by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2015 | 2014, Literary Arts, News
Writer Linda Norton and Peralta Hacienda are collaborating to document the effects of mass incarceration on the Fruitvale district and city of Oakland through “Home and Away.” Community members are invited to create this exhibit with Norton and Peralta...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 5, 2015 | 2014, Literary Arts, News
Writer Linda Norton and Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park have launched Home & Away: Oakland, California’s Prisons and the Geography of the Heart, a project documenting the effects of mass incarceration on the community in Oakland. Starting in...
by Frances Phillips | Dec 12, 2014 | 2008, Literary Arts, News
Congratulations to writer Summer Brenner whose Richmond Tales: Lost Secrets of the Iron Triangle was selected by the California Teachers Association (CTA) for the California Reads program–part of CTA’s Read Across America initiative. Brenner’s book...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 19, 2014 | 2011, Literary Arts, News
Through extensive interviews and exchanges with undocumented youth and collaboration with the creative team at Marsh Youth Theater, poet Gary Soto developed In and Out of Shadows, a musical play. Marsh Youth Theater presented the play last year–drawing...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Literary Arts
The University of California Botanical Gardens covers 34 acres above the Berkeley campus. Poets Denise Newman and Hazel White are collaborating with the gardeners and garden administrators to create a poetry installation and transmedia project designed to deepen...
by Suki O'Kane | Jul 18, 2014 | 2014, Literary Arts
Erica Lorraine Scheidt and the Teacher Salary Project are collaborating to create Who Do You See Now?: Teacher Stories. The publication will juxtapose Scheidt’s personal story of becoming a high school teacher with stories about teaching from Bay Area educators and...
