by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Literary Arts
Openhouse and Katie Gilmartin are collaborating to witness, honor, and preserve LGBTQ elders’ memories of tavern culture and bar raids through oral history interviews, walking tours, readings, and the writing of Vice Academy, a novel about Queer taverns and raids in...
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Literary Arts
Malcolm Margolin and the University of California, Berkeley’s Archaeological Research Facility, fiscally sponsored by the Richmond Museum of History, are collaborating to produce a book about the West Berkeley Shell Mound. With origins dated at 4,700 years ago, this...
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Muisi-Kongo Malonga is collaborating with One East Palo Alto to create “Congo Danced a Nairobi Blues,” exploring the intersecting stories of traditional Congolese dance in the United States and the history of “Little Nairobi” (now East Palo Alto),...
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Literary Arts
Paul Flores and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) are collaborating to create We Have Ire, a performance exploring transnational identity with a particular focus on the lives of Afro-Cuban and Cuban-American artists who are living in the United States.
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Chicano theater company Teatro Visión and musician and composer Russell Rodriguez are creating an original bilingual play and a studio recording. The play addresses how members of the Bay Area Latino community today bring meaning to the confrontation of death and...
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Opera master Sonam Phuntsok and the Tibetan Association of Northern California (TANC) are adapting the Tibetan folk opera Sukyi Nyima – a favorite among the eight traditional Tibetan operas. Such operas combine Buddhist teachings with tales of romantic intrigue and...
