Events
Sustenance: Creating a Life as an Artist
Nov 5 2011 6:15PM - 7:30PM
Join us for an artist's salon on creating and sustaining your life as an artist. With writer/performer Anthem Salgado, visual artist Dia Penning, musician Cody Giannotti and poet Traci Brimhall. Hosted by writer, Brynn Saito.
Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She was the 2008-09 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and currently teaches at Western Michigan University, where she is a doctoral associate and King/Chávez/Parks Fellow.
Cody Giannotti, M.F.A. is a Vocalist, Multi-Instrumentalist, Beatboxer, Experimental Musician, Composer, Poet/Writer, Director, Sound/Film Designer, Activist and Educator. Cody uses live-looping technology to fuse traditional styles of hip-hop, scat and storytelling with elements of funk and jazz to address issues surrounding activism and social change. Cody is classically trained in Bel canto voice method as well as Suzuki piano and has been beatboxing from childhood. He is co-founder of Team Lexington Performance Collective, the resident theater company at The Caretakers where he also instructs voice, beatbox and vocal composition. Cody is currently a resident teaching artist with Music in Schools Today researching cognitive learning skills in music education for 300 screaming Kinder through 5th graders at El Dorado Elementary school in beautiful San Francisco, CA.
Dia Penning is an artist activist and educator. She holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in Art from Kalamazoo College. She has developed several arts initiatives, including "Critical Encounters-Artist in Residence" for Columbia College Chicago, "Where Art Lives" for the San Francisco Arts Commission and "ArtReach Studios" for the Arc of San Francisco. Her work has been performed and exhibited around California and throughout the Midwest, most recently with La Pocha Nostra at Columbia College Chicago and in Nido is Nest in San Francisco. Dia creates elaborate costumes for her collaborations with performing arts ensembles and she aims to inspire creative exploration and transformation through the arts.
Anthem Salgado is an artist/educator, celebrated for his bold and energetic examinations of identity, conflict and language in the American experience within a wide variety of genres including fiction, theater, poetry and performance art. He is a graduate of San Francisco Art Institute, was a member of art collective Grupo Alibata, and has exhibited throughout the Bay Area, including Oakland Museum of California. His solo-theater has appeared at SF Asian Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Intersection for the Arts, Kearny Street Workshop and his feature-length one-man show, Bare Knuckle, debuted at Brava Theater. Salgado was awarded a Philippines Fulbright-Hays scholarship via Sonoma State University's North Bay International Studies Program, and was elected Young Leader of Color by Theatre Communications Group. Anthem Salgado serves Asian American arts organization, Kearny Street Workshop, in the role of board co-chair, and is the founder and lead-facilitator of the artist/entrepreneur professional development program, Art Of Hustle.
Location: CIIS' Namaste Hall, 3rd floor of 1453 Mission Street between 10th and 11th, SF
