Art Comes From Art, Comes From Art highlights artwork by staff members of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco—the Legion of Honor and the deYoung. While working on the frontline team of a world-class institution, these artists sustain their own creative practices and contribute to the Bay Area’s vibrant local arts scene.
Each of the seven participating artists presents at least one new work directly inspired by the museums—their collections, architecture, and/or visitors. From beadwork to painting, brush-and-ink comics, digital drawings, cartooning, and illustration, the works reflect the diverse approaches and perspectives that thrive within the museum’s creative ecosystem.
Travel from New Orleans to coastal Venezuela as CHELLE! & Friends, with special guests from the Venezuelan Music Project, celebrate the vibrant rhythms of Mardi Gras and Carnaval, blending New Orleans and Caribbean traditions in a joyful evening of music, history, and culture.
Theater-goers will experience the breath-taking dynamics of bubbles, as the Amazing Bubble Man combines comedy and artistry with audience participation and enough spellbinding bubble tricks to keep everyone mesmerized. From square bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, fog-filled bubbles, giant bubbles, bubble volcanoes, tornados and trampolines to people inside bubbles, the Amazing Bubble Man conjures shrieks of laughter and gasps of amazement from all ages.
Theater-goers will experience the breath-taking dynamics of bubbles, as the Amazing Bubble Man combines comedy and artistry with audience participation and enough spellbinding bubble tricks to keep everyone mesmerized. From square bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, fog-filled bubbles, giant bubbles, bubble volcanoes, tornados and trampolines to people inside bubbles, the Amazing Bubble Man conjures shrieks of laughter and gasps of amazement from all ages.
Alameda is a birder lover’s paradise. Thousands of long-distance migrant shorebirds spend their nonbreeding season at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary; endangered and threatened species such as Least Tern and Peregrine Falcon breed on opposite ends of the island; while more common birds like California Towhee and Anna’s Hummingbird populate backyards and community gardens year-round. In all, more than 200 species of bird, in an astounding variety of shape, size and color, have been documented in Alameda.
A Folk Opera by Deborah Crooks. Based on a true story about the Peregrine Falcons and humans living at the convergence of wild and urban habitats on Oakland’s Fruitvale Bridge, Flight Lessons explores themes of home, migration, adaptation and the limits of the man-made environment. The narrative follows an urban wildlife biologist who monitors the breeding pair of Peregrine Falcons nesting on the bridge and how their lives intersect with the human inhabitants of the neighborhood after one of the birds is shot. Examining the crossroads of life, loss, nature and humanity, Flight Lessons asks the questions: How can we learn to value the wild and natural in an urban environment? And, how does one recover and continue after loss?
