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...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 1, 2017 | 2017, Literary Arts, News, Traditional Arts
August 1, 2017 – The Creative Work Fund is pleased to announce the awarding of 15 grants totaling $600,000 to Bay Area literary and traditional artists. The Fund provides financial support to local artists creating new work in collaboration with Bay Area...
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Kathak dancer Farah Yasmeen Shaikh and EnActe Arts are creating The Partition Project, highlighting stories from the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition, a political act that set in motion forced migration and a mass refugee crisis.
