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In Phuc Tran’s memoir: grammar, tattoos, and the refugee experience

June 24, 2020

When Phuc Tran, who will be in conversation with author Viet Thanh Nguyen this Fri/26 evening, was asked to do a TEDx talk a...

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Reviving Pride’s protest origins, with ‘The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’

June 16, 2020

Last year, the Tenderloin Museum hosted 22 sold-out performances of The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. One of the writers, Donna Personna, saw about half of...

Culture

How teachers leapt inequity hurdles when COVID shut schools

June 4, 2020

Reynaldo Dulaney, who teaches Ethnic Studies, Leadership, and Advanced Placement US History at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School, says the quick switch from teaching...

Art

See Black Women emphasizes ‘who gets counted,’ in Census and beyond

May 25, 2020

A two-part conversation called See Black Women, part of Art+Action’s Come to Your Census campaign, is calling attention to Black women's often overlooked contributions to...

Asian American women artists on creativity, activism—and COVID racism

May 25, 2020

While the Asian Art Museum, like other arts institutions, is closed during the COVID crisis, the staff is stepping up its museuming from home,...

The museum’s closed, but ‘The de Young Open’ poises for launch

May 6, 2020

Starting June 1, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will welcome submissions from any artist over 18 years old from the nine Bay...

Wendy Macnaughton’s #DrawTogether brings art (and needed supplies) to kids

May 4, 2020

When people were asked to stay at home as much as possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Wendy Macnaughton wanted to do something to...

Culture

Science Snack, anyone? Exploratorium goes DIY to help teachers

April 30, 2020

Exhibits at San Francisco’s Exploratorium are meant to get kids and adults thinking about science and art. The museum has a 40-year relationship with...

Culture

‘Hip-hop to Hamilton’ urges youth to pursue arts careers, despite COVID

April 22, 2020

Lily Ling, the music director and conductor for the tour of Hamilton, says we need the arts now more than ever. She saw that working...

Movies

‘Crip Camp’ captures a very vivid moment in disability rights struggle

April 16, 2020

In 1970 and 71, Jim LeBrecht attended Camp Jened for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York. The camp had a profound effect on his...

Emily Wilson

In Phuc Tran’s memoir: grammar, tattoos, and the refugee experience

Reviving Pride’s protest origins, with ‘The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’

How teachers leapt inequity hurdles when COVID shut schools

See Black Women emphasizes ‘who gets counted,’ in Census and beyond

Asian American women artists on creativity, activism—and COVID racism

The museum’s closed, but ‘The de Young Open’ poises for launch

Wendy Macnaughton’s #DrawTogether brings art (and needed supplies) to kids

Science Snack, anyone? Exploratorium goes DIY to help teachers

‘Hip-hop to Hamilton’ urges youth to pursue arts careers, despite COVID

‘Crip Camp’ captures a very vivid moment in disability rights struggle

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