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Be An #ArtsHero and Counterpoint have partnered to create a series of political cartoons highlighting the value of the arts industry and the jeopardy it faces in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Check out them out in a gallery below.
âIn a movement forged at the intersection of art and politics, who better than political cartoonists to illuminate the plight of the arts and culture sector?,â says Be An #ArtsHero co-founders Carson Elrod, Jenny Grace Makholm, Brooke Ishibashi and Matthew-Lee Erlbach. âPolitical cartoonists are valuable arts workers who, with razor sharp wit and incredible artistry, help shape the political discourse, expose hypocrisy and change minds.â
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WARREN Trumbull Town Hall subscribers will have to wait another six months for the lecture series to resume.
The group is scrapping plans to do two lectures each in March, April and May and instead is announcing its 44th season, which includes one speaker originally planned for last season and a returning favorite.
Program chairwoman E. Carol Maxwell said the board decided last month not to go forward this spring. Packard Music Hall’s capacity was limited to about 300 people, due to the state guidelines enacted for the COVID-19 pandemic, and its lectures traditionally draw about twice that many people.
Real, imagined Berkeley celebrated in Berkeley Rep audio series ‘Place/Settings’
The East Bay company s audio series is grounded in specific sites in Berkeley, penned by writers with strong ties to the city
Lily Janiak January 8, 2021Updated: January 12, 2021, 5:47 pm
Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda is seen at Jewel Lake in Berkeley. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle
When playwright Philip Kan Gotanda set out to write an audio short story about Jewel Lake for Berkeley Rep’s “Place/Settings,” the Tilden Nature Area reservoir lived only in his imagination. He had never been there before.
“I happened to be reading Berkeleyside at the moment,” he recalls, of getting approached by Berkeley Rep about the new series, whose first episode premieres Tuesday, Jan. 12. Gotanda was struck by an article on the Berkeley-centric nonprofit news site about the danger that the lake would dry and what that would do to visitors’ memories of the lake.