Dancing in Oakland and Beyond, 1977–1993

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halifu Osumare
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Black Dance ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Dance Company ◽  
The Arts ◽  
National Initiative ◽  
Administrative Experience ◽  
Multicultural Arts

As the longest section, chapter 6 covers sixteen years of the author’s career as dancer, choreographer, dance educator, and arts administrator. During this period, she solidified her reputation in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area as a leader in the growing black dance and multicultural arts movements when she founds the non-profit dance institution Everybody’s Creative Arts Center (ECAC). She assess her development as a dancer-choreographer, discussing some of her key dance works as well as the creation of the center’s resident dance company, CitiCentre Dance Theatre, which was an important contemporary dance company that operated from 1983 to 1988. She also explores her simultaneous adjunct dance position at Stanford University and several of her choreographic and directorial commissions. The chapter articulates how, in 1989, her accumulated artistic and administrative experience culminated in her founding a major national initiative in black dance: Black Choreographers Moving Toward the 21st Century. She concludes with how she eventually transitioned from the arts to academia after going to graduate school, and how dance and “writing dancing” are similar.

Aguas Calientes

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Xandra Ibarra
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Furnace Performance ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Hall Of Fame ◽  
Arte Contemporáneo

Xandra Ibarra is an Oakland-based performance artist from the El Paso/Juarez border who performs under the alias of La Chica Boom. She uses hyperbolized modes of racialization and sexualization to test the boundaries between her own body and coloniality, compulsory whiteness, and Mexicanidad. Her practice integrates performance, sex acts, and burlesque with video, photography, and objects. Her work has been featured at El Museo de Arte Contemporañeo (Bogotá, Colombia), Popa Gallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Joe’s Pub (NYC), PPOW Gallery (NYC), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), and The Burlesque Hall of Fame (Las Vegas), to name a few. She was awarded the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Award, ReGen Artist Fund, Theater Bay Area Grant, and the Franklin Furnace Performance and Variable Media Award.

scholarly journals THE ENCORE FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM: FINDINGS FROM HOST AND FELLOW FOLLOW-UP EVALUATIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S374-S374
Author(s):  
Cal J Halvorsen ◽  
Jim Emerman
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Program Satisfaction ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Matching Process ◽  
High Sense

Abstract The Encore Fellowships Network (EFN) began as a pilot program in 2009 to match mid- and late-career for-profit employees in the San Francisco Bay Area to non-profit organizations seeking their skills and experience. After a successful pilot, the EFN expanded nationally, reaching 26 states and placing close to 2,000 Fellows in 10 years. This presentation will reveal analysis from more than 1,400 linked surveys of fellows and their organizational hosts both pre- and post-fellowship, totaling more than 350 observations. Results indicate a high sense of program satisfaction and enduring impact on the work of the non-profits. Further, the efficiency of the matching process was positively associated with fellows’ recommendation of the program to friends or colleagues and a higher sense of enduring impact among fellows was positively associated with the likelihood of pursuing post-fellowship non-profit work. Implications for the EFN and the broader nonprofit sector will be discussed.

scholarly journals Sustainable Engagement? Reflections on the development of a creative community-university partnership

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 136-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Shea
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
State University ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Partnership Development ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Collaborative Community ◽  
University Partnership ◽  
City Agencies

Recognising the untapped potential of multiple discrete community-university partnerships (CUPs) in San Francisco, San Francisco’s Neighborhood Empowerment Network (NEN) and the Institute for Civic and Community Engagement at San Francisco State University are in the midst of creating a collaborative community-university partnership called NEN University (NENu),which includes other Bay Area institutions of higher education as well as city agencies, non-profit organisations, businesses and neighbourhood resident leaders. This article reflects on the author’s experiences and observations in the ‘doing’ of engaged scholarship as it relates to NENu over the past two years. It contributes to the discussion of how best to build sustainable (in that they have staying power beyond the commitment of a few key individuals) and effective (in terms of building or strengthening communities) CUPs. In so doing it offers a framework for understanding possible threats to the sustainability of CUPs and applies that framework to an account of NENu’s partnership development process. The article concludes with implications for research and practice. Keywords community-university partnership; engaged scholarship; leadership; sustainability

scholarly journals Documents and the bureaucratisation of alternative dispute resolution in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Amanda J. Reinke
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Social Struggle ◽  
Economic Support

Documents are part of interactive sociocultural worlds in which ethnographers can analyse topics such as power relations, social struggle, violence and secrecy. While they emerge from bureaucratic administration, apparently mundane and stagnant documents represent dynamic processes of decision-making, knowledge production and exclusion. I consider ethnographic research on documents and their production as one that offers significant insights into bureaucratic violence and the tensions between formality and informality in alternative dispute resolution in Virginia and the San Francisco Bay Area. This article discusses working with documents that are simultaneously bound by law and exist extra-legally. While documents are used to gain economic support, strengthen relationships between non-profit and government bodies, and evidence ‘success’, the processes have difficulties. The data demonstrate that bureaucratisation has resulted in cumbersome processes and expensive requirements that mirror the exclusion and power asymmetries of formal law itself.

Dancing in Blackness

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halifu Osumare
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Black Dance ◽  
Black Arts ◽  
Community Dance ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Lincoln Center ◽  
Katherine Dunham ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Multicultural Arts ◽  
Arts Activism

Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir explores a black female dancer’s personal journey over four decades across three continents and numerous countries. The author situates herself in the 1960s Black Arts Movement in the S.F. Bay Area, the dynamics of being a black woman dancing in Europe in the late 1960s, and dancing professionally in New York City in the early 1970s, while participating in racial inroads into important arts venues like Lincoln Center. She recounts friendships and collaborations with major artistic figures like Katherine Dunham, Ntozake Shange, Rod Rodgers, Diane McIntyre, Donald McKayle, Dr. Kwabena Nketia, and many others. She explores dancing in Ghana for almost a year, the inspiration for her return to the Oakland Bay Area in the late 1970s to help create the city’s black dance scene while being an adjunct dance lecturer at Stanford University. She also considers how her arts activism helped to engender more cultural equity in the arts nationally. She remembers the 1980s national multicultural arts movement and regional community dance activism, including her own national dance initiative, Black Choreographers Moving Toward the 21st Century. Finally, she ponders her self-reinvention in her 50s into a noted black studies and hip-hop scholar in academia.

Dancing Back into the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Area, 1973–1976

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halifu Osumare
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Arts Administration ◽  
Ntozake Shange ◽  
Black Dance ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Professional Reputation ◽  
Home Area ◽  
Professional Dancer ◽  
Future Work ◽  
A Company

Chapter 4 chronicles the author’s return to her home area after five years, now as a professional dancer-choreographer. She establishes her professional reputation in the Bay Area, one that will serve as the foundation of her future work as a regional dance catalyst and cultural activist. As an artist, she develops the artistic theme central to her developing career in The Evolution of Black Dance. She creates and produces several evening-length productions during this three-year period, begins to learn arts administration, and forms Halifu Productions, a company that helped catalyse the mid-70s black dance scene in the Bay Area. She also meets the poet Ntozake Shange and artistically collaborates with her and her poems on a project that will become the famous production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enough. Ntozake Shange gives her an African name, and the author becomes Halifu Osumare.

Coming of Age through (Black) Dance in the San Francisco Bay Area

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halifu Osumare
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
State University ◽  
Black Dance ◽  
Black Arts ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
The Us

This chapter tells the author’s beginnings in dance in high school and her developing dance training as an undergraduate at San Francisco State University. She also probes the unique qualities of the SF Bay Area in the latter 60s, specifically as it relates to the Black Arts Movement-West, the hippie counterculture movement, and black militancy leading to the formation of Oakland’s Black Panther Party and the SF State Strike for Ethnic Studies. She shows how she situated dance as her unique revolutionary statement and took this approach when leaving the US for Europe as a young woman.

Developing a Total Oil Spill Cleanup Capability in the San Francisco Bay Area

1973 ◽  
Vol 1973 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Forrest M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Total Oil

ABSTRACT This is an 18-month progress report on the development of a total capability for rapid cleanup of oil spills in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and 340 miles of ocean coastline outside the Bay by Clean Bay Inc., a ten-member, non-profit corporation formed on July 1, 1971. In the time span covered by this report, CBI:Devised a three-phase Master Plan for completion by July 1, 1974.Evolved an oil spill contingency plan through testing and revision.Developed first aid capability available to each member facility for small spill cleanup.Fostered closer working relationships with other West Coast oil spill cooperatives.Implemented a concerted approach to working with governmental agencies and environmental and wildlife organizations. Major emphasis has been placed on preparedness for massive spills, with a supporting role in minor incidents in conjunction with the first aid capability of member companies. Clean Bay's Master Plan is geared to cleaning up a 100,000-barrel spill in seven days, with tanker lightering capability of up to 400,000 barrels.

A Qualitative Study of Ecstasy Sellers in the San Francisco Bay Area

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheigla Murphy ◽  
Paloma Sales ◽  
Micheline Duterte ◽  
Camille Jacinto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Bay Area
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