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 […]

In Practice: Reconstructing Reconstruction with Chris Evans

What does it mean to grieve in the context of perpetual marginalization and terrorization? What are the contours of grief in the afterlife of ancestral, epigenetic, and intergenerational trauma? And […]

Colleen Mulvihill: June 9, 1952 – March 2, 2019

After a brief, sudden illness, long time Bay Area resident dance artist Colleen Mulvihill died in Longmont, Colorado on March 2, 2019. Her partner for close to four decades, J.A […]

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 […]

In Practice: Photographer Pak Han

little seismic dance company, photo by Pak Han My father is a photographer, and growing up, whenever I was minding my own business, doing my homework or vaccinating my stuffed […]

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, […]

A Ladder To Anna

Photo by Shinichi Iova-Koga I climb an extension ladder placed in the patio below my mother’s balcony, while she sits in her wheelchair looking down at me. This is how […]

Welcome

I hope you’re well, and I hope you’re safe. For most of 2020 these daily words were written in emails, texts and in posts on social. They do bear repeating: […]

Welcome

“If not us, who? And if not now, when?” I offered this as a provocation for the writers in this issue and I am awestruck by the beauty, grace, humility, […]

Passing

In 2021 I was hired as an artist in residence at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts (SOTA), a San Francisco high school I graduated from in 2020.