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AM SF: Black Past and Presence at SF State

“When we say black, what does that mean?”

SFPL Presents How We Play

This exhibit of engaging photos by Jarrel Phillips shows how play takes shape in our lives. Through photography and personal and cultural experiences of children, adults, artists and circus performers, How We Play explores the existence and significance of play beyond childhood to adulthood.

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Rightnowish: Jarrel Phillips, Culture Keeper of the Diaspora

“I’m doing a flip off the boat,” said Jarrel Phillips, breaking down this past week’s performance at Remembering 1619, a play directed by Joanna Haigood of Zaccho Dance Theatre, which acknowledges the first shipment of enslaved Africans reaching Virginia 400 years ago.

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Juneteenth: The Souls of Black Folk

Jarrel Phillips explores Black culture and presence in America and the African diaspora through film and photography.

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