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A live panel on AIDS activism in the 1980s and 1990s and its influence on activism today.

Panelists:

- Matt Coles is a professor of law at UC Hastings.

- Ken Jones is a gay rights activist and Vietnam veteran.

- Matt Sharp is the director of treatment and education at Project Inform in San Francisco.

- Mike Shriver is the chair of the board of director at the National AIDS Memorial Grove.

The panel was led by Kate Kendell, Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

The panel was recorded at Berkeley Rep on June 4, 2018.

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An interview with UC Hastings professor of constitutional law Matt Coles (http://www.uchastings.edu/faculty/?expert=matthew.coles) about LGBTQ anti-discrimination legislation and the legacy of conservative judicial appointees in the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts

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A chat with Heidi Schreck, playwright and performer behind "What The Constitution Means To Me" about her experience getting reacquainted with the Constitution.

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A live panel with five theologians about angels in Judaism, Mormonism, and "Angels in America."

(Recorded at Berkeley Rep May 14, 2018 and co-produced with the Graduate Theological Union)

Moderator:

- Robert A. Rees is the director of Mormon studies at the Graduate Theological Union. Dr. Rees has taught at UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley, and was a Fulbright Professor of American Studies at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. Rees has taught classes in Mormon studies at the GTU since 2010, and has published widely on Mormon and religious studies, as well as on issues of politics, culture, literary studies, and gender and sexuality studies. Dr. Rees served as director of continuing education in the arts and humanities at UCLA, where he was also assistant dean of fine arts and director of the UCLA-Cambridge Program and the UCLA Royal College of Art and Royal College of Music programs in London. Long active in interfaith work, Rees served as president of the University Religious Conference at UC Santa Cruz and, more recently, on the board of the Marin Interfaith Council. He is the cofounder and vice president of the Liahona Children’s Foundation, a humanitarian organization that addresses malnutrition in the developing world. Bob is a key member of the Bay Area Mormon Studies Council, which is working with the GTU and the wider Mormon community to establish an academic chair in Mormon studies at the GTU.

Panelists:

- Kathryn Loosli Pritchett is a writer living in Oakland, California. A journalist for many years, she is currently working on a novel inspired by her 19th century Mormon polygamous ancestors. She currently serves as a leader in the Oakland, California Stake Relief Society (the Mormon women’s auxiliary). Together with her husband M.J., she developed and teaches a course on Women in the Mormon Church for the LDS Institute of Religion in Berkeley.

- M.J. Pritchett is an attorney practicing law in San Francisco, California. He served as the Bishop (pastor) of the Oakland First Ward congregation (which meets adjacent to the Oakland Temple) for a 5 year term in the late 1990s. MJ served a two-year mission to South Korea in 1976-77. For the past ten years he has taught an evening course on various theological, cultural and historical topics related to Mormonism at the LDS Institute of Religion in Berkeley.

- Naomi Seidman is Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Graduate Theological Union, NEH Senior Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her recent book, The Marriage Plot, Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature, includes a reading of Angels in America as an expression of the persistence of the genealogical impulse in post-traditional societies.

- Daniel Matt, one of the world’s leading authorities on Kabbalah, has been featured in Time Magazine and has appeared on National Public Radio and the History Channel. He has published over a dozen books, including The Essential Kabbalah (translated into seven languages), Zohar: Annotated and Explained, and God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony between Science and Spirituality. Recently, Daniel completed an 18-year project of translating and annotating the Zohar. For twenty years, Daniel served as professor at the Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley. He has also taught at Stanford and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Daniel lives in Berkeley with his wife Hana.

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Two earthquake geologists and a former SF Firefighter turned historian discuss the seismic history of the Bay Area and what happened on April 18, 1906, the day of the Great San Francisco Earthquake.

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A cameo by Bob the Drag Queen who plays Belize in Berkeley Rep's production of "Angels in America." (http://www.bobthedragqueen.com/)

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Guests:

- David Schwartz is an earthquake geologist and an emeritus scientist at the United States Geological Survey.

- Tom Brocher is a seismologist at the United States Geological Survey.

- Andrea Rees Davies is the Associate Director at the Stanford Humanities Center. You can find her book on the Great San Francisco Earthquake, "Saving San Francisco," here: https://www.amazon.com/Saving-San-Francisco-Recovery-Disaster/dp/1439904332

A conversation with three people involved in the design of Angels in America at Berkeley Rep about the new technology in the show, their process, and their collaboration.

Guests:

- Jennifer Schriever is a lighting designer based in New York City. Visit jenschriever.com.

- Alexander V. Nichols is the projection designer for Angels in America. Angels is his 33rd production at Berkeley Rep.

- Peter Dean is the production manager at Berkeley Rep.

A conversation with three extraordinary medical professionals about their experiences with the AIDS epidemic from the 1980s to today.

Guests:

- Diane Jones was an HIV nurse at San Francisco General Hospital for 34 years, starting in 1982. She currently works as a mentor and trainer with HIV clinics across the country and internationally. She is a lesbian mother and grandmother of 3 and lives in a multi-generational household in the Mission in San Francisco.

- Marcy Fraser was a staff nurse on the San Francisco General AIDS Ward from 1983-1987. She also worked in AIDS home care and Hospice as Executive Director of Continuum HIV Services. She served on the Board of the National AIDS Memorial for 5 years. She is an open water swimmer, mosaic artist and lives with her partner of 27 years on Potrero Hill.

- Royce Lin is an HIV physician working with at-risk and vulnerable populations in the Tenderloin, particularly clients affected by homelessness, poverty, trauma, and social marginalization. He is also Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and enjoys mentoring new providers in HIV and LGBTQI health.

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