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This grant is designed to support graduate...Read more about Apply Now: Art + Climate Action Grant

To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to CICI Manager Breana George (cici@berkeley.edu). Include information on your schedule and availability.

Job Title: Communications and Media Intern...Read more about Now Hiring: Communications and Media Intern (Work Study)

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)

Welcome to BaySpark 2025: Youth Climate and Environmental Justice Summit! We're back for our 3rd year of BaySparks Youth Summit 2025 co-hosted by Marie Harrison Community Foundation and Leaders4EARTH.

Join us for a day of inspiration, learning, and...Read more about September 20, 2025: BaySpark 2025: Youth Climate and Environmental Justice Summit (Southeast Community Center, San Francisco)

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 NOW - September 28, 2025 : Fragile Earth: A Call to Action (Livermore Valley Arts)

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)

ERNST KAREL presents his multichannel, ongoing iterative work, Atmospheric Rivers. This piece’s subject is a key component of the global water cycle:...Read more about July 27, 2025: Ernst Karel- "Atmospheric Rivers" (West Oakland Sound Series)

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)

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)

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 NOW - February 22, 2026 : Young Bay Mud (San Jose Museum of Art)

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)