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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)

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)

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- Climate Book Club- "Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California" (KQED)

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

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

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)

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

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