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		<title>Letter to Mayor Ed Lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mayor Lee, I am writing on behalf of a number of representatives of the arts and entertainment community to request a meeting with you. We have some ideas as to how to improve the current plan to implement the America’s Cup in San Francisco in 2013 so that it maximizes the event’s economic impact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfiaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20292909&amp;post=149&amp;subd=sfiaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Board of Supervisors Arts Hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There will be a hearing on plans for Arts &#38; Culture during the America’s Cup at the Land Use and Economic Development Committee of the Board of Supervisors on Monday, December 5 at 1pm. The hearing has been called by Supervisor Eric Mar who is the chairperson of the committee. We will be making a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfiaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20292909&amp;post=105&amp;subd=sfiaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barak Marshall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 05:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quyen T. Luong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The San Francisco Bay Guardian has an article about choreographer Barak Marshall: &#8220;The son of Yemenite-Israeli choreographer Margalit Oved, Marshall happened upon his dance voice while accompanying his mother for a 1994 visit with the Inbal Dance Company in Israel.&#8221; [...] &#8220;Marshall&#8217;s culture, as well as his studies in social theory and philosophy at Harvard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfiaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20292909&amp;post=98&amp;subd=sfiaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teatr Zar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 04:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quyen T. Luong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teatr Zar performs at the 2011 San Francisco International Arts Festival with Gospels of Childhood. The Triptych. Here&#8217;s an article from the San Francisco Bay Guardian about Teatr Zar: &#8220;&#8230;it would have been difficult to anticipate the effect on the audience of the intoning voices and thrilling harmonies that filled the room, or for that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfiaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20292909&amp;post=83&amp;subd=sfiaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opening Night Performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 04:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SFIAF 2011 opens with two spectacular jazz performers: Omar Sosa with John Santos. Here&#8217;s an article on SF Weekly about Omar Sosa. &#8220;Pianist Omar Sosa is on a musical and spiritual mission. His music, steeped in Afro-Cuban and jazz influences, melds traditional and modern sounds (and aesthetics) to show the unseen threads that connect cultures [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfiaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20292909&amp;post=74&amp;subd=sfiaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brown Paper Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 04:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brown Paper Tickets blogged about SFIAF, showing video clips of past performances, giving you a taste of the festival. Check out Brown Paper Blog. Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfiaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20292909&amp;post=68&amp;subd=sfiaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Art of Social Justice&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is an essay originally written by Maria X. Martinez for the journal Social Justice, Volume 34, No. 1, “Art, Identity, and Social Justice.” * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Staring directly at the Northern Ireland checkpoint, briefcase in hand about to be opened, Chilean political refugee René Castro poised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfiaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20292909&amp;post=48&amp;subd=sfiaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing Up a Storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collaboration and dialogue are essential for American dance companies to take their place on the world stage. &#8220;It is in our interest to be aware of the international dimensions and practices of the industry in which we operate&#8221; It may come as a shock to those who see America’s position as geocentric, but the fact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfiaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20292909&amp;post=39&amp;subd=sfiaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Festival 2011!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 09:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gracias.  Merci.  Xie Xie.  Arigato.  Shukran.  Pilomniya.  Toda.  Danke.  Dziekuje.  Thank you.  It’s not a very complicated phrase in any language, but an extremely important one, ranking right up there with “Peace” or “I Love You.”  And, it is the one we want to focus on this year as we think about you, our audience. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfiaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20292909&amp;post=33&amp;subd=sfiaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>History</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WORKING WITH OTHERS Rather than building a festival  that is the sole responsibility of a single producer, SFIAF is dedicated to working with an array of arts organizations to develop a modular paradigm that utilizes the shared resources of multiple presenters to reach mutually  beneficial goals.  SFIAF’s core values are based on principals of cultural and economic equity. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sfiaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20292909&amp;post=14&amp;subd=sfiaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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