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SUMMARY:Webinar | One System\, Twice the Archive: Modernizing DAM and Collections Management at the Magnes
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Terentia. \nJoin the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life’s Collections Team for a webinar with Terentia to share how staff unified collections and digital asset management. And in the process\, built something bigger: a public portal delivering a once-impossible level of access. \nWednesday\, September 16\, 2026\n10:00 – 11:00 am PST\nvia Zoom \nRegister\n  \nPicture a records search that takes twenty minutes and still might come up empty. That was daily life for the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California\, Berkeley. Its team of eight relied on a legacy CMS requiring VPN access to servers overseas\, just to pull a single record. \nThis setup wasn’t just slow. It limited what the team could take on—a reality many GLAMP institutions know too well. \nThen came the real test: a chance to acquire the Roman Vishniac Archive. At 30\,000 objects\, it would double their collections. Taking it on without adding staff meant modernizing\, fast. \nHear the business case they made\, the choices they faced\, and what changed after go-live.
URL:https://magnes.berkeley.edu/program/webinar-one-system-twice-the-archive-modernizing-dam-and-collections-management-at-the-magnes/
LOCATION:Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art\, 2121 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Gallery Concert | Music of Elliott Carter
DESCRIPTION:A NANCY LEE KATZ: A PRIVATE PANTHEON PROGRAM \nJoin us during Cal’s Alumni and Parent Weekend at Homecoming in the gallery of Nancy Lee Katz: A Private Pantheon for a special concert with UC Berkeley faculty and student musicians playing compositions by\, and instruments of\, sitters on view. \nSunday\, October 11\, 2026 | 2:00 pm\nIn person at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life\, 2121 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA \nFeaturing music by Elliott Carter (1908- 2012)\nFigment No.2 for Solo Cello  (Remembering Mr. Ives) (2001) \n\n\nRSVP\n  \nPlease join us for a special Gallery Tour prior to the Gallery Concert from 1:00-1:30pm. Please RSVP for the gallery tour here. \nThe Magnes’s programs and exhibitions are supported by our community. Click here to make a suggested donation of $10 per session.. \nIf you have any questions about accessibility or require accommodations to participate in this event\, please contact us at dalter@berkeley.edu or call us at (510) 643-2526 with as much advance notice as possible. \nProgram is subject to change. \n\nAbout the Composer \n\nComposer Elliott Carter (December 11\, 1908 – November 5\, 2012) is internationally recognized as one of the most influential American voices in classical music\, and a leading figure of modernism in the 20th and 21st centuries. He was hailed as “America’s great musical poet” by Andrew Porter and noted as “one of America’s most distinguished creative artists in any field” by his friend Aaron Copland. Carter’s prolific career spanned over 75 years\, with more than 150 pieces\, ranging from chamber music to orchestral works to opera\, often marked with a sense of wit and humor. He received numerous honors and accolades\, including the Pulitzer Prize on two occasions: in 1960 for his String Quartet No. 2 and in 1973 for his String Quartet No. 3. Other awards include Germany’s Ernst Von Siemens Music Prize and the Prince Pierre Foundation Music Award. Carter was the first composer to receive the United States National Medal of Arts\, and is one of a handful of composers inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. He was recognized twice by the Government of France: being named Commander of the “Ordre des Arts et des Lettres\,” and receiving the insignia of Commander of the Legion of Honor in September 2012. \nPhoto by Nancy Lee Katz\, 1999. Gift of Michael S. Sachs\, 2024.1.25. \nAbout the Performers \n\n\nLeighton Fong\, a longtime member of San Francisco’s Left Coast Chamber Ensemble\, is Principal Cellist of the California Symphony\, and has taught at UC Berkeley for over thirty years. He plays regularly with Eco Ensemble and Empyrean Ensemble\, and was a member of the San Francisco Contemporary Players. In addition to specializing in contemporary music\, he has performed the complete string quartets of Beethoven with the Los Angeles based Southwest Chamber Music Society and the complete string quartets of Schubert on original instruments with the Berkeley Schubert Quartet. Leighton studied at the San Francisco Conservatory\, the New England Conservatory\, the Bern Conservatory in Switzerland\, and the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen\, Denmark. Born in Sacramento\, California\, he has lived in Berkeley since 1991. \nPhoto credit: Vivian Sachs \nAbout the exhibition\nNancy Lee Katz: A Private Pantheon explores the artist’s decades-long effort to photograph artists\, writers\, musicians\, and thinkers she admired. Created in the intimate environments of personal studios and workplaces\, these portraits look behind public accolades to reveal a quiet\, private presence. Unfolding in two parts (fall and spring)\, the exhibition presents\, for the first time\, the entirety of Katz’s Pantheon.
URL:https://magnes.berkeley.edu/program/gallery-concert-elliott-carter/
LOCATION:Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art\, 2121 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Seeing Through a Mirror: The 1948 War in the Eyes of the World
DESCRIPTION:Annual Diller Lecture\nPresented by Berkeley’s Center for Jewish Studies. Co-Sponsored by the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. \nThe 1948 Arab-Israeli War attracted attention from the highest levels of international society\, state governments\, transnational NGOs\, journalism\, and public opinion. Palestine and the emerging state of Israel functioned as both a mirror and a magnifier. Israel’s establishment and the Palestinian Nakba were interpreted through countries’ specific interests\, histories\, and cultures. These events also elicited tremendous passion. Palestine’s mirroring and magnifying effects did not originate in 1948\, but the events of that year drastically augmented them\, and the patterns of global reaction remain with us to this today. \nThursday\, October 22\, 2026 | 5:00-6:30 pm\nat the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life\, 2121 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA \nReception and light refreshments: 5:00-5:30pm\nPresentation and Conversation: 5:30-6:30pm \nRSVP\n\n  \nIf you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting\, alternative media formats\, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in these events\, please contact Jennifer Lipscomb at jlipscomb@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible. \n\nDerek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. Derek previously taught at Indiana University\, the University of Toronto\, and the University of Oxford\, where he was the inaugural holder of the Stanley Lewis Chair in Modern Israel Studies. Derek has published a dozen books\, including Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (2020) and Zionism: An Emotional State (2023). He is currently writing a book titled The War for Palestine\, 1947-1949: A Global History. Derek is a past president of the American Academy for Jewish Research\, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, and an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College\, Oxford.
URL:https://magnes.berkeley.edu/program/seeing-through-a-mirror-the-1948-war-in-the-eyes-of-the-world/
LOCATION:Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art\, 2121 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ari'el Stachel's "Other"
DESCRIPTION:A NANCY LEE KATZ: A PRIVATE PANTHEON PROGRAM \nDon’t miss the chance to see Ari’el Stachel in his Off-Broadway\, one-man play Other\, an acclaimed dramedy about the anxious art of belonging. \nTony Award® winner Ari’el Stachel (The Band’s Visit ) brings an ensemble of voices from his past to life in a raw and hilarious one-man show about his anxious search for belonging. From childhood reinventions to performing through chronic panic in front of thousands\, he navigates identity\, self-acceptance\, and the pursuit of his dreams with hilarity and heart—delivering a performance as relentlessly funny as it is vulnerable. \nOther is written and performed by Ari’el Stachel and directed by Tony Taconne. \nThursday\, October 29\, 2026 | 5:30-7:30 pm\nIn person at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life\, 2121 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA \nTicket prices: \n\nFULL PRICE: $35.00 \nFRIENDS OF THE MAGNES: $25.00 (Look for the promo code in your inbox. For questions\, email magnes@berkeley.edu)\nSTUDENTS: $5.00 (Current student ID will be required for entry)\nMUSEUMS FOR ALL: $5.00 (EBT/SNAP card required for entry)\n\nTickets on sale soon! \nIf you have any questions about accessibility or require accommodations to participate in this event\, please contact us at magnes@berkeley.edu or call us at (510) 643-2526 with as much advance notice as possible. \nPresented in partnership with the Berkeley Bridging Fellowship Program\, Berkeley Hillel\, UC Berkeley’s Helen Diller Institute\, and the Center for Jewish Studies. \nAri’el Stachel is a Tony Award® and GRAMMY® Award–winning actor\, singer\, and writer. His new solo play OTHER comes Off-Broadway after acclaimed runs at Berkeley Rep and Berkshire Theatre Group. Stachel received the 2018 Tony Award® for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for originating the role of Haled in The Band’s Visit on Broadway\, a performance that also earned Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nominations. On screen\, he stars in the upcoming feature Death Do Us Part and has appeared in Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling (Warner Bros.) and A24’s Zola. His television credits include Law & Order: SVU\, Billions\, Jessica Jones\, Blue Bloods\, and The Night Agent.
URL:https://magnes.berkeley.edu/program/ariel-stachels-other/
LOCATION:Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art\, 2121 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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