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Back to Viet Nam: The Legacy of War At the Berkeley Public Library

June 12, 2013 in Central Branch, Discussion, Slide Show by LibraryNews | Permalink

Contact: Jef Findley
Berkeley History Room Specialist
510-981-6148

 

For Immediate Release
June 11, 2013

 

Back to Viet Nam: The Legacy of War
At the Berkeley Public Library

This is a slideshow and discussion presented by Dr. Judy Gumbo Albert presented in the 3rd floor Community Meeting Room at Berkeley’s Central Library, 2090 Kittredge Street, at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday July 14, 2013.  This slideshow chronicles her trip as an anti-war activist to North Viet Nam in 1970 and her return trip in 2013 to help a unified Viet Nam celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords.  Judy uses slides and commentary to probe the past and current legacy of that war.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library (www.berkeleylibraryfriends.org), the free Slide Show & Discussion program at the Central Library takes place on Sunday July 14, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.

For questions and accessibility information, call 510-981-6107, TTY 510-548-1240, www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org.

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Form + Function @ Library A Weeklong Celebration of Mid-Century Modernism at the Berkeley Public Library

March 29, 2013 in Film event, Slide Show, Talk, Workshop by LibraryNews | Permalink

Contact: Dayna Holz or Michele McKenzie
Art & Music Department
510-981-6241

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 29, 2013
For a series of events celebrating Modern Design, May 5-12

 

Form + Function @ Library
A Weeklong Celebration of Mid-Century Modernism
at the Berkeley Public Library

 

Slide lectures, film screenings, a filmmaker Q&A, and a mobile-building workshop, make up a week of activities celebrating mid-century modern architecture and design in California and the Bay Area.  Form + Function @ Library: A Celebration of California Mid-Century Modernism runs from Sunday, May 5th to Sunday, May 12, at the Central Library, 2090 Kittredge St. at Shattuck in downtown Berkeley, and includes:

 

Sunday, May 5, at 1:30 p.m.: Eames: The Architect and The Painter with Jason Cohn

Documentary filmmaker Jason Cohn discusses his film, Eames: The Architect and The Painter (co-produced by Bill Jersey and Jason Cohn, 2011, 84 min.). Following the screening of the film, Mr. Cohn will be available for a Q&A session with the audience.

 

Monday, May 6, at 6:30 p.m.: Architecture at Mid-Century in East Bay Land: Standards and Surprises From the Post-War Repertoire with Pierluigi Serraino

Pierluigi Serraino, architect and author of such books as NorCalMod (Chronicle Books, 2006) and the forthcoming Donald Olsen: Architect of Habitable Abstractions, will give an illustrated lecture on mid-century modern architecture in the East Bay.

 

Saturday, May 11, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.: The Films of Charles and Ray Eames

Drop-in to see one or more of the short films from the series The Films of Charles and Ray Eames.  These groundbreaking shorts showcase the breadth and depth of interests explored on film by the Eames’ between 1950 and 1982.

 

Saturday, May 11, at 3:00 p.m.:  Thoroughly Modern Mid-Century Mobiles

A mobile-building workshop for kids ages 6 and up. Participants will learn about Alexander Calder’s mobiles and how to make simple, mid-century-inspired designs to hang at home.

 

Sunday, May 12, 2p.m.: Berkeley: A Modern Mecca with David Weinstein

David Weinstein, historian, preservationist, features editor for CA Modern magazine, and author of such works as It Came from Berkeley: How Berkeley Changed the World (Gibbs Smith, 2008), will conduct an informal pictorial tour of the greatest modern homes in and around Berkeley.

 

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.  For more information, call 510-981-6241 or connect  www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org and berkeleypubliclibrary.libguides.com/formfunction.

Berkeley’s Central Library is open Monday 12 noon until 8 p.m., Tuesday 10 a.m. until 8 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., and Sunday afternoons from 1 p.m. till 5 p.m. For more info please call 510-981-6100 or visit www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org. Wheelchair accessible. To request a sign language interpreter or other accommodations for this event, please call (510) 981-6195 (voice) or (510) 548-1240 (TTY); at least three working days will help ensure availability. Please refrain from wearing scented products to public programs.

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Soul Calling: ­­A Photographic Journey Through The Hmong Diaspora, Slideshow and Booktalk Event

September 19, 2012 in BookTalk, Slide Show by LibraryNews | Permalink

For Immediate Release
September 18, 2012

Contact: Isobel Schneider
(Tel: 510-981-6150)

SOUL­ CALLING: ­­A Photographic Journey Through The Hmong Diaspora, a new book presented with a free slideshow by author and award-winning photographer Joel Pickford at the Berkeley Public Library.­ Special guest presentation of HOLGA photography works by Banteay Srei, an organization dedicated to supporting young Southeast Asian women impacted by sexual exploitation.

This free program will be held Saturday, October 6th, 2012 at 2:00pm in the 3rd floor Community Meeting Room of the Central Branch of the Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge St., Berkeley.

From the rice harvests and funerals of remote Hmong villages in the mountains of Laos to the shamanic ceremonies and overflowing apartment-complex vegetable gardens of Hmong Americans living in Fresno, writer and photographer Joel Pickford leads us into a world of deep-rooted custom and the harsh realities of cultural adaptation. His exquisite photographs and intimate stories take us into living rooms and through the memories of a remarkable people, so recently displaced from their traditional homeland by the traumas of the Vietnam War.

Joel Pickford is an award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and author born and raised in California’s San Joaquin Valley. His work can be seen at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Fresno Art Museum, among other collections. His documentary films have been broadcast on PBS stations throughout the country. In 2005, Joel received grants from the California Council for the Humanities and the James Irvine Foundation to document the Hmong refugee culture of Central California and Northern Laos. He holds an interdisciplinary master’s degree in Documentary Studies and Southeast Asian Studies at California State University, Fresno. His scholarly research also includes ethnographic fieldwork on the Laotian language and culture.

Banteay Srei, based in Oakland, CA, works with young Southeast Asian women at risk for sexual exploitation. It provides social support, healing arts, reproductive health education, life skills-building, and leadership development. For more information go to http://www.girlsempoweringthemselves.com/pages/index2.html.

Eastwind Books of Berkeley will provide books for sale at the event.  Portion of book sales will be donated to Banteay Srei (Bahn-tea-ay Suh-ray) *, a non-profit Asian Health Center project in Oakland.

The Central Library is open Monday, noon-8 p.m., Tuesday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sunday afternoons from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.  For questions and accessibility information, call 510-981-6195, TTY 510-548-1240, http://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org.

 

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