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Gino Robair’s “Radical Divination” Performed at BAMPFA
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Using paper, invented instruments, percussion, guitar, and other amplified objects, Ph.D. candidate Gino Robair (performance studies) has created an “opera of augury through papermaking” titled Full: Radical Divination. It will be performed at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) on April 5, 2023. 

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Alumnus Tom Burmester Chosen as Executive Director of Historic Woodland Opera House

Alumnus Tom Burmester (B.A., dramatic arts, ’01; PhD, performance studies, ‘22) has been named as the new executive director of The Historic Woodland Opera House (WOH). He replaces the outgoing director Angela Baltezore who will retire in June.

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KQED Praises Bogad Book as Essential Work by a Radical Performing Artist

An online KQED article has selected Performing Truth: Works of Radical Memory for Times of Social Amnesia by Professor L.M. Bogad as an “essential new book by a radical performing artist.” The piece by Nicole Gluckstern goes on to say “Bogad’s book offers a variety of road-tested activist artist tactics to create moments of creative protest and inspire radical consciousness.”

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L.M. Bogad Receives Guggenheim Fellowship

Professor L.M. Bogad, chair of the Theatre & Dance Department and member of the Performance Studies Graduate Group, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Bogad received his fellowship for his achievements in the category of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies.

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