PROMPTS FOR INCLUSION: INCLUSION AS RESISTANCE W/RELATED TACTICS

BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE

Join Christian L. Frock, Micah Bazant, and Related Tactics Collective for a series of readings and an informal dialogue about how we can foster greater inclusion in public life as a means of resistance in an atmosphere of exclusion.

Free Risograph posters created by each of the participants and produced by BAMPFA will be available.
With thanks to Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Director Lawrence Rinder and artist David Wilson.

PUBLIC LECTURE W/RELATED TACTICS

*JANUARY 26 (7-9PM) WOLFMAN BOOKSTORE, OAKLAND, CA FEEDBACK LOOP

Please join us for a reading of original writing from a eleven writers who have been workshopping together in Michele Carlson's living room. Readers include: Sita Bhaumik, Victoria Gannon, Elena Gross, Mailee Hung, Kim Nguyen, Tamara Porras, Damali Robertson, Vivian Sming.

Dodie Bellamy is many things,and one of them is a teacher. In the context of her college courses or her informal writing workshops, she has mentored hundreds of younger writers,which has inevitably left a mark on parts of the Bay Area's literature and poetry community. 

Linda Bakke, Michele Carlson,Victoria Gannon, Carlos Jackson, and Ismail Muhammadhave all studied with Bellamy -some recently and others not so recently. They come together to read their work, and, by extension, to provide an introduction to a new generations of Bay Area writers and poets.

Listen to reading.

*OCTOBER 10 (6:30-8PM), MINNESOTA STREET PROJECTS, SFADA: ART CRITICISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE

A panel discussion featuring San Francisco Chronicle art critic Charles Desmarais, Art Practical director Michele Carlson and art writer DeWitt Cheng, moderated by Patricia Maloney, director of Southern Exposure. Join us for a lively discussion on contemporary approaches to art criticism in the evolving art ecosystem. The panelists will explore current and future channels for critical discourse -- print & online publications, podcasts, social media – and address issues relevant to art critics and their audiences today. How does one write about the physical experience of artwork when audiences are increasingly getting their art virtually? How can one maintain focus on aesthetic values, when much of the readership is focused on market values? Panelists will explore the shifting relevancy in art of social engagement, identity politics and affirmative action in times of crisis. They’ll also be asked whether or not, as art critics, they see the Bay Area as an incubator for globally recognized art.