What’s New? February 2012
"Real Rural" by Lisa Hamilton
Lisa M. Hamilton and Roots of Change Fund (Visual Arts, 2010)
On January 31 car cards featuring photos and text from “Real Rural,” a project among photographer Lisa M. Hamilton, Roots of Change Fund, and the Bill Lane Center for the American West. Real Rural seeks to start a new conversation between urban and rural Californians by introducing rural people and communities in urban settings through photographs, narrative writing, and audio recordings that may be viewed and heard at www.realrural.org. The project, which was prominently featured in the “Insight” section of the San Francisco Chronicle on January 29, will culminate in fall 2012 with an exhibit of photographs from the project at the California Historical Society.
Raeshma Razvi and Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California (Media Arts, 2009)
The Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California will screen Raeshma Razvi’s video series “Travels with H: Hafiz in a New World,” on February 25, 5-7:30 p.m. at the Center, 1433 Madison Street, Oakland. To attend, please write info@iccnc.org. The video promo may be viewed at http://vimeo.com/channels/hafiz or www.silkwormmedia.org.
Omid Zoufonoun and Pacific Mozart Ensemble (Traditional Arts, 2011)
On Friday, March 30, Pacific Mozart Ensemble and Persian-American conductor/composer Omid Zoufonoun will premiere “Heaven and Hell,” a new work incorporating the Sufi poetry of Rumi with an amalgam of Western choral harmonies along with traditional Persian instrumentation. The performance is at 7:30 p.m. in The Green Room, War Memorial Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco. For tickets and information: www.pacificmozart.org or call 510-848-8022.
Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson (The Kitchen Sisters) with The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (Literary Arts, 2008)
On July 28 and 29, The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music will premiere The Hidden World of Girls: Stories for Orchestra, a full evening-length, interdisciplinary work exploring stories of girls and the women they become. The collaboration features Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson (The Kitchen Sisters) as lead artists, who developed the concept; Laura Karpman, composer and creative director; three female composers (Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Alexandra du Bois and Clarice Assad); and the Festival’s music director Marin Alsop; along with Obscura Digital, which is designing, creating and engineering multimedia components. For more information and to order tickets, visit www.cabrillofestival.org.
