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Urban Consulate Presents: Black Future City wants to know what a thriving community might look like through the imaginations of Black visionaries and changemakers. The objective is to center Black voices in visioning a more vibrant, equitable and vivacious city life, says Naimah Bilal, program host and co-host of Urban Consulate Cincinnati.
Urban Consulate is a network of salons across the country that host conversations about civic issues and social life. In Cincinnati, the salons (in non-COVID times) are held at the Mercantile Library.
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Black Future City will broadly cover a spectrum of equity issues. Part of the discussion will be framed by the question What does a vibrant city look like? Bilal says. And further, How can we apply a universal design principle to city building? That is, the principle that centers the needs of those who are oft forgotten and often the most vulnerable.
ARTS
Amy Seiwert s Imagery More Love Now is a new improvisational event with Imagery artist Shania Rasmussen, trumpeter Darren Johnston, and visual artist and poet Adrian Arias. Feb 14, 4pm PT, Free. https://www.facebook.com/events/2938679926376373/
Ballet22
Premiere of a new dance film by Joshua Stanton with the Oakland dance company. $10 and up. Feb. 12-14. https://www.ballet22.com
Bechtel Fest 8
Chicago s Broken Nose Theatre company presents a series of online plays; the annual festival of new short plays features an ensemble of femme, female-identifying, non-binary, trans and queer actors talking about things other than men; free, thru March 26. https://brokennosetheatre.com/
Aidin Vaziri December 14, 2020Updated: December 16, 2020, 7:45 pm
Stuart Schuffman, a.k.a. Broke-Ass Stuart, at Swig in San Francisco. Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle
There are not quite enough hyphens to describe Stuart Schuffman.
The longtime San Francisco resident is an author-raconteur-bartender-agitator-blogger-travel writer-media personality-former mayoral candidate … oh, you get the point. But he is best known as Broke-Ass Stuart, a man about town who over the past 15 years has become one of the city’s recognizable characters with his signature beard, fedora hat and crushed velvet coats.
And in his typical attention-grabbing way, Schuffman will celebrate his 40th birthday on Wednesday, Dec. 16, with the city which means everyone is invited to the party.
Chronicle Staff December 14, 2020Updated: December 18, 2020, 7:14 am
Oakland teen Sarah Schecter wrote one of the seven winning plays in “#Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence,” a nationwide playwriting competition for middle and high school students. Photo: Courtesy of Sarah Schecter
The Chronicle’s guide to notable arts and entertainment happenings in the Bay Area.
Teen playwrights take firm stand with ‘#Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence’
Some of the most eloquent and powerful voices to emerge in the fight against gun violence come from younger generations the students who’ve grown up not knowing what it’s like to go to class without school shootings as an ever-present threat or headline.