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18 Nov, 2009

TALKS! Philippines: Immigration Politics and the Body

2009-11-18T20:00:04-08:00By Chris|Categories: Events, Talks|Tags: immigration, Philippines, Talks, Women|

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.

14 Nov, 2009

Bike Tour: Ecological History (north)

2009-11-14T01:02:26-08:00By Chris|Categories: Events|Tags: bike tour, ecology, sf, Shaping SF|

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.

11 Nov, 2009

TALKS! History & Politics Alcatraz 40th anniversary of Indigenous occupation

2009-11-11T19:30:07-08:00By Ryan Crowder|Categories: Events|Tags: alcatraz, Events, history, politics, sf, Shaping SF, Talks|

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.

8 Nov, 2009

CounterPULSE and Dancers’ Group present 2nd Sundays

2009-11-08T00:59:38-08:00By Chris|Categories: Events, Free Events (donations welcomed)|

Sun. Nov. 8, 2pm, Free K. Olive Mckeon helps us all get seated, Ana Flecha explores friendships between women, and Heidi Landgraf DanceAct traces two women's relationship from initial meeting to "I Do" in this month's dance salon of emerging & established choreographers. Photo by Stefanie Herzer—Heidi Landgraf DanceAct

7 Nov, 2009

Performing Diaspora Symposium

2009-11-07T00:58:49-08:00By Chris|Categories: Events, Performing Diaspora|

Presented by CounterPULSE & the Alliance for California Traditional Arts Sat. Nov 7, 10am-5:30pm, Free Some of the Bay Area's most exciting minds in traditional performance tackle hot topics including criticism and aesthetics, representation and appropriation, and social justice during a day-long gathering. The event is presented by CounterPULSE and the Alliance for California Traditional Arts in association with the African and African American Performing Arts Coalition, Dance Mission Theater, and the Dance Studies Working Group at UC Berkeley. Non-stop

5 Nov, 2009

CounterPULSE presents Performing Diaspora Festival

2009-11-05T00:57:06-08:00By Chris|Categories: Events, Performing Diaspora, Yannis Adoniou|

Thurs.-Sun. Nov. 5-8, 12-15, & 19-22 all shows 8 pm $15-25 pre-sale, $18-25 at the door CounterPULSE’s Performing Diaspora debuts this November featuring thirteen talented California dance, music, theater, media, and interdisciplinary artists who are using traditional forms as a basis for experimentation and innovation, truly representing the modern California experience. Single evening tix Performing Diaspora Festival Pass Photo: Gema—She Teaches the Women Thurs.-Sun. Nov. 5-8 Charlotte Moraga Gema Sandoval, Danza Floricanto/USA Danica Sena Gakovich Adia Whitaker Thurs.-Sun. Nov. 12-15

4 Nov, 2009

CounterPULSE presents Words First

2009-11-04T00:56:11-08:00By Chris|Categories: Events|

Wed. Nov. 4, 7:30pm, $7-10 (Members $3-5) Words First is the premiere solo performance event in San Francisco. Each month we invite the finest solo artist, comics, and storytellers to the CounterPULSE stage. Solo performance is a unique brand of theater; One person, one stage. It's one part storytelling, one part comedy, one part drama, and 100% entertainment. Buy Tix Now!

1 Nov, 2009

Bike Tour: Transit

2009-11-01T00:53:45-07:00By Chris|Categories: Events|

Sun. Nov. 1, noon, $15-50 sliding scale to benefit Shaping SF Discover lost freeways, ghosts of train routes, and a vivid account of how San Franciscans moved around this peninsula through time. Hear about the violent strikes that shaped public transit, the graft and corruption that conquered the Outside Lands. It's a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour through the city's transportation past and present. Photo: A horse-drawn omnibus near 2nd and Harrison, heading to the Willows in the 1860s.

28 Oct, 2009

From Beijing to San Francisco: production process

2009-10-28T02:52:23-07:00By Fei|Categories: CounterPULSE, Events, Performing Diaspora, Video, Wang Fei|Tags: beijing, english, gugin, Performing Diaspora, poem, process, san francisco, Wang Fei|

Wang Fei is a Performing Diaspora Resident Artist at CountePULSE. See her at weekend 3 of Performing Diaspora, November 19-22. Buy tickets now! From Beijing to San Francisco: production process It has been four months since I got really into this new work at my residency. It is so cool, the more I work on this project, the more I like it. It has really made me push the envelope and brought my different interests and talents into a live

28 Oct, 2009

TALKS! Climate Change/Climate Justice

2009-10-28T00:52:35-07:00By Chris|Categories: Events, Talks|

(co-sponsored by Nature in the City) Wed. Oct. 28, Free What is going to be accomplished by "cap-and-trade?" How is global warming being co-opted by corporate power? What are equitable approaches involving local communities? How are the effects of climate change already appearing on the planet's and the Bay Area's ecosystems? What is the relationship between climate change and ecological restoration? Tom Athanasiou (Eco-Equity), Jon Christensen (Exec. Dir., Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University), Dan Gluesenkamp, (Director

23 Oct, 2009

Rest for the Constant Traveler Dance Continuum SF’s 3rd Annual Season

2009-10-23T00:50:43-07:00By Chris|Categories: Events|

Oct. 23-25, 8pm, $20 The dances of “Rest for the Constant Traveler” incorporate many disparate qualities; lyricism with physical athleticism, tenderness married with humor, moments of stillness infused with chaos. Movement, theater and film propel you into adventures with a novel view on life. Join DCSF on journeys of the mind, body and spirit. brownpapertickets.com Photo by Marty Sohl: Dance Continuum SF, José Ivan Ibarra, Peter Litwinowicz, Jennifer Wright Buy Tickets Now!

21 Oct, 2009

TALKS! Bicycling in San Francisco

2009-10-21T00:48:44-07:00By Chris|Categories: Events, Talks|

Wed. Oct. 21, 7:30pm, Free 17 years of Critical Mass and 10,000 members of the Bike Coalition?… what’s right, what’s not with the way bicycling and bicycling politics is developing at the end of the first decade of the 21st century? A broad discussion of bicycle etiquette, transportation and urban design, equipment and safety (good engineering vs. "good shopping"), Stop-Roll, Bike Plan 04 vs. Copenhagen 1980, etc. Inside/outside, SF Bike Coalition/Critical Mass… Janel Sterbentz, Steve Jones, Andy Thornley and TBA.

TALKS! Philippines: Immigration Politics and the Body

Bike Tour: Ecological History (north)

TALKS! History & Politics Alcatraz 40th anniversary of Indigenous occupation

CounterPULSE and Dancers’ Group present 2nd Sundays

Performing Diaspora Symposium

CounterPULSE presents Performing Diaspora Festival

CounterPULSE presents Words First

Bike Tour: Transit

From Beijing to San Francisco: production process

TALKS! Climate Change/Climate Justice

Rest for the Constant Traveler Dance Continuum SF’s 3rd Annual Season

TALKS! Bicycling in San Francisco

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