The Official Bay Area Book Festival Video Channel
Welcome to the Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND — the online incarnation of the annual Bay Area Book Festival, a festival that fills the streets and theaters of Downtown Berkeley with hundreds of notable authors and tens of thousands of readers. Click the Videos tab to see our complete archive of talks and programs from 2015 through 2024.
MDSS: Reframe with Rebecca Solnit & Steve Phillips, moderated by Jane Kim of Working Families Party
Trans Narratives of America
Short Cuts: Nico Lang
Erasure: Archives + Disappearance
Narrating the Mother
Bringing our Youth Back to the Land
Indigenous Poetry: Words that Map the Natural World
Redefining Home (Aaron John Curtis, Jon Hickey, moderated by Greg Sarris)
Living Legacies: Native Authors on Memoir and Memory
Decolonizing Wealth: Confronting Systemic Barriers, Creating Lasting Change
Follow Your Heart to Graphic Novels
Homeland to Home
All Bodies All Selves
Pages and Pictures from Early Reader to Middle Grade
In Dialogue: Building Communities that Thrive
Unyielding Resistance: Perspectives on Political Prisoners and the Lifelong Pursuit of Freedom
Portable Intersectionality: Roxane Gay in conversation with Alicia Garza (moderator: Aya de León)
Voices Against the Tide: Independent Media and the Struggle for American Democracy
Organized Resistance From the Ground Up
Ghosts of Justice: Exposing the Failures and Reimagining the Future of the American Legal System
Who’s Afraid of Gender? (Judith Butler in conversation with micha cárdenas, moderated by MK Chavez)
The Embodiment of Care (Mia Birdsong & Prentis Hemphill)
“Writing as an Other” (Tara Dorabji, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Greg Sarris, moderated by Ajuan Mance)
Mutual Aid and Community Care in California
Art as Radical Practice: Black Women’s Creative Expression as Social Change
Short Cuts - Carolina Ixta
Short Cuts - Social justice Children's Book Fair
Alexis Pauline Gumbs & Malaika Parker
Short Cuts: Wahab Algarmi
Short Cuts: Kinsale Drake