Upcoming Events
Opening Reception and Conversation with the Artists
Works by Amy Franceschini and Fernando García-Dory
Presented by the David Brower Center
Thursday, February 9
5:30 p.m. Wine Reception
7:00 p.m. Finding a Trail: Art & Social Practice - conversation with the artists in the Goldman Theater
Join us for the opening of the Center’s winter exhibition, featuring works by Amy Franceschini (San Francisco, CA) and Fernando García-Dory (Madrid, Spain).
Using social practice methods such as direct engagement with communities, both artists explore themes related to humankind's collaboration with the land. In particular, they are interested in how the development of contemporary cities has affected traditional land use such as farming and shepherding, as well as how such agrarian practices can exist within the contemporary world.
Learn more about the exhibition here.
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Afternoon Screening and Social
Presented by the David Brower Center
Saturday, February 11
4:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
In the Hazel Wolf Gallery and Goldman Theater
Join the artists featured in the Brower Center's current exhibition, Amy Franceschini and Fernando García-Dory, and the Greenhorns for a screening of OUR LAND, a documentary exploring the lives of America's young farming community – its spirit, practices, and needs. Stay for a dialogue and a spread of locally grown food.
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All the Rest is Wasteland: Art in the Post-Agrarian Landscape
Presented with The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of the Berkeley Center for New Media
Monday, February 13
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (program begins at 7:30 p.m.)
In the Goldman Theater
Outside of the metropolis, rural areas are increasingly becoming contested zones where the most pressing issues of our time are being played out … environmental sustainability, global economics versus local economies, issues of food production and genetic modification, and cultural commodification. García-Dory’s experimental intervention in rural Spain, called "Inland / Campo Adentro," questions the role of creativity and arts, and the artist’s function, as grounds for a new genre of landscape.
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Progressive Opportunities
Presented by East Bay Express
Sunday, February 26
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
In the Goldman Theater
Progressive Opportunities explores some of our region’s most pressing economic challenges and offers a range of solutions for building a more just and sustainable economy. Presentations include alternative business models, responsible investing, bikenomics, alternative currencies, localization movement, smart growth, crowd funding, banking, redevelopment funds, and more!
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