Author: Lex Leifheit
Feast of Words guest Kirya Traber on Becoming Black
Kirya Traber, April 2011 literary guest at Feast of Words, performs a poem she wrote to accompany a monlogue titled “Becoming Black.” Tickets are still available for Feast of Words on Tuesday, April 5.
SOMArts featured in Practice in Partnership
What: Practice In Partnership
Visual Narratives of the Community Student Fellows Externship Experience
When: opening reception April 6, 5:30—7:30pm
Where: CCA College Avenue Galleries
5241 College Ave Oakland
Exhibition dates: March 30—April 16, 2011
Gallery Hours: Tues.—Sat., 11 am—6 pm; also Wed., 6—7:30 pm
Since 2009, SOMarts has benefited from participation in the Community Student Fellows program, a service of the Center for Art in Public Life at California College of the Arts. Practice in Partnership focuses on how CCA students use their creative skills in collaboration with cultural organizations to address critical needs in the greater Bay Area. This exhibition highlights individual stories of Community Student Fellows as they reflect on how their experience in these partnerships has affected their own creative practices, including Janessa Post, the 2010-11 Communications & Community Outreach Fellow at SOMArts.
CCA’s community partner sites in 2010-11 include:
Berkeley Art Center
Berkeley High School Arts and Humanities Academy
Center for Art and Public Life
Chabot Elementary School
Creative Arts Charter School
Creativity Explored
Creative Growth Art Center
The Crucible
Emery Secondary School
The Factory Program at Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
Far West High School
Fostering Art Program at a Home Within
The Imagine Bus Project
Intersection for the Arts
Kala Art Institute
La Cocina
Media Enterprise Alliance
The National Institute of Art & Disabilities (NIAD)
Out of Site Center for Arts Education
Peralta Elementary School
Public Architecture
REBAR Art, Design, Activism Studios
Redwood Heights Elementary School
Richmond Art Center
Rock Paper Scissors Collective
Root Division
SOMArts Cultural Center
Yooth Roots Program at ARISE High School
Zeum: San Francisco’s Children’s Museum
Modulations Returns, April 2
What: CCRMA Modulations
When: Saturday, April 2, 2011
4-8pm – installations open (reception at 6pm), free admission
8pm – concert and dance music – $10 or free with Stanford ID
More info: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/modulations/
Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) presents its annual Modulations festival in San Francisco—an 8-hour marathon of sound art installations and live electronic music. The event begins with interactive and kinetic sound installations by Trimpin and his students; evolves into a sit-down concert of electronic music; and ends with a dance party, with performances by CCRMA artists and guest performers Wobbly and Sutekh.
Part I (sit-down concert):
Tweet Dreams
Adam Sheppard
Katharine Hawthorne
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
Wobbly (Jon Leidecker)
Part II (beat-oriented music):
JxB (Jakes Bejoy)
Cloud Veins (Chris Carlson)
Luke Dahl
Sutekh (Seth Horvitz)
Locky (Lauchlan Casey)
Visuals: Chris Platz (digital artist)
Feast of Words Potluck Features Poets, March 1
What: Feast of Words: A Literary Potluck
Where: SOMArts Cultural Center (934 Brannan St, between 8th and 9th)
When: Tuesday, March 1, 2011. 7:00pm to 9:00pm, doors open at 6:30pm
What else: Tickets are $10 advance, $5 with a potluck dish and $12 at the door. For more information visit http://feastofwords.eventbrite.com
SOMArts Cultural Center presents Feast of Words: A Literary Potluck, a monthly potluck where writers and foodies come together to eat, write, and share. Join co-hosts Lex Leifheit and Irina Zadov on the first Tuesday of each month.
March’s theme is “Unsaid: Stories Between Bites” and features readings by literary guests Bill Berkson and Micah Ballard. Food artist Yasmin Golan will provide culinary inspiration. This month’s event will also include a creative competition of on-the-spot writing inspired by the theme. House opens at 6:30pm on Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 and space is limited. Tickets are $10 in advance, $5 with a potluck dish, or $12 at the door and include refreshments and delicious eats. (Cash bar). Tickets available at feastofwords.eventbrite.com (more…)
Spotlight: A Sensory Feast
SOMArts Curator & Gallery Director Justin Hoover introduces one of the installations that is part of the current exhibition A Sensory Feast. Enjoy!
SOMArts Website Design Showcased on WordPress.org
We’re so flattered! The SOMArts website was selected by WordPress to be featured in their showcase alongside other for-profit, nonprofit and personal sites such as Arcade Fire, the Rachel Maddow Personal Website, Obey Giant and many others.
WordPress is an open source project that started in 2003. Through the development of code as well as thousands of plug-ins, widgets and themes, WordPress provides a platform for free, highly customizable websites. More info on WordPress is available here.
The SOMArts website was launched in May 2010 thanks to the in-kind services of graphic designer Dan McKinley.
The Last Night of the Barbary Coast
What: The Last Night of the Barbary Coast
When: Thursday through Saturday, Feb.17th, 18th and 19thFeb. 24th, 25th, and 26th
What time: Thursdays and Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 5pm and 9pm
What else: Advance tickets recommended. Dress warm! SOMArts gets a little chilly.
The Last Night of the Barbary Coast is very loosely based on a family legend, chronicling the story of young Babe Giralomi as she fled Meaderville, Montana with a Vaudeville troupe and headed West, where she eventually died in an opium den fire (or laundry fire, depending on whose version of the story you believe). (more…)
Call for Submissions: This Is What I Want
Our friends THEOFFCENTER, along with Jesse Hewit and Rachael Dichter, are seeking proposals for THIS IS WHAT I WANT 2011.
According to the announcement, “Last summer, THIS IS WHAT I WANT 2010 brought together 17 Bay Area performing artists and dared them to stage their sexual desires…or something like that.”
This year, THIS IS WHAT I WANT will be bigger, bolder … or something like that. There may even be an extended performance run at SOMArts! And look—talented artist and former SOMArts Community Outreach Fellow Anna Martine Whitehead is on the poster. This year’s curators are: Amara Tabor-Smith, Jiz Lee, Keith Hennessy, and Michelle Tea.
So do it. Submit. By February 15th. Extremely detailed and exciting information about the project is online here.
