Life at GTU

Life at the GTU involves a diverse array of options for engagement, participation, exploration, reflection, and even adventure. Our home in Berkeley, and the San Francisco Bay Area, is the center of one of the world's most diverse and innovative, active, learning communities. Join in this vibrant and dynamic life experience.

There is always something happening at the GTU. Lectures, symposia, workshops, celebrations, art exhibits, prayer, writing groups, community conversations, all bringing diverse and creative voices to engage in new levels of understanding and collaboration. Each of us can find a way to engage and contribute in our own way.

Berkeley and the Bay Area

Public events, community programs, a stunning natural environment, a place to live.

Participation and Collaboration

The GTU's schools and centers offer countless occasions to participate. engage, make a difference.

Current Student Resources

Resources for student success.

Bay Area MFA Show 4 Closing Celebration

Celebrate the closing of the Bay Area MFA Show 4 with refreshments, music, a chance to speak with the artists, and the opportunity to experience the immersive, traveling artwork, Symphony of a Missing Room.

Doug Adams Gallery
5:00pm to 7:00pm

CARe Dillenberger Lecture - Art as Divine Instrument: Medieval & Comparative Perspectives

The GTU welcomes prominent scholars of late medieval and early modern European art to discuss the physical instrumentality of religious paintings, manuscripts, and objects. Presentations by Kathryn Rudy (University of St. Andrews) and Reindert Falkenburg (NYU-Abu Dhabi) will be followed by a panel...

Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Dinner Board Room
1:30pm to 5:00pm

Opening Reception! Sacred Mobility: The Travels of Hindu & Eastern Orthodox Holy Images Opening reception 

Inspired by diasporic communities in the Bay Area, this exhibition explores the movement of sacred objects within Hindu and Eastern Orthodox traditions. The material manifestations of the sacred—gods, saints, divinity—move across space and time via physical transport and through replication and...

Doug Adams Gallery
5:00pm to 7:00pm