"Save SF Japantown" was on a sign held by a community member on the steps of SF City Hall in 2006 as we faced the devastating news that Kintentsu was selling 6 key properties. We simultaneously celebrated the Centenial of SF Japantown, one of the last three Japantowns in the United States. Japanese Americans have survived Internment Camps of World War II, and the removal of community housing from Japantown through SF Redevelopment in the 70's. The sense of loss
Shimenawa is a beautifully crafted dance theater piece that showcased last fall at Counterpulse. This refined version has the classic feel of Kabuki and Noh theater with a modern overlay of sensibility and substance. It's ritual theater expressed in poetry, music and dance with a tight ensemble, Melody Takata has performed with over the years, including local treasure, Sensei Nakajima, the foremost sax player composer, Francis Wong, bassist and multi-instrumentalist, Tatsu Aoki, and myself, on poetry and vocals. Lenora Lee, a brilliant modern dancer who moves with the velocity of
Click here to see an interview with Poet Genny Lim and her work "Pilgrimage"
Click here to see an interview with Melody Takata, director of Shimenawa
Click here for an interview with Tatsu Aoki about Re-ROOTED: The Untold Story of Tokyo Shamisen Music
Click here to see an interview with Dancer / Choreographer Lenora Lee
"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
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