May 16, 2012
San Francisco Arts Commissioner Dr. John Calloway will be honored as the 2012 Bay Area Jazz Hero at the National Jazz Journalists Association annual Jazz Awards.
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Today the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman announced its fiscal year 2012 grantees. Among the winners are two San Francisco Arts Commission programs. WritersCorps and San Francisco Arts Commission’s The ARTery Project are among the recipients.
A memorial for Daniel del Solar, longtime media activist and former staff of Community Arts & Education (formerly Neighborhood Arts Program) and Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, will be held on Saturday, May 19 in Oakland.
The Community Arts and Education program of the San Francisco Arts Commission seeks photography interns to help document some of our exciting programs occurring now through August 2012.
In honor of Eddie Marshall’s contribution to jazz music and education, a very special tribute and benefit concert will be held at Yoshi’s SF featuring Bobby McFerrin, Bobby Hutcherson, Tootie Heath, and more Sunday, February 19 at Yoshi’s SF.
The “best literary night in San Francisco” is at the Main Library. For almost a decade, Michelle Tea has been presenting the best of Queer Lit at the RADAR Reading Series.
After Dark adds a jigger of fun to a science mixer in The Exploratorium. Once a month, you can come feel all the cool displays without all the kids hogging the seats.
Bay Area sculptor Stephen De Staebler is celebrated in a career-spanning retrospective at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. The artist helped curate “Matter and Spirit” in the months before he died.
Cherrie Moraga returns to Brava Theater to stage New Fire. The veteran playwright is directing her own script for the first time, creating a performance that blends theater, dance and traditional ceremony.
CAE Program Associate Cristal Fiel was recently featured in The Bold Italic’s Found Locals, “passionate adventurers, makers, merchants, foodies, techies, or just local characters that make San Francisco a fascinating place to live.” Read the unabridged version of her interview.
Zaccho Dance Theatre and the Marcus Shelby Orchestra presented Dying While Black and Brown at Yoshi’s in December of 2011. The work is a commentary on conditions inside prison, specifically focused on the lives of inmates who are on death row.
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