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.
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 March 2024 podcast, Indómitas will interview Liliana Herrera, Chicana singer/songwriter, cultural worker, and an advocate for linguistic justice.
Need to juice up on your NONBINARY energy but can’t wait until November for the THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Performance Festival? Well enbies, you’re in luck! Brava and Diamond Wave are teaming up to offer six THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret events in 2024! For our first show, we’re thrilled to be working with powerhouse performers, including: Drag king Papi Churro, Storyteller Rawiyah Tariq, and Poet Zara Jamshed. Hosted by Brava artist-in-residence and THEYFRIEND founder Vin Seaman, this will be a thrilling night of live performance uplifting, centering and celebrating nonbinary identity!
Need to juice up on your NONBINARY energy but can’t wait until November for the THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Performance Festival? Well enbies, you’re in luck! Brava and Diamond Wave are teaming up to offer six THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret events in 2024! For our April show, we’re thrilled to be working with powerhouse performers, including: drag king Jota Mercury, poet Alder Duan Hurley, and experimental performance artist Xtra.dae. Hosted by Brava artist-in-residence and THEYFRIEND founder Vin Seaman, this will be a thrilling night of live performance uplifting, centering and celebrating nonbinary identity!
Based on the DreamWorks Animation Motion Picture and the Book by William Steig.
Everyone’s favorite orge is back in this hilarious stage spectacle, based on the Oscar-winning smash hit film and outrageous Broadway musical.
This 2-day conference is part of Chacruna’s Women, Gender Diversity, and Sexual Minorities speaker series. It highlights the voices of queer visionaries within the psychedelic community as well as examines the history of psychedelics from queer and non-binary perspectives.
¡Golondrina! is a musical confluence of song and poetic storytelling celebrating California’s rich his/herstory, including abounding contributions of its original inhabitants, languages and vibrant folklore. Celebrating her roots from Baja to Alta California, Liliana Herrera’s ¡Golondrina! embarks on a Funklóric lyrical odyssey – one dimension, border and song at a time.
This opera chronicles the life and work of legendary Chicanx leader and LGBTQ+ activist, Olga Talamante. The opera explores her journey from working the garlic fields as a child in Gilroy, California, to her decades of activism in the US, Mexico and in Argentina, where she became a political prisoner. Ultimately, Olga frees herself from the psychological hold of her captors and releases her heart from 40 years of suppressing the memories of violence perpetrated against her. She finally finds peace, and in the process of healing, the love of her life, Vola.
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!
The assistant director under Cesar Chavez when the United Farm Workers (UFW) was created, Larry organized and led protests for equal pay and dignified living conditions for farm and cannery workers throughout the West Coast and Alaska from the 1930s to when the UFW was created in 1966. As the musical unfolds, Itliong’s story as a brilliant labor organizer comes to life, shedding light on the Filipino American community who shaped Itliong’s leadership as a 15-year-old to his posthumous recognition in Labor International’s Hall of Fame, and the proclamation of “Larry Itliong Day,” by the State of California in 2015.