BRAVA! FOR WOMEN IN THE ARTS CULTIVATES THE ARTISTIC EXPRESSION OF WOMEN, PEOPLE OF COLOR, YOUTH, LGBTQIA+, AND OTHER UNDERREPRESENTED VOICES.
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.
This festival is all about allowing youth a space to showcase, perform, connect and spit their truth in community with other youth artists throughout the Bay Area. This showcase will take place during our annual MC Olympics event on Friday May 24th from 6-8pm at Brava Theater in San Francisco. Come through to spit, witness, and have a great time!
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.
For the May 2024 podcast, Indómitas will interview Dr. Berta Hernández, community organizer, promoter of Community Health Education and storyteller with extensive training in Popular Education and Theater of the Oppressed.
Cuicacalli proudly presents De Norte A Sur, a Dance Festival showcasing renowned choreographers such as Raffaella Falchi from San Francisco, Pedro Escudero from Argentina, Marjorie Climaco Valladares from El Salvador, Fernanda Mercado from San Francisco, and Abel Roman from Mexico.
with Vidhu Singh, PhD
In these sessions we will cultivate our unique creative expression by combining poetry/expressive writing with visual journaling to deepen self-discovery and personal growth. Visual journaling is a powerful tool for inner exploration through words and images.
Adapted from the short story by award-winning Ecuadorian writer Mónica Ojeda (Jawbone, Nefando), translated by Sarah Booker and Noelle de la Paz.
Told in alternating perspectives of Viviana, Karina, Nicole, and Ana—best friends since childhood— “Soroche” recounts the tragic events of a mountain trip intended to help Ana break out of depression following a scandal and the dissolution of an abusive relationship. The chorus of these confessions reveal contradictions, ruthlessly exposing flawed friendships and brutal hypocrisies lurking below the surface—all through the haze of Ana’s unraveling.
After attracting more than 124,000 attendees worldwide, the Royal Opera of Madrid & Fever are bringing the 4.7/5-star Authentic Flamenco back to the San Francisco Bay Area!
Experience a passionate and traditional Spanish flamenco show created by the award-winning dancer and choreographer Patricia Donn, and performed by the amazing dancer Patricia Donn alongside other outstanding Spanish artists.
Produced by SO-LA-NA Entertainment, a best-in-class flamenco production company.
In collaboration with Golden Thread Productions and participating artists, Andrea Assaf will direct a new work that reflects the experiences of communities in the Bay Area. National and international guest artists include acclaimed Syrian opera singer Lubana Al Quntar, and Turkish composer/violinist Eylem Basaldi—on stage with San Francisco Bay Area artists and community members!
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
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!
Brought to you straight from Del Rio Laboratories, Jurassic Drag is part musical spectacular, part old-fashioned variety show with one awe-inspiring surprise for audiences: dinosaurs still roam the earth, and they’re talented to boot. Starring Sherry Vine, Jackie Beat, Coco Peru, Varla Jean Merman, and hosted by a to-be-announced superstar, our Jurassic specimens will impress with stunning feats of song, dance, and comedy. After all, they’ve survived a hostile world and trekked the earth collectively for more than 170 years… which we all know in drag time is roughly 250 million. For that reason, we at Del Rio Laboratories thought it imperative to gather them together for the first time in herstory because let’s face it folks, they’re all gonna be dead soon!