PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

2008

BAY AREA NOW 5 SEPTEMBER EVENTS  

As part of the Red Poppy Art House’s Bay Area Now 5 (BAN) residency, we will be exploring “The Living Presence of Space”—the power that small spaces hold as vibrant centers where artists gather, create and make their home. In addition to BAN performances at the Red Poppy, we will present a month-long program in YBCA’s Room for Big Ideas (RBI) of artists spanning the disciplines and musical traditions of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. We’ll join the traditional with the contemporary, exploring the ways in which design and arrangement of physical space come to represent, if not impose, our values in material form.

We have been asked by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to participate as resident artists in Bay Area Now 5. During the month of September, we will create a Red Poppy Annex in Yerba Buena Center’s Room for Big Ideas (RBI). Our performances during our residency will be at both the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Red Poppy Art House.

Please make sure you look at the calendar for location of the event you would like to attend. In addition, we will be selling tickets for all September shows in advance. You can buy tickets for the performances at Yerba Buena directly from their box office or at ybca.org/tickets and you can buy tickets for performances at the Red Poppy from brownpapertickets.

We will only be selling tickets in advance during our residency. All tickets for performances at theYerba Buena will be available prior to the show. There will be a few tickets available for all shows at the Red Poppy at the door. To ensure entrance into performances, we recommend you buy your tickets in advance.

Please also note that all performances are scheduled at different start times. All performances held at the Yerba Buena will begin at 6pm, except the closing extravaganza which will begin at 7pm. In addition, in September, all Red Poppy performances will no longer have summer hours. Therefore, we will begin with our regular time of 8pm on weekend evenings and 7pm on weeknights. Doors for all performances will open half an hour prior to the show. Links to buy tickets are below:

For more information about our participation in Bay Area Now 5, please visit our “On Exhibit" page.

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Quijeremá is a performing arts quartet that celebrates and expands the cultures of the Americas through original music, poetry and multi-media art installations. Members of the ensemble play more than thirty instruments, and have performed worldwide and appeared on national and international radio and television. Quijeremá has been intimately involved in the Red Poppy since its early days, scoring the soundtrack for the documentary film ¡Pablo Neruda!¡Presente! produced by the poetry organization Red Poppy—the Red Poppy Art House’s one-time partners, and the group from whom we acquired our name.

$15/$10 YBCA Members (includes gallery admission).

Tickets available for purchase online at ban5.org and at the YBCA box office.

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Doors open at 5:30 pm. Show at 6:00 pm.

Tonight’s performance features Red Poppy Resident Artists The Nice Guy Trio in their “The Nice Guys + 1 Series.” The Nice Guy Trio is Darren Johnston (trumpet), Rob Reich (accordion), and Daniel Fabricant (bass). Together they create a sound that is both intimate and reflective of their contrasting yet complimentary musical backgrounds—and always with an emphasis on spontaneity! Their performances navigate a uniquely diverse collection of original compositions and songs from folk traditions across the globe—from jazz and klezmer to Balkan dance forms and calypso. For the “+ 1 Series,” the group invites a diverse cross-section of local musicians to collaborate, with each concert featuring original music from The Nice Guys and their guest artists.

This evening’s performance features violinist Dina Macabee and cellist Alex Kelly. Dina has appeared/recorded with Vetiver, Wilco, Carla Bozulich, Sufjan Stevens, The Cuts, Mars Arizona. After earning two masters degrees in music, Alex Kelly completed a doctorate in cello performance with a secondary concentration in composition from the University of Oregon. Alex has performed and composed for a variety of ensembles throughout the United States and Canada for the past fifteen years.

$12-$15 suggested donation. Tickets available for purchase online at brownpapertickets.com.

A select number of tickets will be available at the door on a first come first serve basis.

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Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

Keeping with the Red Poppy ethos—that art is a total experience of living—this workshop is brought to you by two artists intent on keeping food and art in the same room. In a workshop that combines an introductory Argentine tango class with instruction on how to prepare the delicacy of Peruvian ceviche (white fish cured in fresh lime juice with onion, garlic, and spices), you will discover the sublime truth that raw fish and a close embrace share a common sentiment. The first hour is spent on tango, developing lead/follow skills and basic figures. The second hour is spent with food—learning the smells, colors and tastes of a few variations of Peruvian ceviche. And the last hour is for eating and dancing, with an occasional toast. Bring a bottle of wine for the meal if you like!

$20/$15 YBCA Members (includes gallery admission).

Tickets available for purchase online at ban5.org and at the YBCA box office.

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Doors open at 12:30 pm. Event 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm.

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Marcus Shelby is an award-winning composer, arranger, educator and bassist, nationally recognized for his innovative and collaborative approach to composing and arranging for text, the visual arts, dance and theater. His credits include original scoring for film, theater and dance, as well as jazz composition for his own groups—the 15-piece Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, the Marcus Shelby Trio, and the Marcus Shelby Septet. Marcus has written an extensive series of original compositions and suites and orchestrated a broad survey of arrangements from jazz big-band composers Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Charles Mingus and Count Basie. Out of a desire to bring the heart of jazz closer to the public, Marcus will be inviting the audience throughout the evening to join in a dialogue exploring the creative process behind jazz composition and improvisation. Tonight’s performance features selections from the oratorio “Harriet Tubman: Bound for the Promised Land,” performed by quintet. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for an intimate experience of Shelby's latest project.

$15 suggested donation. Tickets available for purchase online at brownpapertickets.com.

A select number of tickets will be available at the door on a first come first serve basis.

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Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

Trio Garufa is among the foremost interpreters of Argentine Tango and one of the few groups performing Argentine tango live in the Bay Area. Combining a deep respect for the traditions of Golden Era Tango with the excitement of the modern Nuevo Tango of Astor Piazzola, their music is powerful, passionate, and always danceable!

Adrian Jost: bandoneon, bayan
Guillermo Garcia: guitar
Sascha Jacobsen: bass

www.triogarufa.com

$15/$10 YBCA Members (includes gallery admission).

Tickets available for purchase online at ban5.org and at the YBCA box office.

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Doors open at 5:30 pm. Show at 6:00 pm.

Since its inception, Classical Revolution has collaborated with a variety of guest artists and groups, including Del Sol Quartet, Presidio Ensemble, and concert violinist Anne Akiko-Meyers. Their rotating lineup of musicians includes graduate students and alumni of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, as well as members of regional orchestras such as the Monterey Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, Fresno Philharmonic, Santa Cruz Symphony, and San Francisco Opera. Classical Revolution’s musicians have attended the nation’s top music schools and have performed and studied with classical music's respected practitioners. Their music ranges from solo piano to string quartet and larger.

$12-$15 suggested donation. Tickets available for purchase online at brownpapertickets.com. A select number of tickets will be available at the door on a first come first serve basis.

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Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

YBCAlive!—FAMILY ART Activities:

Featuring Painting and Storytelling with LA MALAMAÑA
Saturday, September 13th

Locations: Room for Big Ideas, YBCA (701 Mission Street),

AND The Red Poppy Art House

Every Saturday on the sidewalk in front of the Red Poppy, volunteers pull out art supplies for an afternoon of creative activities for children and families. Suddenly the sidewalk is bursting with young painters and beautiful colors!

The Family Art Program was established to encourage creative and educational experiences in an open, outdoor forum in the Mission, while promoting greater dialogue among community members. The project aspires to bring the community’s children and families together to partake in artistic endeavors that include diverse artistic and educational perspectives.

ban5.org

FREE! 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm.

Drawing inspiration from jazz, blues and traditional Ethiopian melodies and rhythms, Nefasha Ayer (loosely translated from Amharic as “the wind that travels”) is an in-progress body of music exploring the most essential qualities shared among individuals worldwide whose identities no longer fit within the boundaries of one country, culture or tradition. Through its colors and tones, poetic texts and trans-cultural melodic scores, Nefasha Ayer joins the continents of Africa, South Asia and America to produce a uniquely San Franciscan music, a music born from the present-day realities of life at the crossroads.

In April of 2007, the Red Poppy received a grant from the San Francisco Foundation and the Fund for Artists to commission a group of musicians—including Art House directors and resident artists Meklit Hadero and Todd Brown—on the composition of this body of music. Tonight's show will also feature Prasant Radhakrishnan on saxophone and Keenan Webster on balafone and kora.

$15/$10 YBCA Members (includes gallery admission). Tickets available for purchase online at ban5.org and at the YBCA box office.

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Doors open at 5:30 pm. Show at 6:00 pm.

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YBCAlive!—MARINA LAVALLE and LALO IZQUIERDO:

The Music of Afro-Peru
Thursday, September 18th

Afro-Peruvian vocalist/diva Marina Lavalle (formerly of Peru Negro) presents the best of the Afro-Peruvian traditions in collaboration with dancer and cajon master Lalo Izquierdo. Lavalle's powerful presence brings fire and verve to songs while introducing us to a unique side of the rich musical tradition made world-famous by Susana Baca. Izquierdo, one of the founding members of the legendary Peru Negro, will inspire audiences with his rhythms, storytelling, and traditional dance. This is Afro-Peru!

$15/$10 YBCA Members (includes gallery admission).

Tickets available for purchase online at ban5.org and at the YBCA box office.

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Doors open at 5:30 pm. Show at 6:00 pm.

VidyA unites the virtuosity of jazz with the melodic and rhythmic nuance of South Indian classical (Carnatic) music. Led by critically acclaimed saxophonist Prasant Radhakrishnan, VidyA has emerged with a soulful, penetrating sound that pushes the labels of “fusion” and “world music.” Drums and bass lock together, driving the music forward like a jazz rhythm section, while the tenor saxophone elaborates and improvises on Carnatic ragas. VidyA translates the language of Carnatic music into the idiom of jazz.

$15 suggested donation. Tickets available for purchase online at brownpapertickets.com.

A select number of tickets will be available at the door on a first come first serve basis.

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Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

YBCAlive!—POEMA DEL DIA (Poem of the Day), with ADRIAN ARIAS
Saturday, September 20th

This afternoon’s event features a multidisciplinary presentation of the poems of Adrian Arias with dancers, musicians, and projections of photography and video. “Poem of the Day” is a series of poems and images Adrian wrote and drew each day of 2007.

Spanish: www.poemadeldia2008.blogspot.com
English: www.poemoftheday2007.blogspot.com

Adrian has won a number of visual art and poetry prizes in France, Argentina, Japan, Peru and Spain. He has also been featured in several biennials and art shows in Europe, Asia and America. Adrian is the creator of the art show “Illusion”; producer of “Luna Negra”—an annual event for women in the arts held at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA); and producer of “VideoFest,” held at MCCLA and the Roxie Theater.

ban5.org

FREE! 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm.

The Mo’Rockin Project is an ensemble of North African and American musicians exchanging cultures and creativity in an effort to dispel inaccurate beliefs and create world community. Their music, handcrafted from traditional Moroccan melodies blended with jazz, reveals great musicianship, vision, and spirit. With compatible musical minds and a desire to create community, Mo'Rockin has taken on a life of its own—their music is funky and lyrical, spirited and spiritual.

Tonight's performance will be mostly unplugged.

$15 suggested donation. Tickets available for purchase online at brownpapertickets.com.

A select number of tickets will be available at the door on a first come first serve basis.

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Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

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The FOCUS Trio is a groundbreaking collaboration among three musicians and three cultures. Grammy-nominated pianist Marc Cary, coming from a traditional jazz background, incorporates his Native American roots in laying down the musical foundations. Sameer Gupta (drums and tabla) draws on classical Indian rhythmic and melodic concepts. And David Ewell (bass) invokes tonal centers based around scales often heard in traditional Chinese music. The FOCUS project is a mesmerizing feat of cross-pollination!

Cary has played and recorded with an impressive roster of musicians: Me'Shell NdegeOcello, Dizzy Gillespie, Betty Carter, Arthur Taylor, Abbey Lincoln, Erykah Badu, Jackie McLean, Clifford Jordan, Carmen McCrae, Milt Jackson, Curtis Fuller, Eddie Henderson, Arthur Taylor, Frank Foster, Wynton Marsalis, Max Roach, Shirley Horn, Ani Difranco, among a host of other talents.

“The concept of FOCUS Trio is a collaboration among three cultures. Aside from that, playing our asses off the in the tradition of the great Duke Ellington, Max Roach and Paul Chambers, is the focus. … The live show will expand on the concepts developed since the recording of out 2006 album, FOCUS. The recording is the seed and the performance is when the plant grows.” ~ Marc Cary

www.motema.com/MarcCary

$15 suggested donation. Tickets available for purchase online at brownpapertickets.com.

A select number of tickets will be available at the door on a first come first serve basis.

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Doors open at 6:30 pm. Show at 7:00 pm.

What is cultural value? What space is it given?

What translates from creativity in relation to scarcity?

Artists Nicole Baugus, Caleb Duarte, Todd Brown, and special guest discuss the Red Poppy's RBI

on-site installation of The Living Presence of Space.

“The Living Presence of Space”

In both the RBI, and on-site at the Red Poppy Art House itself, resident visual artists, Todd Brown, Caleb Duarte, and Nicole Bauguss explore the concept of The Living Presence of Space: the ways in which our handling, our intention, feeling, design and arrangement, of physical space invariably manifests our values, sensitivity, and awareness of the world around us. As a sub-theme, The artists draw on the 5 years experience of the Art House as a particularly small space, investigating the un-replicable power of intimate environments in facilitating exceptional moments of artistic human expression. Within this investigation arises the all-too-apparent fact that such spaces are drastically dwindling in numbers in the context of our modern economy. Unable to meet the impossible demands of exorbitant rents, building codes, renovation costs, accounting systems, and such, artists are forced to go “underground”, fashioning environments out of need, and from minimal resources. Examples of such necessary improvisations can be seen in the RBI installations by Brown, Duarte, and Bauguss, “Make-Shift Gallery Garage” and “Bed, Bath, Stage, and Beyond”. Here the artists show how creative ingenuity can maximize the value of minimum real estate: an artist’s living needs (a bed, bath, and personal items) convert into a stage for (un-permitted) concerts that will serve to pay the artists rent, and a garage that converts into a temporary (un-permitted) exhibition space, such as what is seen in the Mission Arts & Performance Project* (MAPP).

Todd T. Brown: www.artist-toddbrown.com

Caleb Duarte:www.calebduarte.com

Nicole Bauguss: www.riproost.com

FREE! 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm.

YBCAlive!—Closing Night Extravaganza: Featuring LA MALAMAÑA URBAN CIRCUS, OUT-SIDE-IN Video Installation by ADRIAN ARIAS,

and Dancing ’till Late!
Friday, September 26th

Join us for celebrations and toasts featuring performances throughout the evening from a selection of outstanding Bay Area artists, including Adrian Arias. After an evening of performance and dancing, La Malamaña—a group composed of eight artists from seven Latin American and Caribbean countries—will end the night and the YBCA residency with a special stilt-walking and fire-dancing extravaganza!

$20/$15 YBCA Members (includes gallery admission). Tickets available for purchase online at ban5.org and at the YBCA box office.

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Doors open at 6:30 pm. Show at 7:00 pm.

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OCTOBER 

THREE LEG TORSO

Friday, October 3rd

www.3legtorso.com

MAPP: MISSION ARTS & PERFORMANCE PROJECT

Saturday, October 4th

The Mission Arts & Performance Project is a bi-monthly collaboration between visual artists, musicians, poets and performers. The MAPP puts art and performance on the street level by using alternative spaces such as private garages, basements, and studios. It’s a block party of the arts for inspiring in ourselves, and others, the desire for a creative existence, an ever widening experience of life.

www.sfmapp.com

ICARUS/RISE

Friday, October 10th & Saturday, October 11th

ICARUS/RISE is a provocative and emotional multimedia theatrical performance of new Iranian poetry, translated, created, directed and performed by Niloufar Talebi, with original score by Bobak Salehi, and choreography and video by Alex Ketley, featuring Chloe Felesina as Icarus. Inspired by the Iranian tradition of Naghali (dramatic story-telling), ICARUS/RISE weaves new Iranian poetry featured in BELONGING, fuses it with western dramatic elements, connecting the myth of Icarus with the migration of Iranians, and the solitary journey of the artist/immigrant in the quest for freedom. ICARUS/RISE begins after the fall and is the journey to self-possession, featuring the emerging voices of Iranian poetry, including Ziba Karbassi, Granaz Moussavi, Maryam Huleh, Abbas Saffari, Jamshid Moshkani and Shahrouz Rashid, the poet of “Icarus”, as well as the poetry of Mina Assadi, and Yadollah Roya'i.

Red Rose 1 & 2--scene from ICARUS/RISE:

www.youtube.com/user/translationproject

MR. NICE GUY TRIO - finale show!

Sunday, October 12th

Intersection for the Arts, in collaboration with the de Young Museum, presents the finale show of the Red Poppy Art House resident artists, the Nice Guy Trio, in their Nice Guy + 1 Series :: Root Exchange. Intimate and spontaneous, The Nice Guy Trio navigates through a uniquely diverse collection of original compositions and songs from folk traditions from around the world, from jazz to klezmer to balkan dance forms to afro-beat and beyond.

Darren Johnston - trumpet
Rob Reich - accordian
Daniel Fabricant - bass
Ben Goldberg - clarinet, contra-alto clarinet
Meklit Hadero - vocals
Smith Dobson - vibraphone, drums
David Phillips - pedal-steel guitar
Dina Maccabee - violin, viola
Alex Kelley - cello
Sameer Gupta - tabla, drums

www.myspace.com/niceguytrio

ESCALAY: Middle Eastern Jazz

Friday, October 17th

Tom Chandler, oud

Micha Patri, drums

Eugene Warren, bass

Lila Sklar, violin

Cornelius Boots, bass clarinet

www.tchandler.com/escalay

PICKPOCKET ENSEMBLE: café music for dreamers

Saturday, October 18th

the pickPocket ensemble makes music at the crossroads: Inspired by many world folk and instrumental traditions, from Eastern European and Balkan, to Klezmer, to North African and Mediterranean and even Contemporary Classical. the pickPocket ensemble blend together these inspirations and more to create a beautiful music that is both hauntingly familiar and surprisingly fresh and new. The music of the pickPocket ensemble has been called "soul-wrenching" for its evocative and passionate expressiveness. For its ability to communicate across cultures, the pickPocket ensemble has been termed "una banda del pueblo para el pueblo."

www.pickpocketensemble.com

JAZ SAWYER lecture and workshop

The Drumming Resource Guide

Thursday, October 23rd

An instructional series to educate, excite and promote the development of one's drumming.

www.myspace.com/pursuancerecords

KATY STEPHAN, ADAM SCHULMAN & AARON NOVIK: Art Songs

Friday, October 24th

An intimate evening of words and music.

Katy Stephan, voice  www.katystephan.com
Adam Shulman, piano  www.adamshulman.com

Aaron Novik, clarinets  www.aaronnovik.com

www.katystephan.com

JAZ SAWYER AND THE PURSUERS

The Drumming Resource Guide: music from 1900's - present

demonstrating the significant impact of drumming in American Music

Saturday, October 25th

This performance piece will demonstrate the significant impact of drumming in American Music by presenting compositions from each decade beginning with the 1900s through the present. Together we will identify the drumming innovations that influenced American music and throughout the world.

www.myspace.com/pursuancerecords

Jaz Sawyer- Drums, Congas

Matt Clark- Piano

Joel Ryan - Trumpet, Flg.

Danny Grewn- Trombone, Vocals

Danny Brown - Tenor Sax, Clarinet

Eric Markowitz - Bass