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Interior Mural Closing Reception | “SAY HER NAME” by Mara Lea Brown and Emma Timberlea Brown
April 6 @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
“SAY HER NAME”
by Mara Lea Brown and Emma Timberlea Brown
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
(Donation is encouraged)
Join us in celebrating the mural, “SAY HER NAME” on the RPAH’s interior walls at its closing reception with introductions and an interactive dance performance by Aisan Hoss, followed by more MAPP performances.
This event is a part of MAPP (Mission Art Performance Project)
Saturday, April 6th, 2024
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom @23rd
Curator: Dina Zarif
Closing reception: Interior mural “SAY HER NAME” by Mara Lea Brown and Emma Timberlea Brown
6:30 – 7:45 “SAY HER NAME” closing reception
7:15- 7:30 Interactive dance performance by Aisan Hoss
MAPP program to follow afterwards:
7:45 – 8:05 The Butterfly Effect (Shadow puppet short play)
8:20 – 9:00 Diaspora Ensemble (Music of Mediterranean & beyond)
9:15 – 10:00 LOUDA MUSIC
Interior mural “SAY HER NAME”, by Mara Lea Brown
Interior mural “SAY HER NAME” | Mara Lea Brown & Emma Timberlea Brown
“Women, Life, Freedom”
She rises…
her hair flying in the wind…
her voice lifting to the sky…
her being becoming the fire that melts the frozen grounds of time…
SAY HER NAME…
say it loud…
Mahsa Amini the 22-year-old Iranian female whose death enflamed thousands of women and men to rise up. For, the future is female…
A monumental uprising for feminism and women’s rights, against police brutality and oppression is happening in Iran right now…
Say Her Name…
Be the voice of the voiceless…
#MahsaAmini
Mara Lea Brown is a Bay Area Artist. Her work explores human singularity and relationships through realistic charcoal drawing and mixed media with elements from nature. Having been born in California and grown up in Southern Spain, diversity and a search for connection are always subtly present in her work. In her portraiture, Mara enjoys the process of learning from the individual as well as from a phenomenological exploration of the human form. Recently Mara has been working on a series examining human relationships to ancestry, immigration, travel and belonging. She uses motifs, such as roots and wings, to illustrate the beauty and struggle of this search for the self. For her work on the interior mural “SAY HER NAME” she collaborated with her daughter Emma Timberlea Brown at Red Poppy Art House.
ABOUT THE MURALIST
Mara Lea Brown is a Bay Area Artist. Her work explores human singularity and relationships through charcoal drawing, painting, and mixed media with elements from nature. Mara was born in California, grew up in Southern Spain, and moved back to the USA as an adult. Incommensurability and a search for connection are always subtly present in her work. In her portraiture, Mara enjoys the process of learning from the individual as well as from a phenomenological exploration of the human form. Recently Mara has been working on a series of drawings reflecting on the effects of the pandemic on her community.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Aisan Hoss
Interactive dance
Aisan Hoss is a dancer and choreographer from Tehran, Iran. She started studying and performing Iranian dances at the age of twelve and teaching at the age of eighteen. While doing her BS in Business Management at Azad University in Tehran, Aisan attended a study-abroad English language program in London where she first encountered contemporary dance. She became drawn to the form’s unlimited possibilities for individual self-expression and experimentation of form and content. After graduating, she moved to London to pursue contemporary dance as her career. At the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Contemporary Dance in London, Aisan completed a one-year diploma in dance followed by a BA in Dance Theatre. At Trinity Laban, she found her passion in choreography and dance pedagogy, which inspired her to spend one year teaching contemporary dance in Iran and to then pursue her MFA in Dance and Choreography at Mills College in Oakland, California. While at Mills, she received an Innovator Award sponsored by the E.L. Wiegand Foundation. For Aisan, her passion for dance and choreography has been a means for gaining insight into her identity as an Iranian living outside of her home country. Specifically, several of her choreographies have explored the ways in which having physical distance from her home country provides a deeper sense of intimacy with its cultural essence. Aisan uses movement as a tool to find beauty in her history and identity. Inspired by modern Iranian culture, she aims to give voice to the quietest elements of her culture through choreography.
MAPP (Mission Arts & Performance Project)
Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural event 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. Due to COVID-19, we had temporarily changed this dynamic program from an onsite to an online series. Thanks to the mastery and innovation of the presenting artists and curatorial vision we were pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continued to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We are glad that the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue have finally arrived and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.
This program is funded by the California Arts Council Impact Project Grant.
We will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.
RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:
Curator | Artistic Director | Managing Director: Dina Zarif
PR and Digital Marketing: Anjali Varma
Saturday, April 6th, 2023
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm
Note: Seating is first come, first served.
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