Monday, May 31st, 2010Public-art project strives to reveal the real East Oakland
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010ArtsChange Summer Arts Workshops
ArtsChange announces open registration for free art workshops this summer for Richmond youth ages 14-21. Workshops range in content from writing and performance to aerosol art and are designed for all experience levels. For more info and to download a registration application please visit http://artschange.wordpress.com
Thursday, May 13th, 2010East Bay Zip Code Free Days @ BAM/PFA
BAM/PFA ANNOUNCES ZIP CODE PROGRAM FOR NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES
Berkeley, CA, May 11, 2010—Thousands of East Bay residents will have two opportunities to visit the BAM/PFA galleries and also to attend L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA free of charge during the summer months of 2010.
Tuesday, May 4th, 20102 Berkeley Rep plays garner 6 Tony nominations
Two plays that premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre — "American Idiot" and "In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)" — received a total of six Tony nominations Tuesday. The development means that Green Day, the East Bay trio that rose from the ranks of 924 Gilman Steret regulars to global rock superstardom, can now add a Tony nomination to its list of accomplishments.
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010World Premiere of La Peña - Ayer, Hoy y Pa’lante
35th Anniversary Series Presents
Community history comes alive through music, song and spoken word!
La Peña Cultural Center Celebrates its 35th Anniversary with the World Premiere of
La Peña - Ayer, Hoy y Pa’lante
La Peña presents the world premiere of La Peña - Ayer, Hoy y Pa’lante, an original suite of music by three time Grammy nominee, Wayne Wallace with libretto by Aya de Leon and performed by the La Peña International Orchestra. This work, integrates La Peña oral histories, archival footage and photos into a contemporary musical suite about the social and cultural movements that make up the La Peña community.
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Grupo Raiz reunites in Berkeley
Grupo Raiz returns to the stage where they were born 30 years ago to celebrate La Peña's 35th anniversary.
La Pena's 35 Anniversary Gala Concert with Grupo Raiz
Saturday May 15, 2010. $20 adv. $25 dr. - 8pm
(Strongly recommend buying tix in advance)
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010La Peña Celebrates 35th Anniversary
A local cultural center with a national reputation and a global vision.
The 35th Anniversary Series Presents Like Brand New!
La Peña Celebrates its 35th Anniversary
Main Event: Street Festival during June 5th, La Peña Day in Berkeley
Since 1975, La Peña has served as a community gathering space for people of diverse cultures; provided opportunities for artists to pass on specific cultural traditions, to create and perform work, while interfacing with and supporting diverse social movements. After 35 years, La Peña's mission of creating a welcoming & affordable space to promote cultural understanding, peace, solidarity, and community action through the arts and education remains as fresh and vital as ever: Like Brand New!
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 Collapse, Inspired by a Minnesota Tragedy, Will Get World Premiere in California
Aurora Theatre Company announces productions for 19th season line-up.
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Aurora Theatre to stage little-known Tennessee Williams play
Aurora Theatre Company announces line-up for 19th season.
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Berkeley's Aurora Theatre sets 2010-11 schedule
Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company announces the line-up for its 19th season.
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Oakland arts community rallying against proposed deep cuts
OAKLAND — The city's arts community may be able to breathe a bit easier.
City Council members were just about unanimous Thursday night in voicing opposition to cutting city arts grants by 50 percent as Oakland struggles to fill a budget gap of $43 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
But the council held off from actually voting on the plan.
The proposal to cut the grants would solve only about $500,000 of Oakland's general fund budget problems, but would have devastating effects for a city known as a haven for artists, supporters of the grants said.
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Oakland artists: Budget cuts a too-common theme
Oakland prides itself on its arts scene, a place where hip-hop thrives, Burning Man installations are born and strapped artists actually make a living.
But city funds that help keep many of the city's artists and organizations afloat are shriveling. City administrators have proposed halving the money for arts grants to help Oakland bridge a $42 million shortfall in its $400 million budget.
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010Richmond Silly Parade
PRESS RELEASE: RICHMOND SILLY PARADE
Time to get ready for the 4th Annual Richmond Silly Parade on Saturday, April 10th from 10:30 – 11:23 a.m. at the corner of 23rd and Macdonald. Come march with us, or bring the kids and chuckle.
Building on the success of the city’s great Cinco de Mayo and Juneteenth events, the Richmond Silly Parade welcomes all Richmond families to celebrate our creativity and imagination and have fun.
Visualize once again the Synchronized Nap Team, the Portable Hibachi Grill Team, the Senior Citizen Dry-Water Swim Team, the World’s Only Windchime Band, and the Jennifer Lopez Look-Alike Brigade winding their way through downtown accompanied by djembes, kazoos, and glockenspiels.
So get together with your friends, neighbors, classmates, bowling league, union brothers and sisters, bridge club, or support group, and put together something silly. All you need is a prop (lawnmowers, baby strollers, fly swatters, aprons) and an idea.
As time marches on, the Richmond Silly Parade should grow and more attract more people to our city. Check out these other famous community spectacles: “The Doo Dah Parade” of Pasadena or “In the Heart of the Beast” in Minneapolis.
For information and free registration, or to help, contact richmondsillyparade@gmail.com or Michael Beer at 235-5519.
Friday, May 7th, 2010Slide Show Remembering the Storytelling Tea Party!
Patricia Bulitt, interdisciplinary artist/ dancer produced the annual women's and girls' tea party and storytelling ceremony in Berkeley.
Come hear about this unusual, site specific performance where hundreds of women and girls came to share with others, their stories of women who influenced their life. Original prose, poetry, costumes, and inspiration.
TIME: 7-830PM
2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, 94804
Phone: ( 510) 620-6772
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Paper Dress Making Workshops
Patricia Bulitt, Guest Artist at the Richmond Art Center, will present a slide lecture on Friday, May 7 from 7-8:30PM on the annual storytelling tea party in Berkeley. ON Saturday, May 8, from 10-1PM will be a paper dress making workshop for adults.
Family workshop to commemorate mother's day will be on May 8 from 2-4 PM --a free workshop.
Contact Richmond Art Center: 510 620-6772
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010Paper Dress Making Workshops
Remembering My Grandmother's Honey Cake: A Paper Dress Making Workshops for Women and girls ( 8 years old and older) attend a paper dress making workshop to commemorate a woman who influences your life! We will form a story telling circle, sharing our heroines. You will be given brown craft paper template to embellish as you wish.
Location: LIve Oak Center,
Live Oak Park, Berkeley
TIME: 1-4PM
Fee: $35-$65. per person.
REGISTRATION NECESSARY: Contact: Patricia Bulitt, Artist.
For 14 years she produced the women and girls tea party and storytelling ceremony in Berkeley!
creek.dancer@earthlink.net
Friday, March 5th, 2010San Pablo Arts District Fund
San Pablo Arts District Fund (SPAD), an Oakland based non-profit organization, begins its storefront art program with a collaborative installation by Oakland artist Michael Louis Young. 5512, a vacant storefront on San Pablo Avenue in economy-stricken North Oakland's Golden Gate District, is being transformed into SOS/SOL, a dynamic multimedia installation. SOS/SOL explores a narrative of sorrow and solitude on the high seas. The beautified storefronts lessen blight and undesired activities.
Monday, January 4th, 201051 Years of Oakland's Fairyland
The Big Bad Wolf has been huffing and puffing and blowing houses down for years. Honestly, doesn't he ever get tired? Not at Oakland's Fairyland, on the shores of Lake Merritt, where he's been keeping people of all ages entertained for 59 years with stories, rides and performances. And it's not just for kids - Adults can also take a journey through the magical world. Well as long as they bring a child. That's what reporter Dalia Cuenca found out, here's more.
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Tomorrow's Sounds and Stars at Crowden
Crowden Music Center shines a spotlight on exciting new music and emerging artists from the Bay Area this March, presenting a Crowden alumnus Sundays @ Four concert and two John Adams Young Composers Program events over the course of just four days, all featuring Crowden's special blend of outstanding classical music in an intimate, neighborly atmosphere.
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010AURORA THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS HENRIK IBSEN'S "JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN"
Aurora Theatre Company presents Henrik Ibsen's fiercely relevant JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN. Written in 1896, and recently revived in a new version by David Eldridge at London's Donmar Warehouse to great critical acclaim, Ibsen's penultimate play is a pointed indictment of capitalism, selfish ambition, and greed. The Borkman family fortunes have been brought low by the imprisonment of John Gabriel Borkman, who used his position as a bank manager to speculate illegally with his clients' money, ultimately losing the financial investments of hundreds of people. After serving eight years in prison for embezzlement, Borkman has spent the last five years making plans for a comeback, pacing alone in an upstairs room. Meanwhile downstairs, his estranged wife and her sister vie for the loyalty of Borkman's only son. Aurora Theatre Company founding Artistic Director Barbara Oliver, who directed the company's hit production of Ibsen's The Master Builder, returns to helm this drama about a family confined by an inescapable, unappeasable past, featuring James Carpenter and Karen Grassle.
Friday, January 15th, 2010Haitian musicians & dancers perform at Ashkenaz in two concerts to benefit Haiti earthquake relief
TWO BENEFIT CONCERTS are planned at Ashkenaz in the coming weeks. Please help to spread the word:
- January 28th: SOPHIS & KALBASS KREYOL (Afro-Haitian/Caribbean)
- February 6th:MYSTIC MAN & LAKAY (Afro-haitian/Caribbean) with Afro-Haitian dance troupe RARA FUSION and a Haitian dance lesson before the show!
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Alameda County Arts Commission Public Art Registries Open for Applications
The Alameda County Arts Commission is now accepting applications for two new public art registries. There are opportunities for a wide range of artists to work on several upcoming projects, for contracts ranging from approximately $4,000 to $200,000. The application deadline is March 19, 2010.
Friday, October 30th, 2009Brief Encounter With Tony Tacconeby Robert Simonson Playbill.com
Tony Taccone
photo by Kevin Berne
Tony Taccone may very well be the most prominent artistic director in America right now.
Taccone has, for 12 years, been the head of Berkeley Rep in California's Bay Area. Always a respected company, the theatre has in the last few years rocketed to the top of the regional heap, turning out nationally prominent productions at an impressive rate.
Monday, December 21st, 2009Berkeley Library & La Pena Art Exhibit
The Berkeley Library & La Peña present the work of Claudio Talavera-Ballon.
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Mercurial Faridby Rachel Swan East Bay Express
Playwright channels the spirit of Freddie Mercury at this week's Hecho en Califas Festival.
Saturday, November 7th, 2009A Lot to Love About 'Fat Pig'by Robert Hurwitt SF Chronicle
This is LaBute at the best of his bad-boy sensitive mode. A provocative hit in New York in 2004... Barbara Damashek's Aurora staging is even richer, funnier and more disturbing. Damashek coaxes revelatory performances from a first-rate cast as she builds the action to an understated but affecting climax.
Sunday, November 1st, 2009Crowden School in Berkeley Receives $365,000 GrantEast Bay Express
The Crowden Music School in Berkeley received a
$365,000 gift from Jacqueline Hoefer Trust to renovate concert hall.
State-of-the-art performance and recording space to be named the
Jacqueline and Peter Hoefer Auditorium at Crowden Music Center.
http://www.crowden.org/About%20Us/PressReleases/HoeferPressRelease_FINAL
.pdf
Friday, October 2nd, 2009Mayors of Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and Richmond Jointly Launch East Bay Cultural Corridor and 510Arts.com Portal Website
The Mayors of Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and Richmond convened a news conference and series of public events today to announce the launch of a nationally unprecedented public/private/community partnership that shines the spotlight on the arts and culture as proven catalysts for urban development, economic vitality, quality of life and community sustainability.
Mayors Tom Bates of Berkeley, Richard Kassis of Emeryville, Ron Dellums of Oakland (represented by Rebecca Kaplan, Councilmember-at-large, City of Oakland) and Gayle McLaughlin of Richmond together “flipped the switch” to launch the new portal website, 510Arts.com, that is the first pilot activity of the newly formed East Bay Cultural Corridor (EBCC). The day will culminate with public arts activities in the four partner cities that celebrate this forward-thinking arts and business alliance, which is designed to broaden awareness of the East Bay as one of the country’s most culturally rich and diverse arts regions. The 510Arts.com and EBCC launch coincide with the October 2 California Arts Day and National Arts & Humanities Month.
Friday, October 2nd, 2009Call to Artists: Oakland - BART 17th Street Gateway
The Oakland Public Art Program and the Oakland Redevelopment Agency are seeking an artist to
collaborate on the transformation of an existing, strategically located public transportation entrance
site into a memorable, distinctive arts-centered gateway for Oakland’s re-emerging Uptown arts and
entertainment district. The qualified applicant will have demonstrated experience working with a six- or
seven-figure budget, as part of a design team, on integrated architectural design, and preferably with experience in the creation of light-based / new media art installations project costs, including the artist’s design fees, is $600,000.
Sunday, March 1st, 2009Statement of Operating Principles East Bay Cultural Cooridor
We, the Mayors of the cities of Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and Richmond have come together to state our strong commitment to strengthening the regional economy through creating the East Bay Cultural Corridor (EBCC). The intention of the EBCC is to heighten awareness of our cultural landscape, deepen the impact of the arts on their cities, and further the sustainability of artists and arts organizations through arts marketing, economic development and cultural tourism.
Thursday, September 10th, 2009Four East Bay Cities Team Up In Nationally Unprecedented Arts Collaboration
Mayors of Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and Richmond Jointly Launch East Bay Culture Corridor and 510Arts.com Website October 2. Public/Private/Community Partnership Shines Spotlight on Diversity, Quality, Volume and Accessibility of Arts in the East Bay as one of America’s Highest Per Capita Arts Regions.
Thursday, September 24th, 2009Berkeley's UC Theatre to become a concert venue by Carolyn Jones SF Chronicle
There was a time when just about every refrigerator in Berkeley was affixed with a UC Theatre schedule.
People went for the Swedish triple features, Hitchcock festivals and animation marathons. They donned wigs for Rocky Horror, brought umbrellas for "Singing in the Rain" and endured six-hour Samurai epics.
Now, nine years after the theater closed, Berkeley's refrigerators may soon be adorned once more with UC Theatre schedules, as the historic theater is reborn as a premier East Bay nightclub.
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009The Birth of Green Day's "American Idiot" Musical by David Fricke Rolling Stone Magazine
Billie Joe Armstrong and director Michael Mayer reveal the Broadway bonding behind the punk-rock opera.
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Mayor Bates Announces Public/Private Partnership for New Berkeley Film Foundation
City of Berkeley, Wareham Development, The Saul Zaentz Company Berkeley Convention, and the Visitors Bureau Establish a $100,000 Fund for Local Independent Filmmakers
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Fall 2009 Emeryville City News and Activity Guide is Here!
The first half of the City News and Activity Guide provides everyone with important news such as the Bay Bridge closure, Marina construction, or Center for Community Life updates. The second half of the production is Emeryville’s resource for recreational activities, senior services, child development programs, free special events and much more. Hard copies can be found at all City facilities, many commercial facilities, and distributed to the local schools.
Friday, October 2nd, 2009The City of Emeryville Bus Shelter Temporary Art Project
The City of Emeryville launches its Bus Shelter Public Art Program during 510 Arts month. The project expands the reach of the City’s Art in Public Places Program to four bus shelters located throughout the city at 40th at Emery, Bay at Shellmound, Powell at Commodore and Hollis at 63rd Streets. Through a juried process, nine artists were chosen to exhibit images based on the theme of “flora and fauna,” a reference to the rich plants and wildlife that have been a part of the area over time. The selected artists and exhibition periods are, as follows: Nora Pauwels, October 2009-January 2010; Catherine Courtenaye, February 2010-May 2010; David D’Andrea, June-September 2010; Robert Ortbal, October 2010-January 2011; Lenore McDonald, February 2011-May 2011; Dean Hunsaker, June 2011-September 2011; Kevin Twomey, October 2011-January 2012; Laura Anderson, February 2012-May 2012; Shawna Peterson, June 2012-September 2012.
Monday, June 16th, 2008Artist's electrifying canvas in Emeryvilleby Charles Burress SF Chronicle
It's getting harder to be noticed in the bulging, big tent of public art, but a project in tiny Emeryville (population 6,882) is causing heads to swivel.
Friday, August 14th, 2009Alan Osborne: Expressionist Enamel at The Richmond Art Centerby Frank Cebulski SF Art Books Examiner
Sculptor Alan Osborne’s more than 40 enamel paintings on bronze and copper at The Richmond Art Center are brightly colored abstractions that illustrate his skill as sculptor, printmaker and painter.
Friday, June 5th, 2009The Craneway Pavilion Announces July 3rd Independence Day Celebration Featuring the Oakland East Bay Symphony
The Craneway Pavilion, inside the
historic Ford Point Building on the waterfront in Richmond, will host a
patriotic celebration for the whole family featuring live music, food and
fireworks at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 3.
Friday, August 28th, 2009Richmond to celebrate 'grand re-opening' of Civic Centerby Katherine Tam Contra Costa Times
From the outside, Civic Center looks pretty much the same as it did when it opened in 1949. What's new is the fountain in the middle of the plaza. A fountain was in the original design renderings in the 1940s, said Steve Duran, community economic development director, but it was never built.
Thursday, March 12th, 2009When the Gallery Is a Classroomby Dorothy Spears New York Times
At the Oakland Museum in California, for example, where the collection spans art, history, the natural sciences and other disciplines, educators are showing schoolchildren how objects on exhibit are connected to their lives.
Saturday, August 1st, 20092010 Exhibition Proposals
Pro Arts and Oakland Art Gallery are accepting proposals for group exhibitions. One proposal will be selected to be shown in the gallery during 2010. Participation is open to all artists and curators, of any age.
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009Oakland Museum of CA Reinventing Visitor Experience
$58 Million Campaign to Create Dynamic, Welcoming Exhibition Spaces New Art, History, and Natural Sciences Galleries
Thursday, August 13th, 2009Oakland Museum of California Awarded $3.1M in New Grants
NEH, IMLS, Bechtel, James Irvine, and Kresge Foundations fund new models for visitor engagement and participation.
Monday, August 24th, 2009First Fridays and Oakland Artby Quinn Silberman SF Staycations Examiner
For those of you that have not experienced an Oakland First Friday, you are in for a treat. It is an evening when Oakland comes alive, there are people in the street, the coffee is flowing, as is the wine and good spirits. All of this over gallery openings on the first Friday of every month.
Monday, September 14th, 2009Newhouse: Oakland artist hardly old at 79by Dave Newhouse Oakland Tribune Columnist
Jose Ramon Lerma, son of a tomato farmer, won his first artists prize at 8. He knew right then that he would never take over the farm.
He needed to paint to escape that rural existence, and he needs to paint today to feel fulfilled, even though he's 79 and has led a full life.
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Art cart spotlights neighborhood's diversityby Kristin Bender The Oakland Tribune
Twice a week for the past two months, artists Lisa Rasmussen and Lauren Odell Usher have pushed their big red art cart with its red-and-yellow umbrella to a different corner in the KoreaTown-Northgate district.
The cart is stocked with paper, crayons, pens, paint and charcoal for making art.
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Oakland artists launch rocket at Burning Manby Sean Donnelly The Oakland Tribune
The rumor at this year's Burning Man Festival was spreading. Was that 40-foot-tall rocket ship hailing from a West Oakland warehouse planted in the harsh desert soil going to launch?
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