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UPCOMING @ BRAVA
Brava has undertaken appropriate modifications to comply with current health and safety protocols. We highly recommend patrons wear face coverings to ensure health and wellbeing of all. Please check each event page for more specific information on Covid protocols.
Be Like Water, a new play by Kat Evasco, is a work-in-progress that explores the mental health impacts of anti-immigrant rhetoric & policies, and the story of one Filipino family that moves like water to carve their own pathways to freedom.
A highly entertaining exploration of gender, from 1949 and tap dancing through to the present day, my story is an exciting mix of tap dance, mime, multi-media and love offering a perspective from yesteryear when gender was rigid and cemented at birth.
We’re proud to partner with @sfdancefilmfest and co-present Breaking Form, Raising Voices and Bay Area Shorts on October 20! Get your tickets for this incredible program and experience the transformative power of dance on film. With 16 in-person screenings throughout October, SFDFF’s 15th-anniversary festival features 90+ dynamic dance films representing 25+ countries. Learn more at sfdancefilmfest.org and @sfdancefilmfest
Weaving Spirits Festival of Two-Spirit Performance : Seeding Native Fires
Co-presented with Queer Cultural Center’s National Queer Arts Festival
Warango is a musical project born in the city of Oakland, California, based in Afro-Peruvian musical roots and anchored in the strong presence of Afro-Peruvian percussion: Cajon, Cajita and Quijada de Burro (donkey's jawbone); instruments that are part of the resistance history of African descendants in Peru.
Three commissioned short plays will be presented as a result of a residency with Puerto Rican playwrights from Puerto Rico and the mainland./ Presentamos tres obras cortas resultantes de una residencia dramatúrgica con autores boricuas de Puerto Rico y de EEUU continental.
Indómitas is a live monthly podcast series hosted by Chelis López of KPOO and Radio Bilingüe, featuring untamable voices of fierce women artists and activists.
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
We have so much GRATITUDE for all of the incredible artists (performers, teachers, technicians, designers, and creators) who have graced our stages and filled Brava Theater Center with energy and excitement!
With more resources going to pay bills, Brava needs to raise $50,000 over the summer to continue providing the highest quality of inspirational performances, support for the Artists, free and low-cost Youth Programs, and subsidies for the Community to host events at Brava.
On the morning of June 9th, 2023– Brava had the honor of being presented with local, state, and national honors, and the Leadership Peacemaker Award from Community Boards, a non-profit conflict resolution and restorative justice center.
As one of Brava’s Resident Artists, Marga Gomez embarks on a year-long journey taking over the Brava Cabaret with monthly installments of the Who’s Your Mami comedic Marathon.
Cesar Cadabes on finding joy through crisis, monkeypox, and the power of community care. A conversation with Cadabes discussing his one-man autobiographical show, Not My First Pandemic which was featured in the With You Festival.
Brava is currently seeking part-time event staff to join our vibrant, dedicated Front of House Team. Open positions include House Managers, Box Office Agents, and Concessionaires.
Corn, Maiz, Cintli– the food of our ancestors, corn is revered as sacred for the indigenous peoples of the Americas, from North and south, transcending la frontera, and time.
Mission artist and activist Agana has set up shop (quite literally) in Brava's storefront windows!
Need to juice up on your NONBINARY energy but can’t wait until November for the THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Performance Festival? Well enbies, you’re in luck! Brava and Diamond Wave are teaming up to offer six THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret events in 2024!