by Frances Phillips | Jun 2, 2016 | 2007, News, Traditional Arts
Featuring music of Taiwan, China, Azerbaijan, India, and Uzbekistan, the new Chinese opera Overture to the Sun Archer will premiere at The Presidio Officer’s Club in San Francisco on June 18, 2016, at 7 p.m. The story begins with the long-ago Chinese hero Hou...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 2, 2016 | 2015, Media Arts, News
As part of his collaboration with the San Jose Museum of Art, sound installation artist and composer Guillermo Galindo will be performing Circular Calls/Resonant Shadows on June 4, 2016, at 2:30 p.m. The event is part of Border Cantos, a response to the US-Mexico...
by Frances Phillips | May 24, 2016 | 2015, News, Traditional Arts
In Work MORE 7: Daughters of a Riot, LOL McFiercen, Honey Mahogany, Dulce De Leche, and VivvyAnne ForeverMORE! bring to the stage moments of queer history when drag and gender transgression exploded into riots of resistance. With lipsynch, singing, video, and audience...
by Frances Phillips | May 24, 2016 | 2013, Literary Arts, News
Poets Denise Newman and Hazel White have been spending every Friday afternoon in residence at the University of California Berkeley Botanical Garden–collaborating with one another and with the gardening staff on Biotic Portal at Strawberry Creek. Monthly walks...
by Frances Phillips | May 17, 2016 | 2014, Literary Arts, News
Oakland City Hall and its immediate surroundings will welcome the second annual Oakland Book Festival on Sunday, May 22. Among the many presenters and moderators, Creative Work Fund recipient Linda Norton featured in a slide presentation and talk about Agricultural...
by Frances Phillips | May 16, 2016 | 2013, News, Visual Arts
On Saturday, May 21, Arts Benicia, Benicia’s Arts and Culture Commission, and artist Mark Brest van Kempen are hosting a half-day workshop featuring Barbara Goldstein. The workshop runs 1-4 p.m., in the Dona Benicia room at the Benicia Library. Barbara...
