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SUMMARY:June 6th MAPP
DESCRIPTION:June 6th MAPP\n \n  \n  \nTHIS IS A FREE EVENT \nSaturday\, June 6\, 2026 | 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.\nRed Poppy Art House\nMAPP (Mission Art Performance Project)\n2698 Folsom @23rd\nCurator: Dina Zarif \n7:15 PM – 7:45 PM\nSoundscapes (A Soulful Melodic Journey)\nEliot Valz – Solo guitar \n8:00 PM – 8:45 PM\nEsotérica Tropical (Puerto Rican Medicinal Songs)\nMaría José Montijo – Harp & vocals \n9:00 PM – 9:45 PM\nMelodies of the Hindustani Tradition (Expressive Ragas)\nKamal Ahmad – Sitar\nNilan Chaudhuri – Tabla \nExhibition:\nBĀZ-TĀB (Reflection) by Sima Shahverdi\, a large-scale installation featuring charcoal drawings and paper sculpture\, presented as part of A Season for Iran. \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 \nContent manager: Jennie Legary\nSound crew: Andrew Scott\nHost: Verda Bursal  \nABOUT THE PERFORMING ARTISTS\n\nThe Genie  Soundscapes  \nA Soulful Melodic Journey \nFeaturing: \nEliot Valz – Solo guitar   \nEliot Valz is a rising 11th -grade musician and performer at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco. He performs with Marcus Shelby’s Teen Jazz Band at CMC\, Old Skool Cafe\, and his rock band\, Thorn. Thorn just released their new EP on Spotify\, and they will be heading to the Treefort Music Festival in Boise\, Idaho  in March. Eliot’s musical development has been shaped through mentorship with artists including Marcus Shelby\, Kyle Blaze\, and Javi Madrigal. Eliot is eager to continue growing as a musician through collaboration with diverse artists in professional and creative music spaces.  \n\n\nEsotérica Tropical \nMedicinal Songs from Puerto Rico \nFeaturing:\nMaría José Montijo – Harp & vocals \nEsotérica Tropical transcends musical boundaries with her commanding voice\, harp\, and fusion of Bomba rhythms with electronic production. Her self-titled debut album was named Best Bay Area Music of 2024 by KQED\, KALW\, and White Crate. Her work boldly challenges colonial mentality\, advocating for sovereignty and surrealism. A chance encounter with a Celtic harp on a Puerto Rican beach in 2009 transformed her from an acupuncturist into a genre-defying musical magician. Drawing on 20 years as a traditional medicine practitioner\, Esotérica’s ritualistic performances have captivated audiences at major venues and festivals worldwide including Brava Theater\, The Chapel\, MACLA\, Oakland Museum of California\, SOMArts\, Teatro Municipal de Cusco\, Festival Color Caribe\, Teatro el Supremo\, and el Fiestón Cultural del Instituto de Cultura de PR. \n\n\n\n \n\n\nMelodies of the Hindustani Tradition  \nExpressive raags through improvisation & tradition \nFeaturing: \nKamal Ahmad – Sitar\nNilan Chaudhuri – Tabla \nKamal Ahmad’s path to music wasn’t conventional\, and that’s exactly what makes him a better teacher. His journey began with tabla before his elder sister introduced him to the sitar\, sparking a devotion that would reshape his life. He sought formal training under sarod maestro Arnab Chakrabarty\, who introduced him to sitar virtuoso Vinayak Chittar and scholar-vocalist Pandit Arijit Mahalanabis\, a lineage of mentorship rooted in the deepest traditions of Indian classical music. Trained as a neuroscientist\, Kamal started his serious musical study later than most. Rather than a setback\, this became his advantage. His scientific mind drove him to find the most efficient\, intentional methods of practice\, the same methods he now teaches his students. He didn’t just learn raga music. He studied how people learn\, and built his teaching around it. \nNilan Chaudhuri is a Bay Area based percussionist\, educator\, and performer. Initiated into the tradition of Indian Classical Music at the age of five by his father\, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri\, Nilan has been performing as a tabla soloist and accompanist for nearly two decades. Prior to beginning his formal training with his father in 2000\, Nilan studied tabla with Brad Van Cleve\, Tim Witter\, and Uttam Chakraborty\, all of whom are senior disciples of his father.  \nDrawing inspiration from his father’s innovative approach to classical tabla solo\,  Nilan was determined from a young age to be a soloist. He presented his first public tabla recital at the age of eleven\, at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael\, in the presence of Maestro Ali Akbar Khansahib. It was during these formative years that Nilan was introduced to the world of Tabla accompaniment by Maestro Ali Akbar Khan\, providing rhythmic support for his vocal and instrumental classes at the college.   \n\n\nVisual Art Exhibition: BĀZ-TĀB (Reflection)\n \nBĀZ-TĀB (Reflection) by Sima Shahverdi\, a large-scale installation featuring charcoal drawings and paper sculpture\, presented as part of A Season for Iran. \nBĀZ-TĀB (meaning reflection) is a body of work rooted in the architectural memory of Iran. Each piece begins as a large-scale hand drawing of a specific Iranian site—a courtyard\, a dome\, an arched passage—built gradually in charcoal\, documented frame by frame\, and brought to life through animation. Three-dimensional paper sculptures emerge from the drawings\, collapsing the boundary between image and object. Together\, these elements seek to recreate something closer to how we actually remember a place: not as a photograph\, but as a dream—fragmentary\, layered\, and alive. \nAt Red Poppy Art House\, the two parallel walls become the interior faces of an Iranian house—one the tabestān-neshin (summer room)\, the other the zemestān-neshin (winter room). The audience sits at the center\, where the courtyard would be. \nWe are Iranians scattered across cities\, each carrying memories of a place we can no longer easily return to. My own memories are of the architectural spaces I walked through as a student—the hum of voices beneath a dome\, a voice carrying across a courtyard\, the cool wind descending through a badgir. I invite the audience to gather at the howz\, sit by the water\, and look up at the sky. \nThis is not documentation. It is not nostalgia. It is the act of remembering as a collective\, embodied\, present-tense experience. We become part of the house. The house becomes part of us. \nMAPP GENERAL PROGRAM\nJoin us in MAPP at all other spaces throughout the Mission District. \n\n\nIN PERSON EVENT DETAILS\nTime: June 6th\, 2026\, 7pm- 10pm (IN-PERSON) \nAdmission: Free! \n\n \n  \nDONATE
URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/june-6th-mapp/
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:June,MAPP,Performing Arts
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