by Frances Phillips | Aug 1, 2017 | 2017, Literary Arts, News, Traditional Arts
August 1, 2017 – The Creative Work Fund is pleased to announce the awarding of 15 grants totaling $600,000 to Bay Area literary and traditional artists. The Fund provides financial support to local artists creating new work in collaboration with Bay Area...
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, 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, 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...
