by Frances Phillips | Oct 4, 2013 | 2013, Traditional Arts
Wendeanne Ke’aka Stitt collaborating with the Academy of Hawaiian Arts to create six kapa cloth costumes based on traditional Hawaiian garments that will be danced in a hula created by Kumu Hula Mark Keali’i Ho’omalu. Kapa is made from the inner bark...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 4, 2013 | 2013, Traditional Arts
Traditional Tibetan woodcarver Penpa Tsering collaborating with the Tibetan Association of Northern California (TANC) to create a full set of traditional Tibetan altar pieces, complete with cabinets, shelves, and a throne table. The finished pieces will become part of...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 4, 2013 | 2013, Traditional Arts
Tsering Wangmo collaborating with Vajrayana Foundation to stage and record a ritualized Tibetan dance, accompanied by narration or song. The project focuses on the Lingdro dance, which tells the history of the 11th century Tibetan King Gesar of Ling.
by Frances Phillips | Oct 4, 2013 | 2013, Traditional Arts
California native basketweaver Linda Yamane collaborating with Santa Lucia Conservancy to create two Ohlone twined work baskets?a pechump tiprin that sits on a stone mortar for acorn preparation, and xaapsh, a utilitarian twined container. Each basket connects to...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 29, 2011 | 2011, Traditional Arts
African Advocacy Network (Dolores Street Community Services, fiscal sponsor) collaborating with Bongo Sidibe, a traditional drummer from Guinea, West Africa to bring together a diverse population of Africans living in the Bay Area through a project culminating in two...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 29, 2011 | 2011, Traditional Arts
Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach?s Youth Council collaborating with Leland Wong to create a series of screen prints that explore the impact of violence on the Asian American community.
