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  Wednesday, Sep 1, 2021 7 PM (88 mins) BUY TICKETS Google Calendar ICS Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.   The Murder of Fred Hampton Howard Alk United States, 1971 Restored 35mm Print Introduction Melissa Charles Melissa Charles is the assistant director for African American Student Development at UC Berkeley. It’s the rare film that decades later can seem as timely as it was the day it came out. The searing documentary  The Murder of Fred Hampton  is such a film. KENNETH TURAN, LOS ANGELES TIMES Intending to chronicle the newly formed Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party, Michael Gray and Howard Alk documented founder Fred Hampton interacting with the Black community for nearly a year. The dynamic twenty-one-year-old inspired with his rallying cry, “I am a revolutionary,” but his statement “I believe I will be able to die as a revolutionary” proved disturbingly prescient. He was shot dead in his bed during a polic...

New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century August 28, 2021–January 30, 2022 New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century  is a major survey exploring recent feminist practices in contemporary art. In 1980 Lucy Lippard argued that feminist art is “neither a style nor a movement” but rather “a value system, a revolutionary strategy, a way of life.” Taking Lippard’s statement as a point of departure, the exhibition examines the values, strategies, and ways of life reflected in current feminist art. In keeping with Griselda Pollock’s observation that “feminism is a historical project and thus is itself constantly shaped and remodelled in relation to the living process of women’s struggles,”  New Time  aims to demonstrate that feminism in the twenty-first century is multifaceted, encompassing many complex issues and perspectives, and therefore cannot be reduced to a single subject, style, or agenda. Although artworks made since 2000 are the primary focus, the objects a...

  CineLatino: Ema Film - Series | September 10 – 17, 2021  every day  |  Virtual screening Sponsor:   Center for Latin American Studies We provide the film; you provide the popcorn! Join CLAS for a virtual film screening. Adoptive parents Ema and Gastón are artistic free spirits in a contemporary dance troupe whose lives are thrown into chaos when their adopted son Polo is involved in a shockingly violent incident. As their marriage crumbles in the wake of their decision to reverse the adoption, Ema embarks on an odyssey of liberation and self-discovery as she dances and seduces her way into a daring new life. Centering on the sinuous, electrifying art of reggaeton dance, Ema is an incendiary portrait of a woman on fire, the story of an artistic temperament forced to contend with societal pressure and the urge to conform. From one of Chile’s greatest living filmmakers, Pablo Larraín, this is a psychologically acute exhumation an unforgettable heroine w...

 Check out this exhibit at the Oakland Museum! Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism August 7, 2021–February 27, 2022 Afrofuturism is a lot of things. It’s the past, present, and future reimagined through a Black cultural lens. Visionary, spiritual, and generative, it is art, music, literature, and cinema that expresses a just future where Black people and Black ideas thrive. It is fantasy and science fiction that envisions the African Diaspora and Black culture as central in a technically advanced and culturally rich civilization. It is also the ordinary—now— in this very moment and the everyday pleasures that may often be seen as mundane. Afrofuturism is a strategy for Black community building.  Come with us on a fantastic journey into the heart of this movement with  Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism . As we reopen our doors after months of shelter-in-place,  Mothership  offers a powerful reason to gather and celebrate Black imagination. Experience the work...