Free First Thursday

Thu · Nov 5·North Branch · Berkeley

Pet photo submissions create a Día de los Muertos ofrenda displayed at the North Branch Library, honoring pets who have crossed the Rainbow Bridge, ages 18 and up.

Thu · Nov 5·Indianapolis, IN · Berkeley

Cal Berkeley men's swimming & diving faces CSL Wild Card at a neutral site in Indianapolis.

Thu · Nov 5·Indianapolis, IN · Berkeley

Cal Berkeley women's swimming & diving meets CSL Wild Card at a neutral site in Indianapolis.

Thu · Nov 5·2155 Center Street Berkeley, CA

Graduate students from African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art guide tours of Maren Hassinger’s Living Moving Growing exhibition, free on First Thursdays.

Wed · Oct 28·12:15 PM·BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704

Exhibition tour of Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA collection at BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley.

Wed · Oct 28·7 PM – 9 PM·BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704

Our Sister Hedy (BAMPFA) — Four grown sisters navigate tangled marriage plots in a charming dramedy, with director Doe Ching’s perfectly cast performances.

Thu · Oct 29·7 PM·BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704

BAMPFA screens Naeem Mohaiemen’s A Missing Can of Film (2025) and Zahir Raihan’s Stop Genocide (1971), a Soviet‑Realist style documentary of the Bangladesh Liberation War.