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Pianist Lara Downes laughs at a grand piano while sharing the stage with artistic director Terrance Kelly and members of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir during their performance at Zellerbach Hall.

Berkeley Talks: Musician Lara Downes celebrates the sound of America

May 15, 2026

Kelly Mou performs on a dark stage, wearing a headlamp and overalls covered in buttons. She looks upward with an intense, focused expression, holding a glowing green orb high in one hand while her other hand is tensed at her side.

Being on stage terrified her. So she majored in theater.

May 12, 2026

An array of book covers from the 2026 UC Berkeley Summer Reading List, including titles like The Serviceberry, Crying in H Mart, Belonging, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? against a pale background.

UC Berkeley Summer Reading List: Books that bring us together

May 6, 2026

Tania Lopez

From L.A. to the East Bay, a student finds her Oaxacan community at Berkeley

April 30, 2026

A group of dancers in black costumes are clustered together against a bright red background, holding long, looped black flexible tubes that fan out to create the shape of a large, abstract flower or organism.

120 years of artistry: Cal Performances announces its 2026-27 season

April 28, 2026

A split image featuring a portrait of author Savala Nolan on the left and her book cover,

Voices Carry: Savala Nolan on ‘Good Woman: A Reckoning’ - Audio

April 21, 2026

Actors Jessie Buckley portraying Agnes Hathaway and William Shakespeare in the film

Why we still can’t get enough of Shakespeare after all these centuries

April 20, 2026

Dancers in flower crowns and muted tones leap across a stage holding wine glasses, performing before a tall, hay-covered Maypole in the Joffrey Ballet’s production of Alexander Ekman’s Swedish solstice celebration.

The Nordic folklore behind the Joffrey Ballet’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’

April 17, 2026

Vintage hand-drawn map of the UC Berkeley campus titled

Go back in time with these five vintage Berkeley maps

April 3, 2026

Student Momoka Yanagisawa plays a violin from the Salz Collection during practice of the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra

Music department seeks to expand private lessons amid surging student demand

April 1, 2026

Black-and-white photo of the punk band Sluglords performing outdoors. A guitarist in a plaid shirt jumps mid-air on a wooden stage while the drummer and another guitarist play behind him.

From Sproul Plaza to 924 Gilman: How the East Bay helped define punk’s radical legacy

March 23, 2026

An 18th-century oil painting of a theatrical or social scene featuring a woman in a white gown and a man in a dark frock coat. To the right, a small Black figure is positioned behind a table, surrounded by onlookers in period dress.

Berkeley Talks: How 17th-century moveable scenery shaped modern theater - Audio

March 20, 2026

Film curator Kate MacKay next to a frame grab from a psychedelic film

Psychedelic film series at BAMPFA opens doors to other worlds - Video

March 17, 2026

A UC Berkeley professor and students arrange artifacts for the student-led exhibition on Etruscan civilization

UC Berkeley Library opens student-led exhibition on Etruscan civilization

March 10, 2026

a dramatic black-and-white photo of Joyce DiDonato gently looking toward the sky with her hands lifting up, with the three strings musicians from the group Time for Three in the background.

How Emily Dickinson’s musical poetry pushes us to live more expansively

February 2, 2026

four small unfired clay figures depicting European merchants sit side by side in a line. You can see enormous attention to detail in the details on their coats, hands, hair and eyes.

In 18th‑century China, these artists made Europeans’ portraits. Only now are their identities emerging.

January 29, 2026