by Frances Phillips | Jan 24, 2017 | 2017, News, Performing Arts
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Performing Arts Program is hosting a webinar this Thursday, January 26, at 10 a.m. to introduce a new five-year initiative, the Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions. Nonprofit organizations based in the 11-county San Francisco...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 5, 2017 | 2010, News, Visual Arts
In 2010, the Creative Work Fund awarded a grant to Matthew Passmore and Nathan of Lynch of Rebar to collaborate with Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge on improving the nesting environment for seabirds on islands off the Northern California coast. The challenge the birds...
by Frances Phillips | Dec 12, 2016 | 2014, News, Performing Arts
In collaboration with Asian Americans for Community Involvement, composer and instrumentalist Van-Ahn Vo developed The Odyssey: From Vietnam to America, a new multi-disciplinary work reflecting the stories of Vietnamese Boat People, which premiered in January 2016 at...
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 | Nov 21, 2016 | 2015, News, Traditional Arts
Culminating more than a year of collaboration and project development, Liberian dancer, choreographer, director, craftsman, and costume designer Nimely Napla and Diamano Coura West African Dance are premiering a new ballet, The Forbidden Bush, on November 26 and 27,...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 2, 2016 | 2014, News, Performing Arts
On November 11 and 12 at 8 p.m., El Son de la Misión, A Musical Journey from 1960-Present, developed through a collaboration among composer/arranger John Calloway, scriptwriter and lyricist Carlos Barón, and other artists with the San Francisco Community Music Center,...
