A reflection on art, life, and the movies, The Beaches of Agnès is a cinematic memoir by director Agnès Varda, the "grandmother" of the French New Wave. A playful, offbeat self-portrait of the 80-year-old auteur as she reflects on her relationships and her work. With supporting players that include actor Harrison Ford and filmmaker Chris Marker (as Guillaume, the cartoon cat).

“A mood at once ripe with experience and childlike in its capacity for wonder.” - The New York Times

The internationally-noted science writer and curator Margaret Wertheim is one of the rare individuals who can convey the magic of mathematics even to the barely numerate. In this lively talk, she’ll do so over dinner in Evelyn’s Café at EMPAC, discussing her work with the Institute For Figuring, a Los Angeles-based organization devoted to the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science and mathematics. The topics will range from mathematic origami to non-Euclidean geometry, symmetry groups, and logic.

A thrashing, zig-zagging, gorgeously heavy band that reconciles the 21st and 13th centuries mixes it up with two beacons of exuberant indie noise dance.

Dr. Philip Barnard, program leader at the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge and a collaborator and research advisor to Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, will present a talk on his research work.