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  • October 28, 2011

    San Francisco Transgender Film Festival NEXT WEEK: Nov. 3-5

    1:15 PM ByShawna V
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    The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival is excited to celebrate our TENTH ANNIVERSARY at CounterPULSE next week!  Join us for a spectacular three days featuring films from over a dozen countries around the world plus an amazing live performance event! SFTFF runs November 3-5 (all events at 8pm). PERFORMANCES! Thursday November 3 at 8pm FILMS! […]

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  • June 21, 2011

    Front Line Theatre’s RARE EARTH preview at FURY Factory 2011–Tonight and Tomorrow

    3:06 PM ByFront Line Theatre
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    Front Line Theatre’s newest work, Rare Earth, will be premiering at CounterPULSE on July 8-10 as part of the Summer Special series.  But first, everyone should come and check out  a Work-in-Progress preview at FURY Factory 2011!  We’ll be showing 25-30 minutes of the work and having a short talk-back after. Splitting the bill with […]

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  • November 20, 2010

    Bike Tour: Labor History

    12:00 PM ByErica Dixon
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    A Shaping San Francisco Cycles of History Bike Tour Sat., November 20, 2010 noon, $15-50 sliding scale to benefit Shaping SF Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Bicycle Tours and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. From the pre-urban history of Indian Slavery to the earliest 8-hour day movement in the U.S., the ebb and flow […]

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  • October 20, 2010

    Talks! Hardboiled For Hard Times: Crime In The City panel, Owen Hill, Jim Nisbet, Summer Brenner, Benjamin Whitmer, and Michael Harris. Co-Presented by PM Press

    7:30 PM ByErica Dixon
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    Wed., October 20, 2010 7:30pm, Free Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Public TALKS and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. “Crime fiction is almost like a product of capitalism. It’s about social inequality” (Ian Rankin, best-selling crime novelist) Join five of the finest exponents of crime and noir as they discuss how fiction is not […]

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  • September 21, 2010

    Rebellious Women

    4:07 PM Bylisaruth
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    Last week, Shaping San Francisco’s kickoff to the Fall/Winter/Spring 2010-2011 Public TALKS! Series was a perfect way to begin our next round of free discussions.  We were proud to co-sponsor the evening with PM Press, whose Ramsey Kanaan pulled together a spectacular collection of speakers to speak to the topic “Imprisoned but Unbowed: The Struggles […]

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  • August 10, 2010

    Julia Serano & Carol Queen Post-Show Panel

    1:10 PM ByEngagement Fellow
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    100807 Jesse Hewit / Laura Arrington Strong Behavior Post Show Panel from In Studio on Vimeo.

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  • November 10, 2009

    Podcasting Diaspora!

    8:24 PM BySarah Jessee
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    Last Saturday, artists and community members used the CounterPULSE stage not for dancing, but for discussion: participants in the Performing Diaspora Symposium took the day to explore the rich, challenging themes that the Festival explores. In three separate sessions, panelists and audience members articulate some of the ideas that each Performing Diaspora artists stirs up […]

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  • November 6, 2009

    CounterPULSE premieres Performing Diaspora!

    8:40 PM BySarah Jessee
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    Let the Festival begin! Last night, CounterPULSE opened its doors to Performing Diaspora artists and audience members — check out some of the audience’s reactions here!

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  • October 23, 2009

    Dance Discourse 7: How do we keep our dances from becoming museum pieces? Defining Tradition, Innovation, and Preservation in the Artistic Process

    5:47 PM BySarah Jessee
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    On October 15, 2009 a group of Bay Area artists, arts administrators and audience members met at CounterPULSE for the Dance Discourse Project 7: Dancing Diaspora. Co-presented by World Arts West/ San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and Dancers’ Group the event was a part of the Fall 2009 season of Performing Diaspora. Learn more about […]

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  • October 22, 2009

    Performing Diaspora on the Airwaves!

    5:30 PM BySarah Jessee
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    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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