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Tree City Legends: Theater

Date: February 16-March 3 | Thurs.-Sat. | 8:00pm | $20-$25

Ticket Link: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/221342

Location: 925 Mission St., #109, San Francisco, CA 94103

This new performance piece, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, is the first play by writer, musician, poet Dennis Kim (Denizen Kane) and is the next in a series of first plays developed with Campo Santo and the Living Word Project for Intersection.

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Here Be Dragons: Mapping Information and Imagination and Open Process Events

Date: Oct 21, 2011 - Jan 14, 2012

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12-6pm

Closed for the holidays: December 23 through January 2

Intersection for the Arts presents Here Be Dragons: Mapping Information and Imagination, a group exhibition that features artists who utilize the tools, language, and strategies of mapping to distill and interpret large quantities of information and data, while also imaginatively envisioning place through charting stories, history, emotion, and ideas.

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Youth Art Workshop

September 19, - December 16, 2011
Free

With our collaborating partners which include Oasis for Girls, YMCA, and WritersCorp among others, there are three main workshops set to kick off the Youth Art Workshop this September: Urbania, True Compassion and Stanzas from Every Block.

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The Recology Artist In Residence Program Rotating Exhibitions at the Chronicle Building Cafe at 5M

August 29 - November 30, 2011
Monday - Friday, 7am to 5pm
Free

Intersection for the Arts is pleased to be working with Recology’s Artist in Residence Program to present rotating exhibitions of artwork from their permanent collection in the Chronicle Building Café.

Block by Block

As Part of de Young Museum’s Inaugural Artist Fellows, We Present "Block by Block", Created by Campo Santo with Felonious & A Host of Collaborators, Including the Writings of Junot Diaz.

Thursday, Nov 17 - Saturday, Nov 19
7:00 - 8:30pm
$10 (Members), $12 (Students), $20 (Advanced), $25 (Door)

As part of the inaugural de Young Artists Fellowship, Campo Santo, led by Intersection Theatre Program Director Sean San José and Familía members, kicks off a new series of creating and presenting new performances in surprising places, showcasing the new era of Intersection programming at 5M in the Chronicle Building.

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The Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project’s New Piece "Sitting In A Circle." Special, 4 Shows Only, Limited Seating.

Fri, Nov 4 - Sat, Nov 12
8pm - 9:30pm
$15 - $25

Intersection for the Arts and Resident Dance Company The Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project (ESP Project), present Sitting In A Circle the first collaboration in the new home of Intersection for the Arts – 5M – in the iconic San Francisco Chronicle building.

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Making Beautiful Maps: Geodata, Spatial Analysis, and Map Design

Wednesday, November 2
6pm - 9pm
$30

Discover your inner cartographer in 2 hours! From the first human maps on cave walls to real-time, continually-updated, crowdsourced geodata, mapping has come a long way in the last 8,000 years. Maps are currently used in an endless number of ways by artists, designers, developers, scientists, urban planners, city officials, tourists, explorers, and more.

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Occupy Theater with The Triangle Lab

November 2, 2011
4pm - 6pm
Free

Join The Triangle Lab (the new name for partnership with California Shakespeare Theater with Intersection for the Arts and Campo Santo. ) For our first active, public investigation we invite you ALL to join us in creating a performance response to recent events at #OccupyOakland, to be performed at the general strike demonstrations in Oakland next Wednesday November 2.

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Highlights from Summer of Smart: Mapping, New Media and Civic Engagement

Wednesday, Oct 26
7pm - 9pm
$5-$20

Innovation is social, and the best solutions arise from multidisciplinary teams where new ideas abound. Join us as we share winning-ideas from The Summer of Smart, an intensive, three-month experiment in urban innovation.

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Celebrate The Gilda Stories with RADAR Productions

Saturday, October 22nd
7pm - 9pm
$10

2011 marks the 20th anniversary of The Gilda Stories, a double Lambda Award winning novel that follows the life of an African-American lesbian vampire through the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Featuring readings and performances by Jewelle Gomez, Kevin Seaman, Justin Chin, Annie Danger, Miranda Mellis and more.

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