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SUMMARY:December 6th MAPP
DESCRIPTION:Holding the Thread: A Gathering for Life & Dignity \nMAPP (Mission Art Performance Project) \nSaturday\, December 6th\, 2025 \nIn a moment when many communities are experiencing heightened fear\, repression\, and instability—both here and globally—we gather to hold the thread of humanity. This event brings together Palestinian\, Iranian\, Mexican\, and Jewish artists—communities whose histories carry occupation\, displacement\, censorship\, and struggle. Their voices stand together in intentional solidarity\, with the suffering in Palestine remaining a central heartbeat of this gathering. \nDecember 6th MAPP\n \n  \n  \n  \nSaturday\, December 6th\, 2025 | 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.\nRed Poppy Art House \n2698 Folsom @23rd\nCurator: Dina Zarif \nDoors open at 6:45 pm\n7 p.m. to 10 p.m. event \n7:05–7:45 • Diana Gameros (Folk / Indie-Pop / Jazz – Mexico)\n8:00–8:50 • Nēkajun & Ensemble (Iranian Liberation Folk)\n9:05–10:00 • Basma & Edrees & Ensemble (Palestinian Melodies Under Occupation)\nExhibition: Andrea Guskin – Fracture Zones (Jewish artist exploring rupture & resilience) \nTHIS IS A FREE EVENT \nWe gather to witness\, to remember\, and to resist dehumanization in all forms—standing firmly against Islamophobia\, antisemitism\, racism\, state violence\, and the erasure of any people. Through music\, art\, and community presence\, we honor dignity\, grief\, resilience\, and the struggle for justice across all our communities.\nIn this space\, the arts become a bridge:A place to listen\, to grieve\, to imagine\, and to insist on the dignity of all communities. \nOur canvas is connection.\nOur palette is compassion.\nOur gathering is an offering for peace\, justice\, and the possibility of collective safety\, belonging\, and hope. \nAll are welcome. \nRed Poppy Art House \nMAPP DECEMBER 6TH\, 2025 PROGRAM\n\n\n\n\nTime \n\nPerformance/Event\nDescription\n\nArtists \n\n\n\nExhibition: Andrea Guskin’s newest body of work: Fracture Zones.\n\n\n7:05 – 7:45 pm\nDiana Gameros\nFolk / Indie-Pop / Jazz – Mexico\nDiana Gameros – songwriter\, singer\, multi-instrumentalist \n\n\n8:00–8:50\nNēkajun & Ensemble\nIranian Liberation Folk\nNekajun –  guitar\, vocals \nAaron Kierbel – drums \nAhmed Ragab – oud\nArslen Matouii – quanun\nZ: guitar\n\n\n9:05–10:00\nBasma & Edrees & Ensemble\nPalestinian Melodies Under Occupation\nBasma Edrees-Piano\, Violin\, Voice\nAlaa Alqallel-Oud\nLoay Dahbour-Percussion\nShaden Amleh-Singer\nHala Al-Khalil: Singer\nNour Bouhassoun-Singer\nFrank Gelat: Singer\nMarvin Flores: Poet\n\n\n\n  \nMAPP (Mission Arts & Performance Project)\nLaunched 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. \nRED POPPY MAPP TEAM: \nArtistic Director | Managing Director: Dina Zarif\nSound Crew: Andrew Scott\nPR and Digital Marketing: Jennie Legary\nVolunteer coordinator: Verda Bursal \n\nABOUT THE PERFORMING ARTISTS\n\n \n\n7:05 – 7:45 pm  \nDiana Gameros  \nSongs of Light and Remembrance   \nFeaturing  \nDiana Gameros – songwriter\, singer\, multi-instrumentalist  \nDiana is a singer\, guitarist\, pianist\, composer\, songwriter\, music instructor\, lead teaching artist with the Lullaby Project and core band member of the Immigrant Orchestra. Based in San Francisco\, California\, she was born and raised in Ciudad Juárez\, México and immigrated to the United States as a teenager to study music in Michigan. Over the last decade in the Bay Area she has released two albums of original songs written in Spanish and English\, and Mexican classic songs. In 2014 Diana received the Emerging Leader Award by the Chicana/Latina Foundation. In 2015 she was named one of YBCA’s 100: creative minds\, makers\, and pioneers that are asking the questions  and making the provocations that will shape the future of American culture. NPR Music gave Diana an honorable mention to Arrullo in best Latin albums of the year in 2017. Diana was named one of SF Magazine’s 100 Artists: Artists Putting The East Bay On The Map\, in 2018.  \nDiana is currently a lead and teaching artist in San Francisco\, for the Lullaby Project\, a project of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute which pairs new and expecting parents and caregivers with professional artists to write and sing personal lullabies for their babies\, supporting parental health\, aiding childhood development\, and strengthening the bond between parent and child. \n\n \n\n8:00 pm – 8:50 pm  \nNēkajun \nIranian Liberation Folk \nFeaturing: \nNekajun –  guitar\, vocals \nAaron Kierbel – drums \nAhmed Ragab – oud\nArslen Matouii – quanun\nZ: guitar \nNēkajun is an Iranian American musician\, storyteller\, and farmer whose work braids land\, memory\, and resistance. Her songs draw from dried riverbeds\, quieted forests\, and communities shaped by borders and power.  On stage\, she blends performance and education\, lifting up stories of Iranian farmers\, Indigenous land stewards\, and others fighting to protect the earth. Her music aims to connect\, teach\, and energize collective action. \n\n9:05 pm – 10:00 pm  \nMelodies Under Occupation \nMusic from Palestine \nAn evening of Palestinian songs that celebrate resilience\, culture\, and love. Experience an intimate program of music and personal storytelling that highlights the human side of life in Palestine—focusing on family\, community\, and the everyday moments that shape identity. \nFeaturing: \nBasma Edrees-Piano\, Violin\, Voice\nAlaa Alqallel-Oud\nLoay Dahbour-Percussion\nShaden Amleh-Singer\nHala Al-Khalil: Singer\nNour Bouhassoun-Singer\nFrank Gelat: Singer\nMarvin Flores: Poet \nThis event is not only about listening—it’s about understanding. \nAwareness is the first act of solidarity. Come with an open heart and leave with a deeper sense of connection. With a special guest reading by Chicano poet Marvin Flores. \nBasma Edrees is a graduate of The Juilliard School where she received her Masters in Violin Performance and Mannes School of Music where she received her Bachelors degree. She studied with Joseph Lin\, Laurie Smukler\, Sally Thomas\, and Catherine Van Hoesen. Basma has performed under the batons of many great conductors including Alan Gilbert and Daniel Barenboim. Basma has served as Associate Concert Master of the Oakland Symphony during their 2015-2016 season. She has also been invited to sub for the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra\, San Francisco Opera Orchestra\, San Jose Chamber Orchestra\, San Jose Opera Orchestra as well as the Santa Rosa Symphony. \nBasma has performed as a soloist in various countries including the USA\, Montenegro\, Ethiopia and her native country\, Egypt.  \nEqually at home with Arabic music\, Basma is the founder of Music in-Takht; an instrumental ensemble dedicated to preserving Egyptian musical heritage in the SF Bay Area. She performed with renowned musicians from the Arab world and has been invited to give Arabic Music workshops at UC Berkeley and Stanford. She has taught Arabic music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and has also been a member of the Arabic Music faculty at Labyrinth; one of the leading educational institutions of modal music. In early 2023\, Basma was invited to play on the sound track of Assasin’s Creed Mirage alongside members of the New York Arabic Orchestra. From 2016 to 2019\, Basma Edrees held the position of Music Director of the Aswat Women Ensemble\, an all female Bay Area community ensemble specializing in Arab music. She also served as the co-manager and instructor of the Aswat Women Empowerment Program during their 2019 Fall season. \n \n \n\n\nVisual Art Exhibition: Fracture Zones\n \nInspired by the geographical language and imagery of topographic maps\, particularly the large scars forming “fracture zones” deep beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean\, she uses these fissures as a metaphor for the layers of emotional experience related to ancestry\, immigration\, and lost family narratives. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST\n \nAndrea Guskin is a San Francisco Bay Area based multidisciplinary artist who was raised amongst the woods and college campuses of Wisconsin and Ohio.  \nShe works across multiple disciplines including photography\, sculpture\, and painting. She often uses everyday domestic materials and tools for mending–such as thread\, foil\, spices– to explore ancestry\, domesticity and strategies for repair and transformation in our daily lives. \nAfter studying painting at Antioch College in Ohio\, Guskin moved to New York City and became part of the art and songwriting communities on the Lower East Side\, joining a group of visual and performing artists working in a 19th century school building now known as The Clemente. She exhibited her work and performed her songs regularly in the East Village (Sidewalk Cafe\, C Note\, CBGB’s Gallery).  \nSince moving to California\, she has regularly exhibited her work throughout the state (Berkeley Art Center\, H Gallery\, Mercury 20 Gallery)\, often combining her experience in museum education with her creative practice to lead participatory art events. Andrea is a 2025 recipient of the San Leandro Arts and Culture grant for her community cyanotype project\, Local Roots. In 2023\, she graduated with an M.F.A in Interdisciplinary Arts from Mills College at Northeastern University. She currently lives in San Leandro with her husband and two sons. \n\n\nPROGRAM for MAPP\nJoin us in MAPP at all other spaces throughout the Mission District. \n \n  \n\n\n\nIN PERSON EVENT DETAILS\nTime: Saturday\, December 6\, 2025\, 7pm- 10pm (IN-PERSON) \nAdmission: Free! \n\n \n  \nDONATE
URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/december-6th-mapp-2025/
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:December,Events,MAPP
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SUMMARY:Mostly Kosher
DESCRIPTION:Advance tickets are available online. You are advised to purchase advance tickets for this event.  \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nMostly Kosher\nLos Angeles-based Klezmer-Rock \nMostly Kosher\, the acclaimed Los Angeles-based Klezmer/Rock band\, radically reconstructs Judaic and American cultural music through ravenous global beats and arresting Yiddish refrains. Their original voice resounds with themes of social justice\, human dignity\, and mutual understanding. “Mostly Kosher is klezmer music to heal the soul!” – LA Weekly \n\n\n\nSaturday\, December 13\, 2025\nTime: 7:00 pm doors\, 7:30 pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $25 student & senior – $29 Early Bird – $35 General / (Door) $35 \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nMostly Kosher is a powerhouse Klezmer-Rock band based in Los Angeles\, radically reinventing Jewish and American cultural music with fiery klezmer beats\, rich Yiddish refrains\, and global influences of jazz\, Latin\, folk\, and rock. Their music explores themes of social justice\, resilience\, and cultural celebration. Led by vocalist and clarinetist Leeav Sofer\, the ensemble includes top LA musicians: Janice Mautner Markham\, Eric Hagstrom\, Adam Levy\, Nadav Peled\, and Ben Tevik. The band has captivated audiences at Disney Parks’ Festival of Holidays\, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion\, Skirball Cultural Center\, as well as headlining the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto. Highlights include a feature in the film The Accursed\, and their video “Vitebsk” in film festivals worldwide. \n\n\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nwww.mostlykosher.com​ \nEVENT DETAILS\nSaturday\, December 13\, 2025\nTime: 7:00 pm doors\, 7:30 pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $25 student & senior – $29 Early Bird – $35 General / (Door) $35 \nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door unless otherwise noted on the Facebook event page that the show is SOLD OUT. \nPurchase advance tickets for this event \nNote: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee a seat. Seating is first come\, first served. \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!
URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/mostly-kosher-12-25/
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Of Persian Poetics
DESCRIPTION:Advance tickets are available online. You are advised to purchase advance tickets for this event.  \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nOf Persian Poetics\nLive Persian Music Duet Performance \n\n\n\nBehfar Bahadoran: Setar and Tanbur’ \nNariman Assadi: Tombak\, Bendir\, and Daf \nFriday\, December 19\, 2025\nTime: 6:30 pm doors\, 7:00 pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $25 student & senior – $29 Early Bird – $35 General / (Door) $35 \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nBehfar Bahadoran\, born in Tehran / Iranian 1987\, studied under Iranian classical and folklore music masters including Homayoun Khorram\, Ramin Rahimi\, Ali-Akbar Moradi\, Darioush Talaei\, and Hamid Motebassem. A Visual Arts graduate from Maryland Institute College of Art\, he is a composer\, multi instrumentalist and a multidisciplinary visual artist who founded P e z h a k Ensemble in 2008\, and is also the band leader and cofounder of Sorvad Ensemble. Throughout his career\, he has worked and performed alongside notorious international musicians and artists such as Shahram Nazeri\, Majid Derakhshani\, Alireza Shahmohammadi\, Pejman Hadadi\, Pezhham Akhavass\, Dawn Avery\, John Wubbenhorst\, Larry Mitchel\, Kazem Davoudian\, Susan Deyhim and Mojgan Shajarian. He performs regularly at many prestigious venues in the United States including the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco; Lincoln Center and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Kennedy Center and Freer Shackler Gallery in Washington D.C. \nNariman Assadi is an Iranian musician. Raised in Tehran\, he always felt drawn to percussion instruments\, and at the age of thirteen\, he began studying Tombak under Master Amir Mogharab Samadi. From 2008 to 2013\, Nariman performed at Vahdat Hall as a soloist and with the Persian Percussion Ensemble at Pars Academy\, the premier music academy for children. After mastering Tombak\, he then began learning Daf under the great Master Bijan Kamkar\, and with a strong understanding of the Daf and Tombak\, Nariman started learning Barbat (Oud) under Master Mohammad Firouzi. In 2015\, Nariman immigrated to the United States\, where he immediately began his professional music career by performing and attending festivals. Along with being a member of various ensembles\, Nariman is a certified-Orff teacher and teaches Daf\, Tombak\, and Music for children. \nIn 2022\, he toured all over the United States with Afra Ensemble\, led by Master Hossein Behrouzina\, and additionally\, Nariman relaeasd his first album Larzanah\, Improvisation of Iranian Folk Music\, with Master Faraj Alipour on vocals and Kamancheh. Currently\, he teaches Iranian Music at Farsi Schools in Sacramento and the Bay Area. He also teaches music at more than seven elemantary schools in Sacramento. \n   \n \n\n\nFacebook • Nariman Assadi: https://www.facebook.com/NarimanAssadiPercussion \nInstagram • Nariman: https://www.instagram.com/nariman.percussion \nInstagram • Behfar Bahadoran: https://www.instagram.com/behfarbahadoran \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\nFriday\, December 19\, 2025\nTime: 6:30 pm doors\, 7:00 pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $25 student & senior – $29 Early Bird – $35 General / (Door) $35 \nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door unless otherwise noted on the Facebook event page that the show is SOLD OUT. \nPurchase advance tickets for this event \nNote: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee a seat. Seating is first come\, first served. \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!                            
URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/of-persian-poetics/
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
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