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Dear Bruce, our Seattle research pilgrimage to you began with a golden sunset in the sky. We wondered how often you made this flight from OAK>SEA   The next morning, we met Mimi, our Chinatown tour guide. We walked your streets and traced your footsteps   Mimi brought us inside the Lucky Ngi Music Center—a still-functioning amateur Chinese Opera community center   This is the kind of place you grew up around in

Throughout the month of November, I hosted a birthday fundraiser in service of the CounterPulse Fellowship for Arts Workers. I want to extend deepest gratitude for all who contributed. Your efforts will support two bright and aspiring young professionals, Maya Nixon and Samantha Kuykendall, through the first full expression of the program--a paid learn-work opportunity, emphasizing deep mentorship along with social capital and network-building elements. The fellowship supports entrance for first generation college students/recent grads or participants in Tenderloin workforce

  By Jeanne Pfeffer, Director of Producing & Advancement Interview on September 7, 2018 I’ve known Charles for over ten years now. I helped him launch his company FACT/SF from 2009-2014 and now serve as President of their Board of Directors. I caught up with Charles recently over a beer to learn about his current work, death, premiering Sept 27 at CounterPulse. A choice selection of that conversation is below. ****** Jeanne: Ok, so we were talking about making a

The Tenderloin just got more colorful, thanks to the magic of Marina Perez-Wong and Elaine Chu or Twin Walls Mural Co.. Not actually bio-family, Marina & Elaine are artists in sync repping their San Francisco community through large scale murals. Representing women in the arts by taking their practice to the streets and disrupting assumptions that women aren’t street artists, Twin Walls has made a name for themselves as powerful muralists with West Coast flavor. Most recently Marina & Elaine

Submit to be part of a published anthology of contemporary photographers. If chosen You Receive One Free Paperback Copy!!! Recently I’ve subscribed to email lists that send out regular artist open calls: opportunities to apply to shows, publication, residencies and more. The biggest trend among all of the sexy prospects, is that they don’t actually cover the cost of making the art, let alone provide additional income. These artist opportunities come at a cost for those who aren’t materially rich

A look inside “In Civility Pt. 2: Outrage Machine” by Deborah Slater & John Fesenko Last May housing activists obstructed over a dozen buses ferrying tech workers in the Mission District of San Francisco. Their weapon of choice were e-scooters, a proclamation that shared scooters are treated better than the city’s homeless. With yellow signs in hand and a makeshift barricade constructed, the protesters grasped their phones and tweeted #techsploitation and #scootergate in what seemed like self-aware irony.  Many were

TecTonic Shifts is a performance piece exploring psychosocial symptoms in cities interacting with technology and vice versa, an especially pronounced relationship in the San Francisco Bay Area, where urban form and social migration is constantly shifting. In unpacking how displacement can be exacerbated by tech, TecTonic Shifts processes a number of themes including the criminalization of houselessness, redlining of African American neighborhoods and the destabilizing impacts of technological encroachment. An early prompt applied to the work’s development has been “when

Fractured geographies—                                                                                                                                                 invisiblized. The legacy of redlining Black communities

  Derek Harris and Hien Huynh Soon to come, a video with John Fesenko's interactive images!