by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Literary Arts
Writer Gary Soto is collaborating with San Francisco Youth Theater (SFYT) to create The Afterlife, a new play about gang violence, teen death, and suicide. In creating an authentic and resonant script, Soto will confer with youth and staff at Santa Cruz Barrios...
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 Frances Phillips | Apr 10, 2017 | 2014, Literary Arts, News
Coming soon from City Lights Publishers’ Spotlight Series is Barbara Jane Reyes’s Invocation to Daughters, described as “feminist, experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha.” The book manuscript was developed in...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 26, 2016 | 2014, Literary Arts, News
The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University is hosting a free reading and conversation featuring Barbara Jane Reyes and Oscar Bermeo on Thursday, December 1, at 7:00 p.m–the final event in the Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) project. During the course of...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 30, 2016 | 2014, Literary Arts, News
On Thursday, September 29, poets Denise Newman and Hazel White and their collaborators at the University of California at Berkeley Botanical Gardens celebrated the culmination of their two-year project during which the poets kept weekly studio hours in the garden, led...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 27, 2016 | 2001, 2011, Literary Arts, Media Arts, News
In recent weeks, San Francisco’s arts community has been saddened by the deaths of performer and writer Cherylene Lee and filmmaker Lise Swenson, both Creative Work Fund recipients. Swenson received a 2001 Media Arts grant to create Mission Movie in...
