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  • June 24, 2014

    Fly in the Ointment: Help lubricate Homo File

    3:32 PM Byseth
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      What a wonderful run !!! It’s been a week since we closed Homo File and the excitement continues. We sold out 8 of 9 shows in our run and we are starting to make plans to take the show to other cities.                         […]

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  • November 30, 2011

    Shaping SF Public Talk: The History of the Future

    7:30 PM ByErica Dixon
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    A Shaping San Francisco Public Talk NOV 30, 2011 WED at 7:30PM FREE Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Public TALKS and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. with Starhawk, Megan Prelinger, and Chris Carlsson. Megan Prelinger’s book “Another Science Fiction” takes a whimsical look at how the Space Race was promoted during its heyday 1957-62, […]

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  • November 16, 2011

    Shaping SF Public Talk: I Never Let School Get in the Way of my Education!

    7:30 PM ByErica Dixon
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    A Shaping San Francisco Public Talk NOV 16, 2011 WED at 7:30PM FREE Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Public TALKS and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. A critical look at the institution of schools by those who work directly with school children and adults. Will Grant currently teaches high school in the Bay Area […]

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  • November 9, 2011

    Shaping SF Public Talk: Above and Below San Francisco Streets — In Search Of Eradicated Landscapes

    7:30 PM ByErica Dixon
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    A Shaping San Francisco Public Talk NOV 9, 2o11 WED at 7:30PM FREE Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Public TALKS and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. with Glenn Lym. It is a common assumption that street grids were imposed easily on San Francisco’s original landscape, resulting in the city’s photogenic hillside streets that poke […]

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  • October 27, 2011

    HALLOWEEN! The Ballad of Michele Myers

    8:00 PM ByErica Dixon
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    Light TAP Productions OCT 27-30 THU-SUN at 8PM HALLOWEEN! is musical parody of America’s obsession with slasher films: “Mrs. Skerritt chaperons 4 school ‘girls’ up to the lake for a fun-filled Halloween dance over at the boys’ camp. But someone also invited crazed tranny killer Michele Myers to crash the party! Freddy, Jason, and Michael […]

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  • October 26, 2011

    Shaping SF Public Talk: Urban Homesteading

    7:30 PM ByErica Dixon
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    A Shaping San Francisco Public Talk OCT 26, WED at 7:30PM FREE K. Ruby, Esperanza Pallana, Melinda Stone, three experts on Urban Homesteading, will bring their wit and intelligence to a wide-ranging presentation on the growing phenomenon. Ruby is co-author of “Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living.” Esperanza Pallana is behind the website pluckandfeather.com, […]

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  • October 23, 2011

    A History of the Body: Staged Reading & Story Circle

    7:30 PM ByErica Dixon
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    OCT 23, SUN at 7:30PM A History of the Body, a new multidisciplinary theater work by Aimee Suzara (founder of the Pagbabalik/Return Project) explores the impacts of colonization on the body, using the particular history of Filipino Americans to illuminate universal experience.  The play, in development, addresses beauty, skin color and whitening, and exposition. A […]

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  • October 20, 2011

    La Maison de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba)

    8:00 PM ByErica Dixon
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    Platypus Théâtre OCT 20-22, THU-SAT at 8PM After the death of her second husband, Bernarda Alba, imposes a period of mourning on her household to last eight years, as has been traditional in her family. Bernarda has five daughters, aged between 21 and 40, whom she has shielded and controlled to an excessive degree and […]

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  • October 19, 2011

    Shaping SF Public Talk: Bertolt Brecht’s "Trial of Lucullus"

    7:30 PM ByErica Dixon
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    A Shaping San Francisco Public Talk OCT 19, 2011 WED at 7:30PM FREE Check out Shaping San Francisco’s current Public TALKS and other public programming at ShapingSF.org. SFSU’s Department of Theatre Arts will present an open rehearsal of Bertolt Brecht’s  “The Trial  of Lucullus” co-directed by Barbara Damashek and Joel Schechter. The play places an […]

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  • October 15, 2011

    Diego Piñón Butoh Ritual Mexicano Workshop

    6:00 PM ByErica Dixon
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    Diego Piñón OCT 15-16, SAT-SUN at 6pm $200 weekend price $110/ for single day Diego Piñón incorporates more than 35 years of research in Mexican energetic traditions, Japanese Butoh, ritual dance, modern dance and contemporary theatre. Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance is both emotionally intense and physically challenging. The body is used to awaken greater sensitivity and vital […]

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