by Frances Phillips | Oct 4, 2013 | 2013, Traditional Arts
Wendeanne Ke’aka Stitt collaborating with the Academy of Hawaiian Arts to create six kapa cloth costumes based on traditional Hawaiian garments that will be danced in a hula created by Kumu Hula Mark Keali’i Ho’omalu. Kapa is made from the inner bark...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 4, 2013 | Traditional Arts
Syrian-American composer Fathi Aljarah collaborating with Zawaya to produce a concert celebrating war-torn Aleppo?s rich musical heritage, which is threatened by the current civil war. ?Aleppo Alive,? will present a Wasleh, a suite of songs and instrumental pieces in...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 4, 2013 | 2013, Traditional Arts
Carnatic musician Guatam Tejas Ganeshan collaborating with Tree of Life (known as Subterranean Arthouse) to create new songs that tell the ?Story of this Place? at the Arthouse in Berkeley. In the tradition of South Indian classical music, the artist is developing...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 4, 2013 | 2013, Traditional Arts
Artist Ruben Guzman collaborating with Centro Legal de la Raza on The Ahuilti Project, to produce a sculpture in the traditional art form of cartoneria (papier-mache), addressing the theme of immigration.
by Frances Phillips | Oct 4, 2013 | 2013, Traditional Arts
Patrick Makuakane and Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu collaborating with Yerba Buena Arts and Events?producers of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival?to create a day-long traditional Native Hawaiian cultural fete. The day will feature the ritual building of a sacred kuahu?a...
