INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS | WHEN: November 9th, 7:00 PM | WHERE: Intersection for the Arts, 925 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 | DETAILS: Del Sol String Quartet will kick off its second season of interactive concerts with the world premiere by Grammy Award winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank. Tawantinsuyu Songbook draws on ancient and modern idioms from both the western and indigenous Latin American music traditions. Inspired by Ms. Frank’s mixed Peruvian heritage, the songbook fuses traditions through pieces written for various combinations of classical strings and folkloric instruments from the region, such as panpipes, guitars and percussion.
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INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS | WHEN: November 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th | 8pm - 9:30pm | WHERE: Intersection for the Arts, 925 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 | DETAILS: Sitting In A Circle is a guided performance event that takes audiences on an interactive journey by way of movement, theater, and installation. The evening introduces an abstract world where a group of strangers are mysteriously summoned to come together and face questions about what “coming together” really means.
More+INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS | WHEN : Until January 4th, 2012 | WHERE: Intersection for the Arts, 925 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 | DETAILS: Mapping is a fundamental part of how we relate to and make sense of our surroundings. More than just tools for getting from A to B, maps are selective records of the wider world, loaded with creative, and often subjective, meaning. Here Be Dragons - Mapping Information and Imagination - is a group exhibition that features artists who utilize the tools, language, and strategies of mapping to distill and interpret large quantities of information and data, while also imaginatively envisioning place through charting stories, history, emotion, and ideas.
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INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS | WHEN: October 26th, 7:00 - 9:00 PM | WHERE: Intersection for the Arts, 925 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 | DETAILS: Innovation is social, and the best solutions arise from multidisciplinary teams where new ideas abound. Join us as we share winning-ideas from The Summer of Smart, an intensive, three-month experiment in urban innovation.
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INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS | WHEN: October 22, 2011, 7:00 - 9:00 PM | WHERE: Intersection for the Arts, 925 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | DETAILS: Featuring readings and performances from the Gilda Stories, a double Lambda Award winning novel that follows the life of an African-American lesbian vampire through the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries.
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INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS | WHEN: October 21, 2011, 7:00 - 9:00 PM | WHERE: Intersection Gallery, 925 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | DETAILS: EXHIBIT OPENING! Mapping Information and Imagination. A group exhibition that features tools, language, and strategies of mapping to distill and interpret large quantities of information and data, while also imaginatively envisioning place through charting stories, history, emotion, and ideas.
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ARTPLACE | In an unprecedented private-public collaboration, 11 of America’s top foundations have joined with the National Endowment for the Arts and seven federal agencies to establish ArtPlace, a nationwide initiative to drive revitalization in cities and towns with a new investment model that puts the arts at the center of economic development. ArtPlace today announced its first round of grants, investing $11.5 million in 34 locally initiated projects. In San Francisco, CA, Artplace funding was granted to Intersection for the Arts and the 5M Project.
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INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS | WHEN: August 10th and 17th, 6:00PM to 9:00PM | WHERE: Intersection for the Arts, 925 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103 | This workshop is aimed at writing located within or based on an Asian-Latino cultural expression. Participants will write poems and stories based on found objects from our online living archive of images, recipes, and other ephemera. The final class includes a performance for an invited audience.
More+Chico & Chang - The Impact of Latino and Asian Cultures on California’s Visual Landscape
INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS, GALLERY at 5M | WHEN: Saturday, June 11th - Saturday, August 20th | WHERE: 5M Gallery, 925 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 | Intersection for the Arts presents Chico & Chang, a group exhibition that looks at the impact of Latino and Asian cultures on California’s visual landscape through new sculpture, video, and painting. Recently released results of the 2010 census show the continuing shift of California’s ethnic composition; Latinos and Asians accounted for virtually all of California’s population growth since 2000.
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Intersection for the Arts and Forest City Development have forged a unique partnership rooted in a shared belief that art and creativity realized through meaningful, inclusive, and collaborative places fuels vibrancy and facilitates positive change. We believe that innovation is social. The change the world needs now happens when we are outside of our silohs - colliding with complex experiences, grappling with new metaphors, learning to participate in new worlds, understanding people who are different than us, having to find new ways to communicate and problem solve.
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