Arts & Entertainment Art + Soul returns to Oakland for its 20th year this Saturday By Janis Mara | Bay City News Foundation | July 22, 2022 The festival covers five blocks in downtown Oakland and is free this year.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Diego Rivera exhibition highlights artist’s deep ties to SF By Sue Gilmore | Bay City News Foundation | July 22, 2022 The Bay Area is a hub of artistic expression, attracting artists, writers and musicians from around the globe to live, work and create. We highlight some of the offerings here.
Arts & Entertainment Piedmont Chamber Music Festival returns to PCA July 20 – 24 By Lou Fancher | July 20, 2022 Festival organizer and violinist Wayne Lee is a PHS grad who started the festival in 2016 with his wife Juliana Han.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Jane the Virgin’ writer: From English learner to Hollywood By Anne Vasquez | EdSource | July 19, 2022 Legal troubles and California's community colleges helped author Rafael Agustin find his way forward.
arts San Francisco Art Institute, USF merger talks fail By Dan McMenamin | Bay City News | July 19, 2022 Founded in 1871, SFAI is one of the nation's oldest art schools.
Arts & Entertainment How Nataki Garrett ushered Oregon Shakespeare Festival through the pandemic By Charles Lewis III | Bay City News Foundation | July 18, 2022 The Oakland native is the sixth artistic director in the history of the 87-year-old fest based in Ashland, Oregon.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Faith Ringgold at the de Young, new works by female composers, global dance fest and more By The Artful Observer | Bay City News Foundation | July 13, 2022 The Bay Area is a hub of artistic expression, attracting artists, writers and musicians from around the globe to live, work and create.
Arts & Entertainment Pass the Remote: An eclectic selection of films from Bay Area talent, including Pixar and Michael Pollan By Randy Myers | Bay City News Foundation | July 13, 2022 Talent from Berkeley, Emeryville and elsewhere around the Bay on tap this weekend.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Oppenheimer’: UC Berkeley goes Hollywood in biopic film about father of the atom bomb By Dania Kalaji | Bay City News Foundation | July 12, 2022 Oppenheimer also taught physics at UC Berkeley where many of the movie's scenes have been shot.
Arts & Entertainment Review: Four plays absolutely worth the trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival By Caroline Crawford | Bay City News Foundation | July 11, 2022 Shakespeare, a song-and-dance extravaganza, a brilliant monologue, a provocative contemporary work — all this and more make the trek worthwhile.