7:30Skank Bloc Bologna Number Four: Tommy
Start your weekend in the BAM galleries! Galleries Open until 9 p.m. with drinks and DJs in the lobby starting at 6 p.m., and an array of performances and other events happening on and around BAMscape in Gallery B.

Set against the backdrop of Ken Russell’s film Tommy, the penultimate iteration of Skank Bloc Bologna Number Four features William Wiley, celebrated in the current BAM/PFA exhibition What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect, and poet Michael Hannon. Wiley, who plays a range of musical instruments, from Jew’s harp to banjo, will perform on the didgeridoo while Hannon recites. Friends since the early eighties, Wiley and Hannon have collaborated on books and inspired each other’s work; they do so again in this high-spirited, impromptu duet of music and verse. Acknowledging the slow development of SBB4 toward a printed edition, Oakland-based artist and writer Analisa Goodin pays homage to artist Alfredo Jaar and his work The Gramsci Trilogy. Goodin and KALX DJ Citizen Zain will create an installation that focuses on the geometry of being confined in space while ideas float freely.

General admission to the BAM galleries is just $5 after 5 p.m. Show your ticket for a same-day PFA screening or gallery visit and get in free. Admission is always free for BAM/PFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.

BAM/PFA is located at:
2625 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720