by Frances Phillips | Dec 19, 2017
San José’s Chicano theater company Teatro Visión and master musician and composer Russell Rodriguez are creating an original bilingual play and studio recording of the music composed for the play. The play addresses how members of the Bay Area Latino community today...
by Frances Phillips | Dec 8, 2017
Zhaoxin Chen (David Z. Chen) and the Chinese Performing Arts Foundation are creating the Jing-Kun Project, which focuses on introducing new audiences to the venerable traditions of classical Chinese drama in the Beijing (“Jing”) and Kunqu (“Kun”) styles. Classical...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 24, 2017
Collaborating with EnActe Arts, Kathak dancer Farah Yasmeen Shaikh is creating The Partition Project, highlighting stories from the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition through dance, music, and theater. When India gained its independence from the British in 1947, the...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 21, 2017
Muralist Edythe Boone is collaborating with a team of artists, 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 community-based mural on the Drop-In...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 14, 2017
Issa Golitzen Farajaje is collaborating with Zawaya to research and perform a concert of Sufi music from the Arab world — work that has been preserved in the Turkish Sufi tradition and by Turkish Sufi composers who were influenced by the Arab Sufi tradition. At the...
