by Frances Phillips | Apr 18, 2016 | 2014, Literary Arts, News
On April 21-23, the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University is presenting the fruits of its collaboration with Barbara Jane Reyes, “Kuwentuhan (Talkstory),” a collective performance developed with Filipino American writers. The project kicks-off...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 13, 2016 | 2013, Literary Arts, News
On Sunday, April 17, from 10 a.m. to noon, poets Denise Newman and Hazel White are leading a walk along the creek that runs through the University of California Botanical Garden in Berkeley. The public is invited to join them and contribute to their year-long project,...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 11, 2016 | 2013, News, Traditional Arts
Following the inaugural presentation of “Honoring the Civil Rights Movement’s Heroines” at the African American Museum and Library at Oakland, the exhibit of Patricia Montgomery’s evocative quilted swing coats–each representing a...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 25, 2016 | 2013, Literary Arts, News
Poets Denise Newman and Hazel White have been collaborating with the University of California at Berkeley’s Botanical Garden to create “Biotic Portal at Strawberry Creek: Language Experiments 1,” along with interactive events at the poets’...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 13, 2016 | 2014, News, Performing Arts
On March 19 at 8 p.m. and March 20 at 7 p.m., composer and musician John Calloway and the Community Music Center are premiering El Son de la Mision, an exploration of the music of San Francisco’s Mission District from the 1960s to the present. The music is...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 13, 2016 | 2013, News, Visual Arts
Artist Rene Yung collaborated with the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park to create Chinese Whispers: Bay Chronicles, exploring the little-known history of 19th Century Chinese Shrimp fishers on the San Francisco Bay. Now working with oral histories of...
