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510Arts

510Arts.com is the website of The East Bay Culture Corridor, which is a collaboration between the cities of Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and Richmond. For more information, go to http://510arts.com/

The group of photographs below, that I took of the great Gamelan Sekar Jaya company of musicians and dancers, have been awarded the Best of Richmond award in the 2nd Annual 510Arts.com Intersection: World Culture in the East Bay online arts exhibition. Gamelan Sekar Jaya is a sixty-member company of musicians and dancers, currently based in Berkeley, specializing in the performing arts of Bali. These photographs were taken on Nov 12, 2011, when they appeared in concert to benefit El Cerrito High School Music Education and KECG Radio.

The “People’s Choice” voting period is now open to the public. The jury statement is at http://opencall.510arts.com/exhibition.php and you can go to http://opencall.510arts.com/light/2012.php to launch the entire exhibition.

I hope that you will view my images and vote for them in the competition. They can be accessed directly at: http://opencall.510arts.com/light/artistprofile.php?artist_id=1422

To see the whole set from that evening’s performance, go to my Flickr page.

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Dancers preparing for performance
Dancer Performing

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Occupy Movement

If you haven’t been totally asleep for the last several months, then you know that there have been occupy encampments and protests in hundreds of cities and countries around the world, and it ain’t over yet. I’ve been to a few encampments and a couple of demonstrations and here’re some photos that I took at Occupy San Francisco and Oakland.

In addition to the showcase photos below, I’ve posted a couple of hundred photos from San Francisco, Oakland, and also, Occupy Cal, on my Flickr page.

Occupy San Francisco	Occupy Oakland
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Occupy San Francisco
Occupy Oakland
Occupy Oakland	Occupy San Francisco

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Folsom Street Fair

The Folsom Street Fair is a uniquely San Francisco event. The official Fair website had this to say, “In spite of gray skies and sprinkles of rain in the morning, gregarious throngs of fair goers materialized on schedule. Dressed in leather harneses, or with roman chariots, in latex and rubber, with the skimpiest of outfits, or nothing at all we came together. And our efforts were rewarded by amazing afternoon Sun that broke through the haze and provided the warmest of lighting right up until the end of fair.”

In addition to the showcase photos below, I’ve posted about 80 pictures on my Flickr page.

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Project Bandaloop

Barbara and I went to a performance of Project Bandaloop this evening. Like Cirque du Soleil, you gotta see it to believe it. It was spectabulous, and it was free –(I think I read that their performances are always free. They performed outside on a wall on Grand Ave, in Oakland, right off of Telegraph — The Great Wall of Oakland.

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