Lara Solnicki makes her Red Poppy debut in a program featuring new music from her soon-to-be-released album, The One and the Other—a cinematic, creative music project produced by multi-award-winning Canadian musician and composer Jonathan Goldsmith. The concert also includes music from her sophomore release, Whose Shadow?, tunes from the Great American Songbook, as well as free improvisation. Solnicki is joined by pianist, composer, and arranger Jeremy Siskind—winner of the 2012 Nottingham Inter...
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Three musician-poet pairs each perform a set—one new poem inspired by an original song, one new song inspired by an original poem, and one piece of pure collaboration.
FEATURING:
Heather Bourbeau - poet
Raman Osman - musician
Maw Shein Win - poet
Evan Karp - musician
Nick Johnson - poet
Arula - musician
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Heather Bourbeau’s writing has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Eleven Eleven, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard, The Stockholm Review...
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Drummer/poet PC Muñoz returns to the Red Poppy to celebrate the release of his new album, Physical Science, and its companion chapbook, Inside Pocket of a Houndstooth Blazer. The night features two sets of originals and unusual re-inventions through jazz-informed improvisation, art-funk rhythms, electronic soundscapes, and lyrics that deal with America's darkest open secrets. Joining PC is cellist Alex Kelly, bassist Bryan Dean, and special guests including rapper DEM ONE.
FEATURING:
P...
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Mark Eisner, one of the founding members of the Red Poppy Art House, is joined by friends to celebrate the publication of his new book, Neruda: The Poet's Calling. The evening features a reading from the author; poetry by Jennifer Barone, Cristina García, Ingrid Keir, William O’Daly, Carolina de Robertis, and Michael Warr; as well as clips from Eisner’s documentary film, Pablo Neruda: The People’s Calling.
FEATURING:
Mark Eisner - host, performer
Jennifer Barone - poet
Cristina Garcí...
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Music, poetry, and future converge powerfully when Bonafide Rojas, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Bonnie Kwong, and Josiah Luis Alderete explore themes of imperialism, cultural identity, cultural resistance, love, and revolution through collaborations with guitarists Peck the Town Crier, Oliver Mok, and Eli Carlton-Pearson.
FEATURING:
Bonafide Rojas - poetry, guitar
Tongo Eisen-Martin - poetry
Peck the Town Crier - guitar
Bonnie Kwong - poetry
Oliver Mok - guitar
Josiah Luis Alderete - poetr...
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Music, poetry, history, and future converge powerfully when three poets–Tongo Eisen-Martin, Bonnie Kwong, and Josiah Luis Alderete–explore themes of immigration, migration, language, cultural identity, social justice, revolution, and love through collaborations with guitarists Peck the Town Crier, Oliver Mok, and Eli Carlton-Pearson.
Featuring:
LOAN (Tongo Eisen-Martin, poetry; Peck the Town Crier, guitar)
Contraband (Bonnie Kwong, poetry; Oliver Mok, guitar)
Fried Axolotl (Josiah Luis Al...
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Performance artist Naina Shastri and visual artist Salma Arastu collaborate on a show that uses Indian classical dance, poetry, video projection, and live music to connect 13th-century Persian mystic Mevlana Rumi and 16th-century Indian saint Meera Bai, who both spoke of finding salvation in love.
Featuring:
Naina Shastri - dance
Salma Arastu - Rumi poetry recitation
Ghalib Grooves Carnatic Band - music
With over 20 years of experience as a performer, choreographer, and teacher of the ...
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Acclaimed Bay Area poet/playwright/percussionist/radio host Avotcja (pronounced “ah-va-cha”) returns to the Red Poppy with her quartet, whose name means “gratitude” in Yoruba. Expect a set of jazz, blues, Afro-Cuban polyrhythms, and powerful poetry.
Featuring:
Avotcja - poetry, percussion
Jon Jang - piano
Sandi Poindexter - violin
Francis Wong - saxophone, flute
“Heshima” Mark Williams - bass
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EVENT DETAILS
Time: Doors 7:00PM / Show 7:30PM
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Nuyorican poet/cultural worker Sandra Garcia Rivera joins the Grammy-winning musicians and educators of Brian Andres’ Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel for a special performance of original compositions and exciting arrangements of Cuban, Puerto Rican, Mexican, and U.S. classics.
Featuring:
Brian Andres - drum set
Javier Cabanillas - congas
Aaron Germain - bass
Christian Tumalan - piano
Sandra Garcia Rivera - spoken word
Inspired by the Bay Area’s deep Latin jazz heritage, the Afro-Cuban Jazz Ca...
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Music, poetry, and history converge powerfully in LOAN, a collective of artists integrating new-generation, African-American avant-garde poetry and jazz-influenced musical exploration. The quartet, founded by poet Tongo Eisen-Martin and guitarist Peck the Town Crier, aims to give musical shape to the longing for revolution by way of word and chord.
Featuring:
Tongo Eisen-Martin – poet
Peck the Town Crier – guitar
Jon Rogers – drums
Miles Wick – upright and electric bass
Tongo Eisen-Mar...
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In this concert, Ganesh Vasudeva and Snigdha Venkatramani showcase a selection of poems from South India through Bharatanatyam, a form of Indian classical dance that originated in the temples of Tamil Nadu. These male-oriented and heroine-based poems are taken up to portray myriad shades of love.
Featuring:
Ganesh Vasudeva - abhinaya (miming)
Snigdha Venkatramani - abhinaya, vocals
Srinivas Pisharath - vocals
Akshay Venkatesan - percussion
Nyantara Narasimhan - violin
Ganesh Vasudeva...
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Día de los Muertos is an extraordinarily auspicious time for the Mission community, and the Red Poppy Art House is humbled to participate in the annual celebration that honors the ancestral memory of the departed. We invite all of our community to join us on Sunday, November 1 and Monday, November 2 for a weekend of art, food, and remembrance.
On Sunday evening, curator Alejandro Meza unveils the exhibition, El Mito Contemporáneo del Más Allá, featuring commissioned altars that pay homage to ...
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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 respectiv...
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Five writers with fresh work and crazy talent will read on the topic of evolving love. The stories will range from the funny, surreal, soul-crushing and redeeming aspects of loving people, language, culture, community and self.
About Lit Crawl:
The 11th annual Lit Crawl will span over three hours in the Mission District's Valencia Street corridor, featuring an astonishing 101 literary readings and events, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comedy and more, in bookstores, bars, galleries,...
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