by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2003 | 2003, Traditional Arts
Asian Community Mental Health Services collaborating with Taen Linh Saelee and the Mien Needlework Group to create four elaborate traditional costumes, two for adults and two for children, incorporating imported fabric, silver thread, and adornments.
by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2003 | 2003, Traditional Arts
The Center for Art and Public Life at the California College of the Arts collaborating with multidisciplinary artist Siu Tuita and members of the Bay Area Tongan community to create, document, and exhibit the making of Tongan tapa-cloth?or bark cloth?using...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2003 | 2003, Traditional Arts
The Fremont Symphony Orchestra collaborating with Hamed Shalizi and members of the Afghan Ensemble to research traditional music of Afghanistan, resurrect the art form, and present it to Bay Area audiences through a series of ?Afghanistan: Music of Tradition and...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2003 | 2003, Traditional Arts
La Peña Cultural Center collaborating with bandleader and percussionist Jesus Diaz and Cuban master musicians and dancers to create De Aqu? p’All? Con Clave, a new work featuring Cuban folkloric music and dance alongside contemporary Cuban jazz and...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2003 | 2003, Traditional Arts
Melody of China collaborating with Wilson S. Mah of the Loong Mah Sing See Wui and composer Gang Situ to create newly choreographed lion dance routines to freshly composed musical pieces that are played on traditional Chinese instruments.
by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2003 | 2003, Traditional Arts
Members of the Oakland Youth Chorus collaborating with Zimbabwean artist Julia Tsitsi Chigamba to create Bembero Mudengu, (The Celebration of the Basket), a new multidisciplinary presentation of Zimbabwean music and dance tracing the history and diversity of the Shona...
