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SAT JUN 29, 10AM-5PM FREE Join our Performing Diaspora artists for a free, public work-in-progress showing. This is a rare opportunity to see some of the Bay Area’s most innovative cultural performances and be a part of a lively discussion about the work. Stay for the whole day, or drop in when you can! Featuring: [...]
Hosted at Bissap Baobab (3388 19th Street @ Mission, SF) AUG 8, THU at 6-9PM Donations accepted Friends, family, collaborators and the CounterPULSE community are invited to join Performing Diaspora artists and the CounterPULSE crew at Bissap Baobab for delicious Senegalese food, fresh juice cocktails and booty shaking beats! Performing Diaspora artists have been dreaming, [...]
CounterPULSE and the Alliance for California Traditional Arts present Performing Diaspora Symposium AUG 10, SAT 10AM – 5PM FREE Leading scholars, elders and artists from across the Bay Area and nation will gather for a series of thoughtful and challenging conversations that will contextualize the intersection of traditional arts, contemporary performance and California’s changing demographics. [...]
Byb Chanel Bibene
1/30/2013 - The strength of Hope, my journey: The beginning
Sunrise, one morning in June 1997: Students were readying themselves for school, workers for their jobs, merchants for their businesses in the city, in the markets, peddlers were at their usual occupations, the many unemployed, graduates with or without hope, were looking for work, students were on their way to school, and that’s when everything happened, the explosions of heavy weapons that began a civil war[...]