by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Literary Arts
Adriana Camarena is collaborating with Accion Latina to create and distribute “Unsettled/Inquietos,” a series of literary non-fiction essays based on portraits of working class and poor residents of the traditionally Latino Mission District of San Francisco.
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Literary Arts
Andrew Lam is collaborating with Pacific Links Foundation (PALS) to write long-form literary essays and short stories exploring the topic of being a displaced person. These will encompass stories of refugees who came to America, victims of human trafficking and their...
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Literary Arts
Baruch Porras-Hernandez is collaborating with Movimiento de Arte Cultura Latino Americana, Inc. (MACLA) to develop an anthology composed of five distinct superhero short stories written by Bay Area queer and Latinx writers, and a 45-minute interactive storytelling and...
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Muralist Edythe Boone is collaborating with a team of artists and clients of the Berkeley Drop-In Center (managed by the Alameda County Network of Mental Health Clients), and residents and merchants of South Berkeley to create a mural on the Drop-In Center’s...
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Kathak dancer Farah Yasmeen Shaikh and EnActe Arts are creating The Partition Project, highlighting stories from the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition, a political act that set in motion forced migration and a mass refugee crisis.
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Issa Golitzen Farajaje is collaborating with Zawaya to research and perform a concert of Sufi music from the Arab world. Project partners will travel to Turkey, research and prepare 25-30 pieces, train Zawaya’s Aswat Ensemble to perform them, produce a concert, and...
