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Connect The Bay: Author Naheed Hasnat Senzai

Naheed Hasnat Senzai is a successful Bay Area author of Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction. She specializes in writing stories that feature diverse characters with lives rooted in rich cultural heri...

Connect The Bay: Coming Out

BAYMEC Community Foundation Executive Director Ken Yeager tours his recent exhibition "Coming Out: 50 Years of Queer Resistance and Resilience in Silicon Valley." Included are mementos and artifacts f...

Connect The Bay: Sculptor Matthaus Lam

Matthaus Lam is an accomplished young artist with a playful sense of humor that pours out of his amazing sculptures. Lam's creativity sparked early–he has created works of art since he was just five y...

Connect the Bay: Pinata Artist

Patty Botello has been making piñatas since she was a little girl. Though some are destined to be joyously destroyed by children at parties, much of her work is museum quality and intended for gallery...

Connect The Bay: Clapper Stick

For this Connect the Bay segment, Kanyon Sayers-Roods (Indian Canyon Mutsun) offers a song about Hummingbird while demonstrating the indigenous California instrument, the clapper stick. She reminds vi...

Connect The Bay: DACA Fellows

Each year the County of Santa Clara offers the New Americans Fellowship program to recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, aka "Dreamers," living, working or going to school in the Count...

Connect the Bay: Virtual Choir

Over the past year, college students were limited to distance learning while sheltering in place. Despite daunting barriers, the UC Santa Cruz Concert Choir community met the challenge and turned defi...

Connect The Bay: Tulio Flores

Tulio Flores. The Latino artist based in San Jose, used the time during the pandemic to focus and paint.

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