by Frances Phillips | Dec 12, 2016 | 1996, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016, Performing Arts
On Monday, December 5, five-time Creative Work Fund grantee Rhodessa Jones and her long-time artistic partner Idris Ackamoor received Theater Bay Area’s prestigious “Legacy Award” for their commitment to social justice and numerous contributions to...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Performing Arts
The San Francisco International Arts Festival collaborating with Bay Area writer and performance artist Paul S. Flores, Cuban rap artist Julio Cardenas, and theater director Danny Hoch, to create Representa!, an original bilingual work that dramatizes the lives of two...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Performing Arts
San Francisco Jail (Cultural Odyssey, fiscal sponsor) collaborating with actress, singer, teacher, and writer Rhodessa Jones, incarcerated women, ex-offenders, and other artists from San Francisco’s multicultural community to create Concrete Jungle, “a...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Traditional Arts
Collaborating with the African American Art and Culture Complex, Nigerian sculptor Geoffrey Nwogu is creating a bas relief installation that captures the form and colors of a typical Mbari house, a project based in the Igbo cultural tradition and philosophy of...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Performing Arts
Theater of Yugen collaborating with composer and musician Allen Whitman, an ensemble of actors and musicians, and playwright and director Erik Ehn to create a cycle of American Noh plays. The Cycle Plays are performed during the course of one day in the ritual...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Traditional Arts
California Academy of Science’s Traditional Arts Program collaborating with Afro-Peruvian percussionist Lalo Izquierdo and Bolivian musician Oscar Reynolds to create new musical compositions that combine Bolivian Indian and Afro-Andean music, drawing attention...
