by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Literary Arts
Openhouse and Katie Gilmartin are collaborating to witness, honor, and preserve LGBTQ elders’ memories of tavern culture and bar raids through oral history interviews, walking tours, readings, and the writing of Vice Academy, a novel about Queer taverns and raids in...
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Issa Golitzen Farajaje is collaborating with Zawaya to research and perform a concert of Sufi music from the Arab world. Project partners will travel to Turkey, research and prepare 25-30 pieces, train Zawaya’s Aswat Ensemble to perform them, produce a concert, and...
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Literary Arts
Writer Gary Soto is collaborating with San Francisco Youth Theater (SFYT) to create The Afterlife, a new play about gang violence, teen death, and suicide. In creating an authentic and resonant script, Soto will confer with youth and staff at Santa Cruz Barrios...
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Kathak dancer Farah Yasmeen Shaikh and EnActe Arts are creating The Partition Project, highlighting stories from the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition, a political act that set in motion forced migration and a mass refugee crisis.
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Muralist Edythe Boone is collaborating with a team of artists and clients of the Berkeley Drop-In Center (managed by the Alameda County Network of Mental Health Clients), and residents and merchants of South Berkeley to create a mural on the Drop-In Center’s...
