La Burbuja: A Portable Sound Booth for a Storytelling Series
November 11 | 7PM
How can design and architecture facilitate interaction and exchange between people?
Hugo Martinez and Christin To, co-founders of MAT-TER Design + Build Studio will share their work on La Burbuja, a portable sound booth to record stories gathered by Sonic Trace, a storytelling and mapping project collecting and sharing the stories of immigrants in Los Angeles one voice at a time.

 Find out more about La Burbuja on their Kickstarter Page

Sonic Trace is KCRW’s storytelling project that begins in the heart of Los Angeles and crosses into Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Part radio, part video, Sonic Trace maps LA residents’ answers to the questions:

• ¿Por qué te vas? Why do you go?
  ¿Por qué te quedas? Why do you stay?
  ¿Por qué regresas? What makes you return? 

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  The Califas Festival
  October 2-November 17, 2013
  on the 5M Campus and around the state of California
  Info: www.theintersection.org | www.calshakes.org

   

  Intersection for the Arts and the California Shakespeare Theater come together this fall to co-produce the Califas Festival, a six week-long immersive, story-filled play yard of music, visual art, performance, and more in and around Intersection’s headquarters at 5M (5th and Mission) in San Francisco. The Festival is the culminating event of the Califas Project, a year of multimedia creative exploration in communities around the state including productions of Richard Montoya’s The River at Campo Santo this past March, and American Night at Cal Shakes in June. The Festival will feature a new performance piece with text by renowned California playwright Luis Alfaro, commissioned songs from seven California jazz greats including Howard Wiley and Terrence Brewer, visual art from Joan Osato, Andrea Blum, Mia Nakano and others, as well as a myriad of community voices.

  Working together through their research and development wing The Triangle Lab, Cal Shakes and Intersection continue to cross boundaries in their art-making, asking what kind of change can happen when an arts event features a letter from a Dream-act youth next to portraits of and by women living in SOMA SRO’s next to the work of Macarthur-award winning Luis Alfaro, next to a crowd-sourced playlist of California songs.  This is the Califas Festival: a place to discover how our journeys – individual and shared – can help us dream the future of our state.