Results tagged “children” from Bay Voices
The odd, the unusual and the unbelievable. This is not Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Venture down to the hustle and bustle street of 20th and Valencia and you will find yourself in a fascination of our natural world. Brendan Barry reports on Paxton Gate in the Mission District.
When Araceli Leon, 17, was a young girl, she wasn’t sure just where in her life her Latino heritage fit in, and feeling lost she searched for where she belonged.
Fortunately for Leon, her father Jose Leon, the youth program director at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, helped guide her. Melissa Dudum-Maya and Laura Sullivan report from the Mission District.
The Mission Cultural Center’s Youth Program held its first annual fundraiser on Dec. 4. The evening event featured performances by several of the program’s classes, including the theatre troupe, hip-hop dance group, and the Futuro Picante salsa band. Melissa Dudum-Maya and Laura Sullivan report from the Mission District.
On any given afternoon on the corner of 23rd and Folsom Streets in the Mission District, some form of art is either being made or being planned behind the bright yellow doors of the Red Poppy Art House. Beth Renneisen reports on a cultural phenomenon in the Mission District.
In the back room of the Bayanihan Community Center on Mission Street, Bernadette Sy shows her son how to tie bamboo reeds together to form a star. When the star is finished it will become a lantern that will get hung up in the Sy’s home as part of the Parol Lantern Festival, a Filipino tradition that has been in the dark for years, but is shining a lot brighter recently. Jack Devries reports from the Mission District.
It may be an exaggeration to say that everyone in the Mission Districtknows Ethel Newlin, a longtime community safety activist and well-known squeaky wheel for quality of life issues, but it certainly seems that way. Beth Renneisen reports from the Mission District.
Living in a household that contains domestic violence has a huge effect on children. You become, as people say, "Scarred for life." But the effects of being exposed to or experiencing violence at home vary tremendously from one child to another. Katherine Chavez reports from Potrero Hill
Continue reading Living with Domestic Violence.
Pass through a golden door to experience the many sights and sounds of one of San Francisco's most colorful neighborhoods -- from the sweet smell of bread in a bakery, to the laughter of young boys bellysurfing the sidewalk on a skateboard, to a vacuum cleaner repairman in his outdoor shop. David Cenzer's multimedia show takes you to San Francisco's Mission District.
