in Colima, El Salvador, made in collaboration with students from the Colima Project at San Francisco State University.  Free.

$8 per child Join illustrator Angela Dominguez as she reads the story of Carmen on her first scary day at school when no one seems to speak her language.  Get yourself back to school by creating your own school bus with rolling wheels.

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour 

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour

Free Gallery & L@TE Event Admission for Oakland Residents in Zip Codes 94601, 94603, 94605, 94606

Thousands of East Bay residents have opportunities to visit the BAM/PFA galleries and attend L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA free of charge through the end of 2010.

Residents from selected East Bay zip codes are eligible for free admission on each of the dates listed below. Thanks to generous underwriting from Bank of America, the Zip Code Program patrons will have access to all of the BAM/PFA galleries and exhibitions, including Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (through December 12, 2010), Hauntology (through December 5, 2010), and the interactive indoor seating sculpture Thom Faulders: BAMscape (through November 30, 2011).



Zip Code Program patrons also receive free admission to any L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA performances that may coincide with designated free days. L@TE is the newest and most eclectic destination for art and performance in the East Bay. L@TE programming offers a little something for everyone—musical performances, expanded cinema screenings, performance art, spoken word, and more. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. on most L@TE Fridays. To find out more about upcoming L@TE events, visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/late.



Only residents from the zip codes invited on the designated dates will be admitted free of charge. Up to four children under the age of 18 will be admitted with a parent. Each visiting adult must show a valid photo ID with proof of residency. The following items or combinations are acceptable:

•                Driver’s license or state ID card

•                Photo ID plus postmarked envelope, postcard, or magazine label with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

$8 per child

Take home your own personalized portfolio or decorated binder for all your schoolwork.  Make this must-have accessory a fun and fashionable carry-a-long.

Blossoms & Thorns is an exhibition of contemporary and historic photographs and artifacts exploring the Japanese American flower nurseries that thrived in Richmond for over 100 years. The reception will be from 3-5 on 9/25. The exhibition runs from 9/14 - 11/13.

 FREE OUTDOOR ACTIVITY ($8 for Drop-in Art in the Museum)   Some of the Bay Area’s best experimental musicians will fill MOCHA’s Courtyard with a collage of sounds and performances produced by unusual instruments. Listen to music composed with wild animals, instruments made from giant gourds, and an electronic contraption that makes sound from breath patterns. A MOCHA artist will guide children in making their own musical instrument from found materials.

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour 

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Conversation: Michael Dear and Marjolijn Dijkman 

Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive

2626 Bancroft Way

3:00 - Museum Theater-----Marjolijn Dijkman’s exhibition title refers to the first modern atlas, the “Theater of the World,” published in 1570. For “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum”, an ongoing photographic project initiated in 2005, Dijkman has archived and organized over 9,000 images in order to rethink existing representations of the world. With limited tools of travel and measurement available, these early maps relied on equal parts fact and imagination; of course maps remain subjective, with the subtleties of inclusion and exclusion, and the choices of center and margin being not only practical, but also political and social.-----Conversation: Michael Dear and Marjolijn Dijkman Exploring their overlapping interests in human geographies, emergent urbanisms, subjective mapping and expressive representations of place, urbanist Michael Dear and artist Marjolijn Dijkman will chart an improvisational conversational course through this mutually compelling terrain.Michael Dear is professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. His current research in comparative urbanism includes consideration of the future of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. -----Gallery Admission: Free for BAM/PFA members; UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff; children (12 & under)$10 for adults (18-64)$7 for non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and young adults (13-17)

L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA 

7:30 Del Sol String Quartet(Doors 5 p.m., DJ 6:30 p.m.)Programmed by Sarah CahillTwo-time winner of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP First Place Award for Adventurous Programming, the Del Sol Quartet has commissioned new works from a number of esteemed composers around the globe, including Tania Leon, Chinary Ung, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Joan Jeanrenaud. The quartet has performed recently at the National Gallery in Washington, DC and at Santa Fe Opera’s new music series. For this special appearance, the Del Sol Quartet (violinists Kate Stenberg and Rick Shinozaki, violist Charlton Lee, and cellist Kathryn Bates-Williams) perform Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebrae, Elena Kats-Chernin’s Urban Village 2, and other exciting recent works for string quartet.Galleries Open Until 9 p.m.

Hear author Deborah Trotter share the ways Polly learns that things are still there even though the fog hides them.  Then, make your own foggy landscape where all sorts of items can be hidden in the mist. $8 per child

Miss Nelson's rude and rowdy students won’t even sit still for story hour. Then, suddenly, their lovely, patient teacher disappears, replaced by the scariest substitute ever: Viola Swamp!!! Where is Miss Nelson? Not even the principal, a bumbling detective, or a trip to Miss Nelson’s house can solve the mystery. Families will love this zany, musical romp, based on the book by Harry Allard, as life in Room 207 gets harder and harder, and the class searches frantically for its missing teacher. (Note: no shows 10/9 or 10/23 - Go, Bears! Two shows 10/10, 10/24.)

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour 

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Gallery Admission Free All Day! (11:00 - 5:00)

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour (12:15)

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Free Gallery & L@TE Event Admission for Oakland Residents in Zip Codes 94615, 94617, 94621, 94626, 94643

Thousands of East Bay residents have opportunities to visit the BAM/PFA galleries and attend L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA free of charge through the end of 2010.

Residents from selected East Bay zip codes are eligible for free admission on each of the dates listed below. Thanks to generous underwriting from Bank of America, the Zip Code Program patrons will have access to all of the BAM/PFA galleries and exhibitions, including Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (through December 12, 2010), Hauntology (through December 5, 2010), and the interactive indoor seating sculpture Thom Faulders: BAMscape (through November 30, 2011).



Zip Code Program patrons also receive free admission to any L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA performances that may coincide with designated free days. L@TE is the newest and most eclectic destination for art and performance in the East Bay. L@TE programming offers a little something for everyone—musical performances, expanded cinema screenings, performance art, spoken word, and more. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. on most L@TE Fridays. To find out more about upcoming L@TE events, visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/late.



Only residents from the zip codes invited on the designated dates will be admitted free of charge. Up to four children under the age of 18 will be admitted with a parent. Each visiting adult must show a valid photo ID with proof of residency. The following items or combinations are acceptable:

•                Driver’s license or state ID card

•                Photo ID plus postmarked envelope, postcard, or magazine label with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

•                Photo ID plus utility bill (gas/electric/cable), bank statement, or letter from a government agency with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

UC Berkeley Homecoming: Gallery Tour

Friday October 8, 2010

11:00  AM  & 3:00  PM

Guided tours are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History and are included with regular museum admission.

Gallery Admission:

Free for BAM/PFA members; UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff; children (12 & under)

$10 for adults (18-64)

$7 for non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and young adults (13-17)

UC Berkeley Homecoming: Gallery Tour

Friday October 8, 2010

11:00  AM  & 3:00  PM

Guided tours are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History and are included with regular museum admission.

Gallery Admission:

Free for BAM/PFA members; UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff; children (12 & under)

$10 for adults (18-64)

$7 for non-UC Berkeley students, senior citizens (65 & over), disabled persons, and young adults (13-17)

L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA

7:30             Dog Night with NYMPH

Friday, October 8, 7:30 p.m. (Doors 5 p.m., DJ 6:30 p.m.)

Programmed by Tomo Yasuda

Japan’s Edo Period had a strict law on the books: be nice to dogs and other animals, or else! Brooklyn-based psychedelic-shred/avant-garde ensemble NYMPH bares its teeth for an evening of new music with a decidedly tribal feel. Artist and intergalactic traveler Daniel Jay projects visuals celebrating our four-legged friends. Dog Night with NYMPH is programmed in conjunction with the exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons.

For information see our website: http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/late/

Galleries Open Until 9 p.m.

Free admission for Oakland Residents in Zip Codes 94615, 94617, 94621, 94626. 94643 

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour 

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour 

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour 

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Members’ Fall Celebration

Tuesday: October 12, 20106:30 p.m–8:30 p.m.Bancroft Lobby

BAM/PFA Members:

Help us fete an exciting new exhibition season at our Fall Celebration!

Find Out More: How to Become a Member and Enjoy all the Benefits! 

http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/join/membership

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour 

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Free Gallery & L@TE Event Admission for Richmond Residents in Zip Codes 94801, 94804, 94805, 94806, 94807

Thousands of East Bay residents have opportunities to visit the BAM/PFA galleries and attend L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA free of charge through the end of 2010.

Residents from selected East Bay zip codes are eligible for free admission on each of the dates listed below. Thanks to generous underwriting from Bank of America, the Zip Code Program patrons will have access to all of the BAM/PFA galleries and exhibitions, including Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (through December 12, 2010), Hauntology (through December 5, 2010), and the interactive indoor seating sculpture Thom Faulders: BAMscape (through November 30, 2011).



Zip Code Program patrons also receive free admission to any L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA performances that may coincide with designated free days. L@TE is the newest and most eclectic destination for art and performance in the East Bay. L@TE programming offers a little something for everyone—musical performances, expanded cinema screenings, performance art, spoken word, and more. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. on most L@TE Fridays. To find out more about upcoming L@TE events, visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/late.



Only residents from the zip codes invited on the designated dates will be admitted free of charge. Up to four children under the age of 18 will be admitted with a parent. Each visiting adult must show a valid photo ID with proof of residency. The following items or combinations are acceptable:

•                Driver’s license or state ID card

•                Photo ID plus postmarked envelope, postcard, or magazine label with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA: Radical L@TE: Book Launch

Friday, October 15, 7:30 p.m. (Doors 5 p.m., DJ 6:30 p.m.)

Programmed by Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid 

To celebrate the publication of the Pacific Film Archive program’s first book, Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000, we present an evening of light shows, multiple projection pieces, films loops by Craig Baldwin, Gibbs Chapman, Peter Conheim, and Thad Povey and Alfonso Alvarez, as well as other cinema psychedelica. Film and videomakers discussed in the book as well as writers who contributed to it will join the festivities, which will continue throughout the weekend with screenings on Saturday and Sunday at the PFA Theater. For information see bampfa.berkeley.edu/calendar/day/10152010

Galleries Open Until 9 p.m.

Free Admission for Richmond residents in Zip Codes 94801, 94804, 94805, 94806, 94807

See http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/visit/zipcode  for details

<center> <img src="http://i36.tinypic.com/if9xly.jpg"><br>OACC'S FALL 2010 FUNDRAISING EXTRAVAGANZA<br><strong>SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010</strong><br><strong>7pm-10pm</strong><br><br> <strong>Location: 388 9th Street, Suite 290<br>Oakland,CA 94607</strong><br><br>Proceeds will help keep OACC's programs and services free or low cost to the 25,000+ participants and communities we serve.<br><br>...Sponsorship opportunities and tickets are still available!<br><br><strong>Tickets range from $25- $100.<br>Special $10 early bird discount on all tickets $50 and above if you purchase them online by Friday, September 3rd!<br>Buy tickets securely and safely online using Eventbrite,<a href="http://www.oaccfall10fundraiser.eventbrite.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.oaccfall10fundraiser.eventbrite.com</a></strong><br><br>For more information about the program, visit:<br><strong><a href="http://www.oacc.cc/supportus/annualfundraisers/fall2010fundraiser.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.oacc.cc/supportus/annualfundraisers/fall2010fundraiser.html</a></strong><br><br>For more info about sponsorship opportunities and tickets contact:<br><strong> OACC's Co-Director Mona Shah at (510) 637 - 0455 or visit: <a href="http://www.oacc.cc/supportus/annualfundraisers/fall2010fundraiser/sponsorpuri5.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.oacc.cc/supportus/annualfundraisers/fall2010fundraiser/sponsorpuri5.html</a></strong><br><br>Program Overview<br>This event will feature the premiere of PURI 5: "SPoRA," a multidisciplinary new piece that will explore the themes of migration and the Asian diaspora within a context of international war.<br><br>Featuring instrumentals, vocals and spoken word by renowned Korean percussionist and vocalist Dohee Lee <br>with performances by local and international musicians Van-Anh Vanessa Vo (Dan Tranh and other instruments) and Hiroyuki Jimi Nakagawa (Taiko). <br>Special performances by Jamaesori and other artists TBD.<br><br>The premiere will include an artist talk led by Ms. Lee.</center><br><br>This program is made possible with the generous support from: the City of Oakland, Merilyn Wong & David McClain, Mr. & Mrs. Nam Ly,  Dr. William Kwong, D.M.D., Oakland Charter High School, Kin Chow, Robert & Anne Chu, Dr. Lawrence Ng, Kin Chow, Sameer Siruguri, Yoshino Sushi, and other donors. Partial list as of 8/24/2010.<br><br><i><b>PURI 5: SPoRA</i></b> was commissioned by OACC with grant from the <a href="http://ebcf.org/grantmaking/97-east-bay-fund-for-artists" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">East Bay Fund for Artists at the East Bay Community Foundation.</a> <br><br>Poster and photo credits:<br>Original poster image by EastSide Arts Alliance: www.eastsideartsalliance.org<br>Photo by Petra Cvelbar<br>This program is made possible with the generous support from: the City of Oakland, Merilyn Wong & David McClain, Mr. & Mrs. Nam Ly,  Dr. William Kwong, D.M.D., Oakland Charter High School, Kin Chow, Robert & Anne Chu, Dr. Lawrence Ng, Kin Chow, Sameer Siruguri, Yoshino Sushi, and other donors. Partial list as of 8/24/2010.<br><br><i><b>PURI 5: SPoRA</i></b> was commissioned by OACC with grant from the <a href="http://ebcf.org/grantmaking/97-east-bay-fund-for-artists"target="_blank">East Bay Fund for Artists at the East Bay Community Foundation.</a> <br><br>Poster and photo credits:<br>Original poster image by EastSide Arts Alliance: www.eastsideartsalliance.org<br>Photo by Petra Cvelbar<br>

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour 

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour 

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Free Gallery & L@TE Event Admission for Berkeley, Emeryville and El Cerrito Residents in Zip Codes 94709, 94710, 94608, 94530

Thousands of East Bay residents have opportunities to visit the BAM/PFA galleries and attend L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA free of charge through the end of 2010.

Residents from selected East Bay zip codes are eligible for free admission on each of the dates listed below. Thanks to generous underwriting from Bank of America, the Zip Code Program patrons will have access to all of the BAM/PFA galleries and exhibitions, including Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (through December 12, 2010), Hauntology (through December 5, 2010), and the interactive indoor seating sculpture Thom Faulders: BAMscape (through November 30, 2011).



Zip Code Program patrons also receive free admission to any L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA performances that may coincide with designated free days. L@TE is the newest and most eclectic destination for art and performance in the East Bay. L@TE programming offers a little something for everyone—musical performances, expanded cinema screenings, performance art, spoken word, and more. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. on most L@TE Fridays. To find out more about upcoming L@TE events, visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/late.



Only residents from the zip codes invited on the designated dates will be admitted free of charge. Up to four children under the age of 18 will be admitted with a parent. Each visiting adult must show a valid photo ID with proof of residency. The following items or combinations are acceptable:

•                Driver’s license or state ID card

•                Photo ID plus postmarked envelope, postcard, or magazine label with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

•                Photo ID plus utility bill (gas/electric/cable), bank statement, or letter from a government agency with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

1-4pm  | $8 per childTurn your plump pumpkin into a magical lantern or fanciful Halloween decoration using paints, spoons, and simple carving knives.  Bring your own hefty squash or try one of our samplers.

Days of Glory: Revisiting Italian Neorealism (Film Series)The Bicycle Thief Vittorio De Sica (Italy, 1948) New Print!(Ladri di biciclette, a.k.a. The Bicycle Thieves). Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist tale finds the despair of postwar Italy evident in the faces of its men. Though the film also explores how women cope with poverty, it devotes most of its energy to documenting Rome’s streets and the depressed, unemployed men who populate them, anxiously waiting for work. One such man is Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani), who miraculously lands a job hanging movie posters around town. Things go awry after Antonio’s bicycle is stolen, forcing him and his young son Bruno to scour the city. For De Sica, the severity of Antonio’s ordeal is as much a crisis of masculinity as it is one of economics; Maggiorani’s melancholy eyes and hardened face express the hardship of a generation of men beaten by hunger and dim prospects. Youthful Bruno tries to keep them upbeat, but as father and son soon learn firsthand, a desperate man can sink to great depths.—Jonathan L. Knapp• Written by Cesare Zavattini, based on a novel by Luigi Bartolini. Photographed by Carlo Montouri. With Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carnel, Enzo Staiola. (93 mins, In Italian with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, From Corinth Films)

Followed by King Lear at 8:30 PM.  Same-day second screening discount just $4!

Shakespeare on Screen (Film Series)King Lear Grigori Kozintsev (U.S.S.R., 1970)(Korol Lir). Russian director Grigori Kozintsev, whose career began with the eccentric 1920s filmmaking collaborative FEKS (New Babylon; The Devil’s Wheel), earned international acclaim for his two epic Shakespeare adaptations, Hamlet and King Lear. Avoiding the staged sets and respectful hush of the usual adaptations, his King Lear returns the play to the elements—a rocky, barren, and utterly hostile natural world. Winds howl, mad dogs roam, and countless ragged peasants crawl across the vast CinemaScope frame as King Lear (a Klaus Kinski–like Yuri Yarvet) raves and slips into madness. One critic wrote, “Of all Shakespeare’s tragedies, King Lear is perhaps the best suited to Russian adaptation, being the longest, wildest, starkest, and most replete with pain and suffering at all levels.” Indeed, Kozintsev—aided by some astonishing black-and-white ’Scope cinematography, music by Shostakovich, and Boris Pasternak’s brilliant adaptation—underlines all of those qualities. He also, wrote Alexander Walker, “restores what Shakespeare left out: the chorus of the common people.”—Jason Sanders• Written by Grigori Kozintsev, based on the play by William Shakespeare, adapted by Boris Pasternak. Photographed by Jonas Gricius. Music by Dmitri Shostakovich. With Yuri Yarvet, Galina Volchek, Elsa Radzin, Valentina Shendrikova. (140 mins, In Russian with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, ’Scope, From Corinth Films)

Preceded by The Bicycle Thief at 6:30 PM.  Same-day second screening discount just $4!

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour 

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour 

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Shakespeare on Screen (Film Series)Antony and CleopatraCharlton Heston (U.K./Spain/Switzerland, 1972)Years of starring roles and acting-for-hire had enabled Charlton Heston to finally direct his own film, and for his debut he chose to adapt Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, a surprising choice only if one isn’t aware of Heston’s love of all things Shakespeare (which reached back to college days in Chicago, according to a 1972 Variety review). This epic retelling of Shakespeare’s Roman tragedy features Heston as Antony, the Roman conqueror brought down by Eros. A true labor of love (in addition to starring in and directing, Heston also wrote the script), the film was, for Variety, “impressively mounted and well played . . . a neat balance of closeup portraiture and panoramic action.” Filmed in Spain (though as a cost-cutting measure Heston even re-incorporated old scenes from Ben Hur!) and exceedingly rare, Antony and Cleopatra offers up both Hollywood-style epic filmmaking and a more intimate, heartfelt, and wonderfully acted examination of passion and power.—Jason Sanders• Written by Heston, based on the play by William Shakespeare. Photographed by Rafael Pacheco. With Heston, Hildegard Neil, Eric Porter, Fernando Rey. (160 mins, Color, 35mm transfer to DigiBeta, From Agamemnon Films)Followed by The Hips of J.W. at 7:00 PM.  Same-day second screening discount just $4!

Elegant Perversions: The Cinema of João César Monteiro (Film Series)The Hips of J.W.João César Monteiro (Portugal, 1997)(Le Bassin de J.W.) Inspired by a postcard that French critic Serge Daney sent Monteiro (“I dreamt that John Wayne had a wonderful way of swinging his hips at the North Pole”), The Hips of J.W. tackles classic Hollywood cinema, religion, sexuality, the madness of August Strindberg, quotes from Pasolini and Breton, a failed sexual encounter involving the presence of small children, and more in Monteiro’s simultaneously rigorous and insane style. Operating on several levels of “reality” and “fiction,” the film finds some grounding in the friendship between theater director Monteiro and his actor (Pierre Clementi), and one’s desire to leave society behind for good. “It wasn’t God, but John Wayne’s hips that inspired him,” says a character, while a dream of “no more homelands” quotes Samuel Beckett. Indescribable, as rigorously framed as it is utterly mad, The Hips of J.W. is, for Film Comment, “a kind of cinephile transubstantiation orgy in which thought becomes flesh becomes celluloid.”—Jason Sanders• Written by Monteiro. Photographed by Mário Barroso. With Monteiro, Hugues Quester, Pierre Clémenti, Joana Azevedo. (128 mins, In Portuguese with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From Lusomondo)

Preceded by Antony and Cleopatra at 4:00 PM.  Same-day second screening discount just $4!

Alternative Visions (Film Series)Photographic Memory: Bay Area Student Experimental Film Festival 2010 (U.S., 2009–10)Artists in Person Ranging from the retro apocalyptics of The Eternal Recurrence, the fractured performance of Dance of Days, and the spare, elegiac video distortion of Portrait of Bonnie, each film in tonight’s program of recent Bay Area student experimental works offers its own particular texturally haunting tone. A persistent sense of mortality and memory suffuses many of the films, and is perhaps most apparent in the “slice of death” documentary observation of The Final Chapter and the meditations on place composing Romance Standard Time and 131 Russ. Grainy, color-saturated rows of cotton candy, stuffed animals, and neon luminescence create a somnambulant impressionism in I Had A Dream I Went To Coney Island. Other formal explorations are interspersed throughout the program, including the striking Gradients, Reflect, and Frontier, while in the rotoscoped sci-fi synaesthesia of Reduction, rough-hewn geometric shapes become implanted mental pictures. However varied in manner and approach, these shorts share a mutual ability to channel and discuss the otherwise ineffable.—Stanley LamontagneAlternative Requirements: Bay Area Student Experimental Film Festival 2010 is curated by UC Berkeley students Christopher Deetz, Daniel Dufficy, Chelsea Gonzalez, Stanley Lamontagne, and Laura Van Alstine, as part of an internship offered by the Film Studies Department and the Pacific Film Archive, under the guidance of Kathy Geritz with the assistance of Jonathan Knapp and Garbiñe Ortega. Presented with support from the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Endowment.• Gradients (Nick Logan, San Francisco State University, 2010, 2 mins, B&W). Reduction (Sam Barnett, Berkeley City College, 2009, 6 mins). Romance Standard Time (Simone Bailey, California College of the Arts, 2009, 3 mins, B&W). Reflect (Tsen-Chu Hsu, San Francisco Art Institute, 2010, 3.5 mins, 16mm). Dance of Days (Robert Machoian, UC Davis, 2010, 4 mins). The Final Chapter (Mina T. Son, Stanford University, 2009, 4.5 mins, B&W). 131 Russ (Silvia Turchin, SFSU, 2010, 5 mins). The Eternal Recurrence (Charles Chadwick, SFAI, 2010, 9 mins, B&W). I Had A Dream I Went To Coney Island (Sherwin Akbarzadeh, UC Berkeley, 2009, 4 mins). Portrait of Bonnie (Jason Fritz Michael, SFSU, 2009, 4 mins). Frontier (Frederick Kolouch, CCA, 2010, 8 mins). • (Total running time: c. 55 mins, Color, Digital video, From the artists, unless otherwise indicated)

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour 

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Special Events: Readings on CinemaSafety LastFred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor (U.S., 1923)Judith Rosenberg on PianoIntroduced by Merrill Schleier, author, Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American FilmSafety Last contains the classic Harold Lloyd image, the comedian hanging precariously from the arms of a clock ten stories off the ground. Shot without trick photography (though there was a safety platform out of camera range), the sequence established Lloyd as the comedian who would go to any lengths—or heights—to get a laugh. In addition to being Lloyd’s quintessential “thrill picture” (as he called them), Safety Last was also a vehicle for Lloyd’s continuing study of ambition in America. As The Young Man Out to Make His Name in the World, Harold lands a job as a department store clerk. He sends to The Girl Back Home glowing letters and “lavish” gifts, leading her to think him suddenly wealthy and in need of financial advice. Upon her unexpected arrival, Harold enters into an elaborate ruse to impress the girl. • Written by Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan. Photographed by Walter Lundin. With Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young. (75 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm)Preceded by short:Never Weaken (Fred Newmeyer, U.S., 1921). Unlucky-in-love Harold unsuccessfully tries suicide, then has it thrust upon him aboard a hanging girder. (29 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm)• (Total running time: 104 mins, From Harold Lloyd Entertainment)

Gallery & L@TE Event Admission Free for Residents in 

Hayward, Richmond, Crockett, Ell Sobrante 

Zipcodes: 94850, 94525, 94541, 94545, 94803

Thousands of East Bay residents have opportunities to visit the BAM/PFA galleries and attend L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA free of charge through the end of 2010.

Days of Glory: Revisiting Italian Neorealism (Film Series)Chronicle of Poor LoversCarlo Lizzani (Italy, 1954)(Cronache di poveri amanti). Marcello Mastroianni cited this controversial film as one of his best of his early period, and Alberto Moravia praised it highly. Directed by one of the central figures of Italian neorealism, known for his mixture of Marxism and melodrama, this is the moving portrayal of the inhabitants of Via del Corno, an alley in Florence, in 1925. The struggle between Communists and Fascists following the First World War serves as a backdrop for a richly observed, intimate group portrait of the prostitutes, young lovers, servants, and masters who live on the alley. Though the film is ensemble, even choral, in its structure, Mastroianni stands out as an antifascist fruit vendor who tries to unite his neighbors against Mussolini and his Blackshirts. The government attacked the film, tried to have it banned at home and abroad, and when it was invited to the Cannes Film Festival, threatened never to send another Italian film to Cannes if it won any prizes. It won the Special Jury Award. • Written by Lizzani, Massimo Mida, Vasco Pratolini, from the novel by Pratolini. Photographed by Gianni Di Venanzo. With Anna Maria Ferrero, Cosetta Greco, Antonella Lualdi, Marcello Mastroianni. (108 mins, In Italian with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, From Cinecittà Luce S.p.A., permission Movietime Srl) Followed by Macbeth at 9:05 PM.  Same-day second screening discount just $4!

Conversation: Hauntology: An Interdisciplinary Intro (6:00) 

David Brazil will discuss “hauntings” in literary texts as figures by which we might think through the question of our own responsibilities to the dead. Stanford University professor of English Terry Castle will consider collecting, and the psychic and intellectual urges that lie behind it, in the light of hauntology. Artist and web designer Josh On will address some of the specters of socialism haunting American politics and culture today. Then, artist and musician Scott Hewicker, co-curator of the exhibition, will introduce the program in conjunction with L@TE.

L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA: Hauntology (7:30)

Friday, October 29, 7:30 p.m. (Doors 5 p.m., DJ 6:30 p.m.)

Programmed by Scott Hewicker 

An evening of hauntological sounds, spirited discussions, and phantasmagorical projections will inhabit Gallery B. The spectral sounds of Portland-based Indignant Senility, and Bay-area based artists Barn Owl and Jim Haynes will provide a haunting sonic backdrop for multiple film, slide, and video projections, many from the PFA Collection, plus a ghostly procession and other tricks and treats. Ghost costumes encouraged! This event is programmed in conjunction with the exhibition Hauntology and is preceded by a public program at 6 p.m. (See sidebar at right.)

Galleries Open Until 9 p.m.

Free Admission for Hayward, Richmond, Crockett, El Sobrante residents in Zip Codes 94850, 94525, 94541, 94545, 94803

See http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/visit/zipcode for details

Shakespeare on Screen (Film Series)MacbethOrson Welles (U.S., 1948)Archival Print Welles’s ambition in Macbeth was to restore Shakespeare’s tragedy to its roots in Scottish legend; his achievement is an experimental fusion of the Bard and the B picture. The film establishes authenticity not in its settings but in its tone and mood, creating a world infused with witchcraft and portent. It includes a number of eye-opening stylistic flourishes, including a single take that occupies an entire reel of film, that were unseen by American audiences at the time of its original release. This print, painstakingly restored by UCLA, reincorporates that extraordinary missing scene, along with several minutes of overture and exit music and the original Scottish-accented soundtrack. The actors’ mock-Celtic burr was originally deemed too alien for U.S. ears, but it is “so right,” as Welles said, “for all that gooseflesh and grue.”• Written by Welles, based on the play by William Shakespeare. Photographed by John L. Russell. With Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O’Herlihy, Edgar Barrier. (119 mins, B&W, 35mm, From UCLA Film and Television Archive, permission Paramount)

Preceded by Chronicle of Poor Lovers at 7:00 PM. Same-day second screening discount just $4!

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Guided Tour 

A dazzling array of Japan’s greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAM/PFA’s major fall exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. The Clark Center of Hanford, California, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will collaborate in bringing one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America to the Bay Area with a presentation of more than 100 works of art. The exhibition will cover the broad collecting interests of the center’s founder, fourth-generation San Joaquin Valley resident Willard Clark, whose passion for Japan’s art and culture has resulted in a collection representing all major areas of artistic endeavor, with dates ranging from the late Heian period to the twenty-first century. Selections from the collection will be organized thematically, addressing topics of Buddhist art, literati painting, the natural environment, everyday life, bamboo sculpture, and contemporary ceramics, as well as works that celebrate a uniquely Japanese sense of humor. 



Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture is organized jointly by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture and is co-curated by Andreas Marks, Clark Center director, and Julia M. White, senior curator of Asian Art at BAM/PFA. 

Coinciding with this exhibition, Timon Screech will give a public lecture on August 26th in the Museum Theater entitled "Collecting and Viewing in the Edo Period: Some Thoughts on the Ownership and Display of Paintings".

Guided tours of Flowers of the Four Seasons are presented by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Department of Art History on Thursdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 2 p.m. Student guides, all of whom specialize in East Asian art, are Kristopher Kersey, Carl Gellert, and Michelle Wang.  Guided tours included with regular museum admission.

Conversation: Willard Clark and Amy Poster

Sunday, October 31, 3 p.m.

Gallery C

Willard G. Clark, founder of the Clark Center, will converse with Amy Poster, Curator Emerita of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum, about his lifelong collecting of Japanese art.

Using visual illustrations, Clark will discuss his personal passion for Japanese art and culture and how he became involved in collecting, and share personal reflections about individual objects.

Amy Poster, currently an independent curator based in New York, was affiliated with the Asian Art department at the Brooklyn Museum from 1969 to 2006. Among her many major publications are Journey Through Asia: Masterpieces of Asian Art in the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo; and Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York Private Collections.

Following their conversation, Clark and Poster will together offer an informal walkthrough of the exhibition.

Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture

The very best of Japanese art in this country goes on display at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in the exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. Featuring 112 works, the exhibition reflects the broad collecting interests of the Center’s founder Willard G. Clark. His passion for Japanese art and culture has resulted in a collection ranging in date from the late Heian period (794–1185) to the twenty-first century that includes all major areas of artistic endeavor in Japan—screens, scrolls, wood sculptures, textiles, ceramics, and works of bamboo.

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

bampfa.berkeley.edu

Free Gallery & L@TE Event Admission for Berkeley Residents in Zip Codes 94701, 94702, 94703, 94704

Thousands of East Bay residents have opportunities to visit the BAM/PFA galleries and attend L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA free of charge through the end of 2010.

Residents from selected East Bay zip codes are eligible for free admission on each of the dates listed below. Thanks to generous underwriting from Bank of America, the Zip Code Program patrons will have access to all of the BAM/PFA galleries and exhibitions, including Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (through December 12, 2010), Hauntology (through December 5, 2010), and the interactive indoor seating sculpture Thom Faulders: BAMscape (through November 30, 2011).



Zip Code Program patrons also receive free admission to any L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA performances that may coincide with designated free days. L@TE is the newest and most eclectic destination for art and performance in the East Bay. L@TE programming offers a little something for everyone—musical performances, expanded cinema screenings, performance art, spoken word, and more. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. on most L@TE Fridays. To find out more about upcoming L@TE events, visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/late.



Only residents from the zip codes invited on the designated dates will be admitted free of charge. Up to four children under the age of 18 will be admitted with a parent. Each visiting adult must show a valid photo ID with proof of residency. The following items or combinations are acceptable:

•                Driver’s license or state ID card

•                Photo ID plus postmarked envelope, postcard, or magazine label with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

Free Gallery & L@TE Event Admission for Berkeley Residents in Zip Codes 94701, 94702, 94703, 94704

Thousands of East Bay residents have opportunities to visit the BAM/PFA galleries and attend L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA free of charge through the end of 2010.

Residents from selected East Bay zip codes are eligible for free admission on each of the dates listed below. Thanks to generous underwriting from Bank of America, the Zip Code Program patrons will have access to all of the BAM/PFA galleries and exhibitions, including Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (through December 12, 2010), Hauntology (through December 5, 2010), and the interactive indoor seating sculpture Thom Faulders: BAMscape (through November 30, 2011).



Zip Code Program patrons also receive free admission to any L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA performances that may coincide with designated free days. L@TE is the newest and most eclectic destination for art and performance in the East Bay. L@TE programming offers a little something for everyone—musical performances, expanded cinema screenings, performance art, spoken word, and more. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. on most L@TE Fridays. To find out more about upcoming L@TE events, visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/late.



Only residents from the zip codes invited on the designated dates will be admitted free of charge. Up to four children under the age of 18 will be admitted with a parent. Each visiting adult must show a valid photo ID with proof of residency. The following items or combinations are acceptable:

•                Driver’s license or state ID card

•                Photo ID plus postmarked envelope, postcard, or magazine label with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

•                Photo ID plus utility bill (gas/electric/cable), bank statement, or letter from a government agency with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

Free Gallery & L@TE Event Admission for Oakland Residents in Zip Codes 94601, 94603, 94605, 94606

Thousands of East Bay residents have opportunities to visit the BAM/PFA galleries and attend L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA free of charge through the end of 2010.

Residents from selected East Bay zip codes are eligible for free admission on each of the dates listed below. Thanks to generous underwriting from Bank of America, the Zip Code Program patrons will have access to all of the BAM/PFA galleries and exhibitions, including Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (through December 12, 2010), Hauntology (through December 5, 2010), and the interactive indoor seating sculpture Thom Faulders: BAMscape (through November 30, 2011).



Zip Code Program patrons also receive free admission to any L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA performances that may coincide with designated free days. L@TE is the newest and most eclectic destination for art and performance in the East Bay. L@TE programming offers a little something for everyone—musical performances, expanded cinema screenings, performance art, spoken word, and more. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. on most L@TE Fridays. To find out more about upcoming L@TE events, visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/late.



Only residents from the zip codes invited on the designated dates will be admitted free of charge. Up to four children under the age of 18 will be admitted with a parent. Each visiting adult must show a valid photo ID with proof of residency. The following items or combinations are acceptable:

•                Driver’s license or state ID card

•                Photo ID plus postmarked envelope, postcard, or magazine label with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

Free Gallery & L@TE Event Admission for Oakland Residents in Zip Codes 94607, 94609, 94610, 94612

Thousands of East Bay residents have opportunities to visit the BAM/PFA galleries and attend L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA free of charge through the end of 2010.

Residents from selected East Bay zip codes are eligible for free admission on each of the dates listed below. Thanks to generous underwriting from Bank of America, the Zip Code Program patrons will have access to all of the BAM/PFA galleries and exhibitions, including Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (through December 12, 2010), Hauntology (through December 5, 2010), and the interactive indoor seating sculpture Thom Faulders: BAMscape (through November 30, 2011).



Zip Code Program patrons also receive free admission to any L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA performances that may coincide with designated free days. L@TE is the newest and most eclectic destination for art and performance in the East Bay. L@TE programming offers a little something for everyone—musical performances, expanded cinema screenings, performance art, spoken word, and more. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. on most L@TE Fridays. To find out more about upcoming L@TE events, visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/late.



Only residents from the zip codes invited on the designated dates will be admitted free of charge. Up to four children under the age of 18 will be admitted with a parent. Each visiting adult must show a valid photo ID with proof of residency. The following items or combinations are acceptable:

•                Driver’s license or state ID card

•                Photo ID plus postmarked envelope, postcard, or magazine label with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

•                Photo ID plus utility bill (gas/electric/cable), bank statement, or letter from a government agency with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

Sarah Wilson's Trapeze Project CD Release gig at Yoshi's Oakland!

8 p.m. 1 set, $14

Featuring: Sarah Wilson--tpt,vocals Myra Melford--piano Ben Goldberg--clarinet Jerome Harris--bass Scott Amendola--drums

Free Gallery & L@TE Event Admission for Oakland Residents in Zip Codes 94615, 94617, 94621, 94626, 94643

Thousands of East Bay residents have opportunities to visit the BAM/PFA galleries and attend L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA free of charge through the end of 2010.

Residents from selected East Bay zip codes are eligible for free admission on each of the dates listed below. Thanks to generous underwriting from Bank of America, the Zip Code Program patrons will have access to all of the BAM/PFA galleries and exhibitions, including Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (through December 12, 2010), Hauntology (through December 5, 2010), and the interactive indoor seating sculpture Thom Faulders: BAMscape (through November 30, 2011).



Zip Code Program patrons also receive free admission to any L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA performances that may coincide with designated free days. L@TE is the newest and most eclectic destination for art and performance in the East Bay. L@TE programming offers a little something for everyone—musical performances, expanded cinema screenings, performance art, spoken word, and more. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. on most L@TE Fridays. To find out more about upcoming L@TE events, visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/late.



Only residents from the zip codes invited on the designated dates will be admitted free of charge. Up to four children under the age of 18 will be admitted with a parent. Each visiting adult must show a valid photo ID with proof of residency. The following items or combinations are acceptable:

•                Driver’s license or state ID card

•                Photo ID plus postmarked envelope, postcard, or magazine label with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

•                Photo ID plus utility bill (gas/electric/cable), bank statement, or letter from a government agency with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

Free Gallery & L@TE Event Admission for Richmond Residents in Zip Codes 94801, 94804, 94805, 94806, 94807

Thousands of East Bay residents have opportunities to visit the BAM/PFA galleries and attend L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA free of charge through the end of 2010.

Residents from selected East Bay zip codes are eligible for free admission on each of the dates listed below. Thanks to generous underwriting from Bank of America, the Zip Code Program patrons will have access to all of the BAM/PFA galleries and exhibitions, including Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (through December 12, 2010), Hauntology (through December 5, 2010), and the interactive indoor seating sculpture Thom Faulders: BAMscape (through November 30, 2011).



Zip Code Program patrons also receive free admission to any L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA performances that may coincide with designated free days. L@TE is the newest and most eclectic destination for art and performance in the East Bay. L@TE programming offers a little something for everyone—musical performances, expanded cinema screenings, performance art, spoken word, and more. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. on most L@TE Fridays. To find out more about upcoming L@TE events, visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/late.



Only residents from the zip codes invited on the designated dates will be admitted free of charge. Up to four children under the age of 18 will be admitted with a parent. Each visiting adult must show a valid photo ID with proof of residency. The following items or combinations are acceptable:

•                Driver’s license or state ID card

•                Photo ID plus postmarked envelope, postcard, or magazine label with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

Free Gallery & L@TE Event Admission for Berkeley, Emeryville and El Cerrito Residents in Zip Codes 94709, 94710, 94608, 94530

Thousands of East Bay residents have opportunities to visit the BAM/PFA galleries and attend L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA free of charge through the end of 2010.

Residents from selected East Bay zip codes are eligible for free admission on each of the dates listed below. Thanks to generous underwriting from Bank of America, the Zip Code Program patrons will have access to all of the BAM/PFA galleries and exhibitions, including Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (through December 12, 2010), Hauntology (through December 5, 2010), and the interactive indoor seating sculpture Thom Faulders: BAMscape (through November 30, 2011).



Zip Code Program patrons also receive free admission to any L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA performances that may coincide with designated free days. L@TE is the newest and most eclectic destination for art and performance in the East Bay. L@TE programming offers a little something for everyone—musical performances, expanded cinema screenings, performance art, spoken word, and more. Events begin at 7:30 p.m. on most L@TE Fridays. To find out more about upcoming L@TE events, visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/late.



Only residents from the zip codes invited on the designated dates will be admitted free of charge. Up to four children under the age of 18 will be admitted with a parent. Each visiting adult must show a valid photo ID with proof of residency. The following items or combinations are acceptable:

•                Driver’s license or state ID card

•                Photo ID plus postmarked envelope, postcard, or magazine label with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date

•                Photo ID plus utility bill (gas/electric/cable), bank statement, or letter from a government agency with name, home address (not a P.O. Box), and date