Monthly Archives: September 2009

2 Sep, 2009

Free Ram Board

2009-09-02T18:32:23-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

Hey All, So as we near the end of our Riser Rebuild we find ourselves with about 1000 sq. ft. of decent Ram Board that we protected the Dance Floor with. If you want it it is free, just email andrew@counterpulse.org

2 Sep, 2009

Words First

2009-09-02T19:30:01-07:00By |Categories: Events|Tags: |

Wed. Sept. 2, 7:30pm, $7-10 (Members $3-5) This month's performance review includes Kenny Yun in "Lettucetown Lies."  He's Gay.  He's Asian.  He's coming of age in Lettucetown. If that's not bad enough, he's got a crush on a hick.  Adolescence! It's fun, it's lies. In Lettucetown; David Allen Moss; Bruce Pachtman in "Solo Show #2."  Yesterday Bruce had a bad day.  Actually he's had 700 bad days... in a row.  But today everything changed for the better.  For the really,

3 Sep, 2009

Works in Progress Showing

2009-09-03T17:35:31-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|

This past weekend, a few of our Performing Diaspora artists gave audiences a sneak peek on how their work's progressing.  It was incredible to see how far they've come in these past few months, and we're excited to see the final performance!    Check out videos of their performance on YouTube - CounterPULSE has a page all of its own : http://www.youtube.com/user/counterpulse.

6 Sep, 2009

Bike Tour: Labor history

2009-09-06T12:00:42-07:00By |Categories: Events|Tags: , |

Sun. Sept. 6, Noon, $15-50 sliding scale to benefit Shaping SF From the pre-urban history of Indian Slavery to the earliest 8-hour day movement in the U.S., the ebb and flow of class war is traced. SF's radical working class organizations are shaped in part by racist complicity in genocide and slavery, but from the 1870s to the 1940s there were dozens of epic battles between owners and workers, culminating in the 1934 General Strike and its aftermath. This is

7 Sep, 2009

Thoughts by Gómez-Peña on Corpo/Ilicito

2009-09-07T15:56:50-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , , |

Corpo/Ilicito premieres Sept 11th and 12th, 8:00 pm @ CounterPULSE 1310 Mission St @ 9th, San Francisco Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/73700 Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Violeta Luna's latest duet Corpo/Ilicito premieres in San Francisco next weekend and we wanted to share with you some thoughts behind the project -- as articulated by Guillermo himself: "We are now facing serious challenges as artists: The performance work we have created in the past 8 years -- which has been mostly in opposition to the Bush

7 Sep, 2009

Thank you…

2009-09-07T20:58:49-07:00By |Categories: Ana Maria Alvarez, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , |

Danica and Dulce -thank you both so much for your sharing! Having been in Cuba for the first works in progress showing - and looking towards the 20th as the first time I will be meeting many of the other artists in this amazing convergence of cultures, approaches, artistic voices - I am feeling nervous, overjoyed, fearful, delighted and absolutely frantic all at once... As the date grows nearer and as the rehearsal process is underway - the 'everyday' seems

9 Sep, 2009

TALKS! Final Tap: An Unofficial History of Beer

2009-09-09T19:30:01-07:00By |Categories: Events, Talks|Tags: , , , |

Wed. Sept. 9, 7:30pm, Free The rise of microbrewers in American is preceded by a rich social and revolutionary history of beer and brewing, spanning from the Mayans to the Mayflower, from the Founding Fathers through Manifest Destiny, and from Prohibition to the corporatization of beer. Artists John Jota Leaños and Sean Levon Nash will consider this history of beer and invite regional microbrewers to talk about American brewer patriotism and the issues surrounding locally controlled beer production. Enjoy craft-beer

10 Sep, 2009

Patio Party with a Purpose

2009-09-10T17:00:06-07:00By |Categories: Events|Tags: , , |

A benefit for CounterPULSE’s Performing Diaspora Thurs. Sept. 10, 5-9pm, $10-15 sliding scale at El Rio, 3158 Mission St., SF, CA, www.elriosf.com Come party with CounterPULSE at El Rio for an evening of happy hour specials with an awesome line up of entertainment for your viewing pleasure. Vivvyanne Forevermore hosts an evening with a DJ set from Senior Oz from Afrolicious and performances from: Vidya Sundaram, Opal Palmer Adisa, Jaclyn Burleigh & Sheena Johnson, Lily Taylor, W. Kamau Bell, and

11 Sep, 2009

Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Violeta Luna; La Pocha Nostra Violeta Luna Corpo/Ilicito: The Post-Human Society 6.9

2009-09-11T20:00:59-07:00By |Categories: Events|Tags: , , |

Fri. & Sat. Sept. 11 & 12, 8pm, $15-20 sliding scale Experimental arts troupe la Pocha Nostra continues to surprise audiences around the world with shocking interactive ritual performances that question power relations and the criminalization of the brown body. In this latest project, la Pocha create a full environment performance setting that is both live jam session and reflective zone. brownpapertickets.com Photo by Zach Gross—Violeta Luna

14 Sep, 2009

Place, Setting and The Beginning

2009-09-14T01:31:09-07:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Opal Palmer Adisa, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , |

Myal, like many African based religion is tied intricately to place, location -- the setting and its surrounding fauna/flora play an important role. Myal was initially believed to simple mean "spirit." The first known recorded observation of a Myal ceremony was in 1774 by Edward Long, who documented the performance of a Myal dance intended to persuade slaves that they would be invulnerable to the bullets of the white man. It was said they were told by the Myal leader

15 Sep, 2009

Untangling Webs

2009-09-15T02:30:35-07:00By |Categories: Adia Tamar Whitaker, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , |

ind (circle) -  the ghana blogs 2008 - (i feel you Colette!) Where clear crabs slide sideways across broken seashells and glass, there is a magnificent tossing and turning. At night they sing saltwater mountains of rage and revolt, a stampede of white stallions trample screaming angels and choke a caterwauling into the sea. Like fire shooting out of high voltage outlets into frazzled plugs, every grain of sand, salt and sea was charged and exploding. My feet sank as I sang

16 Sep, 2009

Returning to the “Door of No Return”.

2009-09-16T13:25:12-07:00By |Categories: Colette Eloi, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , |

I wonder if my ancestors imaged that their children would ever come back home to Africa. After experiencing being captured beat, chained together and walked miles and miles from their homes, ancestral lands, family, language, culture, religion, food, flora and fauna to sit and wait in a dungeon. To be taken to a place on boats named “Jesus” and such. The slave dungeon in Elmina, Ghana is called a castle ironically enough and a church sits on top of it.

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