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Grace Stetson on September 29, 2021
It’s difficult to find one activity for the whole family to enjoy, but San Jose nonprofit Mosaic has brought together the best of visual arts, performance and food to Bay Area natives to enjoy for free. On Saturday, the nonprofit is partnering with organizations from across Silicon Valley to showcase art (including…
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Mike Huguenor on September 29, 2021
The 7th annual Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival truly kicks off this Friday with a screening of the 2021 martial arts film The Paper Tigers, along with a Q&A with director Bao Tran. The heartfelt action dramedy follows “the Three Tigers,” three former kung fu prodigies now washed up on the…
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Kyle Martin on September 29, 2021
Opera San Jose starts their 2021-22 season in dramatic fashion with Mozart & Salieri, the 1890s story by Rimsky-Korsakov of a brash young composer, Antonio Salieri, who is rumored to have poisoned rival composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart over musical fame. The legend depicts deadly jealousy, a poisoned chalice and a sitting room…
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Kyle Martin on September 29, 2021
Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell, curator for Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center, has put together a decade-spanning collection of pieces from the museum which all use paper as the medium. Prints, drawings, photographs, sketches and more. This new temporary retrospective collection includes more than 100 works from artists all around the world, including American photographer…
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Li Patron on September 22, 2021
The chapters in Names for Light: A Family History, the new book by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, are each named for a locale where either the author or her ancestors lived. Among these homelands—cities in Asia, Europe and North America—are a curious pair of long dashes. It is in these chapters, demarcated…
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Mike Huguenor on September 22, 2021
Seen from one angle, Imago Philosophia, the current exhibit at San Jose’s Anno Domini Gallery, glistens like the fabled streets of El Dorado. Seen from another, it all slips away into a flat black matte. Consisting of 73 hand-drawn images printed in gold leaf on black, the exhibit—much like the ideas which…
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Kyle Martin on September 22, 2021
This Sunday, music and arts will engulf Downtown San Jose’s SoFA District once more with the return of SoFA Street Fair. After a year’s hiatus, vendors like Streetlight Records, Goddesses, The Swagger Fool and Make Me Holey Body Piercing will once again take over the streets with toys, merch, jewelry, clothing and…
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Grace Stetson on September 22, 2021
One of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a laughably fantastical time that explores what falling in love really is—and all the misadventures associated with the experience. This weekend, San Jose Dance Theatre brings the flirtatious tale to life in dazzling motion in their fall performance. Mischievous Puck casts…
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Mike Huguenor on September 22, 2021
The very phrase “Silicon Valley” speaks to the outsize influence of tech on our humble, multifaceted home. For this year’s Silicon Valley Sculpture event, Menlo Park Public Art hope to change that a little with “Shifting Perspectives,” an event which combines large-scale sculpture with performance art, and highlights many of the valley’s…
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Grace Stetson on September 22, 2021
As the changing global environment has led to deeper discussions regarding climate change, artists are increasingly bringing those reflections to their work. Beginning this Wednesday, the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles’ new exhibit features striking tapestry works that clearly showcase the detrimental effects of climate change across the planet. Curated…
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