Andrew Gilbert, Author at Mission Local https://missionlocal.org/author/andrewg/ Local news for a global city Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:34:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://missionloca.s3.amazonaws.com/mission/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/iconlogomap-100x100.jpg Andrew Gilbert, Author at Mission Local https://missionlocal.org/author/andrewg/ 32 32 A Cultural Mission checks in on ODC Dance’s Pilot Program https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/a-cultural-mission-checks-in-on-odc-dances-pilot-program/ https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/a-cultural-mission-checks-in-on-odc-dances-pilot-program/#respond Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:54:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=585753 Dancers from ODC dance posing in front of a large window.

No particular school, troupe or organization can take credit for the Bay Area’s reputation as a hotbed for modern dance, but there’s one institution that perfectly encapsulates the way that […]

A Cultural Mission checks in on ODC Dance’s Pilot Program

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/a-cultural-mission-checks-in-on-odc-dances-pilot-program/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission realigns its molecules with Kahil El’Zabar https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/kahil-elzabar-a-man-of-interest/ https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/kahil-elzabar-a-man-of-interest/#respond Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:48:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=584901 A man playing a drum.

The world’s most interesting man doesn’t care about the brand of beer you drink. Kahil El’Zabar wants to realign your molecules through the incantatory power of rhythm. From Broadway to […]

A Cultural Mission realigns its molecules with Kahil El’Zabar

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/kahil-elzabar-a-man-of-interest/feed/ 0 Walking through the expanded Community Music Center https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/walking-through-the-expanded-community-music-center/ https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/walking-through-the-expanded-community-music-center/#comments Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:38:44 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=583999 The Community Music Center's blue buildings on Capp Street in san francisco.

On an overcast morning last December, construction crews were still busy at the Community Music Center. The tang of fresh paint and the comforting smell of sawdust hung in the […]

Walking through the expanded Community Music Center

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/walking-through-the-expanded-community-music-center/feed/ 2 A Cultural Mission visits a timeless world of flamenco https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/a-cultural-mission-visits-a-timeless-world-of-flamenco/ https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/a-cultural-mission-visits-a-timeless-world-of-flamenco/#respond Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:57:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=583006 A group of people on a stage.

During an early pause in the pandemic in 2021, Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco’s Carola Zertuche spent several nights beneath the sheltering night sky of the Wadi Rum desert in […]

A Cultural Mission visits a timeless world of flamenco

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2024/02/a-cultural-mission-visits-a-timeless-world-of-flamenco/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission: New life for Cambodian arts with ‘The Rebirth of Apsara’ https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/new-life-for-cambodian-arts-with-the-rebirth-of-apsara/ https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/new-life-for-cambodian-arts-with-the-rebirth-of-apsara/#respond Wed, 31 Jan 2024 20:01:42 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=582004 Four thai dancers performing on stage.

The genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge in the mid-1970s wiped out nearly all of Cambodia’s artists, and the survivors have been working to rebuild the nation’s verdant cultural traditions […]

A Cultural Mission: New life for Cambodian arts with ‘The Rebirth of Apsara’

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/new-life-for-cambodian-arts-with-the-rebirth-of-apsara/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission suggests the Supplicants and SticklerPhonics  https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/a-cultural-mission-jazz-and-red-poppy-and-great-american-music-hall/ https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/a-cultural-mission-jazz-and-red-poppy-and-great-american-music-hall/#respond Wed, 24 Jan 2024 22:25:45 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=581069 A black and white photo of a group of men with saxophones.

On the cultural front, it’s a typically busy week in the Mission and nearby neighborhoods, with dozens of events well worth checking out. Here are a few that caught my […]

A Cultural Mission suggests the Supplicants and SticklerPhonics 

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/a-cultural-mission-jazz-and-red-poppy-and-great-american-music-hall/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission returns with ‘Match Girrl’ https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/a-cultural-mission-returns/ https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/a-cultural-mission-returns/#respond Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:02:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=580379 Four dancers jumping in the air on stage for a performance of Match Girrl

After a nice long break away from the keyboard, it’s good to plunge back into the cultural fray. While business closures continue to pummel the Mission, there are many indications […]

A Cultural Mission returns with ‘Match Girrl’

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/a-cultural-mission-returns/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission visits with La Mezcla’s unquiet spirits https://missionlocal.org/2023/12/a-cultural-mission-at-brava-with-ghostly-labor/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/12/a-cultural-mission-at-brava-with-ghostly-labor/#respond Thu, 14 Dec 2023 20:59:29 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=576922 La Mezcla's Javier Navarrette, Vanessa Sanchez, Pedro Gomez, Elena de Troya, Diana Aburto. Photo Courtesy of La Mezcla.

La Mezcla director Vanessa Sanchez has been wrestling with ghosts for years, and on a recent phone call she sounded elated and relieved that she’d finally wrangled them into Brava Theater. […]

A Cultural Mission visits with La Mezcla’s unquiet spirits

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/12/a-cultural-mission-at-brava-with-ghostly-labor/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission goes to the movies for ‘The Golem’ and more https://missionlocal.org/2023/12/a-cultural-mission-goes-to-the-movies/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/12/a-cultural-mission-goes-to-the-movies/#respond Thu, 07 Dec 2023 06:21:03 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=576114 A group of blue shipping containers stacked on top of each other, from We Start With the Things We Find. Plus, a discussion of The Golem

Consider: The humble shipping container. An essential component of global trade, the 20- and 40-foot-long steel rectangular boxes litter our landscape, rumbling by on the back of 18-wheelers, hurtling up […]

A Cultural Mission goes to the movies for ‘The Golem’ and more

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/12/a-cultural-mission-goes-to-the-movies/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission goes to the circus https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/a-cultural-mission-goes-to-the-circus-saturnalia/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/a-cultural-mission-goes-to-the-circus-saturnalia/#respond Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:53:46 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=574943 Ivy Leon, a woman, doing a pole dance on stage.

The hustle and bustle of the holidays can make the season feel like a three-ring circus, even for people who don’t identify with any particular religious tradition. San Francisco’s Bow & […]

A Cultural Mission goes to the circus

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/a-cultural-mission-goes-to-the-circus-saturnalia/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission nabs the SF International Arts Fest https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/a-cultural-mission-nabs-the-san-francisco-international-arts-fest/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/a-cultural-mission-nabs-the-san-francisco-international-arts-fest/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:26:37 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=572765 A man standing at a podium with a microphone.

On any given weekend, the Mission is abuzz with dozens of cultural events, which got me to wondering. If you held a global arts festival in the Mission, would anyone […]

A Cultural Mission nabs the SF International Arts Fest

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/a-cultural-mission-nabs-the-san-francisco-international-arts-fest/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission pops up at Manny’s https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/a-cultural-mission-pops-up-at-mannys-zspace-and-medicine-for-nightmares/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/a-cultural-mission-pops-up-at-mannys-zspace-and-medicine-for-nightmares/#comments Thu, 02 Nov 2023 20:02:44 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=572023 A group of women in yellow gloves holding a tea kettle.

Presenting a regular parade of candidates, activists, authors and government officials, Manny’s is no stranger to fancy verbal footwork. But the Mission’s essential hub of civic engagement has never hosted anything with […]

A Cultural Mission pops up at Manny’s

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/11/a-cultural-mission-pops-up-at-mannys-zspace-and-medicine-for-nightmares/feed/ 1 A Cultural Mission goes to the opera at ODC https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/a-cultural-mission-goes-to-the-opera-parallele-and-odc/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/a-cultural-mission-goes-to-the-opera-parallele-and-odc/#respond Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:24:22 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=570903 A woman with blue hair leaning against a wall.

In every way possible, Nicole Paiement wants to bring opera to the people. The founder, conductor and artistic director of San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle, she’s spearheaded the company’s Hands-On-Opera initiative, which makes […]

A Cultural Mission goes to the opera at ODC

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/a-cultural-mission-goes-to-the-opera-parallele-and-odc/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission catching FLACC at Dance Mission Theater https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/a-cultural-mission-catching-flacc-at-dance-mission-theater/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/a-cultural-mission-catching-flacc-at-dance-mission-theater/#respond Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:01:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=570125 A man in a pink costume kneeling on the floor in front of a crowd.

If locusts, frogs and lice don’t descend on the Mission in the coming week, the Festival of Latin American Contemporary Choreographers will reach an impressive milestone. Since Liz Duran Boubion founded FLACC […]

A Cultural Mission catching FLACC at Dance Mission Theater

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/a-cultural-mission-catching-flacc-at-dance-mission-theater/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission: Essential workers take the stage in new performance project https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/essential-workers-experience-on-stage-at-kqed/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/essential-workers-experience-on-stage-at-kqed/#respond Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:05:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=569019 A group of people standing on a stage.

What started as a desperate attempt to track the pandemic’s physical and psychological ravages has grown into a groundbreaking arts initiative driven by some of the nation’s most vulnerable and […]

A Cultural Mission: Essential workers take the stage in new performance project

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/essential-workers-experience-on-stage-at-kqed/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission goes skinny dipping with Marga Gomez https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/a-cultural-mission-goes-skinny-dipping-with-marga-gomez/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/a-cultural-mission-goes-skinny-dipping-with-marga-gomez/#respond Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:35:43 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=567929 A woman wearing a striped shirt over an anchor t - shirt.

A master at spinning the vicissitudes of her own life into trenchantly funny performances, Marga Gomez wants to make it clear that her new production, “Swimming With Lesbians” isn’t autobiographical. […]

A Cultural Mission goes skinny dipping with Marga Gomez

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/10/a-cultural-mission-goes-skinny-dipping-with-marga-gomez/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission tunes in to Eduardo Corzo at Radio Habana https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/tuning-in-to-eduardo-corzo-at-radio-havana/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/tuning-in-to-eduardo-corzo-at-radio-havana/#respond Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:27:36 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=567196 A man at a piano with a microphone in front of him.

Wander into Radio Habana Social Club on Friday night and you might have a closer encounter with Cuba than you expected.  Among the strong regular rotation of musicians playing the art-and-sundry object-cluttered […]

A Cultural Mission tunes in to Eduardo Corzo at Radio Habana

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/tuning-in-to-eduardo-corzo-at-radio-havana/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission sees the return of a rebel, set to music https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/the-return-of-a-mission-rebel-set-to-music/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/the-return-of-a-mission-rebel-set-to-music/#comments Tue, 19 Sep 2023 20:28:51 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=566187 A photo of an older man,sitting with a cane and a pink shirt. And to the right a young man in a blue/green shirt, and a guitar.

Growing up as an angry teenager in the 1970s, guitarist David James wanted nothing to do with his father, a troubled man who’d turned himself into a Mission District crusader.  […]

A Cultural Mission sees the return of a rebel, set to music

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/the-return-of-a-mission-rebel-set-to-music/feed/ 1 A Cultural Mission in the Salon, exploring gender https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/salon-verdi-club-red-poppy-fiesta-de-las-americas-things-to-do/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/salon-verdi-club-red-poppy-fiesta-de-las-americas-things-to-do/#respond Thu, 14 Sep 2023 06:52:28 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=565366 A headshot of a man with a moustache and chin hair.

If I had to come up with a case study of a curator or arts presenter exemplifying the maverick creative streak that keeps San Francisco’s creative scene thrumming, Michelle Chang […]

A Cultural Mission in the Salon, exploring gender

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/salon-verdi-club-red-poppy-fiesta-de-las-americas-things-to-do/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission paints the town https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/a-cultural-mission-juana-alicia-and-things-to-do/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/a-cultural-mission-juana-alicia-and-things-to-do/#respond Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:55:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=564578 A black and white mural of people coming toward us, dressed in the rural dress of Mexican farmers.

Mission residents hardly need a gallery to experience the work of Juana Alicia, a galvanizing force in the neighborhood’s internationally recognized mural movement since the 1980s. Her works adorn walls […]

A Cultural Mission paints the town

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/a-cultural-mission-juana-alicia-and-things-to-do/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission …feels like dancing this week. Feel free to cut in.  https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/things-to-do-in-san-francisco-and-dance-and-odc/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/things-to-do-in-san-francisco-and-dance-and-odc/#respond Thu, 31 Aug 2023 12:41:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=563841 Four dancers across a stage with a dark background.

For East Bay choreographer and dancer Megan Lowe, movement is connection, a vehicle for revealing thoughts, feelings and experiences that might otherwise go unexpressed. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of her […]

A Cultural Mission …feels like dancing this week. Feel free to cut in. 

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/things-to-do-in-san-francisco-and-dance-and-odc/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission: Social justice film fest, Cuban pianist, more https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/a-cultural-mission-a-film-festival-cuban-pianist-composer-more/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/a-cultural-mission-a-film-festival-cuban-pianist-composer-more/#comments Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=563157 A woman with a facemask and on th right side publicity for a movie.

Devoting a film festival to documentaries with a progressive political agenda might seem redundant, as the field has been driven and largely defined for more than half a century by […]

A Cultural Mission: Social justice film fest, Cuban pianist, more

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/a-cultural-mission-a-film-festival-cuban-pianist-composer-more/feed/ 2 A Cultural Mission & La Familia Santana https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/what-to-do-in-sf-santana-odc-david-boyce/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/what-to-do-in-sf-santana-odc-david-boyce/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2023 19:29:16 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=562105 Album cover with a man playing a guitar.

Since last week’s column mentioning La Doña’s new single (the video dropped last week, too) I’ve been thinking about the ways that murals both bear witness to the Mission’s history […]

A Cultural Mission & La Familia Santana

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/what-to-do-in-sf-santana-odc-david-boyce/feed/ 0 Una misión cultural: El ascenso de La Doña y también música y justicia https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/una-mision-cultural-el-ascenso-de-la-dona-y-tambien-musica-y-justicia/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/una-mision-cultural-el-ascenso-de-la-dona-y-tambien-musica-y-justicia/#respond Fri, 11 Aug 2023 23:40:57 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=561529

Leer en Ingles Este articulo fue traducido con la ayuda de DeepL. La última vez que el icono del Distrito de la Misión, La Doña, lanzó un EP, estaba en […]

Una misión cultural: El ascenso de La Doña y también música y justicia

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/una-mision-cultural-el-ascenso-de-la-dona-y-tambien-musica-y-justicia/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission, La Doña rising and music and justice https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/a-cultural-mission-la-dona-rising-and-music-and-justice/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/a-cultural-mission-la-dona-rising-and-music-and-justice/#comments Tue, 08 Aug 2023 19:24:19 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=560843 On th eleft a man at the piano, on the right a woman in an elaborate pink gown on the right.

Leer en español The last time Mission District icon La Doña released an EP, she was on the cusp of a national breakthrough. While 2020’s “AlgoNuevo” introduced her incantatory “femmeton” blend of cumbia, reggaetón, […]

A Cultural Mission, La Doña rising and music and justice

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/a-cultural-mission-la-dona-rising-and-music-and-justice/feed/ 2 A Cultural Mission, dancing through the dog days https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/a-cultural-mission-dancing-through-the-dog-days/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/a-cultural-mission-dancing-through-the-dog-days/#respond Thu, 03 Aug 2023 03:04:37 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=560017 Left, dark figures and right a dancer in front of yellow background.

In New York, Boston, Paris, Madrid and Rome, just about anyone with the means gets out of the city in August. In San Francisco, the dog days of summer are […]

A Cultural Mission, dancing through the dog days

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/a-cultural-mission-dancing-through-the-dog-days/feed/ 0 Una Misión Cultural: nuestra nueva columna semanal https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/una-mision-cultural-nuestra-nueva-columna-semanal/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/una-mision-cultural-nuestra-nueva-columna-semanal/#respond Thu, 27 Jul 2023 22:14:14 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=559026

Read in English Este artículo fue traducido con la ayuda de DeepL. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas! Estamos lanzando esta nueva columna como un espacio para cubrir y celebrar la creatividad sin […]

Una Misión Cultural: nuestra nueva columna semanal

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/una-mision-cultural-nuestra-nueva-columna-semanal/feed/ 0 A Cultural Mission, a new weekly column https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/a-cultural-mission-a-new-weekly-column/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/a-cultural-mission-a-new-weekly-column/#comments Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:20:53 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=558899 a woman on one side with a microphone and a man in a bennie on the right side.

Leer en español Welcome! We’re launching this new column as a forum to cover and celebrate the boundless creativity that manifests in the Mission every week. Dance, music, visual arts, […]

A Cultural Mission, a new weekly column

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/a-cultural-mission-a-new-weekly-column/feed/ 3 Amy Seiwert’s farewell Sketch at ODC Theater https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/amy-seiwarts-farewell-sketch-at-odc-theater/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/amy-seiwarts-farewell-sketch-at-odc-theater/#respond Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:17:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=558440 Five dancers with one aloft. All in sweats or dance gear. Amy Seiwert (center and aloft).

Welcoming the possibility of failure is the secret of Sketch’s success. Launched in 2011 as the primary focus of Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, the Sketch series quickly earned notice as an invaluable […]

Amy Seiwert’s farewell Sketch at ODC Theater

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/amy-seiwarts-farewell-sketch-at-odc-theater/feed/ 0 George Brooks throws a raga jazz party at Red Poppy https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/george-brooks-throws-a-raga-jazz-party-at-red-poppy/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/george-brooks-throws-a-raga-jazz-party-at-red-poppy/#respond Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:44:00 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=556541 A double image of a man, George Brooks, playing a sax and a piano player in red in the background

With his twin braids running down his shoulders, saxophonist George Brooks blends right into the Berkeley landscape. Offstage, there’s not much to indicate that he’s a transformative artist. On the […]

George Brooks throws a raga jazz party at Red Poppy

]]> https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/george-brooks-throws-a-raga-jazz-party-at-red-poppy/feed/ 0 La música venezolana de Nueva York llega a la Bahía https://missionlocal.org/2023/06/la-musica-venezolana-de-nueva-york-llega-a-la-bahia/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/06/la-musica-venezolana-de-nueva-york-llega-a-la-bahia/#respond Fri, 16 Jun 2023 10:22:06 +0000 https://missionlocal.org/?p=553710

Read in English La devastación que el gobierno autoritario de Venezuela ha causado a la nación sudamericana en las dos últimas décadas no tiene ningún aspecto positivo, pero su impacto […]

La música venezolana de Nueva York llega a la Bahía

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