Our Life is Here Events

We are pleased to present a lineup of programs and events that provide opportunities to engage with the Our Life is Here project and its themes.

A postcard listing upcoming Our Life is Here exhibits. All program information is detailed below.

Installations


August 26, 2026 - January 24, 2027

Teaching Gallery: Artists on Colonization, Nuclear Legacies, and Climate Crisis

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

September 1, 2026 - March 2027

Remembering the Future: Nuclear Testing, Rising Seas, and the Marshall Islands

Photographs by Mark Klett and text by William L. Fox

Giannini Hall


September 21, 2026 - March 2, 2027

Exhibition: Komij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here

Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Library

Please check library schedule for open hours.

September 20 - 23, 2026

MEJENKWAAD
Photographs by Michael Light

Memorial Glade

October 5 - November 24, 2026

Video Installation
Pieces by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Michael Light, Michael Pinsky and David Buckland.  Compilation produced by Jordan Dozzi.

Worth-Ryder Gallery, Anthropology and Art Practice Building

A picture of a program postcard for Our Life is Here events. All program details listed below

Events/Programs

September 22, 2026

Opening Reception: Kõmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here

4:30 - 7 PM
Morrison Room, Doe Library 
RSVP Here


September 23, 2026

Remembering the Future - Artist Led Tour with Mark Klett and William L. Fox

4:00 - 5:00 PM
Giannini Hall
Register Here

September 23, 2026

Film Screening: Kõmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here

5:15 - 8:00 PM
Northgate Hall - UC Berkeley School of Journalism
Register Here

October 16, 2026

Planting Oceania Workday
3 PM
Gill Tract Community Farm/Hekšen Creek
email Kourtney Kawano (kckawano@berkeley.edu) for more information

November 23, 2026

Book Talk: Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, and US Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania

Mary X. Mitchel (Rutgers University)
3:30 PM
2223 Philosophy Hall