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--- 2008 Episodes (original airdate) ---
Fiore, A.C.T.'s Blood Knot, and Liu (2/6)
Benton, Ramos, and Riley (3/19)
SF Ballet's New Works Festival (4/16)
Salimpour, Syjuco, and Yi (5/7)
Yoshi's, Hijos del Sol, Diamano Coura (5/13)
The Ark, Mauleon, and Grisman (6/11)
Django Fever, Dorsey, and Laitala (6/18)
Cartagena, San Jose Taiko, and Denevan (7/9)
--- 2007 Episodes (original airdate) ---
Ferlinghetti, Patel and Guidi (3/21)
Neuburg, Ikeda and Gatti (3/28)
Crown Point Press, Santos and Gomez (4/4)
Del Sol, Hevel and La Familia Peña-Govea (4/11)
Adam 5100, Ledoh and Duarte (4/18)
Wiley, Akers, and Bamuthi Joseph (5/2)
Gotanda, Garrett, and Gravity (5/9)
Baron, Parker, and Taylor (5/16)
Chitresh Das, Jackson, and Midori (5/23)
Shuch, Aguilar, and Aoki (5/30)
Alavi, King, and Tippy Canoe (6/20)
Klezmer, Kaleid, and Oliveros (6/27)
Cai, Henderson and Schwarcz (7/4)
Running Crew, Amiot, and Arai (7/11)
Ballet Afsaneh, Wessel, and Fabian (7/18)
Rodriguez, Levy, and Antonioli (7/25)
Hamilton, Chagoya, and Kildall (8/1)
Lindo, Klezmer, and Kaleid (8/8)
--- 2006 Episodes (original airdate) ---
New Beginnings (3/22)
What Experience Teaches (3/29)
The New American Landscape (4/5)
Think Globally (4/12)
A Sly View (4/19)
Out and About (4/26)
Experimenting (5/3)
In Respect of Nature (5/10)
Musical Instruments (5/24)
The Influence of Memory (5/31)
The Puppet Show (6/21)
Home Sweet Home (6/28)
Playing with Technology (7/5)
Performance Ideas (7/12)
West Oakland (7/19)
A Few Good Stories (7/26)
Steppin' Out (8/2)
--- 2005 Episodes (original airdate) ---
Shaken and Stirred (1/19)
Through the Lens (1/26)
Global Village (2/2)
Dance Masters (2/9)
Paint x 3 (2/16)
Elevating the Everyday (2/23)
Artist in Search of a Medium (3/2)
The Long Run (3/23)
Artist as Inventor (3/30)
Percussion (4/6)
American Music (4/13)
Street Art (4/20)
Forbidden Territory (4/27)
The Family Business (5/4)
History, Retold (5/11)
All Natural (5/18)
A Matter of Access (5/25)
Looking East (6/1)
Masterworks (6/15)
Kids on Stage (6/22)
Work In Progress (6/29)
--- 2004 Episodes (original airdate) ---
Let's Talk Politics (1/7)
Art in Public Places (1/14)
Telling Stories (1/21)
The Fine Art of Collecting (1/28)
Frontiers of Dance (2/4)
The Grey Eminences (2/11)
From Life (2/18)
Fusion (2/25)
Works on Paper (3/3)
Technophiles (3/24)
The Jet Set (3/31)
Making Room for Art (4/7)
All in the Family (4/14)
First-Person Narratives (4/21)
Movers and Shakers (4/28)
The Art of Interpretation (5/28)
Ensembles (5/12)
Legacies (5/19)
Needlework (5/26)
World Premieres (6/2)
The Young and the Restless (6/16)
Backstage Crafts (6/23)
Making Their Move (6/20)
Art Frees the Soul (7/7)
By Hand (7/14)
Up from the Street (7/21)
--- 2003 Episodes (original airdate) ---
Opening Nights (3/26)
Fame (4/2)
Collaborations with Nature (4/9)
Master Teachers (4/16)
Collectors and Their Collections (4/23)
Taking Craft to the Limit (4/30)
The Next Generation (5/7)
Roots (5/14)
Solo Acts (5/21)
Technology Enabled Art (5/28)
The Art of Improvisation (6/11)
Preservation (6/18)
Threads (6/25)
A Room of One's Own (7/2)
Transplanting a Tradition (7/9)
The Engineering of Art (7/16)
Trailblazers (7/23)
Collaborations (7/30)
Art Meets Pop Culture (8/6)
Page to Stage (8/27)
The Business of Art (9/3)
Remembrance (9/10)
Leaders (9/17)
Art Goes Back to School (9/24)
The Bleeding Edge (10/1)
Community Institutions for the Arts (10/8)
Fusion
[Original Airdate: Wed, Feb 25, 2004]
Spark explores the fusion of cultures, styles and disciplines that make up the incredibly diverse Bay Area art scene. Go inside the Bay Area's burgeoning Muslim spoken word, poetry and hip-hop scene with
Calligraphy of Thought poets as they create and rehearse new works for a performance at the Box Theater, in Oakland. Then approach dance with sculptural costumer
Sha Sha Higby as she creates intricate costumes made of wood, silk, paper and gold leaf. And finally, witness the spectacle that is the
Punk Rock Orchestra led by conductor John Gluck, who uses a toilet brush as a baton to conduct classically trained musicians playing punk rock classics.
acknowledgment
Major funding for
Spark is provided by:
The James Irvine Foundation -- expanding opportunity for the people of California
William and Gretchen Kimball Fund
Diane B. Wilsey
KQED Campaign for the Future Program Venture Fund
With additional support from:
George Frederick Jewett Foundation
Helen Sarah Steyer
Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation
Spark is a production of
KQED .
Spark airs on
Wednesdays at 7:30pm and
Fridays at 11:30pm on KQED-TV 9 and
Saturdays at 4pm on
KTEH-TV 54 .
Repeat broadcasts can be seen on KQED's digital channels and
KQET-TV 25 .
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