The Reading Room

RE@DS
Programmed by Suzanne Stein and David Brazil
Followed by L@TE: Friday Nights at BAM/PFA events

The vibrancy of the contemporary Bay Area writing community emerges from a long tradition of artistic and literary interdisciplinary attention, and this reading series highlights that generational continuity. We loved learning that the opening celebration of the Berkeley Art Museum in 1970 included performances by Robert Duncan, William Wiley, and Anna Halprin, and it’s in that spirit we’ve organized our program. For this series, we invited eight younger writers to present their own work in the context of another writer or artist who has been a source of inspiration and excitement for them. Expect these events, which are part of The Reading Room project, to be two parts performance and one part conversation.