San Francisco Performances and Community Music Center are proud to present violinist Jennifer Koh. Koh mesmerizes audiences with the sheer intensity of her playing. Since she came to international attention in 1994 as winner of the top prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition, Ms. Koh has gone on to perform as guest soloist with many of [...]
Leonardo Art/Science Evening (LASER)
San Francisco, 8 March 2010, 6:30pm
c/o USF, San Fracisco
6:30pm-6:45pm Socializing/networking
6:45pm-8:45pm Presentations:
Helena Carmena (California Academy of Sciences) on ‘Connecting Art and Science Thorough Museum Experiences’
Jesse Austin and Charles Lee (BIOS Design Collective) on ‘The application of biological patterns to architecture’
Anna Couey on ‘Communication systems as social sculpture’
Taraneh Hemami (Visual Artist) on ‘One Day: [...]
In the new digital-gallery, a 180 degree curved screen, the Goethe-Institut features a new video installation every month from acclaimed media artists. Please join us for the grand opening of the digital-gallery and meet German media artists Bjørn Melhus and Janosch Parker.
The Center for the Art of Translation presents bestselling translator Alison Anderson at LitnLunch. Though literary translation is often a job with little renown and few financial rewards, Anderson managed to strike it big twice: when the French author JMG Le Clezio, whose novels Anderson has translated, received the Nobel Prize for literature; and when [...]
Within the Jewish tradition we are instructed to feed the hungry and to take care of the weak and vulnerable. Sasha Abramsky grew up in London in the 1970s and 1980s with an upbringing that made him sensitive to social injustices. The strong association of food with love and connectedness in Jewish households [...]
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Koto Ninano (3 kotos)
Koto Music (3 kotos)
Night Procession of the Hundred Demons (3 kotos)
Walking, Walking (piano solo)
Ocean/Shore 2 (clarinet, violin, viola, and cello)
Shoko Hikage, koto
Noriko Tsuboi, koto
Kanoko Nishi, koto
Thomas Schultz, piano
Peter Josheff, clarinet
Terrie Baune, violin
Ellen Ruth Rose, viola
Daniel Reiter, cello
The Valley Concert Chorale in collaboration with the Las Positas College Chamber Choir and San Francisco Concert Chorale, will perform Mozart’s powerful and moving choral masterpiece ‘Requiem.’
Accompanied by a full orchestra and professional soloists, Mozart’s Requiem is perhaps the most performed choral work throughout the world. [...]
The Hipwaders, an award-winning kindie rock band, will be performing their ‘Hip Music for Kids’ and grown-ups, too. The band has had several top ten songs on XM/Sirius Radio including a #1 song, ‘Educated Kid’ from the album of the same name.
The band have won several awards for [...]
Help us celebrate this very special event. Five children’s dance ensembles whose communities have celebrated in festivals and music events at the Croatian American Cultural Center join to present their children dancing for the community. The dancers are from the Croatian, Bulgarian, Polish, Hungarian and Filipino communities of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Children’s dance groups [...]
Ever since the ancient story of Antigone, mourning has been specifically women’s form of opposition to abuse of power. From Madres de Plaza de Mayo to Women in Black in Palestine/Israel—and Bosnia—to Iran’s Mothers in Mourning, the international call for justice has been a persistent voice of women in today’s world.
Come to a panel discussion [...]
