Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff
John Calloway
Multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, composer and educator Dr. John Calloway will be honored in a special concert and tribute on June 20 when he receives a local “Jazz Hero” award from a national jazz writers organization.
This year’s “Jazz Hero” awards will be presented in conjunction with the 2012 Jazz Journalists Association’s Jazz Awards honoring significant achievements in jazz music and journalism.
“Jazz Heroes” are activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz who have had significant impact in their local communities. Previous award winners include Bay Area jazz singer Ed Reed (2011), Jazzschool founder and director Susan Muscarella, record producer Orrin Keepnews, musician and educator Khalil Shaheed, guitarist Bruce Forman, educator Dr. Herb Wong, and publicist Terri Hinte.
Calloway will be feted June 20 in the second-floor Hall of Culture at the African American Cultural Arts Complex in San Francisco. The event, which runs from 6:30 until 8 pm, is free and open to the public, and will offer light appetizers, beverages and a musical performance by the Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco who Calloway is the musical director.
Bellydance & Live Music. Classical & Fusion
Menage 2012. Classical and fusion, an experimental night with live Arabic musicians and dancers juxtaposed with musicians and dancers of other genres. Produced by Rebecca Vasile and featuring some of the best dancers and musicians in the Bay Area. 8pm. $10 adv. $15 dr. Friday June 22. At La Peña.
Immigrant Voices Festival
La Peña Chorus celebrates LP’s 37th Birthday. The La Peña Community Chorus takes great pleasure in honoring La Peña Cultural Center’s 37 years of providing the community with arts, music, theater, and children’s programming, music and art classes, films, forums, cafés, street fairs, and progressive politics, not to mention its own resident community chorus! The Chorus has been a committed participant in La Peña’s storied existence for 34 years, so come help us celebrate the work of this vital Berkeley institution. 8pm. $15 adv. $20 dr. (Benefit concert for La Peña). La Peñas’s 37th Anniversary: The Celebration and Struggle of the Universal Immigrant Voice. Saturday June 23.
See the entire Festival at http://www.lapena.org/index.php. At La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley.
Festival on Aging at SFSU
The Legacy Film Festival on Aging and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at SF State University are proud to present a film series portraying the richness of later life.
The festival promises to inspire, educate and entertain intergenerational audiences on how to live well and enjoy life, despite life’s challenges. After each film there will be a Q and A and after the session on Saturday, there will be an interactive movement workshop, and all invited to participate.
The Festival will be presented on Friday – Sunday, July 6, 7 and 8 in the Coppola Theatre, in the Fine Arts Building. For a full schedule, and to purchase tickets go to http://legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org/film-schedule.php.
Rufino Tamayo exhibition continues
The Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco and Bray/Herrman Fine Art are proud to present, The Magic Surrealists of Oaxaca, Mexico. Rufino Tamayo’s Legacy: Contemporary Zapotec Artists.
One of the greatest Mexican artists, created modern art that celebrated his Pre-Hispanic roots. He also left a legacy of indigenous artists influenced by him.
The exhibition hosts Rufino Tamayo’s art work juxtapox to the next generation of artists of Oaxaca. Open through out August 9, 2012, at the Consulate General of Mexico, 532 Folsom St., San Francisco.
