Wed. Nov. 11, 7:30pm, Free AIM-West and friends will revisit the historic occupation of Alcatraz, show video clips, tell stories, and most importantly, connect this important historic event with the decades of organizing and political resistance since that time.
It wasn't easy to say goodbye to last weekend's Performing Diaspora artists, but yesterday, CounterPULSE eagerly opened its doors to all of the incredible performers who are taking the stage for the second weekend of the Performing Diaspora Festival -- some coming to us from all the way down in L.A. We caught up with a couple of audience members last night to get their take on opening night's performance.
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.
"All warfare is based on deception." Sun Tzu, 6th c. B.C. Politics is gentlemen's warfare. But when words fail, bombs fall. WHERE IS TIBET? invites you to consider the ancient history of China and Tibet before Tibet's occupation. It is a meditation on our human capacity to understand the nature of good and evil that exists within each of us. Genny Lim, playwright, poet, Where is Tibet? Dec. 4-5 at CounterPULSE
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.
Now that I am on the other side of Performing Diaspora where I presented the piece “The Politics of Poverty” – Sankofa Wisdom, I would just like to say whew. I really enjoyed all the different cultural groups and learning more about their artistry. Looking into the subject of Poverty was painful on my heart. The statistics that I found relating the people of the African Diaspora and poverty were shocking and depressing. The subject is quite mammoth and I
The actual performance of Rembetika was a very powerful experience because it felt dangerous in way that reminds me when we had to do experiments in chemistry class and didn't know the outcome. The performers were all very brave precise and fluid and seemed to understand the heavy soul of a Greek spirit that is resurected when three art forms meet in the black box theater on 9th and Mission. The Singing of Katerina connected my heart with my ancestors's
The 1923 exchange of population was a forcefull way for the Greek refugees to preserve their memory of their experiences and art forms because deep inside they knew that they were never going to return back to their beloved Asia Minor. My grand parents Leonidas and Despina spoke mostly in Turkish at home and they always were nostalgic about their Greek community in their town of Koula in the middle of Turkey. Amongst the golden coin liras that they managed
Sitting in front of my computer on this rather chilly autumn afternoon I cannot believe that we PD artists have seemingly come to the end of this portion of our "journey". Over the course of practically one year we have created, critiqued, blogged, organized, rehearsed, coordinated, risked, stumbled, fumbled, doubted, questioned and actively participated in the development of intimate artistic visions as well as have acted as key players in the birth of this unique and ambitious Counterpulse Festival. I
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