by Frances Phillips | Aug 10, 2017
Writer Malcolm Margolin and the University of California, Berkeley’s (UC Berkeley’s) Archaeological Research Facility are collaborating to produce a book, exhibit materials, and related activities about the West Berkeley Shell Mound. With origins dated at 4,700 years...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 1, 2017
Adriana Camarena is collaborating with Acción Latina to create and distribute “Unsettled/Inquietos,” a series of literary non-fiction essays based on portraits of working class and poor residents of the traditionally Latino Mission District of San Francisco. The...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 12, 2015
Poet Kristin Palm collaborated with Jeremy Liu, Hiroko Kikuchi, and DataCenter on Oakland: Observatory. The project invited Oakland residents to map their neighborhoods by creating writing and artworks based in detailed observations. Workshop participants worked...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 25, 2015
Writers Lisa Gray-Garcia and Tony Robles collaborated with the Central City SRO Collaborative of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and residents of San Francisco single room occupancy hotels (SROs) to create Hotel Voices, a 55-minute literary and performance work...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 17, 2015
A collaboration among six poets, jazz composer and musician Muziki Roberson, and Koncepts Cultural Gallery resulted in the recording and touring piece Voices from the Next America: This Poetry Thing. Participating poets were from the San Francisco Bay Area (lead...