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Anthem Salgado

...'cause no one else can tell your story.

 

CURRICULUM VITAE (last updated 6.2009)

 

EXPOSITIONS

 

Cutting Ball Theater presents Vanguardia, Latino Experimental Playwrights Festival

A short play by Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Sean San Jose

Exit Theater, San Francisco, CA.  August 2010.

 

Blender

Thick House, San Francisco, CA.  April 2010.

 

Lunada

Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA.  April 2010.

 

Drunken City

Brava Theater, San Francisco, CA.  March 2010.

 

Thomasson Tour

Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA.  December 2009.

 

Field of Mirrors

University of California, Berkeley, CA.  March 2009.

 

Voices of Our Nation

University of San Francisco, CA.  June 2008.

 

Mission Statement Fashion Show and Block Party

Lexington and 18th, San Francisco, CA.  June 2008.

 

Field of Mirrors

Eastwind Books, San Francisco, CA.  May 2008.

 

Field of Mirrors

San Francisco Main Public Library, San Francisco, CA.  May 2008.

 

Intergenerational Writers Lab

Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA.  May 2008.

 

Multigrain

La Pena Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA.  April 2008.

 

Intergenerational Writers Lab

Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA.  March 2008.

 

Anthem Kenturion

Little Baobab, San Francisco, CA.  March 2008.

 

Flow the Buck Up

Zeum Theater, San Francisco, CA.  September 2007.

 

The Hybrid Project: Filipino Voices Raising the Curtain

Jessica Hagedorn's Fe in the Desert opening live acts curated by Sean San Jose

Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.  May 2007.

 

Mr. Hyphen

Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, CA.  June 2007.

 

Independent Press Spotlight

Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.  May 2007.

 

Arkipelago

Lolita Bar, New York, NY.  April 2007.

 

Transmitting

Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY.  April 2007.

 

Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase

1 Bruckner Blvd, Bronx, NY.  April 2007.

 

Three Threads

Three Threads Showroom, San Francisco, CA.  March 2007.

 

First Fridays

Ong King Art Center, Honolulu, HI.  January 2007.

 

Hawaii Slam

Hawaiian Hut, Honolulu, HI.  January 2007.

 

Bringing Back Kerouac

Anna Banana's, Honolulu, HI.  January 2007.

 

Poetry Mission

Dalva, San Francisco, CA.  September 2006.

 

Quartet with Anthem

Magnet Cafe, Quezon City, Philippines.  August 2006.

 

Sulu Series

Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY.  May 2006.

 

Kul d'Etat

SomArts, San Francisco, CA.  May 2006

 

Spoken City

Cafe Royale, San Francisco, CA.  March 2006.

 

Worlds In Collision

University of San Francisco, NY.  March 2006.

 

Pinion

Presented by Louder Arts

Bar 13, New York, NY.  February 2006.

 

Sexy Beast

Locus Arts, San Francisco, CA.  February 2006.

 

Kul Like That - The Love Edition

Social Club, San Francisco, CA.  February 2006.

 

City Lights Reading

City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA.  January 2006.

 

Orbit, Notes from the Edge of Forever

Open Process directed by Erika Shuch & ESP

Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.  December 2005.

 

Sons, Young Pilipino Men Speak

Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA.  October 2005.

 

Lovely Nowhere

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, CA.  October 2005.

 

Youth Expressions

Encina High, Sacramento, CA.  June 2005.

 

Sons, Young Pilipino Men Speak

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.  April 2005.

 

Filipino Bimonthly Bilingual Book Club

Book Launch featuring Nick Carbo, Luis Francia, & Patrick Rosal

San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA.  March 2005.

 

POMO

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.  March 2005.

 

It Was Written

Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco, CA.  February 2005.

 

The Last Poets

Punch Gallery, San Francisco, CA.  February 2005.

 

Hybrid Project

Mancuso Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.  February 2005.

 

What's the Word

Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco, CA.  December 2004.

 

Children of the Movement

Troubled Waters choreographed by Kathe Burick

Diego Rivera Theatre, San Francisco, CA.  December 2004.

 

Knuckle Up Butterfly

Performance Art Direct, San Francisco, CA.  October 2004.

 

APAture

Soma Arts, San Francisco, CA.  September 2004.

 

ATI Open Process

Mancuso Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.  August 2004.

 

By:Pass

Performance Art Direct, San Francisco, CA.  April 2004.

 

Stages

Hosted by Kearny Street Workshop and Canyon Sam

Bob's Studio, San Francisco, CA.  March 2004.

 

Matt Gonzalez for Mayor

Punch Gallery, San Francisco, CA.  December 2003.

 

This Moment

Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco, CA.  December 2003.

 

Best of Performance

Locus Arts, San Francisco, CA.  November 2003.

 

Upward Spiral

Capella Arts Center, San Francisco, CA.  July, 2003.

 

Peace Core

Punch Gallery, San Francisco, CA.  April 2003.

 

Eastern Exposure

Romeo 5, San Francisco, CA.  March 2003.

 

Cabaret

House of Love, San Francisco, CA.  February 2003.

 

Isola

House of Love, San Francisco, CA.  February 2003.

 

An Act of Justice

Hosted by JustAct:  Youth Action for Global Justice

The Women’s Building, San Francisco, CA.  June 2002.

 

Hybrid Project:  What do you want to see?

Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.  June 2002.

 

Dissent:  Waging Art After 9-11

Hosted by CCAC's 4orum

La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA.  April 2002.

 

Shift

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.  March 2002.

 

Dreamcast

Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA.  February 2002.

 

Clit Chat

Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco, CA.  February 2002.

 

Bistro

Mamasans, San Francisco, CA.  February 2002.

 

Cabaret

Cabaret, Oakland, CA.  February 2002.

 

Rock Steady

26 Mix, San Francisco, CA.  January 2002.

 

BCD

Dance Mission, San Francisco, CA.  November 2001.

 

APAture

Hosted by Kearny Street Workshop

SomArts, San Francisco, CA.  September 2001.

 

Peer Pressure

San Francisco Art Institute, CA.  June 2001.

 

Noc YourSox Off

Dance Mission, San Francisco, CA.  March 2001.

 

Atlas(t)

Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA.  February 2001.

 

Salon de Basura,

Stain Gallery, San Francisco, CA.  August 2000.

 

Party

San Francisco Art Institute, CA.  May 2000.

 

Sweatshop

Event benefiting Intersection for the Arts,

Elbo Room, San Francisco, CA.  April 2000.

 

Here and There

SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA.  April 2000.

 

I American

Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, CA.  November 1999.

 

Juts

Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco, CA.  July 1999.

 

Not From Concentrate

Washington Square Gallery, San Francisco, CA.  July 1999.

 

News Flash!

Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA.  May 1999.

 

Spring Exhibition

Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA.  May 1999.

 

(Re)Creating America

New College of California, San Francisco, CA.  April 1999.

 

Escape Artists

Washington Square Gallery, San Francisco, CA.  March 1999.

 

What is Art For?

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA.  March 1999.

 

Deterritorialization

A Shellac/Pole Productions public broadcast event,

San Francisco, CA.   January 1999.

 

Photo Works

curated by Tony Labat

1943 Mission, San Francisco, CA.  December 1998.

 

Ten Minutes in the Life of James Abrams

Post Modern Pow Wow curated by Ed Burnam

701 Chestnut, San Francisco, CA.  October 1998.

 

Pistahan

Yerba Buena Gardens,  San Francisco, CA.   August 1998.

 

America’s (Not Funny) Videos

curated by Tony Labat,

Artist’s Television Access, San Francisco, CA.  May 1998.

 

Spring Exhibition

Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA.  May 1998.

 

Tasa Noba

Seventh Note, San Francisco, CA.  December 1997.

 

 

DIRECTED WORKS

 

Act Write Workshop Ensemble Performance

Bayanihan Community Center, San Francisco, CA.  March 2010

 

Kul Like That, Bigger and Deffer

Curator of literary and performance event,

Poleng Lounge, San Francisco, CA.  June 2006.

 

Kul d'Etat

Curatorial Advisor/Producer

SomArts, San Francisco, CA.  May 2006

 

POMO, Post Modern American Pilipino Performance Project

Curatorial Advisor

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.  April 2006.

 

Kul Like That, the love edition

Curator of literary and performance event,

Social Club, San Francisco, CA.  February 2006.

 

Kul Like That

Curator of literary and performance event,

Social Club, San Francisco, CA.  November 2005.

 

POMO, Post Modern American Pilipino Performance Project

Curatorial Advisor

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.  March 2005.

 

Stories High

Director for two works in a collection of theatrical shorts by emerging artists,

Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco, CA.  March 2003.

 

The Experiment

Co-founder/Co-director for word and movement collective.  2001-2002.

 

Microphone Fiends

Assembled live lyrical happening in conjunction with Hip-Hop Nation exhibition,

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.  July 2001.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Cliff Osmond Acting Studio, San Francisco, California
Scene Analysis, 2004-Present


University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Voices of Our Nation writing workshop, 2008
Memoir led by Faith Adiele


Kearny Street Workshop
Intergenerational Writers Lab, 2008
Multi-genre instruction by Devorah Major, Ricardo Bracho, Truong Tran, Annalee Newitz, Bushra Rehman, and Jeff Chang


Kularts, San Francisco, California
Sons poetry and performance project, 2005
Poetry and Performance project with attention to page-to-stage development


Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, California
Alternative Theater Institute, 2004
Writing and Performance with concentration on text, rhythm, and movement


Kearny Street Workshop
Writing for Solo Performance led by Canyon Sam, 2004
Writing with attention to first-person narrative


San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1998
Interdisciplinary Arts with focus in New Genres
 

 

 

AWARDS RECEIVED

 

Philippines Fulbright-Hays, Sonoma State University, 2008.

Young Leader, Theatre Communications Group, 2008.

Glenn Scott Beck Scholarship, SUNY Rockland, 1994.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Comfusion Review, Eye witness report "This is What Democracy Looks Like," March 2003.

 

SF Bay Guardian, image "Empty Scroll" in Critics Choice: Art review “Atlas(t),”  February 2001.

 

Asian Week, art review “Dialogue in Abstraction,” July 1999.

 

Jeepney e-zine,  poem “Calm unity,” June-July 1999.

 

Infliptration/A Youngblood Revolution, Compact disc featuring a compilation of Bay Area spoken word, 1998.

 

 

INTERVIEWS & PRESENTATIONS

 

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.  May 2010.

 

Blood-Jet Hour Radio, CA.  March 2010.

 

San Francisco State University, CA.  March 2009.

 

Youth Expressions, Sacramento, CA.  June 2005.

 

University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.  March 2005.

 

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.  February 2005.

 

KZSU radio, Emeryville/Palo Alto, CA.  June 2003.

 

Westmoor High School, Daly City, CA.  September 2001.

 

ABS-CBN Stateside, Oakland, CA.  June 2001.

 

YBCA Education, San Francisco, CA.  May 2001.

 

Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, CA.  January 2000.

 

KMTP television, San Francisco, CA.  October 1999.

 

KEST radio, San Francisco, CA.  October 1999.

 

 

COLLECTIONS

 

Angela Brayham, Fort Collins, CO.

 

Daniel Grisales, San Francisco, CA.