Harun Farocki’s War at a Distance and Videos by Mahmoud Alhaj

Wed · Nov 4·2155 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 · Nov 4·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.

Wed · Nov 4·10 AM – 1 PM·Central Library · Berkeley

Browse the Berkeley History Room’s books, newspapers, maps, photographs, and city documents in the Central Library’s southeast corner of the 2nd‑floor Fiction Reading Room, ages 18 and up.

Wed · Nov 4·11 AM – 4 PM·2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

Nancy Lee Katz: A Private Pantheon (2121 Allston Way, Berkeley) — 133 portraits of artists, writers, musicians and thinkers including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Sondheim, Maya Lin, Roy Lichtenstein.

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.