The articles, interviews, and original works of poetry, writing, and imagery in this section are listed in alphabetical order. Please scroll down.
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- Memories of Shionoe
(20 Images)
Shionoe, Shikoku, Japan
Bruce Akizuki
- The Untold Chinatown
(Photography)
by Bruce Takeo Akizuki
Oakland, California
- Kochi Revealed
Asian American Youth Photo Workshop
travels to Kochi, Japan (1995)
by Bruce Takeo Akizuki
Kochi, Japan & San Francisco, California
- do u dare
(Poetry)
by Alurista,
San Diego, California
- tú
(Poetry)
by Alurista
San Diego, California
- Poem in memory of Jose Antonio Burciaga
"u burciaga t"
by Alurista,
San Diego, California
- Pa' Ixel
(3 poems by Alurista)
San Diego, California
- Yareli Arizmendi
... a woman of the theater, a woman of film
Interview by Fred Salas
San Diego / Los Angeles, California
- Re/Generating a National Movement:
Artists, Visionaries, What Might We Unleash?
by Andrea Assaf
Amherst, Massachusetts,
- An Interview with film director Carlos Avila
" ... take those ideals, to process them, put them into stories."
Interview by Fred Salas
Los Angeles, California
- Four poems from Wild Animals on the Moon
Naomi Ayala
New Haven, Connecticut
A Coquí in Nueva York
Race
TheTattoo
Personal History
- Moments of Grace
(Poetry)
by Aminata C. Baruti
Lexington, Kentucky
- Interview with Danielle Burke: Videographer
"And listen to their grandmas stories"
Evarts, Harlan County, Kentucky
- Poetry by Janet Buck
Mens Sana / Mountain Fever
Medford, Oregon
- The Mighty Drip / The Photo SHOOT
Poetry by Janet Buck
Medford, Oregon
- An interview with Fred Campbell
Grass roots communications from Canada to Appalachia
Part 1 - Communication for Survival
Part 2 - The eloquence of the ordinary human being
near Elkhorn City, Virginia
- A Confident Culture - Sharing Its Treasures
Triona Carey,
County Cork, Ireland
- Up and Airborne -- Setting up a web site for the arts in rural Ireland
Triona Carey,
County Cork, Ireland
- The Michael Collins Story --
"... until the conflict of partition is overcome the ghosts
of Collins and Dev will never be laid to rest."
Triona Carey,
Cork, Ireland
- Interview with Jorge Cervera, Jr.
"Thirty million people cannot go on forever without being represented"
Fred Salas,
San Diego, California
- Interview with Walter Chakela
Playwright, poet, and arts administrator at
the Windybrow Centre for the Arts
Johannesburg, South Africa
- An interview with Rodrigo Duarte Clark
Theater, Esperanza, and Mountaintops
near Kelly Fork, Kentucky
- An interview with musician Chris Gonzalez Clarke
Part 1 - Chicano Groove
Part 2 - Son del Barrio
Santa Clara, California
- In Search of Community
Photography by Community Images:
Angelica Cabande -- Barangay
Tiffany Eng -- Searching for Expression
Pauline Liang -- Chinese Playground
Rebecca Peng -- In China
Ai Sugano -- Untitled
Judith Williams Sandoval -- Dance Against Violence
Pei Wu -- nation, dissent, and bodies in public spaces
San Francisco, California
- Opus Apocriphal
Hijo Primogenito del Laboratorio de Teatro Danza de Dora Arreola
por Alma Delia Martínez Cobián
Tijuana, México
- We Weep for the Generations Lost
An Inspirational Vitamin
by Shani K. Collins
Atlanta, Georgia
- Reflections
(Photo collage ... on homeland security)
by Joanne Cosenza
San Francisco, California
- I Remember
(Poetry)
by Hasan Davis,
Lexington, Kentucky
- Times
(Poetry)
by Theresa Davis-Fowler
Atlanta, Georgia
- Two Poems:
"Pivot" and "Even the Furniture Wants Me Tonight"
Holly Day,
Roseville, Minnesota
- Maverick Artist
Conversations with Theater Artist, Marty Pottenger
Eloise de Leon
San Diego, California
- Creating Art in the Balkans - Part 1
Artists in Serbia who oppose their government. Isolation in Albania.
Contemporary art in Macedonia
Eloise de Leon,
Belgrade, Serbia -- Skopje, Macedonia -- Tirana, Albania -- San Diego, U.S.A.
- SKART - Part 2 of Creating Art in the Balkans
Artists continue their work during the Belgrade protests
Eloise de Leon,
Belgrade, Serbia -- San Diego, U.S.A.
- DAH Theater - Part 3 of Creating Art in the Balkans
Experimental Theater in ex-Yugoslavia
Eloise de Leon,
Belgrade, Serbia
- Reflections of an Albanian Theater Artist
Part 4 of Creating Art in the Balkans
by Eloise de Leon
Tirana, Albania -- San Diego, U.S.A.
- Generative Music -- A Talk by Brian Eno
at the Imagination Conference
San Francisco, California
- Biography of Brian Eno
- Interview with Moctesuma Esparza
(Film director))
From the L.A. High School Walkouts to "Selena" and "The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca"
by Victor Payan,
San Diego, California
- Once upon a time ...
A "politoon" by Tom Ferguson
Atlanta, Georgia
- An interview with Harrell Fletcher
Merging art, functionality and education
Part 1 - How you understand what is important
Part 2 - A vocabulary of possibilities
Whitesburg, Kentucky
- Interview with Gabriel Figueroa Flores Jr.
(Photographer)
Gabriel Figueroa is considered the fourth of the three top Mexican muralists
by Fred Salas
San Diego, California
- Lo quel Vagabundo Significa Para Mi
What The Vagabond Means to Me
(Music)
Roberto Flores
Los Angeles, California
- Women in La Familia / Family Ritual
Leticia | Linda | Lorenza (Mom)
Photography and Text by
Javier "Heavy" Francisco / Edited by Therese Cervas
San Diego, California
- Men in La Familia / Family Ritual
Rafael | David | Brothers | Raymond (Dad)
Photography and Text by
Javier "Heavy" Francisco / Edited by Therese Cervas
San Diego, California
- Interview with Vicky Funari
Director of Paulina discusses independent filmmaking and
the impact of the film on its creators and its audience
Fred Salas
San Diego, California
- "Don't Throw Me in the Briar Patch"
An Interview with Adella Gautier
(Storyteller)
New Orleans, Louisiana
- The Drongo Bird --
as told by Adella Adella the Storytella,
New Orleans, Louisiana
- Struggling With Class
by Arlene Goldbard
Richmond, California
Published in In Motion Magazine April 20, 2008
- One in A Hundred & Twenty in a Hundred
by Arlene Goldbard
Richmond, California
Published in In Motion Magazine March 30, 2008
- Three Decades of African Popular Theater
by Arlene Goldbard
Richmond, California
- The Law of Unintended Consequences
by Arlene Goldbard
Richmond, California
- Cultural Responses To Social Conditions
from "New Creative Community"
by Arlene Goldbard
Richmond, California
Published in In Motion Magazine February 19, 2007
- Schoolhouse to Jailhouse
by Arlene Goldbard
Richmond, California
- Varieties of Otherness
(of the niqab or Hasidic gear or baggy jeans)
by Arlene Goldbard
Richmond, California
- Another !@#*& Learning Opportunity
(The Center for Arts and Culture Folds)
by Arlene Goldbard
Richmond, California
- Cultural Complexity
"The privileged who are driving globalization
see only themselves ..."
by Arlene Goldbard
Richmond, California
- Making The World Safe for Hollywood
(U.S. votes against Convention on the Protection and Promotion
of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions)
by Arlene Goldbard
Richmond, California
- Speak and Doublespeak
(about public cultural funding)
by Arlene Goldbard
Richmond, California
- Culture Wars, Round Two
by Arlene Goldbard
Richmond, California
- When Will We Ever Learn?
(About the Arts, the Rand Corporation, and PBS)
by Arlene Goldbard
Richmond, California
- Cine '98 - A Step Toward Cine Revolución
The San Diego / Baja California Latino Film Festival
by Omar Gonzalez,
San Diego, California
- First Writing Since
(Poem on Crisis of Terror)
by Suheir Hammad
New York, New York
- Guardians of the Flame
by Cherice Harrison-Nelson
New Orleans, Louisiana
- A client recovering from a 30-year battle with heroin
(in English) (in Japanese)
Asami Hashirano
San Francisco, California
- San Francisco Art Gallery Attacked for Displaying Political Art
And the poem "Defiant"
by Jack Hirschman
San Francisco, California
- An interview with Shannon Hummel
From a movement standpoint - Dance
Part 1 - People in isolated rural communities
Part 2 - An impact on the community
Harlan County, Kentucky
- The Far East Side . . .
Interview with musician/composer Jason Hwang
New York, New York
- 2 Poems by Immani B.
Remnants of the Trade
Sweet Black - A Poem for Apryl
San Diego, California
- Autumn Moon
Poem and illustration
Ken Inugai-Yamada
Berkeley, California
- Where, Oh Where, Are the Black Male Performance Artists? (excerpt)
Homer Jackson,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- From Selma, Alabama to Hollywood, California:
-- A Thirty-One Year Struggle for Fairness and Inclusion in the American Dream
An Open Letter to the Entertainment Community
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
Washington, D.C.
- My children have never known peace
(Poetry)
Ja A. Jahannes
Savannah, Georgia
- An interview with composers Jon Jang and James Newton
Part 1 - On the creation of "When Sorrow Turns to Joy"
Part 2 - The Spiritual Tributary
Interview by Nic Paget-Clarke
Los Angeles, California
- A Conversation with Jon Jang and Francis Wong
10th Anniversary of Asian Improv
San Francisco, California
Part 1 - Founding an Independent Recording Label
Part 2 - Cultural Synthesis / A Global International Context
Part 3 - The Legacy of Overcoming Obstacles
Part 4 - We want to bring our culture to people in our music
Part 5 - The major works and recordings of Jon Jang and Francis Wong
- An interview with Stephanie Juno
(Performance artist))
Part 1 - Little Glimmers of Beauty
Part 2 - Uncharted waters
Whitesburg, Kentucky
- Siege
(Poetry)
by Collin Kelley
Atlanta, Georgia
- Leverage Lost --The Nonprofit Arts in the Post-Ford Era
(An in-depth study of the funding of the arts in the U.S.)
Part 1 - The Pre-Ford Era: Industrial Revolution to 1957
Part 2 - The Ford Era (1957-1990: Leverage Gained)
Part 3 - The Post-Ford Era (1990 to Present): Leverage Lost
Part 4 - Footnotes
John Kreidler
San Francisco, California
- An interview with Suzanne Lacy
Art and Advocacy
Part 1 - Expansive in its sense of community
Part 2 - Breaking all kinds of frames
near Elkhorn City, Kentucky
- Spike Lee -- Independent Filmmaker
at the Imagination Conference
San Francisco, California
- For the Love of Family #2
by Tonia J. Leon
with photography by Barry Weiser
Huntington, New York
Published in In Motion Magazine December 4, 2007
- For the Love of Family
by Tonia J. Leon
(with photography by Barry Weiser)
Huntington, New York
- Community-directed Television
An interview with Anne Lewis
40 videos about the Appalachian people
Whitesburg, Kentucky
- Eyes to Image
(A Photo Essay)
"My life, my Chinatown and our lives, our Chinatown ..."
Pauline Liang
San Francisco, California
- Alice Lovelace Interviews the ReadNex Poetry Squad
with poetry by Decora
I Write / Images of Santa Ana
Atlanta, Georgia
Published in In Motion Magazine April 12, 2008
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Katrina and the United States Social Forum (USSF)
by Alice Lovelace
Atlanta, Georgia
Published in In Motion Magazine April 6, 2007
-
What the U.S. Social Forum Means to Me
by Alice Lovelace
Atlanta, Georgia
Published in In Motion Magazine November 22, 2006
- From Chaos To Clarity: The Price To Be Paid
Closing Keynote at the 21st Annual Meeting
National Performance Network
by Alice Lovelace
Miami, Florida
- Getting Ready for School --
Teaching Artist's Checklist
by Alice Lovelace
Atlanta, Georgia
- Art Changes
Keynote speech at the conference
The Art of Juvenile Justice: Innovative Practices for Transforming Youth
by Alice Lovelace
Louisville, Kentucky
- This One's For You
(Poetry)
by Alice Lovelace
Atlanta, Georgia
- Building Artistic Communities
Speech delivered to the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts Conference
by Alice Lovelace
Atlanta, Georgia
- Story in Art and Mediation
Chapter 1 Introduction "Art, Race and Dialogue"
Chapter 2 Literature Review: Story in an arts context, in American culture, in mediation
Chapter 3 Stories of Tulsa (Needs Assessment)
by Alice Lovelace
Atlanta, Georgia
- The Tulsa Riot of 1921
Part 1 - Africans in Western Territory
Part 2 - The 1921 Riot to today
by Alice Lovelace
Atlanta. Georgia
- The Arts in Alternative Education
Alice Lovelace
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Part 1 - Introduction / What is Identity?
Part 2 - Who Ends Up In Alternative Education?
Part 3 - The Multiple Paths To Knowing
- Black as I Want to Be
Notes from My Journal
Poem: Mobee Family Slave Relics House
by Alice Lovelace
Badagry, Nigeria
- Community-based Art
An interview with Alice Lovelace by StudioTulsa
"It should not be a unique thing to be an artist."
Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Bud to Bloom #4 - Poetry
(For Jikki: On the occasion of celebrating a union of 22 years.
Strong in the ways of love.)
Atlanta, Georgia
- Poetry by Alice Lovelace
Tomahawk Poem, Remembering My Birth,
& Bud to Bloom #3
Atlanta, Georgia
- Three Poems by Alice Lovelace
July 7 at 7 Stages --
Imani Dances Before She Walks / Exile / Winter
Atlanta, Georgia
- A Brief History of Theater Forms
(from Aristotle to Brecht, Baraka, O'Neal and Boal)
by Alice Lovelace
Atlanta. Georgia
- In Praise of Toni Cade Bambara
An article and poem in memory of the noted writer, editor and teacher
(including audio and video Quicktime files)
by Alice Lovelace
Atlanta. Georgia
- Toni Bambara's books help to mend the world
The Willamina High School Class of 2000
Willamina, Oregon
- America's True Reggae Rebel
Jikki & the Stonefish Posse
by Alice Lovelace
Atlanta. Georgia
- Alice Lovelace poetry reviewed
A review by Gary Alan Fine,
Athens, Georgia
- An interview with John Malpede
A good survival strategy - Theater
Part 1 - Mobilizing homeless people
Part 2 - The extractive economy
Whitesburg, Kentucky
- Strategies for Cultural Enfranchisement
Edsel Matthews,
Oakland, Califonia
- An interview with performance artist and teacher Robbie McCauley
Part 1 - People's Sense of Place
Part 2 - Resonating these stories
Pennington Gap, Virginia
- The Lyrics of Prince Rogers Nelson
A literary look at a creative, musical poet, philosopher, and storyteller
Extracts from the book by C. Liegh McInnis, Jr.
Jackson, Mississippi
- The New African American Writers of Mississippi
C. Liegh McInnis
Jackson, Mississippi
- The Importance of Teaching Cultural Diversity in College World Literature Courses
by C. Liegh McInnis
Jackson, Mississippi
- An interview with Nobuko Miyamoto
Performing Arts, Obon, Yoga and Martial Arts
Part 1 - Like Griots
Part 2 - Strip mines and strip malls
Pennington Gap, Virginia
- Andrew Nagem: A Community Sculptor
"Taking a piece of clay and transforming it into something beautiful."
Interview by Fred Salas San Diego, California
- Fairness in the Media Facts
National Rainbow Coalition
Oakland, California
- Nature and Us -- Who could own this blue planet Earth?
- A Play -
Masako Ogawa
St. Louis, Missouri
- Jim Pepper Legacy in Recorded Music: A Treasure Chest
Discography of saxophonist Jim Pepper's music
by Jim Olding,
Portland, Oregon
- VOODOO//bu$h coup
(Poetry)
In honor of the 200th Anniversary of Haitis Revolution
by Ewuare Osayande
Camden, New Jersey
- "Listen to your own voice!"
An interview with Sandra Osawa
(Native American independent filmmaker)
by Victor Payan,
Seattle, Washington & San Diego, California
- "My Year of Meats" by Ruth L. Ozeki
A book review
by Nora Cody
Oakland, California
(cross-referenced from the Healthcare section)
- Images of No War
"This is what democracy looks like"
by Nic Paget-Clarke
San Diego, California
- Waiting To Start Work
(7 photographs)
by Nic Paget-Clarke
Johannesburg, South Africa
- Quetzal Live
(6 photographs)
by Nic Paget-Clarke
El Sereno, California
- A Grain Freighter
4 photographs by Nic Paget-Clarke
Galveston, Texas
- Escaping the Heat Wave
Two photographs by Nic Paget-Clarke
Galveston, Texas
- Shapes, Textures, and Work
Four Photos by Nic Paget-Clarke
Houston, Texas
- An interview with Beijing Opera artists
Pan Yong Ling, Li Jin Ping, Li Hong Mei, and Wang Hong
Part 1 - "Arts are unlimited. You never stop learning."
Part 2 - If you dont know the tradition -- how can you do something new?
Interview by Nic Paget-Clarke
San Francisco, California
- "It Takes Guts to Make a Democracy"
An Interview with Montana farmers Ralph and Myrna Paulus
about storytelling circles, the arts and democracy.
Choteau, Montana
- Stigmata - A Novel
Chapter 3: June 1994 - Tuskegee
Phyllis Alesia Perry
Atlanta, Georgia
- Two Poems
(movement poem)
Brukman
by Maria Poblet
San Francisco, California
- The Origin of Birth,
The Redemption of Its Children
(Poetry)
by PhoenixYZ
Atlanta, Georgia
- Interview with Film Director Lourdes Portillo
"Not just the pyramids and menudo"
Interview by Fred Salas
San Diego, California
- Lourdes Portillo -
Filmography / Awards / Exhibitions / Screenings
- Alice & Zora: An Interview with Valerie Boyd and Evelyn C. White
(Biographies of Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston)
by Felicia Pride
Boston, Massachusetts
- The Virgin Sisters Song
(Poetry)
by Mark Prudowsky
Asheville, North Carolina
- Interview with Quetzal
(Music)
Forging the Sound of the New Millennium
Interview by Chris Gonzalez Clarke
Los Angeles, California
- Interview with artist Jose Ramirez
-- Contemporary Latino life in Los Angeles --
Los Angeles, California
- Inside the River of Poetry
by Louis Reyes Rivera
New York, New York
- WAI
(four poems in one)
by Pablo Rodriguez
Modesto, California
- Todos Los Muertos
A post-9/11 poem
by Abel Salas
Los Angeles, California
- Interview with Octavia Butler
"... one of the few African American women writing
in the male-dominated science fiction genre"
by Joshunda Sanders
Oakland, California
- Sowing the Seeds of a Culturally Diverse Community
Mat Schwarzman
Oakland, California
- Jazz and the Politics of Identity:
The Musical Legacy of Jim Pepper
by Bill Siegel
Nashua, New Hampshire
- Jim Pepper: "The Man Who Never Sleeps"
(Music)
Bill Siegel
Nashua, New Hampshire
- In Celebration of Charles Jikki Riley
January 10, 1946 - March 24, 2003
Atlanta, Georgia
- Theaters Against War (THAW)
after the New Orleans
National Convergence of Artists, Educators and Organizers
by Sophia Skiles
New York, New York
- Interview with Herb E. Smith,
Appalachian video documentary-maker
Appalachians Speak for Themselves
Whitesburg, Kentucky
- Interview with musician/composer Jeff Song
Rules of Engagement
Boston, Massachusetts
- From the Circle of Thunder to the Blood Moon
Susan Stewart
Bozeman, Montana
- Faces and Places
Part 1: Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi
by Leon Sun
San Francisco, California
- Four Serigraph Posters
Malcolm, Palestine, El Salvador, New World Order
Leon Sun
San Francisco, California
- Lao Zhoushan
(Old Zhoushan)
six poems & six photographs
by Leon Sun
Zhoushan, China and San Francisco, U.S.A.
- Two Days and A Lifetime in Shanghai
Personal Recollections and a Photo Essay
Part 1 August 31, 1994
Part 2 September 1, 1994, and
Part 3: Notes on Hong Kong Rejoining China
Leon Sun
Shanghai, China & San Francisco, California
- Looking Out
A Collection of Photographs and Poems
Leon Sun
San Francisco, California
- Interview with performance and visual artist
Jose Torres Tama
". . . a satirical and ominous vision of a techno-pop U.S. TV culture."
New Orleans, Louisiana
- We Are Partiots With Dark Faces
Written and Performed by
Jose Torres Tama
New Orleans, Louisiana
- Power or Prison
by Judith Tannenbaum
San Francisco, California
Published in In Motion Magazine April 4, 2007
- Two African American brothers express themselves
through graphic illustrations
Phillip and Peter Temple
Vallejo, California
- No Mo ' Barrio Blues
(Poetry)
by Piri Thomas
El Cerrito, California
- Interview with Piri Thomas
Parts 1 & 2:
The Inspiration to Write "Down These Mean Streets"
Part 3
Of Prisons, Wordsongs, Self-determination and Laughter
Berkeley, California
- Born Anew at Each A.M.
(Poetry)
Piri Thomas
Berkeley, California
- Zapatistas in Mexico City to promote the Indigenous Bill of Rights
A Photo Essay
by Danny Turner-Lloveras
Mexico City, Mexico
- Revival
A poem by Leslie M. Watson
Washington, D.C.
- Four Poems by Leslie M. Watson
As I Am ..., Miss Gracie, And the Cycle Began, Thinking about Roe
Washington, D.C.
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