West Wave Dance Festival

SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts presents West Wave, a dance festival of digital and live performances. Pre-recorded virtual programs: Fri-Sun, Jun 11-13, 5pm PST Live performance: Sat, Jun 12, 8pm PST […]

West Wave Dance Festival

SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts presents West Wave, a dance festival of digital and live performances. Pre-recorded virtual programs: Fri-Sun, Jun 11-13, 5pm PST Live performance: Sat, Jun 12, 8pm PST […]

West Wave Dance Festival

SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts presents West Wave, a dance festival of digital and live performances. Pre-recorded virtual programs: Fri-Sun, Jun 11-13, 5pm PST Live performance: Sat, Jun 12, 8pm PST […]

What’s a Live Film Festival?: And other fun questions like: Milkbar, a new organic drink or a collective of artists?

This September 12 through 14 MilkBar will be taking over the new Oakland Noodle Factory Arts Center for the 2008 MilkBar International Live Film Festival. The MilkBar Film Festival is […]

In Conversation: David Herrera and Jocelyn Reyes

You are reading excerpts from David Herrera and Jocelyn Reyes’ recorded conversation. Listen to the conversation. Transcript of the full conversation

Ten Tips for Individual Appeal Letters

At some point in our careers as artists we come face-to-face with fundraising for our creative projects. This can be thrilling and exhilarating—serving as a rite-of-passage into the next phase […]

A Banana Peel is Good for Headaches: Observations from the Traditional Arts Field

Between dinner and dessert one evening, Doba G., a medical doctor in her late seventies who emigrated from the Ukraine to San Francisco in 1993, gave me a tip: Lily: […]

Describing Dances: Increasing Access for Blind and Visually Impaired Audiences

with Tiffany Taylor and Georgina Kleege In 2016, during the development of a duet I created and continue to perform with noted Scottish disabled artist Claire Cunningham, The Way You […]

Notes From a Suitcase

MAY 2009 – In A Dance Studio In America During a recent rehearsal I rediscovered a recording of my young Ethiopian students singing. It transported me back to the village […]

Making public our private: exhaustion, gossip, and unfinished sentences

The first thing you should know about our friendship is that when we are together, we get off-topic immediately. We are excellent at tangents. So, when Bhumi emailed us, we […]