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The Book of Light Poetry Series is proud to present Rachel Richardson reading and signing copies of her new book, Smother: Poems

In this searching, defiant collection, award-winning poet Rachel Richardson takes up the existential losses of climate change...Read more about August 28, 2025: "Smother" Poetry Reading with Rachel Richardson (Books Inc., Alameda)

The Jingwei Bird explores the complexity of climate change and our relationship to the planet through multi-disciplinary performances with...Read more about July 31, 2025: The Jingwei Bird: Music & Poetry (San Francisco Public Library)

Livermore Valley Arts presents an exhibition called FRAGILE EARTH: A Call to Action at the UNCLE Credit Union Art Gallery at the Bankhead Theater July 31 through September 28, 2025.

A Quest Science Center Collaboration

Fragile Earth: A Call to Action is an art...Read more about July 31 - September 28, 2025 : Fragile Earth: A Call to Action (Livermore Valley Arts)

The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs is pleased to announce the publication of the first issue of volume eight of Critical Times, published by Duke University Press at...Read more about Announcing Volume 8, Issue 1 of Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory

An evening designed to spark reflection on consumer waste, environmental pollution, and climate change through dance performance, interactive installations, and hands-on workshops. The event aims to create accessible and engaging entry points into difficult conversations about...Read more about July 26. 2025: Consume (Jettison Arts Foundation)

What’s better than diving into a great book about advancing climate progress through collective action?

This summer, join us at the KQED Climate Book Club. We’ll be reading Adina Merenlender and Brendan Buhler’s...Read more about July 17, 2025- Climate Book Club- "Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California" (KQED)

The chaos produced by our changing climate is steadily increasing. Poetry can be both solace and activism. Poets Molly Fisk...Read more about July 17, 2025: California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology Reading (San Francisco Public Library)

Rising Seas shares the joys and concerns of living on an island amid a climate crisis through a series of free public art performances of live music, dance and theater.

Live Performance Event Dates:
Saturdays, 1:00-4:00pm:...Read more about July 12: Rising Seas (Rhythmix Cultural Works / Rising Tides Climate Arts Initiative)

Young bay mud—a scientific term for ecologically rich and water-saturated deposits that are less than ten thousand years old—underlies much of the San Francisco Bay Area. A ground that uniquely encourages biodiversity but resists human development, young bay mud shapes human experience...Read more about July 11, 2025 - February 22, 2026 : Young Bay Mud (San Jose Museum of Art)

Through paintings, immersive video, photographs, and historical artifacts, curator and historian Stacey Carter highlights the shipyard’s layered history of labor, war, and environmental impact.

From the first and largest commercial drydock on the...Read more about NOW - August 2, 2025: DECOMMISSIONED The History of Hunters Point Shipyard (Hunter's Point Shipyard)

We are pleased to announce the return of the Critical Times blog, In the Midst...Read more about Relaunch of Critical Times Blog, In the Midst

The Brower Center’s 2025 annual local exhibition, Object [Im]Permanence, features five jury-selected Northern California artists challenging structural norms of disposability and their impact on the planet: ...Read more about Now - August 21 : Object [Im]Permanence (David Brower Center)

Dentro de ti: Desire & Consumption in the Anthropocene is an exhibition by queer Peruvian artist Andrea Sifuentes Hernandez, presented by the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California. Through drypoint prints and mixed media such as embossing and powder, the artist explores her...Read more about Now - August 21 : Andrea Sifuentes Hernandez- "Dentro de ti: Desire and Consumption in the Anthropocene" (David Brower Center)

Berkeley Discovery fosters equitable access to the core of the university’s mission: research toward the creation and stewardship...Read more about Call for Graduate Discovery Fellows

In an age of aggressive partisanship and escalating political hostility, the concept of empathy has re-emerged as both a locus of political hope and an object of critical interrogation with regard to its political utility. This conference invites graduate students and early-career...Read more about LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities Call for Papers: Revisiting Empathy: Political Affects in Times of Cruelty October 3-4, 2025, UC Berkeley

The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry is pleased to partner with the Institute for European Studies, the Jean Monnet Center of Excelence, and the Department of French to present, "No Border: A Sylvain George Retrospective." The series of film screenings will take place April 27 - 30...Read more about "No Border: A Sylvain George Retrospective" - April 27- 30, 2025

Bordered Life and the Right to Move
April 25 - 26, 2025
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
UC Berkeley...Read more about Announcing Bordered Life and the Right To Move: April 25 and 26, 2025

The David Brower Center’ presents, Art/Act: Youth—Symbiotic Cities, in which students explore the importance of blue and green spaces in urban areas Over 200 local students from Berkeley, Richmond, and Skyline High Schools contributed to this show....Read more about Now - May 15, 2025: Art/Act: Youth - Symbiotic Cities Exhibition Opening (David Brower Center)