Serving the San Francisco Bay Area New Music Community

                 
David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way, Suite 100
Berkeley CA 94704  
510.809.0900
contact@browercenter.org

We are a home for the environmental movement.
The David Brower Center provides a home for the environmental movement by advocating for the beauty, diversity and ecological integrity of Earth. The Brower Center accomplishes this mission through a distinctive combination of permanent infrastructure and ongoing programs in a unique institution that

Informs the public about the environmental challenges we face and the bold actions we must take if ours is to remain a living planet;
Inspires people to recognize their own power and responsibility to act on behalf of the Earth; and
Connects individuals and organizations dedicated to social equity and ecological sustainability.
The Brower Center fulfills these commitments through three core programs:

Art and Education, which offers museum-quality exhibitions and public programs that serve to educate audiences about a wide range of environmental issues and foster a more engaged citizenry;
Resident Organizations, through which the Center houses 30+ nonprofits and social enterprises and provides capacity building and networking opportunities; and
a Conference Center, hosting more than 300 events every year for nonprofit and private businesses, and strengthening the green event industry by requiring clients to abide by low-waste, green principles.
Together these programs bring over 50,000 people to the Brower Center each year and draw nonprofit organizations, social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, and the general public to engage in creative dialogue and action.

We are open to the public.
The Brower Center, including the Hazel Wolf Gallery, is open weekdays from 9 am until 5 pm, and Saturdays from 10 am until 2 pm. Admission is free.

The gallery is closed most major holidays, including: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day (Fourth of July), Labor Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Thanksgiving and the Friday following, and Christmas.

Please note that the gallery is occasionally closed for private events.
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Upcoming Events:
Thursday, April 16 2026 7:30 PM
How does one play music with animals in a way that respects their nature and agency? Other Minds welcomes musician and philosopher David Rothenberg to answer this question in the West Coast premiere of his work Eleven Paths to Animal Music (2025) at the Goldman Theater, David Brower Center.

Based on one section of his 2019 book Nightingales in Berlin, David Rothenberg’s Eleven Paths to Animal Music, is a composition that contains vignettes of natural environments recorded on his travels—from frogs in the Amazon, nightingales and wind in the Camargue, leafcutter ants in Costa Rica, and a lake in Brandenburg, among others. This piece encourages performers to listen closely to whole natural environments and find a way to play together and within them. In addition to the inspiration he takes from the natural world, Rothenberg also cites Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae and Tierra Whack’s Whack World. The remainder of the event will contain shorter pieces where Rothenberg plays with whales and insects, along with a discussion of how and why he embarked on this more-than-human musical quest.

This concert is the 20th edition of Other Minds’s Nature of Music series, made possible through generous support from the EarthWays Foundation.
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