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. [...]

CounterPULSE presents Performing Diaspora Weekend One Byb Chanel Bibene, Joti Singh, and Jia Wu AUG 15-18, THU-SUN at 8PM Performing Diaspora artists represent many of the state’s most exciting new voices at the intersection of traditional arts, contemporary performance and California’s changing demographic. In the first festival weekend, Byb Chanel Bibene, Joti Singh and Jia [...]

CounterPULSE presents Performing Diaspora Weekend Two Jewlia Eisenberg, Muisi-kongo Malonga, and Nadhi Thekkek AUG 22-25, THU-SUN at 8PM Performing Diaspora artists represent many of the state’s most exciting new voices at the intersection of traditional arts, contemporary performance and California’s changing demographic. In the second festival weekend, Jewlia Eisenberg, Muisi-kongo Malonga and Nadhi Thekkek excavate [...]