The inaugural Berkeley Circus Soirée was held from 5:30-9 p.m. on the evening of March 4 at the newly renovated Oakland Museum of California (OMCA). Students, faculty, Wurster Society members, alumni, and friends of CED were invited to join the festivities.

If you missed the Circus Soirée, you can view the 2011 CED Distinguished Alumni Award ceremony and the Teddy Cruz lecture on YouTube.

Schedule of Events

Speaker

Teddy Cruz
Principal, Estudio Teddy Cruz (San Diego); Professor of Public Culture and Urbanism, Visual Arts Department, UC San Diego

Teddy Cruz is a Guatemalan-born architect and founding principal of Estudio Teddy Cruz in San Diego. Over the past decade, he has demonstrated a deep commitment to advancing architectural and urban planning projects that address the global, political, and social problems that proliferate at the international border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, inspiring a practice and pedagogy that emerges out of the particularities of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research and design production.

His firm, Estudio Teddy Cruz, has been recognized for its collaborative work with community-based, non-profit organizations such as Casa Familiar on housing and its relationship to an urban policy more inclusive of social and public programs for the city. Cruz founded the Border Institute (BI), dedicated to research on border urbanism at Woodbury University. Cruz also has a research and teaching post as Artist in Public Culture/Urban Space in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego. His work and writing are widely published, and he is recipient of a Rome Prize, a P/A Award, the Robert Taylor Teaching Award from the ACSA, and numerous AIA Honor Awards.

Circus Soirée Reception

The ambiance of the Circus Soirée reception was set by live performances by professional circus entertainers from the Kinetic Arts Center in Oakland. During the reception, guests were also invited to take a guided tour of OMCA's art collections.

Photo: Danielle Foreman, Kinetic Arts Center, courtesy Eric Gillet. 

Directions

The Oakland Museum of California is located at 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA 94607. Parking is FREE. Enter the museum garage entrance on Oak Street between 10th and 12th Streets. Getting there:

From San Francisco: Cross the Bay Bridge and take 580 East to 980 West/Downtown Oakland. Take the Jackson Street exit; you will be on 5th Street. Continue straight on 5th Street to the third stop light (Oak Street). Turn left and continue on Oak to 10th Street.

From Berkeley: Take Highway 80 to 580 East. Just past Emeryville take 580 to 980 West to the Jackson Street exit (you will be on 5th Street). Continue on 5th Street to the third stop light (Oak), and turn left. Continue on Oak to 10th Street.

From Marin County: Take the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge to Highway 580 East. Continue on 580 East to 980 West/Downtown Oakland. Take the Jackson Street exit (you will be on 5th Street). Continue straight on 5th Street to the third stop light (Oak Street). Turn left and continue on Oak Street.