by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Performing Arts
Composer and musician Van-Anh Vo is collaborating with Asian Americans for Community Involvement to create The Odyssey—from Vietnam to America, a multi-disciplinary production about the Vietnamese boat people’s spiritual odyssey and the emotional suffering they...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Performing Arts
Musician Bernie Krause is collaborating with composer Richard Blackford and choreographer Alonzo King on a new ballet, choreographed by King and set to an original composition by Krause and Blackford, that incorporates natural soundscapes. Krause is the founder of...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Literary Arts
The University of California Botanical Gardens covers 34 acres above the Berkeley campus. Poets Denise Newman and Hazel White are collaborating with the gardeners and garden administrators to create a poetry installation and transmedia project designed to deepen...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Literary Arts
Erica Lorraine Scheidt and the Teacher Salary Project are collaborating to create Who Do You See Now?: Teacher Stories. The publication will juxtapose Scheidt’s personal story of becoming a high school teacher with stories about teaching from Bay Area educators and...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Literary Arts
Kuwentohan (Talkstory) brings together eight poet-artists, led by Barbara Jane Reyes, to participate in a four-day residency and public readings followed by a sustained correspondence among the writers—leading to a new work of poetry by Reyes. Alongside Barbara Jane...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Literary Arts
Writer Linda Norton is collaborating with staff and visitors to Peralta Hacienda Historical Park to explore how mass incarceration affects the daily lives of people living in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood where the Peralta Hacienda historic house is based. She will...
