Events at Berkeley

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.

Arts & culture

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

Dorrance Dance will perform their unique tap interpretation of the classical ballet to Duke Ellington’s The Nutcracker Suite on Dec. 14-15 at Cal Performances in Zellerbach Hall.

a panel of four Berkeley professors sit in front of an audience

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: How do we make better decisions?

A student walks through snow in a forest in the Sierra dragging a cut Christmas tree that is destined for a truck filled with other cut trees for the Forestry Club's annual Christmas tree sale on campus.

Campus & community

Forest fresh: Cal Forestry Club’s tree sale starts Sunday

From left: Marty Baron and Dean Baquet speak to an audience

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: Veteran news editors on how the media covered the election

Percival Everett speaks at a podium at a UC Berkeley event

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

Berkeley Talks: Computational folklorist on how storytelling becomes belief

Equity Leadership Now!: Chancellor Lyons on how Berkeley shaped his leadership style

four headshots of Robert Reich, Maria Echaveste, Janet Napolitano and Angela Glover Blackwell

Berkeley Talks: The future of American democracy

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

Illustration of Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky with

More Just: The role of election laws in the 2024 presidential contest

J.D. Vance and Charlie Kirk giving a talk on stage at an event with

Berkeley Talks: A return to monarchy? Bradley Onishi on Project 2025

(L to R) Nick Saban, Marshawn Lynch and Pat McAfee at the desk of ESPN's College GameDay.

See photos from ESPN College GameDay’s visit to UC Berkeley

the student section at a UC Berkeley football game in Memorial Stadium. A group of spirited students, some with

Everything you need to know about ESPN GameDay’s Saturday visit

About a dozen volunteer rescue workers wearing GoPro cameras on their white helmets, carry a person on a stretcher out of rubble in Syria

Berkeley Talks: With white helmets and GoPros, these volunteers risk it all in Syria’s civil war

Seven acrobatic performers dressed like pro wrestlers perform a scene in a ring

Circus arts meet pro wrestling in a raucous theatrical performance

Two students hold an Israeli flag and two students hold up a Palestinian flag standing next to one another on the Berkeley campus with at least one hundred students on Sproul Plaza in the background

Berkeley Talks: Legal scholars on free speech challenges facing universities today

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