After finishing Junot Diaz’s wonderful novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” (a month after the book club whose meetings I don’t attend read it), I was thrilled to see that “Fukú Americanus,” a play adopted from the book, is opening in San Francisco in June. Intersection for the Arts, the city’s oldest community-driven art space, will be putting on the production at their Valencia St. location, but that’s not even the best part: the soon-to-open co-working space HUBsf will be hosting a pre-show mixer with its social entrepenurship-focused members on June 11. Afterwards community members interested in finding out about HUBsf (the newest addition to the London-originated set of international working and networking spaces) before it opens in the former New College building Berkeley will enjoy a private performance. With a show description that promises “a simultaneously epic and intimate tale about family histories, ancient curses, migration and ill-starred love,” who could resist?
(Full disclosure: I’m personally close with folks who work on the Hub and financing for Intersection for the Arts, and I’m independently excited about both organizations’ work.)
[...] Tuesday Bay Area Women in Film and Media and Intersection for the Arts will be partnering at the latter’s Valencia Street space to screen The Heretics and !Women [...]