Facing the Moon: Songs of the Diaspora

Harmony with our female ancestors. Harmony within ourselves. The harmony of new encounters —vibrations we create between each other like tones interacting in the air. Harmony that is “creative and procreative.” San Francisco’s poet-laureate Genny Lim turns her gaze to the full moon at Mid-Autumn Festival. Voices of mothers and daughters, across continents and generations, anchor this multimedia performance with new music by Chinese-diaspora composers Theresa Wong, Vivian Fung and Meilina Tsui. Del Sol Quartet centers the collaboration, building on their transformative Angel Island Soundings, with a theatrical visual experience by Olivia Ting and Mark Hellar. This project is made possible in part by a grant from The Creative Work Fund (a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund that also is supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation), the California Arts Council (a state agency), the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, and Grants for the Arts.

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