Co-create and experience performances, exhibits, worship space, & public arts.
Be|Art|Now, the 112th Earl Lectures and Leadership Conference at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, brings you into conversation and reflection with artists, activists, community leaders, and art itself.
Performances, exhibits, worship space, public arts, and liturgies invite you to step inside revolutionary spaces where arts are transforming the world.
Featuring performances and lectures by scholars, artists and activists, including
Michael Franti {musician, filmmaker}
Adriene Thorne {pastor, dancer}
Frank Burch Brown {scholar of arts and religion}
Jinho "The Piper" Ferreira {playwright, musician, police officer}
Tim Holmes {sculptor, philosopher}
Rossitza Schroeder {assistant professor of arts and religion, PSR}
Experience Bay Area community arts immersions at the Clairon Alley Mural Project, the Andy Goldsworthy installation at the Presidio, InterPlay movement and theater in Oakland, Youth Spirit Artworks job training program in Berkeley, or The Faithful Fools of San Francisco.
On-site experiential workshops include sessions by Taiko drummer Elaine Fong, hip hop artist YaNi Davis, poet and prose writer Maisha Z. Johnson, pastor and musician Bishop Yvette Flunder, Yiddish dancer Bruce Bierman, music scholar David Aarons, composer and conductor Anne Hege, and dancer Carrie Ahern.
BE there. {no arts experience required}
For more information, contact Earl Lectures Coordinator Maren Haynes at
[email protected] or call 510.849.8218. Follow the conference on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for daily updates, community events, and inspiration.
$199 for general registration. $25 for students.
Discounts available for artists, arts non-profit staff, and retirees. See our registration page for details.