Memory lives in the blood. Our ancestors live in us.
July 21, 2021
Bay View Arts and Culture Editor Wanda Sabir read libations honoring our recently transitioned ancestors at the Monumental Reckoning unveiling at the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park. The event was the opening day of artist Dana King’s 350 Ancestors – bronze, wire and steel sculptures of the original 350 Angolan captives taken from home in 1619. The unveiling was held on a beautiful Friday, June 18, 2021. – Photo: James Watkins
by Arts and Culture Editor Wanda Sabir
People are rising up to remove and destroy these symbols of racism and white supremacy which guide the thinking and economic and political policies making this country. On the first Juneteenth National Observance, San Francisco installed 350 African Ancestors.
Joan Baez singing to a sold-out audience in Albany, New York, at the Egg Performing Arts Center in 2016. (Wikimedia Commons/Jim Gilbert)
More than a decade ago, I wrote to the chair of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, expressing my hope that that year, 2010, would be the one in which Joan Baez would be one of the honorees for the center s annual award for the performing arts. She has used her gifts fully, I wrote, noting that she had given more than 40 concerts a year since the late 1950s, when she began singing in the folk clubs of Boston. Her voice remains as pure as it was when the nation first heard it at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. Equally so, her commitment to nonviolence and human rights has been unwavering.
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Old First Concerts
Rufus Wainwright
The gay singer-songwriter performs A Rufus-Retro Wainwright-Spective, a series of online Friday night concerts including all of his recorded songs. Tickets $20. https://rufuswainwright.com/
San Francisco Bach Choir
Mar. 6, 10am, PT, Healing and Song, with Melanie DeMore. Mar. 13: Russian Songs from the Heart; more weekly online concerts. https://sfbach.org/
San Francisco Gay Men s Chorus
Enjoy concerts like Angels, (commemorating the 30th anniversary of When We No Longer Touch, the world s first requiem dedicated to those lost to AIDS, recorded in 2018) streaming live March 11, 6pm PT; plus guest performers joining the Behind the Curtain series and Summer Reruns (Britney Coleman, Lisa Vroman, Billy Porter, Wilson Cruz, Adam Rippon, Britney Coleman, Laura Benanti, Andrew Lippa); plus Kristin Chenoweth, Chasten and Pete Buttigieg, Wanda Sykes, Sharon Stone, Martha Wash, India s Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil and other performe