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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)
--- 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)
Salimpour, Syjuco, and Yi
[Original Airdate: Wed, May 07, 2008]
Spark takes a look at artists that are weaving a global thread in and out of the Bay Area.
Learn about the ancient art of belly dance from teacher and performer Suhaila Salimpour and one of her star pupils, comedienne Margaret Cho .
Next, meet artist Stephanie Syjuco , whose "Counterfeit Crochet Project" enlists crafters from around the globe to create knock-offs of designer goods.
Then, visit with Chinese acrobat Lu Yi at the Circus Center , as he prepares two of his top students for their debut as professional performers.
See a preview of this Spark episode.
Stream Video
Tue, May 13, 2008 -- 2:30am
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 .