by Frances Phillips | Jan 24, 2017
Artist Ian Winters and the 12-member Lightbulb Ensemble collaborated with Wholly H20, an Oakland-based organization dedicated to sustainable, localized water management in California, to create Watershed Moments (a working title that changed to become TIDES: San...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 5, 2017
Artist Jeremy Rourke is collaborating with Artists Television Access (ATA) on I’ll Be Around, a portrait of changing San Francisco as illustrated by the history and present-day reality of ATA, a vibrant hub for art and film. His process will include working in ATA’s...
by Frances Phillips | Dec 23, 2016
Niloufar Talebi is creating a new opera, Abraham in Flames, inspired by the Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou. Talebi conceived the work, which features her libretto and music composed by Aleksandra Vrebalov. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Shamlou (1925-2000)...
by Frances Phillips | Dec 23, 2016
Sound installation and mechanical theater artist Matt Heckert explored relationships between original metal works and the sounds they make in collaboration with the Paul Dresher Ensemble and its Artistic Director and composer Paul Dresher. Heckert’s inventions...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 26, 2016
Collaborating with Alliance Française, playwright Ben Yalom and foolsFURY Theater Company translated, workshopped, and presented in San Francisco Le Diable en Partage/The Devil on All Sides, a work by Fabrice Melquiot, one of France’s most significant young...
