by Frances Phillips | May 30, 2017 | 2016, News, Performing Arts
On May 31 at 8 pm, the San Francisco International Arts Festival is presenting a staged reading of the libretto for Niloufar Talebi’s new opera, Abraham in Flames, inspired by the life and writings of the Nobel Prize nominated Iranian poet, activist, translator,...
by Frances Phillips | May 20, 2017 | 2016, News, Visual Arts
In collaboration with the Kala Art Institute, artist Sue Mark of marksearch is developing a permanent neighborhood memory bank at the Golden Gate Branch Library on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland. The project invites neighbors’ participation in an array of events,...
by Frances Phillips | May 17, 2017 | 2015, Media Arts, News
On May 27-29, Tessa Wills, who has been collaborating with Krista DeNio, Jaime Cortez, ABD Productions/Skywatchers, and local youth artists, will premiere Tender Nights: Multimedia Performance Walks Through the Tenderloin in partnership with the THIS IS WHAT I WANT...
by Frances Phillips | May 5, 2017 | 2015, News, Traditional Arts
On May 20 and 21, the Center for Lao Studies is bringing Molam Tan Smay: Molam in the Modern Era, a modern Lao Opera, developed through a collaboration among members of the Lao Bantheung Sinh molam troupe of Oakland, its troupe leader Mr. Khankham Phaxayavong, and...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 27, 2017 | 2017, News, Performing Arts
Fresh Meat Productions announces Boys Bite Back, a program of new works by Sean Dorsey Dance, May 12-13, at Z Space in San Francisco. Dorsey promises an evening of powerful performance on navigating queer & trans masculinities – featuring new works by Sean Dorsey...
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...
