June 18, 2021
Justin Ebrahemi
Entries By Justin Ebrahemi
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March 23, 2021
How to Write a Piece Description with Mica Sigourney
Leaked Email Thread: Justin Ebrahemi <[email protected]>Mon, Mar 15, 3:07 PMto Mica Sigourney, Silk Worm Hi Mica and Silk, I loved the Insta takeover on Sat! I just wanted to follow up in hopes you could provide more info on Colossus and I will draft a work description and press release. Can’t believe we’re a month […]
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March 3, 2020
Behind the Lens with Robbie Sweeny
I’ve always been a fan of Robbie Sweeny. For years I’ve admired his photographer choreography, his hurried movement and cadence during performances. It takes considerable method and skill to shoot the perfect angle, and to capture the compelling photos that highlight CountrePulse’s Instagram feed. My colleagues and I admire his stylistic editing; together we scroll […]
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September 4, 2019
You’ve seen them buzzing around the box office ensuring the show is running smoothly. They’re the folks making sure you get your ticket and La Croix before taking a seat, introducing the show, and handling the behind-the-scenes House Manager business. CounterPulse shows would not be the same without our amazing House Managers: Hannah, Greta, and […]
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August 30, 2019
Which CounterPulse Queen Are You?
An Unbiased list by Jesse Hewit and Justin Ebrahemi (QUEENS) Become a CounterPulse Member = Rack Up the Benefits! The Bargains! The Vitality! NEIGHBORHOOD DI$COUNT$, YOU BARGAIN QUEEN! As a CounterPulse member at the $20 level, you get discounts to: The STUD bar! Pentacle Coffee! Equator Coffee! Waystone Wine and Beer Cafe! BLICK Art Materials! and […]
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July 24, 2019
Fall 2019 at CounterPulse
Mark your calendars, CounterPulse is moving full throttle in a relentlessly risk-taking performance line-up this Fall. See our Fall 2019 performance schedule and get tickets below! Combustible Residency 2019 Mugwumpin: The Looking Glass Self Mabel Valdiviezo with Travis Bennett: Metamorphosis: Phase 1 Sept 12-14 & 19-21, Thu-Sat, 7:30pm & 8:15pm Pay-what-you-can Thursdays CounterPulse is […]
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June 11, 2019
Inheriting Earth: What it means to be queer in a violent future
#NotABugSplat A little girl’s face stares towards the clouds in a meadow, a place where drones fly as often as the birds. Her face covers a massive portrait printed by a group of artist-activists as part of an installation titled #NotABugSplat. Since 2004, drone strikes in Pakistan have killed over 3,000 people, including a large […]
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June 11, 2019
The Tenderloin Art Lending Library (TALL) is a queer-artist-run project that lends artwork to Tenderloin community members free-of-charge. TALL is a trust-based program where artists—the majority of whom are homeless, formerly homeless, and live or work in the Tenderloin—donate artwork that is available for loan to any member of the Tenderloin community free-of-charge. TALL is […]
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April 25, 2019
Why You Should go to the Annual CounterPulse Gala: A Biased List by Justin Ebrahemi and Jesse Hewit
Because San Francisco industries are hemorrhaging artists, and CounterPulse safeguards resources for YOUR artistic community. Because you know that things can just be so much better than what they are. Because all your most brilliant friends will be there. Because we’re going ALL OUT with the Innerspace theme and transforming our building into a queer […]
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April 23, 2019
Archetypes of Space: Re-imagining urban design with Jeremy Edwards
What is the body’s relationship to furniture, to structure, to the design we inhabit but rarely have an opportunity to adapt? How can design be appropriated to be more collaborative in creation and destruction, shaped by our social norms and urban conditions? Can design be improvisational, performative even? What happens when humans are no longer […]