REFLECTIONS on Community Engagement Krista DeNio in conversation with Anne Bluethenthal Why do we enter the process of Community Engaged Art making? More importantly, how do we enter the process and what do we do? In preparation for ART MATTERS: An Introduction to Community Engaged Art, Anne and I reflected on various processes we have […]
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 […]
Wed., November 17, 2010 7:30pm, Free Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Public TALKS and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. One of the emerging zeitgeists of our era is the rediscovery of the water beneath our cities, and redefining the places we are in through awareness of our watersheds. Derek Hitchcock of the SouthYuba River […]
Sun., November 14, 2010 2pm, Free Dancer’s Group and CounterPULSE present 2nd Sundays, an open discourse project in which artists share works in progress and participate in a constructive conversation with audience members and fellow artists. This is an exciting opportunity to advance the open exchange of ideas and participate in the creative process of […]
Wed., October 27, 2010 7:30pm, Free Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Public TALKS and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. “Money: A Comedy with Music” is a satiric portrayal of an economically troubled society in which an American banker tries to explain how money works. The new play written in 2010 in San Francisco moves […]
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 […]
Shaping San Francisco Public Talk Wed., September 29, 2010 7:30pm, Free Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Public TALKS and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. From the crisis in the California universities to the steady destruction of public schools, we’re in the epicenter of a storm that spans the globe as neoliberalist politicians and the […]
100807 Jesse Hewit / Laura Arrington Strong Behavior Post Show Panel from In Studio on Vimeo.
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 […]
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!