The lobby of City Hall in Emeryville serves as an emerging gallery of local artworks.  Since 2005, the City has acquired one work which was selected from the Annual Emeryville Celebration of the Arts Exhibit held each October.  The juried exhibit showcases the work of the many professional artists who live and work here.  With a long tradition of artists cooperative housing, Emeryville is home to large number of artists, in fact, Emeryville may boast one of the most dense artists populations per capita in the Bay Region.  Past Purchase Award acquisitions include paintings by Canan Tolon and Michael Murphy, textile by Ana Lisa Hedstrom, light sculpture by Therese Lahaie and a ceramic wall hanging by Cuong Ta.  All the works as well as installations in and around City Hall such as Roger Berry's Solar Rose can be viewed suring normal business hours when City Hall is open to the public.  Please visit soon!

Exhibition extended until June, 2013!

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

The Reading Room is a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction offering visitors the chance to take home a free book drawn from the overstock collections of several noted East Bay small presses, including Kelsey Street Press, Atelos Books, and Tuumba Press. Books and catalogs from Small Press Distribution will also be available. In turn, visitors are asked to replace that book with one from their own library. We look forward to seeing how the character of the works on the shelves evolves over the course of the project!

Stop by The Reading Room during gallery hours to enjoy a comfortable reading area, listen to recordings of selected poets published by these presses, and view silk-screen prints and original works on paper created by George Schneeman in collaboration with poets Ron Padgett, Bill Berkson, and Lewis MacAdams.

As part of selected Friday night L@TE programs throughout winter and spring, The Reading Room will be the site of literary readings (RE@DS) co-curated by poet/author David Brazil and Suzanne Stein, poet, publisher, and community producer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 

Guided and inspired by arts writer and poet Ramsay Bell Breslin and poet and UC Berkeley Professor of English Lyn Hejinian, BAM/PFA’s new literary project invites visitors to look, listen, share, and read in The Reading Room.

RE@DS

Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil

Friday / 1.27.12 @ 5:30

Jackqueline Frost

Friday / 2.10.12 @ 5:30

Tom Comitta

Friday / 2.24.12 @ 5:30

Monica Peck

Free BAM/PFA Members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees, Children (12 & under) $10 Adults (18-64) $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, Senior citizens (65 & over), Disabled persons, Young adults (13-17)

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Come spend some time with the work of seminal Abstract Expressionists this winter and spring at BAM/PFA. Forceful paintings by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, William Baziotes, Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, and others hang in light-filled Gallery A, while Gallery C displays rarely seen works on paper by artists including Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, Antonio Saura, and Norman Bluhm.

Free BAM/PFA Members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees, Children (12 & under) $10 Adults (18-64) $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, Senior citizens (65 & over), Disabled persons, Young adults (13-17)

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In 1988, New York–based collagist Robert Warner began a correspondence with the enigmatic artist Ray Johnson. Until Johnson’s death in 1995, Ray and Bob continued their exchange, mostly by mail and telephone, and only occasionally in person. Over the course of their relationship Warner received hundred of pieces of mail art from Johnson, ranging from collages to a hand-delivered piece of driftwood. At one of their rare in-person meetings, Johnson gave Warner thirteen cardboard boxes tied with twine, labeled “Bob Box 1,” “Bob Box 2,” and so on.

Tables of Content displays all thirteen boxes and their contents. Warner has selected and arranged the letters, drawings, photocopies, and found objects like t-shirts, tennis balls, and random beach trash—the material of Johnson’s art—on an assembly of thirteen tables and surrounding gallery walls. Johnson annotated many of these things with personal codes, puns, and dark, irreverent jokes. Johnson’s work—collages, correspondence art, and performance events—remains mysterious and a bit hard to pin down. But his influences are obvious and surface repeatedly, among them Andy Warhol, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Elvis Presley. His collage approach was diaristic, a stream-of-consciousness flow through the matter and memory of everyday life, shifting from one topic to another, across all variety of things. Johnson once remarked, “My work is like driving a car. I’m always shifting gears.” Tables of Content will particularly resonate with Berkeley audiences who viewed the recent exhibition Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage.

Free BAM/PFA Members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees, Children (12 & under) $10 Adults (18-64) $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, Senior citizens (65 & over), Disabled persons, Young adults (13-17)

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I’ve never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty.—Andy Warhol

From 1970 to 1987 Andy Warhol took scores of Polaroid and black-and-white photographs, the vast majority of which were never seen by the public. These images often served as the basis for his commissioned portraits, silk-screen paintings, drawings, and prints. In 2007, to commemorate its twentieth anniversary, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts launched the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program. Designed to give a broad public greater access to Warhol’s photographs, the program donated over 28,500 of Warhol’s original Polaroids and gelatin silver prints to more than 180 college and university museums and galleries across the country. Each institution received a curated selection of over one hundred Polaroids and fifty black-and-white prints.

This January BAM/PFA is proud to present selected Polaroids drawn from this extraordinary gift of the Warhol Foundation to the museum. The group reveals that superstars were not the only figures that Warhol photographed with his Polaroid Big Shot, the distinct plastic camera he used for the majority of his sittings. Over half of those who sat for him were little known or remain unidentified. 

The number of images he took at each session varied as greatly as the figures he photographed. Repetition, a recurring motif in Warhol’s paintings, plays both a conceptual and practical role in his photography. By making several Polaroids, he had more material from which to work. By shooting at length, more about the sitter was exposed. Seen all together, the Polaroids destabilize the iconic status that a Warhol image assumes when displayed singly. On its own, a Polaroid image is fully identified with the artwork that ultimately grew out of it; the face depicted becomes a kind of signifier for larger cultural concepts of beauty, power, and worth.

 Free BAM/PFA Members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees, Children (12 & under) $10 Adults (18-64) $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, Senior citizens (65 & over), Disabled persons, Young adults (13-17)

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 Introduced by Jeffrey Skoller. This riveting documentary for the twenty-first century combines powerful animation, minute-by-minute Twitter feeds, blog accounts, and cell phone footage with conventional on-camera testimonies to recount the abortive 2009 antigovernment Iranian youth revolt. Dubbed the Green Wave, it was a revolution in flux, yet evergreen with hope. (80 mins)

Documentary Voices is presented in conjunction with the UC Berkeley course History of Documentary Film, taught by Jeffrey Skoller during the spring semester. The series begins with a screening of PFA’s recent preservation of the legendary cinema verité-style fiction film David Holzman’s Diary. We also present three programs of animated documentaries: The Green Wave, which uses animation and a range of new technologies to document the 2009 Iranian "Green Revolution"; Kongo, which combines animation and historical footage to trace the history of Congo; and a program of documentary animation shorts. These latter works commemorate the publication of Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, guest edited by Jeffrey Skoller, who will introduce two of the programs. The special issue Making it (Un)real: Contemporary Theories and Practices in Documentary Animation features essays and reflections by a range of contemporary scholars and filmmakers on, in Skoller’s words, “this hybrid form that mixes fact and fiction, analysis and speculation, and the high seriousness of documentary nonfiction with the playfulness of animation.” It features articles by Karen Beckman, Steve Fore, Annabelle Honness-Roe, Laura U. Marks, and Tess Takahashi and artworks by filmmakers including Lewis Klahr, Abraham Ravett, and Jacqueline Goss. This series continues in March and April with more programs that explore new directions in documentary film.Kathy Geritz, Film Curator

Theater Admission Prices

Single Feature

$5.50 BAM/PFA Members, UC Berkeley Students

$9.50 Adults (18-64)

$6.50 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and retirees

Non-UC Berkeley students

Senior citizens (65 & over)

Disabled persons

Youth (17 & under

Additional Feature $4.00 All Patrons

PFA General:

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Programmed by Sarah Cahill

Doors 5:00

Poetry Reading: Tom Comitta 5:30

DJ 6:30

Julius Eastman (1940–90) was one of the first composers to convincingly combine rock and house influences with minimalist processes. Active in New York throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he endured addiction and homelessness and died alone, likely of AIDS-related conditions. His pioneering work paved the way for generations of experimental composers and pop artists. Coprogrammed by composer/musicologist Luciano Chessa, this performance will be the first major Bay Area presentation of his compositions, including Gay Guerilla, an expansive and emotional work for four pianos.

Admission is $7; free for BAM/PFA members and Cal students.

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Hear some of the artists from The Art Of Living Black, 16th Anniversary Show discuss their work.

Enjoy this workshop, given by Lisa di Prima, in honor of Black History Month.

Move to the groove and express yourself visually. Draw, paint or sculpt to internationally acclaimed improvisational jazz musicians India Cooke and Kele Nitoto.

Drawing materials provided, but you are welcome to bring your own. All ages are welcome.

$5 suggested family donation.

3rd Annual Chocolate and Beer Festival,brings together local Chocolatiers,breweries and bands to raise money for a good cause.

This sweet spot in SF Beer Week pairs suds (including the debut of Rosie the Riveter Ale and selections from Drake's Brewing,21st Amendment,Marin Brewing Company,and more) with cacao and confections (provided by TCHO,Coco Delice,Galaxy Desserts,and Bittersweet Cafe)

Tickets $30 in advance,$40 at the door.

Entrance ticket include four (4) sample sized chocolates and four (4) sample sized beers. Additional beer and chocolate available for purchase inside event.

Free shuttle from BART. $5 GA parking,$10 Premium.

(U.S., 2010–11). Artists in person. Witness the future of film in this innovative program of works by local high-school students, curated by their own peers. (c. 90 mins)

Curated by Berkeley High students in the Communication Arts and Sciences (CAS) program as part of an internship offered by BAM/PFA. The student curators are Nichelle Proctor, Mark Bogle, Jesus Escobar, Keelan Williams, Tatayana Butcher, Joshua Mizrahi, Luisa Pio, Shatonya Amerson, and Samantha Serrano. Their high school student mentor is Zoe O'Rorke, their UC Berkeley student mentor is Mahaliyah Ayla O, and their teacher is Dharini Rasiah.

Tickets: $5.50 all patrons

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 11th, 6-9pm Closing Tea: Sunday, March 25th, 3-6pm

Featuring work by: Lisa Berman, Matt Chase, Tim Fite, Rachel Foster, Claire Kessler-Bradner, Brian Kring,  Mary Laird,  Studio Lorzig, Rebecca Peters, Lisa Rappaport,  Two Fine Chaps, and more.

Co-curated with Rebecca Peters

Celebrating the art of letterpress! Come see a display of archival letterpress paraphernalia, ephemera, equipment, and more…. Bins of letterpress prints, books, and broadsides by some of the finest Bay Area letterpress artists. Libations and good times to be had.

SFEMS presents: Elizabeth Blumenstock, Katherine Kyme violins; Amy Brodo, William Skeen, violas da gambas & cellos; Katherine Heater, harpsichordSeveral of the Bay Area's hot early music performers render a sublime, spiritual, and sensual concert of music of 18th-century France for various combinations of instruments, including violin, gamba, cello and harpsichord. Included are works by the female prodigy that was lauded by Louis XIV, Elizabeth Claude Jacques de La Guerre; Marin Marias, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, François Couperin and more.

The 27th Annual Jewish Music Festival presents: Isle of Klezbos This New York-based women’s sextet brings together inventive versions of klezmer, Yiddish swing, and eclectic original compositions. To purchase tickets and for full Festival guide visit our website, or call 510-848-0237x118.

Learn basic letterpress skills on our 1925 Chandler and Price letterpress. Taught by Rebecca Peters. 12-5pm on February 18th.Special Rate in celebration of our Art of Letterpress show! Price of workshop INCLUDES material fee. Class size is limited to 7, so please register early to get a spot. Each student will also be able to take home 10 letterpress cards made in class. Delicious Numi Tea and light snacks will be provided. Click the link below to purchase tickets.

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The Alcyone Ensemble has an exciting program on tap: Franz Doppler’s gorgeous adaptation of Donizetti’s La Sonnambula, Ian Clarke’s meditative Maya, and two little gems for flute, alto flute and piano: Reynaldo Hahn’s Romanesque and Adrienne Albert’s Doppler Effect, …and more! Rena Urso-Trapani and Amy Likar, flutes with pianist Miles Graber

The Year of Black & White: Perspectives on Duality

A solo exhibition of the work of Ryan David LaBonte, BFA candidate at California College of Arts (& Crafts), Oakland. LaBonte is graduating from the Printmaking program and offers works in this discipline and other various media. This exhibition showcases lithography, oil painting, comic strips, video, installation and a performance. All works are centered on the theme of Duality and the struggle for Unity in a polarized society. Exploring the political, social and natural world, LaBonte has come to the realization that seeing in Black & White will only produce endless shades of Grey. 

RDL's previous works can be viewed at rdlart.blogspot.com

Introduced by Jeffrey Skoller. Jacqueline Goss in Person. This program of hybrid animated documentaries highlights a variety of approaches and concerns with work by Sonia Bridge, Chris Landreth, Ken Jacobs, Kota Ezawa, Sheila Sofian, and Jacqueline Goss. (95 mins)

Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film FestivalThe cinema and aviation go arm in arm through life; they are born on the same day.—Fernand LégerFor many years, the vehicle in which most people first experienced flight was not the airplane, but the movie theater. The new flying machines were still prohibitively expensive and often dangerous, but the vertiginous thrills they provided could safely be simulated with a fisticuffs-on-the-wing film like Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts (1915). That is, when the idea of mechanical flight did not seem simply far-fetched. If a ship could actually fly, it was thought, well then anything might fly: beds, houses, people. The great silent fantasists—Winsor McCay, Georges Méliès, Walt Disney—all explored these possibilities. Others imagined how life might be lived in a world of commonplace flight. The London ofHigh Treason (1929), a science-fictional “aerotropolis” of conspirators and saboteurs, suggests that such speculation was not without attendant anxieties. This was, after all, the first generation to see these machines put to war. In A Trip to Mars (1918), made at the war’s end, we find a pacific message gleaned from the new technology of flight. Above all, the new way of seeing—the aerial view—is savored in these films. In The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower (1927), director Julien Duvivier steals glances at the world below from every available purchase, possessed by the view from above—a harbinger of our present life in the air.Patrick Ellis, Guest Curator  Archival Restoration! Introduced by Mark Sandberg.Bruce Loeb on piano. Part science fiction and part utopian fantasy, this silent film from Denmark combines the fascination for flight with a WWI-era imagination of a world without war—in this case, perhaps ironically, the planet Mars. (90 mins)

In a time when people can carry computers in their pockets and watch TV while walking down the street, Typeface dares to explore the twilight of an analog craft that is freshly inspiring artists in a digital age. The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At Hamilton, international artisans meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique.

Archival Print! Live musical accompaniment by Peter Chapman. In a futuristic London, the Peace League must stage a popular revolt in the air force —and in so doing repair the romance between a pacifist and a soldier. A modernistLysistrata, an English Metropolis: High Treason is science fiction for the Jazz Age. (75 mins)

Theater Admission Prices

Single Feature

$5.50 BAM/PFA Members, UC Berkeley Students

$9.50 Adults (18-64)

$6.50 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and retirees

Non-UC Berkeley students

Senior citizens (65 & over)

Disabled persons

Youth (17 & under

Additional Feature $4.00 All Patrons

PFA General:

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Programmed by Land and Sea

Doors 5:00

Poetry Reading: Monica Peck 5:30

DJ 6:30

Artist/curator Rich Jacobs starts off this second installment of The Moon with a DJ set inspired by that celestial orb. Then hear a new composition by experimental turntablist Julia Mazawa, who handcrafts audio interpretations of Klein Bottles and Möbius strips using vinyl’s hisses, pops, and musical snippets. Poet and Guggenheim Fellow Matthew Zapruder reads a series of moon poems and Believer (Danny Grody of Tarantel and Trevor Montgomery of The Drift) soothes us with lush, atmospheric, and blissful sounds. Remember the evening with a free copy of Land and Sea’s publication of Matthew Zapruder’s moon poems.

Admission is $7; free for BAM/PFA members and Cal students.

 Archival Print! Introduced by Patrick Ellis. Live musical accompaniment by Ken Ueno, Matt Ingals, Hadley MacCarroll. A palate cleanser for those who found Spielberg’s Tintin wanting, Julien Duvivier’s late-silent adventure masterpiece served as an inspiration for the original Tintin comics, and delivers much of the same charm, inventiveness, and visual delight. We are pleased to be screening the only known copy of this rare film. (129 mins)

Theater Admission Prices

Single Feature

$5.50 BAM/PFA Members, UC Berkeley Students

$9.50 Adults (18-64)

$6.50 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and retirees

Non-UC Berkeley students

Senior citizens (65 & over)

Disabled persons

Youth (17 & under

Additional Feature $4.00 All Patrons

PFA General:

(510) 642-1412

http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/

Introduced by Patrick Ellis. Frederick Hodge on piano. The utter novelty of human flight during most of the silent period is hard for our post-jet-set age to fathom: this program aims to recapture an inkling of this lost sense of wonder. Included are the French comedy Airplane Gaze; Edwin S. Porter’s The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend; Winsor McCay’sThe Flying House; Disney’s Alice’s Balloon Race; Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon, and the Mack Sennett-produced aviatrix comedy, Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts. (97 mins)

Have you ever heard the sound of ice melting? State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, part of Pacific Standard Time, offers an in-depth exploration of Conceptual art made by both Northern and Southern California artists during a pivotal period in contemporary art. The more than 150 works of art on display—many rarely seen or newly discovered—are organized by themes, such as the street, the body, politics, private/public space, and language/wordplay, that elucidate this dynamic era in our history and foreshadow the concerns of young artists working today.

Free BAM/PFA Members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees, Children (12 & under) $10 Adults (18-64) $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, Senior citizens (65 & over), Disabled persons, Young adults (13-17)

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Join Adjunct Curator Constance M. Lewallen for an insightful introduction to State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, which highlights the originality and inventiveness of artists working in both Southern and Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s and investigates their vital contributions to Conceptual art and experimental practices.

Have you ever heard the sound of ice melting? State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, part of Pacific Standard Time, offers an in-depth exploration of Conceptual art made by both Northern and Southern California artists during a pivotal period in contemporary art. The more than 150 works of art on display—many rarely seen or newly discovered—are organized by themes, such as the street, the body, politics, private/public space, and language/wordplay, that elucidate this dynamic era in our history and foreshadow the concerns of young artists working today.

Free BAM/PFA Members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and retirees, Children (12 & under) $10 Adults (18-64) $7 Non-UC Berkeley students, Senior citizens (65 & over), Disabled persons, Young adults (13-17)

(510) 642-1412                 

bampfapress@berkeley.edu

The 27th Annual Jewish Music Festival presents: Hadag Nahash Israel’s most notorious hip hop crew combines fresh electro and funk flavor with Middle Eastern airtight grooves. To purchase tickets and for the full Festival schedule, call us at 510-848-0237 x119, or visit our website.

"...dazzling clarity...Bach at his best." San Francisco ExaminerSFEMS debut! This powerful new ensemble delivers fiery and distinctive performances of the glorious Italian concerti from the 18th century. Archetti’s concert features violin concerti by masters of the genre, including Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Torelli, and G.F. Handel. An added treat will be renowned early keyboard specialist Davitt Moroney’s performance of a harpsichord concerto by J.S. Bach.

The 27th Annual Jewish Music Festival presents: Michael Winograd Ensemble with Judith Berkson A rising star redefining the sound of contemporary klezmer, Michael and his clarinet take the lead with top players including Deborah Strauss, violin; Joshua Horowitz, cimbalom, vocalist Judith Berkson, and others. To purchase tickets and for the full Festival schedule, visit our website or call us at 510-848-0237x119.

Doors at 5:00PM

DJ at 6:30PM

Pioneer of computer-enhanced performance practice Edmund Campion transforms Gallery B with sound and visuals, including video projection, a choir spread throughout the building, and his own brand of dynamic, buoyant electronic music. Designer Raveevarn Choksombatchai, artist and 3-D animator Claudia Hart, and the Cornelius Cardew Choir come together to collaborate with Campion, a codirector of UC Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technologies.

Admission:

On L@TE Fridays, general admission to the BAM/PFA galleries is just $7 after 5 p.m. Show your ticket for a same-day PFA screening or gallery visit and get in to L@TE free. Admission is always free for BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

Contact:

Email - Bampfa@berkeley.edu

Phone - (510) 642-0808

Multiple competition winner, violinist Michelle Xiao You has been featured as a soloist with some of the finest symphonies in the world, including the Houston Symphony, the BBC Northern Symphony in Great Britain and the Central Philharmonic of China. Ms. You also has given recitals in the U.S.A., China and Europe to rave reviews.

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The Pacific Exchange brings composers and performers from diverse areas of the Pacific Rim together in order to exchange ideas and create music on a shared concert stage. Thingamajigs created this event to emphasize the commonalities of artists living on the Pacific Rim, as well as to showcase their diversity. We ask artists, ‘what does the Pacific Rim mean to you and how does it affect your music’. Thingamajigs, with composers and performers from Seattle, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, will host concerts, workshops, and demonstrations to foster an exchange of ideas with the local community.

Along with our Pacific Exchange concert at the Meridian Gallery, Thingamajigs will be in residence at the Oakland Museum of California for three weeks to offer interactive concerts of music created with objects from the museum’s collection. These reinterpretations of objects into performance will stimulate innovation and creativity for all ages.

Artists and groups involved in this year’s Pacific Exchange events include Paul Kikuchi (Seattle) and Tide Tables, Tatsuya Nakatani (Japan), Paul Stapleton (L.A.), Gretchen Jude (Oakland) and the Thingamajigs Performance Group (Oakland).  Please see artist biographies and schedule below.

For over five years The Pacific Exchange concerts have exhibited the music of composers from diverse Pacific regions such as Japan, Korea, Australia, Canada and the United States.

The Pacific Exchange 2012 is supported in part by the Alameda County Arts Commission, New Music USA's MetLife Creative Connections program, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and generous contributions from individual and corporate donors.

Event Schedule:

Sunday, March 11th noon-3pm: Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak St. Oakland, CA 94607  (Free with Museum admission). Artists include Thingamajigs Performance Group and Paul Stapleton.

Sunday, March 18th noon-3pm: Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak St. Oakland, CA 94607  (Free with Museum admission). Artists include Thingamajigs Performance Group, Tatsuya Nakatani and Paul Kikuchi.

Sunday, March 25th noon-3pm: Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak St. Oakland, CA 94607  (Free with Museum admission). Artists include Thingamajigs Performance Group and Gretchen Jude.

Doors at 5:00PM

DJ at 6:30

Flash back to the early years of BAM/PFA at this celebration of California performance art, presented in conjunction with the exhibition State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970. Three important performance artists revisit works from the early 1970s: Linda Mary Montano meditates in a chicken bed, Jim Melchert does whatever the television tells him to do, and Adam II (the late Paul Cotton) presents “Mystical Body of The Astral-Naught Bride-Groom (Living Sculpture) in Her Present State of Herm-Aphroditic Metamorphosis,” which is exactly what it sounds like.

Admission:

On L@TE Fridays, general admission to the BAM/PFA galleries is just $7 after 5 p.m. Show your ticket for a same-day PFA screening or gallery visit and get in to L@TE free. Admission is always free for BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

Contact:

Email - Bampfa@berkeley.edu

Phone -  (510) 642-0808

Saxophonist/composer Larry Ochs presents the musical unit Kihnoua – heavily influenced by “the blues” in general and the blues of Korea – an ancient form of music called p’ansori – in particular. BUT “influence” here means you’ll feel the spirit of that music; the forms and sounds used to realize the music are often contemporary in origin.

Doors at 5:00PM

DJ at 6:30PM

In 1975, California-based Dutch Conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea while attempting to cross the Atlantic in a small craft. Filmmaker Rene Daalder uses this story as the basis for a sweeping overview of contemporary art and an epic saga of the transformative powers of the ocean in his 2008 film Here is Always Somewhere Else: The Life of Bas Jan Ader. Before the screening, immerse yourself in a recording of ARP’s meditative electronic musical work Odyssey (For Bas Jan Ader). In conjunction with the exhibition State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970.

Admission:

On L@TE Fridays, general admission to the BAM/PFA galleries is just $7 after 5 p.m. Show your ticket for a same-day PFA screening or gallery visit and get in to L@TE free. Admission is always free for BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

Contact:

Email - Bampfa@berkeley.edu

Phone -  (510) 642-0808

The 27th Annual Jewish Music Festival presents: HOLY HARMONY Featuring performances by: BASYA SCHECHTER of PHAROAH'S DAUGHTER New music performed by a top New York combo, set to the Yiddish poetry of civil rights activist and Jewish philosopher Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. BABEL ASHKENAZ Frank London (of the Grammy-winning group the Klezmatics) and Yair Dalal (Israeli violinist and oud master of Iraqi background) bring together Middle Eastern and Western Jewish liturgical traditions, with percussionist Dror Sinai, and others. BUSTAN QUARTET Reunited members of an internationally acclaimed Arab and Jewish ensemble from Israel draw on Western and Middle Eastern classical traditions, jazz and improvisation to create a stunningly original world of sound. With Taiseer Elias (oud), Zohar Fresco (percussion), Amir Milstein (flute) and Emmanuel Mann (bass). To purchase tickets and for full Festival schedule visit our website or call us at , 510-848-0237x119. Half Day Pass:$25-30 Full Day Pass:$43-50

Doors at 5:00PM

DJ at 6:30PM

The Bay Area’s own brilliant and groundbreaking Amy X Neuburg expands her patented “avant-cabaret” sound to take on the acoustics of our atrium gallery with works for large ensemble and electronically processed voices. Neuburg, who has “scoped out her own territory in the gulf between pop and classical” (Village Voice), is joined by wild percussionist Moe! Staiano and a large chorus for an evening of wordless and nearly wordless songs.

Programmed by Sarah Cahill

Admission:

On L@TE Fridays, general admission to the BAM/PFA galleries is just $7 after 5 p.m. Show your ticket for a same-day PFA screening or gallery visit and get in to L@TE free. Admission is always free for BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

Contact:

Email - Bampfa@berkeley.edu

Phone -  (510) 642-0808

Make rainbows amid the sonic explorations of Collin McKelvey (Orbless) and a choir of voices at Land and Sea’s second ode to the sun. Artist Chris Duncan leads a prism-making workshop so everyone can take home a rainbow, Bay Area sound artist McKelvey performs a sonic response to Paul Kos's piece Sound of Ice Melting (on view in State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970), and the International Orange Chorale (hailed by San Francisco Clasical Voice as “spot-on spectacular”) sings in celebration of the fiery orb.

Admission is free for BAM/PFA Members, UC Students and Staff, Seniors, and Children 12 and under. 10$ for adults, and 7$ for Non UC students.

Museum of Modern Art Chief Curator for Media and Performance Art Sabine Breitwieser offers her response to State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 in a lively and informative gallery conversation with exhibition co-curator Constance M. Lewallen.

Have you ever heard the sound of ice melting? State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, part of Pacific Standard Time, offers an in-depth exploration of Conceptual art made by both Northern and Southern California artists during a pivotal period in contemporary art. The more than 150 works of art on display—many rarely seen or newly discovered—are organized by themes, such as the street, the body, politics, private/public space, and language/wordplay, that elucidate this dynamic era in our history and foreshadow the concerns of young artists working today.

This event is included with Museum admission.

Museum admission is free for BAM/PFA members, UC Students and Faculty (current and retired), and Children 12 and under. General Admission is $10 for adults and 7$ for non UC students, seniors, disabled, and young adults (13-17)

The California Baroque Ensemble is known for its extensive repertoire, including manuscripted cantatas and motets copied from microfisch with instrumental parts researched and found in libraries in Europe. Susan Erickson, harpsichord; Maquette Kuper, flute; Robert Samson Bloch, violin; Rejean Anderson, cello; Ruth Onstadt, soprano

Flutist Meerenai Shim will premiere a newly-commissioned composition by Daniel Felsenfeld. She will also perform compositions from her recent album, Sometimes the City is Silent. Appearing with Ms. Shim: cellist Rachel Turner Houk and pianist Lori Lack

Soprano Kerstin Fischer and pianist Miles Graber perform songs from the British Isles, circa 1880 to 1991. In recent years Ms. Fischer has devoted her musical study to the Art Song, or Lieder, genre, finding immense satisfaction with her role in the coordination and integration of composer, poet, accompanist and voice that is inherent in the form.

Open to artists living and/or working in the City of Berkeley. Approximately 30 artists will be selected through an open juried competition. Artwork will be exhibited in the Civic Center on all 5 floors for approximately one year.

Each selected artists will receive a $150 Honoraria and there will be a $3,000 Purchase Prize.

The entry fee is free and a free workshop on how to enter is loacted at the Berkeley Art Center on January 14th, 2012 at 4pm

(510) 644-6893

Lisa Sangita Moskow, virtuoso electric sarod player and East-West composer, will present an evening of imaginative creations with special guests from her ensembles. Sangita has been charting new territory with her music for 30 years, combining her long training with Ali Akbar Khan with modern sensibilities.

Karen Stackpole (gongs, percussion) and Cornelius Boots, (shakuhachi, taimu shakuhachi, throat vocals) use hauntingly beautiful acoustic instruments and methods to create “primordial easy-listening for dinosaurs”: slowly shifting elemental improvisations from fat flutes and huge gongs… all completely acoustic.