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Flying Under the Radar Presents LOAN at the Red Poppy Art House

October 30, 2015 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

$10 – $20
Flying Under the Radar and the Red Poppy Art House join together to present an evening of poetry and live music featuring LOAN.

LOAN, founded by poet Tongo Eisen-Martin and guitarist Peck the Town Crier, is a collective of artists that integrates new generation black avant-garde poetry with virtuosic musical exploration. LOAN gives musical shape to the longing for revolution in a landscape of word and chord. It sees today as a time of convergence where music, poetry and all of their respective histories meet to bloom in a time for liberation.

Featuring:
Tongo Eisen-Martin – poet
Peck the Town Crier – guitar
Jon Rogers – drums
Miles Wick – upright & electric bass

 
More about Tongo Eisen-Martin:
Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extrajudicial killing of black people throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails, and his work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He was also adjunct faculty at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. Eisen-Martin is also a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His latest book of poems, someone’s dead already, is being published by Bootstrap Press.

Dive into the poetry of LOAN here and here.
Get a feel for the albums on Bandcamp and SoundCloud.
Read about Tongo Eisen-Martin’s book, someone’s dead already, here.
 

About Flying Under the Radar:
Leading up to FUTR’s 2017 Biennial Festival of the Arts, FUTR is partnering with local SF/Bay Area organizations to present a vibrant and eclectic range of artists producing work across disciplines and aesthetics, to broaden and deepen relationships across artistic communities.
 
The first Flying Under the Radar Biennial will debut in San Francisco, California over five days in April 2017. A second edition, in 2019, will occur in Rio de Janeiro. The event will feature thirty emerging or career artists with limited or no exposure outside their home countries. Participating artists will be from the metropolitan areas of Rio de Janeiro and San Francisco/Bay Area, and will be known for working in the areas of Film and Video, Music, Dance and Performance, Poetry, and Visual Arts.

Admission: $10-20. Doors at 7:00pm. Show at 7:30pm. All ages welcome.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

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Details

Date:
October 30, 2015
Time:
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Cost:
$10 – $20
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Venue

Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94110 United States
Phone
(650) 731-5383