Richard Montoya of Culture Clash collaborates with Intersection for the Arts resident theater company Campo Santo, and its co-founder Sean San José, to create The River. The play is part of Montoya’s larger series, “The Border Series”, that explores themes of identity, California and its people, and the many types of borders they encounter and cross.     THE STORY The [...]

Intersection for the Arts annual fundraiser Changemaker Social is an evening celebration of movement, the city, and how you + art make change. The Changemaker Social is a unique celebration of art that is purposeful and alive. It is an exploration of art through collaboration across boundaries that moves us to make things better. It is an [...]

All performances are FREE and happen every Friday afternoon from 12 to 2pm in collaboration with Off The Grid‘s food trucks! Location: Minna Street tunnel, between 5th Street and Mary Alley, near corner of 5th and Mission Streets.  Click here for map! *************************************************************************** FRIDAY JUNE 7, 2013, 12 to 2pm LES GWAN JUPONS: VINTAGE CARIBBEAN PARTY MUSIC   [...]

KASEY KNUDSEN SEXTET + KNUDSEN/ARKIN/COLEMAN TRIO Kasey Knudsen – saxophone; Henry Hung – trumpet; Rob Ewing – trombone; Michael Coleman – piano; Doug Stuart – bass; Jon Arkin – drums Kasey Knudsen is a San Francisco based saxophonist, composer, and educator. She earned her BA in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music in 2001. Since relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, Knudsen has been [...]

TOUCH AND GO SEXTET Vijay Anderson – drums; Aaron Bennett – reeds; Darren Johnston – trumpet; Ben Goldberg – clarinet; Sheldon Brown – reeds; Lisa Mezzacappa – bass In writing music for this group, composer and drummer Vijay Anderson tried to incorporate the personalities of each individual member of the group along with innovations of past to present great American composers, including Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, [...]

All performances are FREE and happen every Friday afternoon from 12 to 2pm in collaboration with Off The Grid‘s food trucks! Location: Minna Street tunnel, between 5th Street and Mary Alley, near corner of 5th and Mission Streets.  Click here for map! *************************************************************************** FRIDAY MAY 3, 2013, 12 to 2pm THE NICE GUY TRIO Darren Johnston – trumpet; Rob Reich [...]

Intersection for the Arts presents Ants in the City, a solo exhibition project by San Francisco-based artist Su-Chen Hung. 18th Century British poet William Blake wrote, “To see a world from a grain of sand,” and so Hung examines our world from the perspective of ants through three related video works and installations: Ants in the [...]

Often found hip-deep in Madagascar mud, Dr. Brian Fisher is a modern day explorer who has devoted his life to the study and conservation of ants and biodiversity around the world. His research sends him through the last remote rainforests and deserts of Madagascar and Africa in search of ants. Although his subjects may be small in [...]

BEN GOLDBERG QUARTET Ben Goldberg – clarinet; Rob Sudduth – tenor saxophone; David Ewell – bass; Scott Amendola – drums The Ben Goldberg Quartet performs compositions from Ben’s recent projects, including songs from his recently released and highly acclaimed records Subatomic Particle Homesick Blues and Unfold Ordinary Mind. “A feeling of joyous research into the basics of polyphony and collective improvising.” –Ben [...]

All performances are FREE and happen every Friday afternoon from 12 to 2pm in collaboration with Off The Grid‘s food trucks! Location: Minna Street tunnel, between 5th Street and Mary Alley, near corner of 5th and Mission Streets.  Click here for map! FRIDAY APRIL 5, 2013, 12 to 2pm JOHN SCHOTT TRIO John Schott – guitar; John Wiitala – bass; John Hanes - [...]