by Frances Phillips | Sep 5, 2014
The University of California Botanical Gardens covers 34 acres across Strawberry Creek and above the Berkeley campus. It offers walks along water that flows all year, shelter in creaking bamboo stands, fragrant gigantic-flowered magnolias, fog-dripping old redwood...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 23, 2014
Through a collaboration with the Hayward Area Historical Society, María Ochoa developed a book, published by Arcadia Press, that documents stories of Russell City, a small town now incorporated into Hayward. In her manuscript, Ochoa focused on “uncovering the...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 1, 2014
In Tracing Poetic Memory in Bayview Hunters Point, poet Michael Warr will capture aspects of everyday life and experience, past and present, in his childhood neighborhood through an interactive Website that incorporates spoken word, text, animated graphics, and still...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 27, 2014
Michelle Tea and eight community writers and performers collaborated with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society to create In the Streets, an evening-length production tracing the development and evolution of the GLBT rights movement in San...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 30, 2014
Margo Perin and Community Works collaborated to create Only the Dead Can Kill, a book, CD, and web page featuring autobiographical stories created by Perin and inmates in San Francisco County Jail. With Perin as artist-facilitator, inmates wrote about their...
