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Sarah Gold McBride and Christine Palmer face one another at a desk, smiling at each other, conveying their close friendship

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Berkeley Voices: From Victorian-era letters to Swiftie bracelets, an evolution of American friendship

An American studies class at UC Berkeley explores how the depiction of friendship in popular culture and media has shifted throughout history, and what it looks like today.

Two actors, who play Jinzo and Catherine in the opera Both Eyes Open, kneel together, holding hands

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For 50 years, he’s written about the Japanese American internment. Now, he’s turning to opera.

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This BAMPFA documentary series explores the unseen side of climate change

art student gericault de la rose works on an art installation in 2023

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UC Berkeley awarded $2.6 million grant to counter arts censorship

Berkeley Journalism faculty and alumni shortlisted for Academy Awards

Berkeley Talks: Poet Ocean Vuong on disobedience and the power of language

Two musicians in the UC Nu Jazz Collective play guitar onstage in the emsemble at a performance at Wu Hall, a new venue in Morrison Hall. The students are seated with music stands in front of them and their amplified guitars in their grasp.

Musical gifts: New campus performance hall, an unprecedented surge in music majors

Two young girls sit closely together in this scene from the HBO series

No. 1 book of the century, ‘My Brilliant Friend’, is subject of UC Berkeley research, courses

about a dozen dancers in the nutcracker suite perform on stage. six are wearing rat masks and dancing around a group of dancers who look frightened.

The Sugar Rum Fairy? A freewheeling, jazzy reimagination of ‘The Nutcracker’

An extended family (grandparents, mother, small child, father) eat. and serve Thanksgiving table in this black-and-white photograph.

How to think about Thanksgiving like a food historian

Poulomi Saha stands in front of a huge fireplace surrounded with decorative wrought iron.

Berkeley Voices: As crises escalate, so does our fascination with cults

Percival Everett speaks at a podium at a UC Berkeley event

‘James’ author Percival Everett discusses his ‘Huckleberry Finn’ retelling at a campus event

a student sits at a voter registration table and smiles as another student approaches

Library’s trove of voter data is ‘a window into how our democracy functions’

UC Berkeley professor of psychology looks at a still frame from the Pixar film 'Inside Out 2'

UC Berkeley professor breaks down the science of ‘Inside Out 2’

A screenshot of a scene in Inkwo for When the Starving Return that shows a girl looking out on a field of beautiful purple flowers with an ominous-looking forest ahead.

Stop-motion animator creates immersive worlds for Indigenous stories

BERKELEY, CA - October 26 - Atmosphere at Shah Garg Collection at BAMPFA on October 26th 2024 at BAMFA in Berkeley, CA (Photo - Drew Altizer Photography)

One of the world’s largest collections of work by women artists is now on view at BAMPFA

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