Emily Wilson
This weekend, The Breath Project streams 24 nationwide theater works in honor of George Floyd
"It’s another brick in the wall. Or rather, we’re taking the wall down, so it’s a brick out of the wall.”
Author of Naomi Klein-endorsed ‘Abolish Silicon Valley’ Wendy Liu says tech must change
"There’s this extreme power discrepancy that’s being magnified by Silicon Valley in ways that are not necessarily new, but they’ve improved upon the ways it already existed."
With ‘Everglow,’ an artist explores redwood’s phosphorescence
Artist Victoria Wagner, a former pastry chef and wedding cake-maker , says she’s always been a sculptural thinker. But she didn’t work with wood until a piece...
‘It Can’t Happen Here’ returns, right before election
A collaborative radio drama from Berkeley Rep revives the Sinclair Lewis classic, which won raves four years ago
A delicious way to fight voter suppression
Dine for Democracy brings activists, food-lovers together to make voting easier and benefit BIPOC and youth orgs.
Photographer Dorothea Lange’s archive now available online at OMCA
The collection presents the iconic Lange as the personable creator she was—and a local picturmaker to boot.
Sirron Norris’ cartooning classes take to internet for COVID summer
No reason for kids to lay down their pencils in the pandemic, says the iconic Bay Area artist.
Raising the wage for tipped workers
'Waging Change' by Berkeley filmmaker Abby Ginzberg tracks the fight for better service industry pay, from 9/11 to #MeToo.
Preserving stories of California life during COVID—and you can share yours
Erin Garcia, director of exhibitions at the California Historical Society, and her colleagues were looking for ways to engage their audience digitally. What they came up with, the project...
With colorful street art, 100 Days of Action represents essential workers
When artist Christo Oropeza was asked to create a painting for a storefront as part of Art for Essential Workers (a program by local artist collective 100 Days of Action), he first...
