Welcome To The Ethnic Arts Network

San Francisco Arts Links pageThis guide points to Art resources in the San Francisco Bay area. All categories and titles are listed in alphabetical order. Also check out SOUL of AMERICA, a similar site that is very community-oriented and includes interesting historical info.
Another great eclectic web connection is The Laughing Squid which offers Bay Area events announcements, calls for artists/submissions, a monthly living artist series, and art & culture resources.
And everybody's favorite San Francisco Bay Area search/classifieds... Craig's List !

Looking for Bay Area Political Groups? Try this LIST.

www.SouthBayFolks.org is an incredible site encompassing "folk" music from Flamenco to Celtic to Bluegrass. Links to virtually every venue from S.F. to Monterey, plus Radio stations and Much More !!!

DIAMANO COURA in the Senegalese Wolof language means "those who bring the message." The Directors, Naomi Washington Diouf and Dr. Zak Diouf are, respectively, from Liberia and Senegal. Founded in 1975, Diamano Coura embodies an entourage of carefully trained male and female senior company dancers, actors, singers, acrobats, musicians, stiltwalkers, and visual artists from Mali, Senegal, Guinea, the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Gambia and the United States. You can find them at the Alice Arts Center in Oakland where they have been teaching and performing for many years.

<-Pictured is Naomi Washington Diouf Of Diamano Coura in Performance.

C. K. Ladzekpo and his dance & music troupe. He is credited with with originating the term WORLD BEAT many years ago.

Check out CONGOLESE DANCE & DRUMMING founded by Malonga Casquelourd. Malonga was Director of Fua Dia Congo, a bay area performance group featuring Congolese movement, music & culture.

SPIRIT DRUMZ African-Diasporic art & percussion. Founded and driven by Afia Walking Tree who teaches both individuals and groups using holistic principles. Held at the Davis Street Underground(A Community Drum Center for Women & Youth) at 3575 Davis Street, in the Fruitvale District of Oakland.

The ETHNIC ARTS INSTITUTE offers African and Hawaiian dance, music, and song classes for all ages. The Institute is home to two Bay Area dance troupes; "Halau Hula O Manu O'o" and "The Ethnic Arts Dance Ensemble".

RHYTHM & MOTION DANCE & FITNESS STUDIO has lots of great Ethnic Dance Classes for adults & youth. Located 1133 Mission Street in S.F., but classes also at 5 Locations in the Bay area. Check Them Out !!!

ALOKLI West African Dance is a community dance-drumming club based in Marin County, CA (just north of San Francisco). They teach and perform Anlo-Ewe and other West African music & dance styles from Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria. Lots of info on their site!

FOGO NA ROUPA, a Bay area Carnaval Performance Group, is serious about taking home the 1st place Prizes every year ! Their site has all the info you need to get with them. Go for it !
Latin/Brazilian/Ethnic Performance Calendar.

AQUARELA: Bay area Brazilian Dance Company - both Spanish & English on their web-site

DIMENSIONS DANCE THEATER ...An excellent African-American dance company located in the Oakland area.

BAY AREA BELLYDANCE PAGE. Includes listings in Northern California & the central coast.

HAWAIIAN DANCE & MUSIC !!! Check out these sites... KAHAULOA, a new Cultural Arts group in San Francisco, and COCONUT WIRELESS a Hula Halau Directory (pictures!) and San Francisco Bay Area Halau Hula are web pages with Listings & Links to classes & teachers from Sacramento to Santa Cruz !

MAYFIELD MORRIS & SWORD Welcome to your source for all things raspberry! Mayfield Morris and Sword is a 15-year-old women's Morris dancing team from Palo Alto, California founded in 1986 by Jody McGeen, formerly of New York's Ring o' Bells Morris.

SAN FRANCISCO FLAMENCO's website includes event listings, artists, history, mp3s, nightlife, resources, articles, links, Flamenco web-ring and more!

FLAMENCO SOCIETY of SAN JOSE The Flamenco Society of San José is dedicated to the promotion, education and presentation of flamenco in all its modes. Founded by Anita Sheer in 1982, we are in our 16th year of operation and continue to bring to the greater San Francisco Bay Area the best in Cante, Baile and Toque.

WORLD FLAMENCO. An Oakland-based website about Flamenco locally with links to other websites.