by Frances Phillips | Jan 14, 2019 | 2017, News, Traditional Arts
Zawaya’s collaboration with Issa Golitzen Farajaje to research and perform sacred Sufi music of the 19th and 20th Century is premiering in two concerts — on January 13 in San Mateo and January 20 at the Islamic Cultural Center for Northern California in...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 31, 2018 | 2017, News, Performing Arts
Through their second Creative Work Fund-supported collaboration, Rhodessa Jones, The Medea Project, Theater for Incarcerated Women, and the Women’s HIV Program UCSF have developed When Did Your Hands Become a Weapon, exploring the widespread prevalence of sexual...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 26, 2018 | 2018, News, Performing Arts
Nkeiruka Oruche has been collaborating with a host of talented artists and the Dance Brigade’s Dance Mission Theater to develop “Wey You Dey?” or “What Had Happened Was…, An Afro-Urban Musical,” The work, directed by Tossie Long, is...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 16, 2018 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
Writer Adriana Camarena has been collaborating with Accion Latina to write a series of in-depth creative nonfiction essays, Unsettled in the Mission/Inquietos in la Mision, for publication in the popular free Mission District paper El Tecolote. Camarena has just...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 10, 2018 | News, Traditional Arts
Teatro Vision announces the October 11 premiere of Departera, a new work by Evelina Fernandez that is directed by Elisa Marina Alvarado. Departera was developed out of stories collected from community members and offers a witty, modern take on Dia de los Muertos....
by Frances Phillips | Oct 7, 2018 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
Congratulations to literary arts grantee Andrew Lam on publication of his story, “Enchantment” in Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place (edited by Annick Smith & Susan O’Connor). The book is being released on October 9,...
