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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)

The LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities exchange program with Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich facilitates academic exchange of faculty members, graduate students, and postdocs through visiting appointments, conferences, and workshops. The program, which is coordinated at UC...Read more about LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities: Call for Applications for the 2026 Funding Period

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 May 31, 2025: Rising Seas (Rhythmix Cultural Works / Rising Tides Climate Arts Initiative)

In Plain Site, a photography festival, features collections from international and local photographers whose work illuminates pathways to a more climate positive future. Mounted on and around the shipping containers of the Radium Runway outdoor event space, the exhibit...Read more about May 9 - June 1, 2025: In Plain Site: A Photographic Call for a Climate Positive Future (Rising Tides Climate Art Initiative)

The Sausalito Center for the Arts [presents] an enlightening journey through thought-provoking artworks, motivational lectures, and compelling films that explore the intersection of ocean debris, scorched earth, extinction, and sea level rise.

These crises are not mere isolated...Read more about May 16 - June 9, 2025: Eco Evolution: Empower for Change (Saulsalito Center for the Arts)

Produced by AMP with Fair Director Kelly Freeman working in partnership with Artistic Director Nato Thompson, San Francisco Art Fair will present 85 leading galleries from around the world alongside a dynamic series of public programming this April 2025 at Fort Mason...Read more about April 17 - 20, 2025: San Francisco Art Fair

Sovereign Waters: Defending the Rights of Nature in the Bay and Beyond (Climate Control)
Thursday, April 17, 2025
7:30PM, Virtual

Join Pennie Opal Plant of Movement Rights and Quetza Ramirez of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature in...Read more about April 17, 2025: Sovereign Waters: Defending the Rights of Nature in the Bay and Beyond (Climate Control)

To Those Who Create the Future
Davey Whitcraft

Exhibition: February 1 to March 29, 2025
Artist Reception: Saturday, March 1, from 5-7pm

Themes + Projects
1275 Minnesota Street,...Read more about Now - March 29, 2025: "To Those Who Create the Future," Davey Whitcraft (Themes + Projects)

Alter Eco
Sarita Doe
1 March 2025 — 26 April 2025

Exhibit Opening: March 1, 2025, 1 - 5 PM

Climate Control
2831 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA
Open Fridays and...Read more about March 1: Exhibition Opening, "Alter Eco," Sarita Doe (Climate Control)

This exhibition is the second in a series highlighting contemporary Bay Area artists in [the de Young] collection. The installation explores how artists relate to their environments...Read more about Now - November 30, 2025: About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift (de Young Museum)

Applications for The Psychedelics in Society and Culture Fellowship (PiSC) Program Due March 16, 2025

...Read more about Apply for the Psychedelics in Society and Culture Fellowship Program

On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 2323 Broadway, Oakland, CA the Critical Ecology Lab invites community members, community organizations, activists, Black scientists and environmental leaders to join us for an exciting day filled with music, art, science, interactive experiences, and critical...Read more about February 15, 2025: Eco-Afro Futures: From Seeds to the Stars (Critical Ecology Lab)

Villa Albertine, in partnership with the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Engie Foundation, are pleased to present a one-of-a-kind residency dedicated to natural and environmental heritage.

Marie-Sarah Adenis and Cyrielle Gulacsy are...Read more about February 11, 2025: Meet the Residents: "Microbial Mythology," Marie-Sarah Adenis & Cyrielle Gulacsy (Villa Albertine)

The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs is pleased to announce the publication of the third issue of volume seven of Critical Times, published by Duke University Press at ...Read more about Announcing Volume 7, Issue 3 of Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory

Hello Colleagues and Students,

Well, the year 2025 has begun, and with it, an array of expected and unexpected “projects.” As I take over the reins from Professors Linda Rugg and Gregory Levine who so expertly led EAHI...Read more about Welcome Back from EAHI

Dear CICI community,

Welcome to the Spring semester, we hope you’ve had a restorative break. In these turbulent times, I take comfort in the knowledge that we have the analytic and imaginative resources across campus and at CICI to help us navigate the flood...Read more about Welcome Back: Spring 2025