Over three hundred Cal students flocked to the Berkeley Art Museum in their Beatnik finest to celebrate the opening of Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle. While DJ Firewater Frequency spun jazz house music, students donned berets and fake goatees at a photo booth and admired the Day-Glo Singing Posters of Allen Ruppersberg. They feasted on fruit, drank wine and sparkling cider, and waxed poetic on the mixed-media works of Wallace Berman and his circle of friends. Surrounded by collages and photographs, attendees listened attentively to poets from the Berkeley Poetry Review and the local poetry scene as they paid homage to the Beats with dynamic readings of their works. Students explored the exhibits into the night, mingling against the techno harmonies of Firewater Frequency.
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