by Frances Phillips | May 24, 2015
Bay Area poet and translator Christopher Daniels, Brazilian poet Josely Vianna Baptista, Baptista’s husband, visual artist Francisco Faria, and Manifest Press collaborated to create a challenging and rare bilingual book of contemporary Brazilian poetry and art, On the...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 17, 2015
Writer Lisa Kahaleole Hall and media artist Paul Kealoha Blake, director of the East Bay Media Center, set out to create a poetic video focusing on Bay Area artists of the Hawaiian Diaspora, exploring themes of home and displacement. Hawaiians have lived in the San...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 27, 2015
Poet Carol Snow and choreographer Alex Ketley of The Foundry co-created “Syntax,” a staged reading where the underlying structure of language was accompanied by and echoed in the physical patterns of dance. The finished 40-minute work explored how “A dance could be...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 20, 2015
Spoken word poet Beau Sia, with collaborators James Kass, Paul Flores, and Marc Bamuthi Joseph of Youth Speaks, explored archetypal, cross-cultural and contemporary concepts of manhood through a spoken word theater piece titled No Man’s Land. Youth Speaks is a leading...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 27, 2015
Erica Lorraine Scheidt and The Teacher Salary Project are collaborating to create Who Do You See Now?: Teacher Stories. The publication will juxtapose writer Scheidt’s personal story of becoming a high school teacher with stories about teaching from Bay Area educators...
