The Generations Band, the SF State-created all-star jazz group, keeps on moving this summer with gigs from coast to coast. The group plays the Stanford Jazz Festival on Aug. 3, following a recent two-night bill in New York.

Erin Persley is already packing her bags for Africa. The graduate student in Cinema will travel to Kenya and Uganda in August to screen a film she made in an SF State class, as part of the U.S. Department of State’s American Documentary Showcase.

As an award-winning filmmaker, author, teacher and feminist, Britta Sjogren found a need to explore why she adores 1940s films that are full of sexism and stereotypes. The Cinema associate professor’s research has resulted in a book and new film series, both titled “Into the Vortex: Female Voice in Film.”

Kudos to Diana Rumjahn, an employee in Creative Arts Technical Services. She won the Best Short Story for Children Award at the Marin County Fair.

Alumna Shaynee Rainbolt celebrates the four-trombone band swing of composer and arranger Russell Garcia on her latest album. With a voice “sweet as jasmine and honeysuckle, bold as brass and yet as seductive as a candlelit boudoir,” as Jazz Times has written, Rainbolt takes the 1950s–1960s style to Yoshi’s in Oakland on July 22.