May 16, 2012
Pictured: Soil Kitchen
Amy Franceschini
Shaping San Francisco Public Talk
MAY 16, WED 7:30PM
FREE
Amy Franceschini is a pollinator who creates formats for exchange and production that question and challenge the social, cultural and environmental systems that surround her. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between humans and nature. Her projects reveal the ways that local politics are affected by globalization. In 1995, Amy founded Futurefarmers, an international collective of artists. In 2004, Amy co-founded Free Soil, an international collective of artists, activists, researchers, and gardeners who work together to propose alternatives to the social, political and environmental organization of space.
May 14, 2012
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Artists Writers Directors Dancers Choreographers Actors Musicians Filmmakers Performers Producers
CounterPULSE Presents Boot Camp for Artists
with Jessica Robinson Love
Intensive skills for raising money and attention
6-weeks: Mondays, April 16th – May 21st, 2012, 6:30-9:30pm
Whether you’re a choreographer who’s self-producing for the first time, a director who’s ready to expand your company, an experienced artist looking to brush up on skills, or a performer looking to get a part-time job in arts administration, this crash course will give you the skills you need to kick-start your career.
The bootcamp includes 18 hours of instruction, plus in-person presentations by local editors and funders. Your art deserves the investment!
Space is limited, advanced registration is required.
May 13, 2012
MAY 13, SUN at 2PM
FREE
Deborah Karp Dance Projects
How does the shifting landscape affect the moving body? How do the continuous and fluid movements of an active body create pathways in the landscape? Playing with light and shadow and drawing source material from Authentic Movement practice and the benign, repetitive gestures of everyday life Deborah Karp Dance Projects will present a new work-in-progress as part of the 2nd Sundays series.
detour dance
Imitations of Intimacy follows an odd couple who resists our frontal lobes, saying and acting upon those irrational and rhetorical things we normally keep to ourselves. Through contemporary dance and theater, the duet examines the social norms of person-to-person settings, intersections between domestic and primal environments, and tensions between individual autonomy and co-dependency.
Floating(Rib)
What happens when we discover that we can choose our own adventure? Follow this exciting journey through the beautiful and strange, as we untangle ourselves from our stories to combat the fear and tragedy around us.
May 11, 2012
MAY 11-12, FRI & SAT at 8PM, SAT at 2PM
$15-20 Sliding Scale
Cynthia Adams (Fellow Travelers Performance Group) and Li Chiao-Ping (Li Chiao-Ping Dance) present an imaginative concert of multimedia work, spoken word and dance/theater performance and are joined by Janelle Bentley, Patricia Jiron, Rachel Krinsky, Nicole Roerick, Liz Sexe. Celebrate Mother’s Day weekend with this concert by Adams and Li.
May 9, 2012
Shaping San Francisco Public Talk
MAY 9, WED 7:30PM
FREE
Mat Callahan and Lincoln Cushing present an incredible slide show of dozens of rock and political posters from the 1960s and1970s, discussing the role of music and art in the politics of the era, and the way the commercial culture worked to co-opt and reintegrate that burst of creativity into the demands of consumer capitalism.
May 7, 2012
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Artists Writers Directors Dancers Choreographers Actors Musicians Filmmakers Performers Producers
CounterPULSE Presents Boot Camp for Artists
with Jessica Robinson Love
Intensive skills for raising money and attention
6-weeks: Mondays, April 16th – May 21st, 2012, 6:30-9:30pm
Whether you’re a choreographer who’s self-producing for the first time, a director who’s ready to expand your company, an experienced artist looking to brush up on skills, or a performer looking to get a part-time job in arts administration, this crash course will give you the skills you need to kick-start your career.
The bootcamp includes 18 hours of instruction, plus in-person presentations by local editors and funders. Your art deserves the investment!
Space is limited, advanced registration is required.
May 6, 2012
MAY 6, SUN at 5PM
FREE
Join us for an afternoon of food and a performance co-created by youth from the 10th and Mission Youth Center with Deep Waters Dance Theater. This piece looks at food traditions, folklore and the questions that these youth have about their food sources. Incorporating music, spoken word and dance, the performance will be followed by a short excerpt from a documentary by Erica Jordan which follows residents from 10th and Mission Housing and Edith Witt Senior housing as they navigate shopping for food in this South of Market neighborhood where they have lived for just 2 years.
May 3, 2012
Performance Festival to Benefit CounterPULSE
MAY 3-5, THU-SAT at 8PM
Celebrating CounterPULSE’s 7th anniversary, May Day showcases a diverse array of local artists and raises funds for a nonprofit known as an experimental space for art and social action. Support CounterPULSE as a hub for risk-taking community-based performance. Find out more about the artists on our May Day page.
April 29, 2012
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Artists Writers Directors Dancers Choreographers Actors Musicians Filmmakers Performers Producers
CounterPULSE Presents Boot Camp for Artists
with Jessica Robinson Love
Intensive skills for raising money and attention
6-weeks: Mondays, April 16th – May 21st, 2012, 6:30-9:30pm
Whether you’re a choreographer who’s self-producing for the first time, a director who’s ready to expand your company, an experienced artist looking to brush up on skills, or a performer looking to get a part-time job in arts administration, this crash course will give you the skills you need to kick-start your career.
The bootcamp includes 18 hours of instruction, plus in-person presentations by local editors and funders. Your art deserves the investment!
Space is limited, advanced registration is required.
A Shaping San Francisco Cycles of History Bike Tour
Striking waterfront workers march on the Embarcadero, May 1934.
APR 29, SUN at NOON
$15-50 sliding scale
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 are dozens of epic battles between owners and workers, culminating in the 1934 General Strike and its aftermath. This is an entirely different look, during a four hour bike tour, at San Francisco labor history.
