COMMUNITY MEMBERS:

	Adrian Arias \| Visual Artist & Curator Adrian Arias (American born in Mochica Land in Peru) is an international multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of visual arts, poetry, performance, and social justice. A descendant of the Mochica culture of ancient Peru, he embraces his culture’s use of dreams as a transformative catalyst between reality and imagination. Arias has created large-scale murals for public and private businesses such as Google and a three-story mural at the corner of Turk and Hyde in San Francisco, commissioned by the Luggage Store. He has recently created murals for Magic Theater, Freight & Salvage and Red Poppy Art House. Is the co-founder of Mission Arts Performance Project MAPP.

	Elektra Schmidt \| Musician & Pianist Elektra is a professional pianist who has been active in the Bay Area arts and music scene for nine years. Originally from Athens, Greece, she completed her studies in piano performance in Paris where she lived for six years before moving to San Francisco. Elektra has been programming music for several organizations in the U.S. and abroad and is excited to be the volunteer coordinator for the Poppy, one of her favorite venues in the world!
	Maria Lentzou \| Host Support Maria is an expressive art-play therapist and interdisciplinary artist. Originally from Greece, she is a free and joyful spirit that has lived, worked, and performed in Argentina and Peru. Now she is an emerging performing artist in the Bay Area and facilitates groups in Authentic Movement. Her mission is to honor the beauty of our multifaceted existences, along with the mystery of life-death-life in its paradoxical nature; to embody and communicate the power of authenticity of humbleness and of love; and to advocate for the priceless value of play, imagination, expression, and creativity in our everyday lives at ALL ages.
	Mark Eisner \| Writer Mark started collaborating with the Poppy in 2004, shortly after its founding. At the time, he was wrapping up City Lights’ The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems, whose red poppy cover inspired the art house’s name. Fourteen years later, his Pablo projects culminated in Neruda: The Biography of a Poet. Mark then co-edited Tin House’s anthology Resistencia: Poetry of Protest and Revolution. He is now finishing a book about photographer Tina Modotti’s life in 1920s Mexico.

	Adrian Arias \| Visual Artist & Curator Adrian Arias (American born in Mochica Land in Peru) is an international multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of visual arts, poetry, performance, and social justice. A descendant of the Mochica culture of ancient Peru, he embraces his culture’s use of dreams as a transformative catalyst between reality and imagination. Arias has created large-scale murals for public and private businesses such as Google and a three-story mural at the corner of Turk and Hyde in San Francisco, commissioned by the Luggage Store. He has recently created murals for Magic Theater, Freight & Salvage and Red Poppy Art House. Is the co-founder of Mission Arts Performance Project MAPP.

	Elektra Schmidt \| Musician & Pianist Elektra is a professional pianist who has been active in the Bay Area arts and music scene for nine years. Originally from Athens, Greece, she completed her studies in piano performance in Paris where she lived for six years before moving to San Francisco. Elektra has been programming music for several organizations in the U.S. and abroad and is excited to be the volunteer coordinator for the Poppy, one of her favorite venues in the world!
	Maria Lentzou \| Host Support Maria is an expressive art-play therapist and interdisciplinary artist. Originally from Greece, she is a free and joyful spirit that has lived, worked, and performed in Argentina and Peru. Now she is an emerging performing artist in the Bay Area and facilitates groups in Authentic Movement. Her mission is to honor the beauty of our multifaceted existences, along with the mystery of life-death-life in its paradoxical nature; to embody and communicate the power of authenticity of humbleness and of love; and to advocate for the priceless value of play, imagination, expression, and creativity in our everyday lives at ALL ages.
	Mark Eisner \| Writer Mark started collaborating with the Poppy in 2004, shortly after its founding. At the time, he was wrapping up City Lights’ The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems, whose red poppy cover inspired the art house’s name. Fourteen years later, his Pablo projects culminated in Neruda: The Biography of a Poet. Mark then co-edited Tin House’s anthology Resistencia: Poetry of Protest and Revolution. He is now finishing a book about photographer Tina Modotti’s life in 1920s Mexico.