What a wonderful run !!! It’s been a week since we closed Homo File and the excitement continues. We sold out 8 of 9 shows in our run and we are starting to make plans to take the show to other cities. […]
Sam Steward’s fascinating life as a shapeshifter linked many disparate worlds: literature, sexual research, academia and tattoo art. For this iteration of Homo File I’ve taken a dive into researching Steward’s life as a tattoo artist. In this world he went by the name Phil Sparrow. I recently read his fascinating and really well written […]
Here is a photo from our March 30th work-in-progress showing of the new and updated Homo File which will premiere May 30th at CounterPULSE for the National Queer Arts Festival. The show chronicles the fascinating life of queer shapeshifter and iconoclast Sam Steward. In the late 1930s Steward met the painter Sir Francis Rose (played […]
Well the run has been amazing thus far with sell out houses and very enthusiastic audiences for both Homo File and FML. We got wonderful press coverage and appeared in several blogs. Here are a few. A fabulous article by Kimberly Chun in the SF Chronicle 96 hours Really interesting article by Richard Dodds in […]
We are in the final stages in the Homo File production and very excited by our progress this week. Working with many types of media is very exciting especially where it is related to how Sam Steward documented and articulated his desire in a social arena that would have preferred to render him invisible. One […]
We are on the hunt for a fabulous group of interns for Summer 2010 at CounterPULSE. Our internships are a great way to get plugged into the bay area arts scene, meet new folks, and challenge yourself to work in a bustling non-profit arts space. Read more about the internships available and how to apply. […]
We are super excited to have had the opportunity to meet the truly kind and professional folks from the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Culture Wire. Watch the video below to hear from Jessica Robinson Love and 3 Performing Diaspora artists Gema Sandoval, Charlotte Moraga and Adia Tamar Whitaker talk about what Performing Diaspora meant to […]
Calling all designers! We’re looking for a design for the official CounterPULSE shirt for this coming year. Since we know we’ve got some extremely talented supporters out there, we thought we would open it up to all of you! Have you had a design idea since seeing a show here? This is your chance to […]
With Performing Diaspora fast-approaching, some of the artists took a break from the stage and headed over to KPFA’s radio studios in Berkeley for a musical sneak-preview of their work on Stephen Kent’s show, “Music of the World.” In between tracks, our Executive Director Jessica Robinson Love joined them in the conversation about their performances […]
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The Performing Diaspora brochure is now online and viewable on the CounterPULSE website