by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2001 | 2001, Media Arts
San Francisco human rights organization, Global Exchange, artist Sergio De La Torre, filmmaker Vicky Funari, and the Tijuana women?s organization Grupo Factor X collaborating to create an hour-long documentary film, Maquilapolos, about the lives of workers in...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2001 | 2001, Traditional Arts
SOMARTS collaborating with dancer, percussionist, and choreographer Roberto Borrell, Orquesta La Moderna Tradici?n?the only danz?n ensemble in the United States?and five master artists to develop a multi-disciplinary presentation of Cuban music and dance that traces...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2001 | 2001, Traditional Arts
San Francisco State University’s College of Ethnic Studies and Professor Danilo Begonia, Pilipino Kulintang master artist Danongan Kalunduyan, and the Ating Tao Drum Circle collaborating to create new performance works based on traditional kulintang music and...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2001 | 2001, Traditional Arts
Green Policy Institute (The Tides Center, fiscal sponsor) collaborating with sculptor Rubén Guzmán to produce a series of papier-mache sculptures and installations celebrating many residents of the Fruitvale District of Oakland?s Mexican heritage. Guzman is sharing...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2001 | 2001, Traditional Arts
California Academy of Sciences collaborating with Nigerian-born sculptor Geoffrey Nwogu on the rare creation and presentation of a Mbari family of three deity figures. The work resembles a typical Mbari house complex built as part of the ritual customs practiced by a...
