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Maren Hassinger turns trash into art at BAMPFA
Watch for a scramble in September, when Cal undergraduates will line up to help scatter—and then reclaim—trash. As part of the ongoing retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), “Maren Hassinger: Living Moving...
Martín Perna creates space for collective music-making
He started as an alto. Not a baritone, not a tenor. An alto. In the chorus of a Philadelphia elementary school, singing parts he was told to sing, performing repertoire he found corny and sometimes worse. He...
Cheryl Dunye builds space for Black queer cinema
Cheryl Dunye, an Oakland-based Liberian-American filmmaker, director and producer, says telling stories about Black queer identity, history and culture is energizing.
“I’ve always worked in the space where identity gets complicated,” she says. “That’s not new for me....
Ted Lange reimagines Shakespeare’s authorship debate
People faced with incongruous truths or unanswerable questions often say, “Life’s a mystery.” While the cliché is escapist, there’s no denying life is thick with improbability.
Which explains how Oakland-native Ted Lange as an actor came to portray...
‘Dispatches’: Artist transforms wildfire experiences into haunting sound art
Some events burn through a place. Others continue burning quietly inside the people who lived through them. Multimedia artist Merlin Coleman has made a work that listens to both. Her new work, DISPATCHES from the CHARCOAL FOREST,...
Local artist depicts cycles of Teotl
The challenges and rewards involved in biological and cultural regeneration churn like undercurrents in the work of Alec Marin. Whether investigating the mechanisms that drive the brain’s neurorehabilitation following a stroke, teaching himself how to paint, or...
Let kids create
Well-known East Bay vocalist Miss Faye Carol was visiting a local prison with her band when she noticed another building going up next door. “You’re moving to a new facility?” she asked an official.
“No, we’re doubling the...
