by Frances Phillips | Feb 4, 2017 | 2001, Media Arts, News
At 6 pm. on Thursday, February 9, at the Roxie Theater, SF Indie Fest is hosting a reception to celebrate the life of filmmaker Lise Swenson. Swenson will be honored posthumously with the SF IndieFest Vanguard Award. At 7:15 the festival is presenting the premiere...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 27, 2016 | 2001, 2011, Literary Arts, Media Arts, News
In recent weeks, San Francisco’s arts community has been saddened by the deaths of performer and writer Cherylene Lee and filmmaker Lise Swenson, both Creative Work Fund recipients. Swenson received a 2001 Media Arts grant to create Mission Movie in...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2001 | 2001, Traditional Arts
Green Policy Institute (The Tides Center, fiscal sponsor) collaborating with sculptor Rubén Guzmán to produce a series of papier-mache sculptures and installations celebrating many residents of the Fruitvale District of Oakland?s Mexican heritage. Guzman is sharing...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2001 | 2001, Traditional Arts
San Francisco State University’s College of Ethnic Studies and Professor Danilo Begonia, Pilipino Kulintang master artist Danongan Kalunduyan, and the Ating Tao Drum Circle collaborating to create new performance works based on traditional kulintang music and...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2001 | 2001, Literary Arts
Community Defense Fund, Inc. collaborating with Lisa Gray-Garcia, Poor Magazine, Dee Gray, Joseph Bolden and Leroy Moore to create a live performance, publication, online presentation and radio broadcast of 12 literary art narratives celebrating the theme...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2001 | 2001, Traditional Arts
SOMARTS collaborating with dancer, percussionist, and choreographer Roberto Borrell, Orquesta La Moderna Tradici?n?the only danz?n ensemble in the United States?and five master artists to develop a multi-disciplinary presentation of Cuban music and dance that traces...
