Belinda Taylor's Obituary
Chapel of the Chimes Piedmont, CA 510-654-0123
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Belinda Taylor – died peacefully Sunday morning after a six-year amarathon with ovarian cancer…..always very close our entire lives , these past six years revealed amazing and unexpected gifts-True rainbows of joy erupted in the most unlikely of times, the 1 Hour Drive to Stanford to go to her weekly clinical trial appointments would segue into the deepest of conversations about Intimate topics I never felt brave enough to ask her about – all of this deepened our love , affection and deep empathy for each other as well as many sad times and frustrating episodes where our roles were reversed, she became the infant baby and I , the scared and confused new mother….Somehow I felt totally unprepared to participate in this final act of love and yet it also felt the most natural of transitions, life itself a play in which mom and I were the primary actors.
She was cremated this week and a Memorial Service will be held Saturday October 6, 2018.
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Belinda Taylor—journalist, editor, playwright, mother, dear friend and arts lover—died on Sunday Aug 19 following a 6-year marathon race against cancer. Her body will be cremated and inurned at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland. Remembrance Ceremonies are planned at the Chapel of the Chimes for the afternoon of Sat Oct 6th.
Belinda lived in Berkeley for more than 35 years. She was an award-winning journalist and a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism. She was inaugural Director of the California Art Council’s Arts Marketing Institute, 2002-2005 following nine years as editor and marketing director at Theatre Bay Area in San Francisco. In her journalism career she served as editor of The Montclarion and associate editor and columnist at the Oakland Tribune. She is also the author of the award-winning play “Becoming Julia Morgan.”
One of Belinda’s proudest contributions is her role on the board and then as board president of The Playwrights Foundation for 14 years. She was a founding member of Teaching Artists Organized and the Teaching Artist Support Collaborative of California (now Teaching Artists Guild); Consultants to the Arts (C2Arts); and a long-time member of the Alameda County for the Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership, where she authored the grant proposal that funded the first Bay Areaw Teaching Artist Institute, serving as advisor for that and following Institutes, which have evolved into the annual conference Inventing Our Future for artists, teaching artists and educators in Alameda County.
To honor Belinda’s memory and her intrepid creative spirit, the Playwrights Foundation will establish the Belinda Taylor Fund for an Emerging Female Playwright of a Certain Age to support a woman ‘of a certain age’ reinventing herself as a playwright within our Resident Playwright Initiative, which will offer 4 years of support for career advancement and connection for a playwright who, like Belinda, aims to become a playwright in her later years. Details on how to contribute in her honor will be announced soon.
Celebrate Belinda’s life by supporting a future playwright! Donate to the “Belinda Taylor Fund” for an Emerging Female Playwright of a Certain Age,sponsored by The Playwrights Foundation!
https://playwrightsfoundation.org/engage/donate/ Please include “Belinda Taylor” in Dedication Honoree Name.
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