June 2nd MAPP @ Red Poppy Art House

Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces, such as private garages, gardens, living rooms, studios, street corners, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities.
 
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Fernanda Martínez’s art is best recognized for its highly expressive spirit and its fascinating colors and contrasts. Through her work, she explores the relation with the environment by incorporating nature elements as themes and abstract shapes that reaffirm her appeal for flowers and plants. Her artwork highlights a free character with a marked emphasis for colorful patterns, using gouache and acrylic as mediums.
 
Cellist Misha Khalikulov and pianist Elise Kwon specialize in both classical and non-classical music that incorporates soulful, elegant, and sentimental arrangements.
 
Daniel Riera is a flutist, bassist, wind-controllerist, producer, composer, and sound designer from San Francisco. He is active as a stage performer with his jazz quartet, the Daniel Riera Ensemble, and groups such as Soltrón, Blind Willies, Marcus Cohen and the Congress, and the Retromaniax. He is also a hip-hop producer with credits including 2013 iTunes chart-topping album Cardboard Castles by Watsky. Riera releases his solo hip-hop/electronic music under the alias Tito Tunes.
 
A Bay Area native of Vietnamese and French descent, Camille Mai was born in 1993 and started composing for piano as soon as she could reach the keys. In 2005, her family moved to Paris, where she studied composition with pianist Jay Gottlieb and performed with local jazz and pop acts. By the age of 18, she had recorded two EPs. Now a regular of the San Francisco music scene, Mai has been featured in venues as diverse as Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, the SF Conservatory of Music, Carnaval SF, Peace Day Fest, and the Red Poppy Art House where she was a resident artist in 2014 and 2015. In 2015, she organized a tour of the West Coast with her then-jazz ensemble The View From Bernal Hill. Mai has also been commissioned as a composer for interdisciplinary projects like Día de los Muertos at Davies Hall, Teobi’s Dreaming, and 43 Artists for Ayotzinapa.
 
Equally at home in contemporary styles as they are in the traditional music of their respective home cultures, San Francisco native Jody Richardson (violin) and Israeli-born David Katz (guitar) play spontaneously erupting music that draws freely from all available sources.
 
Emad Bonakdar is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and performer with a style influenced by his love of traditional Persian music, coupled with expressive and soulful flamenco music. His first concert in fusion music was in Tehran in 1991, and his first album, ARG, was inspired by the culture of the ancient Persian Empire. He has also composed movie scores including Mom’s Guest. Bonakdar was nominated in New York’s World Music Festival in 2004, and he performed for a benefit concert for the 2003 Bam (Kerman) earthquake. In the U.S., he formed the band Mezghoon with vocalist Mima Goodarz.
 
Matineh Shaker grew up in Iran and moved to the United States in 2008. She was interested in singing from a very young age and received vocal and piano training in Iran. Later, she expanded her skills by studying piano and music theory with Tal Zilber from New England Conservatory. Shaker took vocal and solfège lessons along with Persian classical music—radeef—with Shadi Ebrahmi, and she further fine-tuned her skills with Mojgan Shajarian. She joined Sayeh Ensemble in Boston in 2014, with the mission of writing and playing Persian classical music for an Iranian audience, as well as specially familiarizing the non-Iranian audience with such music. She performed as a solo and duet vocalist in numerous events across New England, from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard Silk Road Project, to many performances at cultural events in universities and two popular full-feature concerts in Boston. Shaker was a performer in a cross-cultural music company in New York, Floating Tower, singing in Farsi alongside musicians from the Middle East and improvising on Persian tunes. She continues to be inspired by the music of cultures from around the world to advance her vocal art.
 
Nima Hafezieh is an Iranian composer and pianist born in 1994 in Iran. His talent in music was found at the age of four, and he was awarded a piano from the president of Iran at the age of 10. Going to music school at 15, he was accepted to Tehran Music School to study piano and composition. Hafezieh is currently working as a music transcriber/editor and music education advisor in support of the blind musicians and students with the Association of Blind Students and Graduates in Iran. He is known amongst the disabled as an ingenious artist.

 
Time: 5:00pm event
Admission: Free

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