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San Francisco Labor Force

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SF Labor Force: Inner Circuitry is ubungen’s ongoing community-based project focused on the lives of working class communities living in San Francisco. Created in response to deep budget cuts, including the devastation of healthcare, the project asks what resources are needed to support the well-being of workers who are meeting extreme challenges each day?

How is health, at the deepest levels, essential to the vitality and growth of San Francisco?
How can the arts serve to open dialogue and be a strong ally to workers?
How are the lives of workers, students, and elderly impacted by cuts to MUNI service?

The key elements of SF Labor Force: Inner Circuitry were planted in ubungen’s curation of Urban Arts Retreat and Gomden: An Evening of Contemplative Arts which brought together artists, activists, dharma practitioners and community members.

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Sacred City: Contemplations on Loss, Betrayal and Death by Gentrification

pearl-as-lady-justiceSacred City | pearl ubungen utilizes an interdisciplinary process that brings activism, the arts and dharma practices into close proximity. Sacred City centers the urban terrain of Occupied Yelamu (San Francisco) and extends to ancestral homelands. Through contemplative practices and community engagement Sacred City cultivates resistance to erasure, displacement and the violence that accompanies hyper gentrification and its root causes.

Awareness Through Movement (ATM)

ATM_sidebarpearl ubungen teaches Awareness Through Movement (ATM) of the Feldenkrais Method in large class and intimate group settings. Created by Moshe Feldenkrais, ATM is a form of  somatic education that encourages deep relaxation as well as embodied learning through  subtle, gentle movements of the body.

Refugee

Refugee (1995) Pearl Ubungen Dancers and Musicians • United Nations Plaza, Civic Center, San Francisco • Watch video at larger size.

Refugee tells the story of universal human rights from the perspective of those who have been displaced from around the world but who continue to form new cross cultural communities as they resist the pressure of dislocation.

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