\u201cThis isn\u2019t just about art,\u201d reads the petition against the San Francisco Ballet\u2019s performance at the Center, which has amassed over 70,000 signatures. \u201cIt\u2019s about preserving principles that ensure our performing arts remain an unbiased reflection of our diverse society.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the past year, a number of artists and organizations have canceled shows and events at the Center, including Postclassical Ensemble\u2019s Orpheus: The Magic of the Arts<\/a>, as well as the Washington National Opera Gala.<\/a><\/p>\n While artists like East Bay political pundit and comedian W. Kamau Bell,<\/a> and Oakland singer B. DeVeaux<\/a> have chosen to perform at the center as a form of protest, a glimpse at the upcoming events slated for the Trump-Kennedy Center reveals a large number of cancellations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis isn\u2019t just about art,\u201d reads the petition against the San Francisco Ballet\u2019s performance at the Center, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-201122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}