by Frances Phillips | May 11, 2015 | 2014, News, Visual Arts
Over 18 months, Mark Brest van Kempen has been collaborating with Arts Benicia to integrate public art and public dialogue into the process of waterfront development in Benicia. His first project, “The Biolabyrinth Raingarden Project”(see image above) was...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 22, 2015 | 2014, News, Performing Arts
inkBoat’s Shinichi Iova-Koga and a host of other artists are collaborating with Dancers’ Group to develop and present a work titled 95 Rituals that is dedicated to legendary choreographer Anna Halprin in celebration of her 95 birthday. The artists will be...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 21, 2015 | 2012, News, Performing Arts
Inspired by Michael Pollan’s Food Rules, Hand to Mouth is a new music/theater/opera event that includes original music and songs, spoken word, interactive video, humor, clowning, and silly fun. Over the past year, lead artist John Duykers and First Look Sonoma...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 27, 2015 | 2014, News, Performing Arts
On April 3, Alonzo King LINES Ballet will premiere a new work developed in collaboration with natural soundscape artist Bernie Krause and composer Richard Blackford. For more than 40 years, Krause has traveled the globe with microphones tuned to the earth and its...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 5, 2015 | 2014, Literary Arts, News
Writer Linda Norton and Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park have launched Home & Away: Oakland, California’s Prisons and the Geography of the Heart, a project documenting the effects of mass incarceration on the community in Oakland. Starting in...
