2025-12-17T10:06:05-08:00By CP|
Keith Hennessy, is a frolicker, imperfectionist, and witch working in the fields of dance, performance, affordable housing, and gay sexuality. Raised on Atikameksheng Anishnawbek lands in Canada and living since 1982 on Ramaytush Ohlone lands (San Francisco), Keith tours internationally. His work is interdisciplinary and experimental, motivated by anti-racist, queer-feminist, and anarchist movement. Hennessy engages practices of improvisation, ritual, collaboration, and play to respond to political crises.
2025-02-10T16:36:57-08:00By CP|
As Managing Director, Christina is committed to fostering a workplace culture at CounterPulse that prioritizes trust, collaboration, and the well-being of artists and staff alike. With a background in education, nonprofit leadership, and the arts, Christina brings a deep commitment to human-centered design and cooperative practices to her role, working to ensure that CounterPulse thrives as a community-led space. An artist and facilitator at heart, she has spent her career creating spaces where people of all ages can explore movement,
2023-07-11T17:08:45-07:00By CP|
Carlo Abruzzese is a visual artist. He began his career as an Architect working on a variety of projects (residential, nonprofit and public buildings at UC Berkeley and Kaiser Hospitals). In mid-career, his focus shifted to painting. His current art, based on data sets, has been exhibited extensively at galleries and museums throughout Northern California. He has been an artist-in-resident at the de Young Museum, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Vermont Studio Center and at Google Headquarters in Mountain
2024-07-23T13:46:44-07:00By CP|
Abra is an Executive Director and Project Manager with over 20 years of experience in the arts sector. Currently, Abra leads the Market Street Arts Initiative in San Francisco, focusing on creative community engagement in the Mid-Market neighborhood. Abra previously ran operations for the Boulder International Film Festival and Boulder Arts Week and founded Motion Pacific Dance, and Santa Cruz Dance Week. With expertise in strategic planning, programming, and public relations, Abra is passionate about fostering accessibility and inclusivity in
2023-06-14T12:18:07-07:00By Jeffrey Samorano|
Lisa Beyer is a landscape architect and urban planner, passionate about cities, design and community. Her love of urban landscapes informs a long-standing commitment to the implementation of nature-based solutions. Hailing from sunny Tucson, Arizona, Lisa has twenty years of experience planning, designing and managing a number of acclaimed urban projects in New York City, St. Louis, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area. Dance and music have always been an integral part of her life. In high school and
2024-03-25T10:15:49-07:00By Jeffrey Samorano|
Carlos Brache was born and raised in Southern California where he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the California Institute of the Arts. Currently, he works for a non-profit in the field of organ and tissue donation where he serves as the In-House Coordinator for a large San Francisco hospital where he provides education to hospital staff as well as providing grief support to families of donors. When not working, he maintains his passion for the arts through an
2023-09-06T17:09:42-07:00By Jeffrey Samorano|
Victor Cordon is a social impact professional currently leading employee impact, community impact and philanthropy practices at Okta. He has over a decade of experience working in nonprofit fundraising, corporate partnerships and philanthropy roles for organizations including the American Red Cross and AAA. Victor is passionate about activating individuals and organizations to do their most strategic good, believing that a more just and equitable world requires thoughtful and intentional participation in community. A proud San Francisco native, Victor is committed
2024-08-08T14:19:49-07:00By Jeffrey Samorano|
Lucy Milligan Wahl is the founder of LMW Edits, a San Francisco based professional organizing company. Previously, she earned an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, worked in fundraising at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, and graduated with an AB from Princeton University. A lifelong dancer and lover of performance, she was drawn to CounterPulse by the breadth and depth of the work presented. What she didn’t expect was to discover a thriving, vibrant community full
2023-06-14T12:21:55-07:00By Jeffrey Samorano|
Diana K. Murphy (she/they) is a writer, editor, and content strategist based in San Francisco. She thrives on producing accessible and data-driven products and experiences for cultural organizations that are engaging and have long-term impact. She is a culturally sensitive and collaborative team player who loves to think creatively and holistically about how to reach diverse audiences. She holds an M.A. in Museum Studies from Marist College / Istituto Lorenzo de’Medici completed in Florence, Italy, and a B.A. in the
2023-12-13T11:19:15-08:00By Jeffrey Samorano|
Frank Smigiel is a visual arts-based curator, educator, and writer. He currently serves as the Director of Arts Programming & Partnerships at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco, where he develops public art and community projects. The former Associate Curator of Performance & Film at SFMOMA, he has worked with artists including assume vivid astro focus, Desirée Holman, Joan Jonas, Sara Shelton Mann, Rashaad Newsome, Naomi Rincón-Gallardo, Jacolby Satterwhite, Sunny A. Smith, and Maya Stovall,
2023-06-12T17:56:31-07:00By CP|
The Stud opened in 1966 when the SoMa LGBT scene was booming as gay men from around the country started coming out and coming to San Francisco. The Stud was one of dozens of bars in the neighborhood that would later come to be known as the Leather District. The original owners Geoge Mason and Alexis Muir quickly realized that the cowboy-themed, macho men bar they opened was just not their cup of tea and they began catering to the
2023-06-12T17:45:56-07:00By CP|
Nava Dance Theatre is a Bay Area based, Bharatanatyam dance company that aims to develop classically influenced work based on contemporary themes. Company dancers Nadhi, Sophia, and Arun will partner with renowned composer G.S. Rajan to present The Cloud Messenger, a Bharatanatyam adaptation of the poem, Meghadhooth, by 5th century Indian poet, Kalidasa.Nadhi, Sophia, and Arun received their Bharatanatyam training from Smt. Sundara Swaminathan, Artistic Director of Kala Vandana Dance Company. Rajan received is music training with various stalwarts while studying
