by Frances Phillips | Mar 9, 2015
Composer Omid Zoufonoun and Pacific Mozart Ensemble (now named Pacific Edge Voices) created a traditional Persian composition of approximately 30 minutes in length, titled Shoor e-Mastaan (Passion of the Intoxicated), which explored a dialogue with a contemporary...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 7, 2015
Dancer Antonia Minnecola collaborated with Sharlyn Sawyer, artistic director of Ballet Afsaneh, and other artists to create a new performance work that drew upon the confluence of traditional cultures along Eurasia’s ancient Silk Road. The artists’ vision...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 15, 2015
Centro Legal de La Raza collaborated with weaver Martina Jimenez to create, document, and preserve Mayan loom working within the Oakland Workers’ Center (OWC)–which later evolved into the Oakland Workers’ Collective. At the Workers’ Center,...
by Frances Phillips | Dec 12, 2014
Lead artist Leland Wong collaborated with Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach’s Youth Council to create a series of screen prints that explore the impact of violence on the Asian American community. The finished work, was presented at Manilatown Heritage Foundation...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 14, 2014
Cambodian classical dancer and choreographer Charya Burt collaborated with Vishnu Tattiva Das, Melody Takata, and the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC) to create Of Spirits Intertwined, exploring the rituals that three different Asian cultural dances use...
