by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Muralist Edythe Boone is collaborating with a team of artists and clients of the Berkeley Drop-In Center (managed by the Alameda County Network of Mental Health Clients), and residents and merchants of South Berkeley to create a mural on the Drop-In Center’s...
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.
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Issa Golitzen Farajaje is collaborating with Zawaya to research and perform a concert of Sufi music from the Arab world. Project partners will travel to Turkey, research and prepare 25-30 pieces, train Zawaya’s Aswat Ensemble to perform them, produce a concert, and...
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Muisi-Kongo Malonga is collaborating with One East Palo Alto to create “Congo Danced a Nairobi Blues,” exploring the intersecting stories of traditional Congolese dance in the United States and the history of “Little Nairobi” (now East Palo Alto),...
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Chicano theater company Teatro Visión and musician and composer Russell Rodriguez are creating an original bilingual play and a studio recording. The play addresses how members of the Bay Area Latino community today bring meaning to the confrontation of death and...
by Faiza Bukhari | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017, Traditional Arts
Opera master Sonam Phuntsok and the Tibetan Association of Northern California (TANC) are adapting the Tibetan folk opera Sukyi Nyima – a favorite among the eight traditional Tibetan operas. Such operas combine Buddhist teachings with tales of romantic intrigue and...
