Performances

Full: The Longest Night

Poetry, live painting, and tarot readings to celebrate the full moon.

Full: Debussy Times Three

Acclaimed Bay Area percussionist, recording artist, and producer PC Muñoz returns to BAMPFA with an evening of Debussy’s legendary “Clair de Lune,” rendered in three completely different ways.

Full: Touch Bass

Touch Bass is a collaboration of choreographer Risa Jaroslow with bassist and composer Lisa Mezzacappa, featuring three dancers, three bassists, and three double basses in an exploration of our physical and emotional vulnerabilities.

Sister Spit: A Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Reunion Showcase

To celebrate queer feminist performance tour Sister Spit’s twenty-fifth anniversary, filmmaker Sini Anderson and award-winning author Michelle Tea bring together a dizzying array of literary talent for a cabaret-style event. Featured performers include Lynn Breedlove, Nicole J. Georges , Beth Lisick , Denne Michelle Norris, Kamala Puligandla , Brontez Purnell, and Vivek Shraya.

Full: Friction Quartet

It’s hard to believe that Friction Quartet, whose performances have been called “terribly beautiful” (San Francisco Classical Voice), has existed for only a decade. Since forming in 2011, Friction rapidly became a fixture in the Bay Area music scene.

Full: Mothers All

Actors Ensemble of Berkeley mounts its latest production, Mothers All.

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center

Berkeley’s Shawl-Anderson Dance Center presents four teen performance groups.

Ricardo Aleixo: Performance and Conversation

Brazilian poet and performer Ricardo Aleixo presents his work “FESTIM & The Others: Thirty Years of Intermedial Travels,” as part of his residency at UC Berkeley. Following his performance, the artist will be interviewed by curator Bernardo Mosquiera.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies.