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First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.

First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.
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Pet photo submissions create a Día de los Muertos ofrenda displayed at the North Branch Library, honoring pets who have crossed the Rainbow Bridge, ages 18 and up.
Cal Berkeley men's swimming & diving faces CSL Wild Card at a neutral site in Indianapolis.
Cal Berkeley women's swimming & diving meets CSL Wild Card at a neutral site in Indianapolis.
Graduate students from African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art guide tours of Maren Hassinger’s Living Moving Growing exhibition, free on First Thursdays.
Screening the first three episodes of Maurice Pialat’s WWI miniseries La maison des bois at BAMPFA.
The Arch (BAMPFA) — A Ming dynasty widow, praised for poetic beauty, faces temptation from a soldier, exploring propriety, tradition, and repression.
4K restoration of Maurice Pialat’s *La maison des bois* Episodes 4–7 screens at BAMPFA.
Jean‑Luc Godard’s second film, Le petit soldat, screens at BAMPFA, tracing a disillusioned French counteragent’s entanglement with Algerian separatists, Parisian torturers, and Anna Karina.