by Frances Phillips | Aug 7, 2019 | News
On Thursday, August 8, at 5 p.m., Alphabet Rockers (Kaitlin McGaw and Tommy Shepherd, Jr.) are celebrating the release of The Love, at 7th West in Oakland. Exploring themes of love, acceptance, gender identity, and gender expression, the new work was created with...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 10, 2019 | News
In his recently published essay, Andrew Lam writes: STANDING IN CONTRAST to the public narrative of itself—the male version of events—are the private dialogues shared by the city’s inhabitants: the story of desires and ambition, thirst for knowledge, yearning to...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 5, 2019 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
Developed through a collaboration between prolific poet and fiction writer Gary Soto and San Francisco Youth Theatre, The Afterlife is a bold new work about death that is intended for teens who have experienced the pain of violence, suicide, and loss in their...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 9, 2018 | 2017, Literary Arts, News
As part of Paseo Artístico hosted events, on April 14 at 2:30 p.m., writer Adriana Camarena, Acción Latina, and El Tecolote newspaper are presenting a free public reading of two essays from Camarena’s Unsettled/Inquietos series — issue no. 3,...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 11, 2018 | 2017, News, Traditional Arts
Inspired by true stories from witnesses of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, lead artist Farah Yasmeen Shaikh, Noorani Dance, and EnActe Arts are premiering The Parting, on January 19 at Z Space. Four performances (matinees and evenings) run through Sunday,...