by Frances Phillips | Jun 29, 2018 | 2017, News, Traditional Arts
Opera master Sonam Phuntsok has been collaborating with the Tibetan Association of Northern California to present Sukyi Nyima, a traditional Tibetan opera, or Ache Lhamo, devised for contemporary audiences. The work will premiere on Saturday, July 14, 2018 at De Anza...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 27, 2018 | 2007, News, Traditional Arts
On June 20, the National Endowment for the Arts named quilter Marion Coleman among its 2018 National Heritage Fellows — widely considered the most prestigious form of recognition for folk and traditional artists in the United States. This year’s fellows...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 10, 2018 | 2015, 2016, News, Traditional Arts, Visual Arts
CounterPulse announces that Daughters of a Riot by Mica Sigourney, and restaged performance pieces from Clement Hil Goldberg’s Our Future End are featured in its inaugural five-day festival of performance, conversation and radical celebration, running March 14...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 11, 2018 | 2017, News, Traditional Arts
Inspired by true stories from witnesses of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, lead artist Farah Yasmeen Shaikh, Noorani Dance, and EnActe Arts are premiering The Parting, on January 19 at Z Space. Four performances (matinees and evenings) run through Sunday,...
by Frances Phillips | Dec 19, 2017 | 2017, News, Traditional Arts
On Saturday, December 30, at 1 p.m., Teatro Visión is presenting a staged reading in English and Spanish of Evelina Fernández’s Departera (working title) at the Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose. A Creative Work Fund traditional arts grant to Russell Rodriguez...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 24, 2017 | 2015, News, Traditional Arts
On October 28, the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California celebrates its two-year collaboration with calligrapher Arash Shirinbab and ceramicist Forrest Lesch-Middelton with an exhibition and public reception from 4-6 p.m.. The exhibit, To Contain and Serve...
