Welcome

Picture the scene: my 16 month old daughter hands me a book. We read it together (it’s short, so that doesn’t take long) and she’ll immediately shove it back towards […]

San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival Celebrates 40 Years

  This July, the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival will return to the War Memorial Opera House for its 40th anniversary as the largest, longest-running, and most comprehensive world dance […]

Did You Know? Bahiya Movement

Photo by Chani Bockwinkel Highlighting the Activities of Artists/Organizations in Our Region Bahiya Movement was founded in 2011 by mother/daughter team Afia and Nafi Thompson. Bahiya is a Swahili/Arabic word […]

SPEAK: What’s the Big Deal with Cultural Appropriation, and What’s the Path Forward?

Photo by Rachel Duff Photography Cultural appropriation is considered to be the taking of one or more aspects of a culture other than one’s own and using it for personal […]

Diamano Coura Celebrates 45 Years of Dancing with a Message

Photo by Cindy Manly-Fields For 45 years Diamano Coura has used West African dance as a vehicle to further the preservation, education, and appreciation of traditional West African music, theater, […]

Welcome

It can be hard to be an optimist in a country and world with deep injustices. “The arc of the moral universe,” said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “is long, but […]

Artists in Exile: Latina Immigrants’ Stories Through Flamenco

After reaching almost fifteen years in exile and noticing the increasing number of fellow Venezuelan immigrants across the US and the world, I pondered the question of how to encapsulate a displaced legacy.

Ancestral Re-memberance (Egypt) + Playlist

The rhythm of your heartbeat, strong and deep, as it drums your life’s beautiful song. Can you hear it?  Do you know what language that is? We have been waking up to this melody for centuries.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet: Spring Season

This season LINES Ballet presents a world premiere, a reimagining of The Collective Agreement, and 2013’s Concerto for Two Violins. Originally commissioned by San Francisco Ballet in 2018, The Collective […]

BANDALOOP: Youth Vertical Creatives Summer Camp

Ages 9-13 Come spend a week in vertical creativity with BANDALOOP! Campers’ imaginations will fly with daily creative movement activities and vertically inspired artwork as they immerse themselves in BANDALOOP’s […]