Talks

18 Dec, 2008

Surviving the Economic Meltdown: DANGER or OPPORTUNITY?

2008-12-18T20:52:09-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Homepage Links, Talks|Tags: , |

Thank you to all who attended the discussion last night!  It was very thought provoking and one of the best Shaping San Francisco talks that I have attended. I grew up in Seattle, WA and was raised with the idea that money is equal to life energy and time and that it is important to spend less and wisely unless I wished to be constantly on the job and enslaved to a salary.  My parents practiced frugality and participated in

27 May, 2009

TALKS! Art & Politics: Susan Greene

2009-05-27T15:30:08-07:00By |Categories: Events, Talks|Tags: , , , |

Wed. May 27, 7:30pm, Free Susan Greene is a public artist, activist, educator and clinical psychologist. Her practice straddles a range of cultural arenas, focusing on borders, migrations, decolonization and memory. Greene is one of four Jewish American women artists who in 1989 founded the ongoing “Break the Silence Mural Project” in solidarity with Palestine.

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

23 Sep, 2009

TALKS! From India to the Bay Area

2009-09-23T00:21:37-07:00By |Categories: Events, Talks|Tags: , , , , , , |

Wed. Sept. 23, 7:30pm, Free Devendra Sharma & Jaysi Chander (physician & kathak dancer/tabla player/poet & activist) share short performances & discuss important issues surrounding the Bay Area Indian community. Topics include: immigration politics, women in forced marriage, Indian Invitro industry, political economy of Silicon Valley and Indian outsourcing industries. Photo of Devendra Sharma by John Cagle

10 Nov, 2009

Podcasting Diaspora!

2009-11-10T20:24:29-08:00By |Categories: CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora, Podcast|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Last Saturday, artists and community members used the CounterPULSE stage not for dancing, but for discussion: participants in the Performing Diaspora Symposium took the day to explore the rich, challenging themes that the Festival explores. In three separate sessions, panelists and audience members articulate some of the ideas that each Performing Diaspora artists stirs up onstage. Give a listen here! Appropriation: Dilemma in Dance Panelists: Deborah Vaughan, Anne Bluethenthal, & Denise Pate Facilitated by Laura Elaine Ellis The subject of

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.

21 Sep, 2010

Rebellious Women

2010-09-21T16:07:54-07:00By |Categories: Free Events (donations welcomed), Talks|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Last week, Shaping San Francisco's kickoff to the Fall/Winter/Spring 2010-2011 Public TALKS! Series was a perfect way to begin our next round of free discussions.  We were proud to co-sponsor the evening with PM Press, whose Ramsey Kanaan pulled together a spectacular collection of speakers to speak to the topic "Imprisoned but Unbowed: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women." Sin Soracco, author of Low Bite, the story of the time she spent in prison, started the evening and in telling her

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