Leroy Staples
Leroy Staples led a series of drumming circles encouraging community participation and dance. Photos by Robbie Sweeny
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Mar, 2023
Ramekon O’Arwisters
Social-practice artist Ramekon O'Arwisters led a community-building activity that incorporated crocheting strips of fabric into individual free-form and organic soft sculpture that individuals kept as souvenirs for their participation in a community project that fosters social interaction, creativity, and liberation. [Pictured: Ramekon O'Arwisters; Photo of Block Fest in the Forest in association with the Luggage Store/Tenderloin National Forest, www.luggagestoregallery.org. Photo by Robbie Sweeny]
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Mar, 2023
Hannah Boles
In collaboration with former Block Fest Artist Activators Sylvester Guard Jr and Chris Cook, Hannah Boles created a giant coloring book entitled There is Magic in the Tenderloin. Participants were invited to color in Tenderloin-inspired imagery and take home miniature copies of the coloring book with crayons.
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Mar, 2023
Txutxo Perez
For his art activations, Mexican born artist Txutxo Perez led a printmaking workshops based on the sacred book the Popol Vuh from the Mayan. Techniques included linocuts, silkscreen, and t-shirt printing.
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Mar, 2023
Tan Sirinumas
For his art activation, Thai-born artist Tan Siranumas invited participants to create natural, plant-based sculptures in a quiet meditative workshop based on traditional Thai crafts.
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Mar, 2023
Kat Geng
Kat Geng's art activity led participants in making individual sculptures from scrap odds and ends. Participants took the sculptures home or presented them as holiday gifts to friends and family.
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Mar, 2023
Cynthia Ling Lee
Cynthia Ling Lee (concept and choreography) instigates postcolonial, queer, and feminist-of-color interventions in the field of experimental performance. Trained in North Indian classical kathak and US postmodern dance, she is committed to intimate collaborative processes and foregrounding marginalized voices and aesthetics. Cynthia’s interdisciplinary performance work has been presented at venues such as Dance Theater Workshop (New York), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Painted Bride Arts Center (Philadelphia), Links Hall (Chicago), SZENE Salzburg (Salzburg), Taman Ismail Marzuki (Jakarta), and Chandra-Mandapa: Spaces (Chennai). Cynthia
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Mar, 2023
Melissa Lewis
Melissa Lewis (顾眉) is a ChineseAmerican artist working with mixed identities and mediums. Her work has been presented here and abroad. She thinks often of decolonization, mother tongues, and queerness. Melissa has been dreaming and reading about Bruce Lee for the last year, and comes from a background of traditional Chinese folk arts. Current Key Collaborators: Brenton Cheng. Rose Huey. Kim Ip. Nina Wu. About this Project An all-Chinese cast performs identity, martial arts technique, and cha-cha. This
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Mar, 2023
Antoine Hunter
A Bay Area native, Mr. Antoine Hunter is an award-winning African-American Deaf producer, choreographer, film/theater actor, dancer, dance instructor, model, poet, speaker, mentor and Deaf advocate. Mr Hunter received his training in dance and acting training at Skyline High School Oakland, Ca, California Institute of the Arts(CalArts), and Paul Taylor Dance School in NYC. The founder and artistic director of Urban Jazz Dance, Hunter has performed with Savage Jazz Dance Company, Nuba Dance Theater, Alayo Dance Company, Robert Moses’ KIN,
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Mar, 2023
Adam Herbst
For Adam Herbst's Block Fest activation, participants used upcycled materials to design and create the taxonomy of a community sculpture.
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Mar, 2023
Zerena Diaz
CounterPulse's Zerena Diaz provided the TL an opportunity to speak truth to power by creating protest signs and buttons.
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Mar, 2023
Natalie Cone
CounterPulse's Natalie Cone invited participants to decorate and compose a succulent collage using a wealth of diverse, easy-to-care for plants. Participants walked home with their very own plant to bring warmth and life to their personal space.