Friday, November 18, 3:30pm
BAMPFA, Cal Performances, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities present
To What End
Visual Lecture by William Kentridge

Friday, March 10, 8pm
Cal Performances presents
Ursonate
Performed by William Kentridge

Thursday, March 16, 12pm
A livestream of UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design class with
William Kentridge and Judith Butler:
Video Art and Social Intervention: Forms of Life

Friday, March 17, 7pm
Saturday, March 18, 8pm
Sunday, March 19, 3pm
Cal Performances presents
William Kentridge’s SIBYL (music: Nhlanhla Mahlangu, Kyle Shepherd; US premiere)
Part 1: The Moment Has Gone
Part 2: Waiting for the Sibyl

Friday, March 17, 2023
Cal Performances’ 2023 Gala
Honoring William Kentridge

March 9–April 2, 2023
BAMPFA presents
A William Kentridge Film Retrospective

Event Page >

Press Release, Oct 31, 2022 >
Press Release, Feb 6, 2023 (updated March 20) >

William Kentridge residency
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Caption: The University of California, Berkeley and Cal Performances present a campus-wide residency with world-renowned, multi-disciplinary artist William Kentridge over the course of the 2022–23 academic year.
(credit: Stella Olivier)
William Kentridge UC Berkeley Residency
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Caption: The University of California, Berkeley and Cal Performances present a campus-wide residency with world-renowned, multi-disciplinary artist William Kentridge over the course of the 2022–23 academic year.
Pictured: A William Kentridge Film Restrospective takes place at BAMPFA, April-March 2023. (Details to be announced by February 2023 at bampfa.org.)
(credit: Marc Shoul)
William Kentridge UC Berkeley Residency
PHOTO 3
Caption: The University of California, Berkeley and Cal Performances present a campus-wide residency with world-renowned, multi-disciplinary artist William Kentridge over the course of the 2022–23 academic year.
Pictured: William Kentridge in his Joahannesburg studio.
(credit: Marc Shoul)
William Kentridge
PHOTO 4
Caption: The University of California, Berkeley and Cal Performances present a campus-wide residency with world-renowned, multi-disciplinary artist William Kentridge over the course of the 2022–23 academic year.
(credit: Stella Olivier)
William Kentridge UC Berkeley Residency
PHOTO 5
Caption: The University of California, Berkeley and Cal Performances present a campus-wide residency with world-renowned, multi-disciplinary artist William Kentridge over the course of the 2022–23 academic year.
pictured: William Kentridge performs Kurt Schwitters' Dadist poem "Ursonate" March 10 at Zellerbach Playhouse.
(credit: Stella Olivier)
William Kentridge Residency
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Caption: Cal Performances presents William Kentridge performing Kurt Schwitters’ seminal 1932 Dadaist sound poem "Ursonate" at the Zellerbach Playhouse, March 10, 2023
(credit: Paula Court)
Joanna Dudley
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Caption: Cal Performances presents A Guided Tour of the Exhibition: For Soprano and Handbag Performed by Joanna Dudley at the Zellerbach Playhouse, March 15, 2023
(credit: Bohumil Kostohryz)
Joanna Dudley
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Caption: Cal Performances presents A Guided Tour of the Exhibition: For Soprano and Handbag Performed by Joanna Dudley at the Zellerbach Playhouse, March 15, 2023
(credit: Bohumil Kostohryz)