by Team CWF | Apr 19, 2024 | 2022, Literary Arts, News
CWF 2022 grantees Cleavon Smith and Walking Cinema’s collaboration opens on April 26, 2024 as a new immersive theater production in the Fillmore district of San Francisco. The Fillmore Eclipse explores the glorious history of Black art and entrepreneurship in...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 6, 2021 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
The cast and producers of We Have Iré, announce the release and celebration of an original cast recording album of the production featuring Paul Flores, with original music by Grammy-winning alto saxophonist/ percussionist/ composer Yosvany Terry and others at 4:30...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 24, 2021 | 2004, Literary Arts, News
In 2004, the Creative Work Fund awarded a grant to poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti for a collaboration with Bay Area Radio Drama and Earwax Productions to create a series of recordings for broadcast. We are able to share one episode from their project Locations here. The...
by Frances Phillips | Dec 8, 2020 | 2014, Literary Arts, News
McNally Jackson Independent Booksellers is hosting a free online conversation among writers Linda Norton, Eileen Myles, and John Keene, on Thursday, December 10, at 3 p.m. PST. The McNally Jackson staff writes, “In conjunction with recent and enduring...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 12, 2020 | 2014, Literary Arts, News
On Monday, June 15, Linda Norton is reading online with Fanny Howe and Alice Lyons. The reading originates in Dublin, Ireland, where it will be 8 pm, but those of us on the West Coast of the United States will be enjoying it at noon. The event is free, but guests...
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...
