Downtown Berkeley Arts

City of Berkeley Presents: Movies in the Park | All Ages | Free

Codornices Park 1201 Euclid Ave, Berkeley, Ca 94708, Berkeley, CA, United States

Join us to watch some of your favorite movies under the stars! Enjoy all the fun of a drive-in movie at one of your beautiful local parks. A large portable 20’ x 12’ inflatable movie screen and premium audio visual movie equipment for outdoor cinemas make Movies in the Park a spectacular event. Please arrive at…

BAMPFA Presents: Five Tables of Collaboration

BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

In art—as in many things—going it alone has its advantages, but collaboration, whether fraught or harmonious, gets amazing things done. Works on view this session: a dozen Qing dynasty artists (including Gong Xian and Hongren) and an equal number of calligraphers combine in a stellar album of Chinese landscapes; Hiroshige and Hokusai get credit for…

Free

Free Outdoor Summer Cinema: A Hard Day’s Night

BAMPFA Outdoor Screen Addison and Oxford, Berkeley, CA, United States

A Hard Day’s Night: Free Outdoor Screening! Thursday July 11th, 7PM The combination of the Beatles’ music, Lester’s use of techniques assocaiated with cinema verite and the French New Wave in a hybrid documentary/fictional form. More info here

Free

Meditation in Motion: Zen Calligraphy from the Stuart Katz Collection

BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

Meditation in Motion: Zen Calligraphy from the Stuart Katz Collection is the first exhibition at BAMPFA to present the unique art form of Japanese Zen-inspired calligraphy. It features several important works by Chinese Ōbaku monks who immigrated to Japan, as well as a selection of writings by Japanese monks who followed and expanded on their…

DJ Yuka Yu on the Plaza

Downtown Berkeley Plaza Berkeley, CA, United States

Hailing from Taipei, Taiwan, a city with a thriving nightlife that goes until the wee hours of the morning, Yuka grew up with the birth of the electronic music scene in Asia in the late 90s. Taiwan is a renegade democratic island that become independent from China. She is Taiwanese, Dutch, and Japanese. She began…

Free

Films at The Freight: Muscle Shoals

Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

Films at The Freight With special thanks to the Friends of the Freight, come celebrate a new screen and projector while enjoying our superb sound system composed of speakers and amplifiers exclusively designed and installed by Meyer Sound Labs of Berkeley with the Films at The Freight! For more information click here

$7 – $9

BAMPFA Presents: Monterey Pop: Free Outdoor Screening!

BAMPFA 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

D. A. Pennebaker United States, 1968 “The first great pop festival, the first great festival film” (Greil Marcus). With legendary performances by Otis Redding, the Mamas and the Papas, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Scott McKenzie, Hugh Masekela, Canned Heat, Jefferson Airplane, the Animals, Ravi Shankar, and Janis Joplin, Monterey Pop celebrates the inclusive power of…

BAMPFA Outdoor Summer Cinema: Montery Pop

BAMPFA Outdoor Screen Addison and Oxford, Berkeley, CA, United States

Monterey Pop: Free Outdoor Screening! Thursday August 8th, 7PM “The first great pop festival, the first great festival film” (Greil Marcus). Monterey Pop celebrates the inclusive power of popular music and epitomizes the optimism of the summer of love. More info here

Free

The Freight & Salvage Presents: Films at the Freight: Woodstock

Freight & Salvage 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

Films at The Freight "With special thanks to the Friends of the Freight, come celebrate a new screen and projector while enjoying our superb sound system composed of speakers and amplifiers exclusively designed and installed by Meyer Sound Labs of Berkeley with the Films at The Freight!" "A great way to enjoy music, film and…

$7 – $9