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  • November 4, 2010

    Tranny Fest 2010: Transgender Film Festival

    8:00 PM ByErica Dixon
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    Thurs-Sat., November 4-6, 2010 8pm, $12-15 sliding scale at door Tranny Fest (San Francisco Transgender Film Festival) returns this November with a jam-packed weekend of events! The Festival opens Thursday November 4 with TRANNY FEST LIVE! – featuring performances by ThiswayThatway, Psychobabble, Butch Tap, StormMiguel Florez, Natasha Muse, Landa Lakes, Amir Rabiyah and Shawna Virago. […]

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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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  • 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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  • August 29, 2009

    Cry into the song

    7:36 PM ByAdia
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    The Ewe say ” … you must cry into the song.” A man in the taxi said “… you are beautiful when you cry.” … But these things are not easy. To cry into the song when you are still so sad … To let your beauty shine thru when you feel as though there […]

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  • August 19, 2009

    The Memo

    10:19 AM ByAdia
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    I didn’t get the memo. You know the one that breaks down the ways in which descendants of enslaved Africans have a different (but just as post traumatic stress disordered psychosis) than the descendants of colonized Africans. To be fair, I looked completely different when I’ve traveled abroad before (I had long hair), AND there […]

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