by Frances Phillips | Feb 18, 2020 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
San Francisco Youth Theatre has been touring The Afterlife, a new play developed in collaboration with Gary Soto, taking it as far as to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Now the story of two teens who meet in the afterlife is coming to The Flight Deck in downtown Oakland with...
by Frances Phillips | May 8, 2019 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
In 1954, police raided Tommy’s Place in San Francisco. Newspaper headlines declared it a lesbian vice academy. Over the last two years, writer and visual artist Katie Gilmartin has dug into the history of the raid on Tommy’s Place and other LGBTQ bars in...
by Frances Phillips | May 3, 2019 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
Celebrating the lives of Afro-Cuban artists in the United States, We Have Ire is a new and timely performance, commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and developed through a collaboration among lead artist Paul S. Flores, director Rosalba Rolon,...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 5, 2019 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
Developed through a collaboration between prolific poet and fiction writer Gary Soto and San Francisco Youth Theatre, The Afterlife is a bold new work about death that is intended for teens who have experienced the pain of violence, suicide, and loss in their...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 14, 2019 | 2017, News, Traditional Arts
Zawaya’s collaboration with Issa Golitzen Farajaje to research and perform sacred Sufi music of the 19th and 20th Century is premiering in two concerts — on January 13 in San Mateo and January 20 at the Islamic Cultural Center for Northern California in...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 31, 2018 | 2017, News, Performing Arts
Through their second Creative Work Fund-supported collaboration, Rhodessa Jones, The Medea Project, Theater for Incarcerated Women, and the Women’s HIV Program UCSF have developed When Did Your Hands Become a Weapon, exploring the widespread prevalence of sexual...
