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...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 16, 2018 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
Writer Adriana Camarena has been collaborating with Accion Latina to write a series of in-depth creative nonfiction essays, Unsettled in the Mission/Inquietos in la Mision, for publication in the popular free Mission District paper El Tecolote. Camarena has just...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 7, 2018 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
Congratulations to literary arts grantee Andrew Lam on publication of his story, “Enchantment” in Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place (edited by Annick Smith & Susan O’Connor). The book is being released on October 9,...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 21, 2018 | 2017, News, Traditional Arts
On Saturday, September 1, from 1-4 pm, community members are warmly invited to celebrate a new mural, painted by Edythe Boone in collaboration with the Berkeley Drop-in Center (managed by the Alameda County Network of Mental Health Clients), residents of South...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 29, 2018 | 2017, News, Traditional Arts
Opera master Sonam Phuntsok has been collaborating with the Tibetan Association of Northern California to present Sukyi Nyima, a traditional Tibetan opera, or Ache Lhamo, devised for contemporary audiences. The work will premiere on Saturday, July 14, 2018 at De Anza...
