by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Traditional Arts
Collaborating with the African American Art and Culture Complex, Nigerian sculptor Geoffrey Nwogu is creating a bas relief installation that captures the form and colors of a typical Mbari house, a project based in the Igbo cultural tradition and philosophy of...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Traditional Arts
California Academy of Science’s Traditional Arts Program collaborating with Afro-Peruvian percussionist Lalo Izquierdo and Bolivian musician Oscar Reynolds to create new musical compositions that combine Bolivian Indian and Afro-Andean music, drawing attention...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Traditional Arts
Door Dog Music Productions collaborating with Azerbaijani pianist Chingiz Sadykhov and with Afghani, Iranian, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, and Assyrian master artists to create a program combining traditional and newly composed music with poetry, dance, and film. The binding...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Traditional Arts
DREAM, a professional performing company that grew out of Destiny Arts Center, collaborating with Afro-Cuban folklorist and choreographer Jose Francisco Barroso to create ?Full Circle,? an exploration of historic, social, and aesthetic links between Afro Cuban Rumba...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Traditional Arts
Temple Israel of Alameda collaborating with composer Stuart Brotman and musicians Marlene Segelstein and Joshua Horowitz to create a purely instrumental klezmer style Jewish religious service for chamber trio. Working in styles rooted in 19th and early 20th century...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Traditional Arts
The Unity Council collaborating with visual traditional Mexican artist Rubén Guzmán and youth and elders of the Fruitvale District in Oakland to produce a public artwork, addressing the theme “Strong Women and Community,” celebrating the...
