Saturday – Sunday,
10 am to 6 pm
Downtown Berkeley, CA

Berkeley Arts + Design is a proud sponsor of this year’s 4th Annual Bay Area Book Festival, sponsoring panels that include internationally celebrated authors and public figures, many of whom are also UC Berkeley faculty and/or alumni. We also recognize and applaud the dedicated students across the arts and design fields at Berkeley who participated in our collaborative internship program with the festival this year. Preview the list of Berkeley Arts + Design sponsored talks here.


Arts + Design Mondays: Re-Imagining Hope with Rebecca Solnit and Friends
Don’t miss our final Arts + Design Mondays talk of the semester, Reassembling Hope on April 30 with Rebecca Solnit, Dacher Keltner, and friends of the Bay Area Book Festival. Note: This talk will be made available via a livestream link. When the event gets closer, we’ll share details!


Student Access
Berkeley Arts + Design, the ASUC, and Student Union are pleased to sponsor free student access to the festival by offering wristbands to UC Berkeley students, claimed via the launch of the campus-wide UC Berkeley Arts Access App.