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4 Nov, 2009

CounterPULSE presents Words First

2009-11-04T00:56:11-08:00By |Categories: Events|

Wed. Nov. 4, 7:30pm, $7-10 (Members $3-5) Words First is the premiere solo performance event in San Francisco. Each month we invite the finest solo artist, comics, and storytellers to the CounterPULSE stage. Solo performance is a unique brand of theater; One person, one stage. It's one part storytelling, one part comedy, one part drama, and 100% entertainment. Buy Tix Now!

5 Nov, 2009

CounterPULSE presents Performing Diaspora Festival

2009-11-05T00:57:06-08:00By |Categories: Events, Performing Diaspora, Yannis Adoniou|

Thurs.-Sun. Nov. 5-8, 12-15, & 19-22 all shows 8 pm $15-25 pre-sale, $18-25 at the door CounterPULSE’s Performing Diaspora debuts this November featuring thirteen talented California dance, music, theater, media, and interdisciplinary artists who are using traditional forms as a basis for experimentation and innovation, truly representing the modern California experience. Single evening tix Performing Diaspora Festival Pass Photo: Gema—She Teaches the Women Thurs.-Sun. Nov. 5-8 Charlotte Moraga Gema Sandoval, Danza Floricanto/USA Danica Sena Gakovich Adia Whitaker Thurs.-Sun. Nov. 12-15

7 Nov, 2009

Performing Diaspora Symposium

2009-11-07T00:58:49-08:00By |Categories: Events, Performing Diaspora|

Presented by CounterPULSE & the Alliance for California Traditional Arts Sat. Nov 7, 10am-5:30pm, Free Some of the Bay Area's most exciting minds in traditional performance tackle hot topics including criticism and aesthetics, representation and appropriation, and social justice during a day-long gathering. The event is presented by CounterPULSE and the Alliance for California Traditional Arts in association with the African and African American Performing Arts Coalition, Dance Mission Theater, and the Dance Studies Working Group at UC Berkeley. Non-stop

14 Nov, 2009

Bike Tour: Ecological History (north)

2009-11-14T01:02:26-08:00By |Categories: Events|Tags: , , , |

Sat. Nov. 14, noon, $15-50 sliding scale to benefit Shaping SF This trip through San Francisco's lost sand dunes, ponds, creeks and coastline will focus on the city from downtown north, covering the heart of the city, the waterfront and Yerba Buena cove, Telegraph Hill, Black Point, and Crissy Field in the Presidio... It's a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour through the city's ecological past and present. Photo: Chris Carlsson—original walruses from Alaska Commercial Company building, destroyed in 1975.

18 Nov, 2009

TALKS! Philippines: Immigration Politics and the Body

2009-11-18T20:00:04-08:00By |Categories: Events, Talks|Tags: , , , |

Wed. Nov. 18, 7:30pm, Free This panel brings artists and scholars together who work in the areas of Filipino history, colonization, decolonization and the creation of cultural forms. It will evoke and address our diasporic, transnational and shifting identities as Filipinos/Filipino-Americans and political relationships historically and today between the Philippines and the United States. Aimee Suzara, Aimee Espiritu, Leny Strobel, and Jorge Emmanuel.

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