A Concert and Fundraiser October 6, 2024, 6pm La Peña, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley Join us for an evening of beautiful music and cultural performances as we raise funds for the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund. Today, the situation in Haiti could not be more dire. Government backed paramilitary groups continue to terrorize opposition neighborhoods. Six […]
5 poems about Palestine with Genny Lim (poet) and Hafez Modirzadeh (saxophone). These poems were written ten years before Oct. 7, 2023 when the Hamas attacks on Israel triggered a retaliatory siege and genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. I wrote the poems at the peak of Palestinian resistance, when peaceful demonstrations were violently met with […]
Sunday, October 30, 2022, 5pm to 7pm at the new Baobab, 2243 Mission St., between 18th & 19th
Sat., October 15, 2022Noon to 4:30 p.m. • FreeFestival Main Stage • Martin Luther King, Jr. Civic Center Park • Berkeley Genny Lim read poems about Water, Wildfires and War and sang Jim Pepper’s “Witchi-Tai-To” and “Besame Mucho,” accompanied by the Barry Finnerty Trio, featuring Finnerty, Akira Tana on drums, with bassist Peter Borshay, on […]
Genny performs with Lewis Jordan & Music at Large at St. Mary’s College on Friday, September 30, 2022, 4:30pm – 6pm.
Genny Lim and the ensemble perform Modirzadeh’s epic poem, Ode B’kongofon at Bird & Beckett on May 12, 2022.
Del Sol Quartet plays Rzewski, with poetry by Genny Lim Saturday, February 20, 2021, 6:00pm – 8:00pm The brilliant composer/pianist Frederic Rzewski joined Del Sol Quartet to present new online performances of Rzewski’s compositions. The program included Words for speaking string quartet and Winter Nights for solo piano, and between musical performances, distinguished San Francisco […]
Thursday, April 5th – Sunday, April 8, 2018, Joe Henderson Lab Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim, the 2018 Wordology Festival featured “the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond, centered on the concept of ‘wordology.’” Web Gallery Genny Lim and Francis Wong at SFJazz Poetry Festival 2018 “I want poets to… let […]