December 7th MAPP

Saturday, December 7th, 2024 | 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom @23rd
Curator: Dina Zarif

Interactive art installation: Soft Blueprints by Andrea Guskin
A Space for Community Weaving and Connection

7:00 – 7:15 pm : Soft Blueprints (Installation introduction)
7:20 – 8:00 pm : Words, Winds and Strings (Harp, Saxophone & Spoken Word)
8:15 – 9:00 pm : R A G A M E N C O (Indian melodies meet flamenco jazz)
9:15 -10:00 pm : Sambamba (Rio samba, Bossa Nova, & Pagode)

THIS IS A FREE EVENT

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.

We will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.

RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:

Artistic Director | Managing Director: Dina Zarif 

PR and Digital Marketing: Anjali Varma

MAPP DECEMBER 7TH, 2024 PROGRAM

Interactive art installation: Soft Blueprints

A Space for Community Weaving and Connection

Soft Blueprints is a space and an invitation to gather, weave, and reflect in this particularly stressful time. The installation features a blue space constructed with printed fabrics that originated from cyanotypes. The fabric design was created by placing shredded paper—from documents too personal to share whole—on paper and fabric treated with photosensitive chemicals and exposed to the sun.

Guests will be invited to sit inside the space and contribute to collaborative community looms: branch looms and a tapestry frame loom. Materials for weaving include artist-designed fabrics, wool roving, and a selection of upcycled fabrics.

Next to the cozy window seat installation, a small table will offer an opportunity to write or draw your own blueprint for taking care of each other and the world, with the chance to weave your creation into one of the looms.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Using everyday objects, textiles, and tools for mending, my work explores ancestry, domesticity, and strategies for repair in our daily lives. Through layering, ripping, and transforming ordinary materials–spices, funnels, tape, wool–I create objects and spaces where the familiar converses with the existential

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Andrea Guskin is a San Francisco Bay Area artist raised amongst the woods and college campuses of Wisconsin and Ohio. She began drawing by pillaging her father’s office supplies for fine-tipped pens and yellow legal pads, filling them with costumed figures while lounging on a 1970s shag carpet.
After studying painting at Antioch College, Andrea moved to NYC and became a part of the visual and songwriting community on the Lower East Side. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2003, Andrea has exhibited her work in galleries and alternative spaces throughout the state, including the Richmond Art Center, the Berkeley Art Center, Swarm Gallery, and Mercury 20 Gallery.

Beginning in 2019, Andrea added a participatory aspect to her work, merging her many years in museum education and her art practice to create community art events across the Bay Area. She graduated with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Mills College at Northeastern University in April of 2023.

Andrea currently lives in San Leandro with her husband and two sons.

ABOUT THE PERFORMING ARTISTS

Words, Winds, and Strings
Music and Spoken Word

Performing some of their favorite classical works, from the Baroque era to the present day, both accomplished musicians, Amelia Romano and Asaf Ophir, present a unique program. Their selections are interwoven with poetry and short stories, as well as Amelia’s original compositions inspired by Latin American rhythms and folk traditions.

Featuring:
Amelia Romano – Harp, vocals
Asaf Ophir – poetry, spoken word, Saxophone, flute, vocals

Asaf Ophir began his professional career in musical theater in Israel, on some of Israel’s most distinguished stages. Having moved to the United States in 2014, Ophir can be seen playing Jewish, Arabic, and Balkan music. Throughout his career he has shared the stage with artists such as Miri Mesika, Avi Kushnir, Galit Giat, David De’or, Rana Farhan, and Barbara Streisand. The San Francisco Chronicle writes: “Asaf Ophir gives the clarinet the timbre of a trumpet, then a violin, then a raspy scream… the instrument’s wail almost becomes too plaintive and beautiful to bear.”

A composer, arranger, and trailblazer in the lever harp world, Amelia Romano (harp, voice) is a concertizing lever harpist. The lever harp is often played by folk musicians and designed to play folk music from countries including Ireland and Scotland. In this context, oftentimes the lever mechanisms at the top of the instrument are set in the key of the song and left that way throughout the folk song. Conversely, on the classical pedal harp, one can easily change notes by stepping on the pedals. Amelia’s vision has taken on both harp worlds and tackles complex classical passages on the lever harp by shifting the mechanisms mid-song, which is fascinating to watch. While pedal harps weigh 80 pounds, lever harps weigh 25 making them very portable. Romano lived in South Africa for a year and has toured in Europe, the southern United States, and Pacific Northwest, bringing her enthusiasm for lever harps to classical music, wherever she goes.
Romano received her Master’s Degree in Classical Lever Harp Performance at San Francisco State University under the tutelage of Karen Gottlieb, retired harpist of the San Francisco Symphony.

Sambamba
Joyful Rio samba, Bossa Nova, and Pagode

Sambamba brings the joyful spirit of Rio de Janeiro’s samba, from the mellow Bossa Nova of Jobim to the Samba Canção and Samba de Raiz of Paulinho da Viola and Martinho da Vila, to the Samba-Pagode of Zeca Pagodinho, Almir Guineto, Jorge Aragão, Revelação, and beyond — getting everyone in the mood for a true Carioca Saturday!

Featuring:
Lau Paiva – Guitar, Vocals, Percussion
Rodrigo Lemes – Cavaquinho, Vocals, Pandeiro
Andrew Scott – Pandeiro, Tantan, Reco-reco, cajon, tamborim
+ Surprise Special Guests!

Brazil is home to an extraordinary diversity of music, ranging from the Samba and Bossa Nova of Rio de Janeiro, to the Forró, Maracatu, Baião, and Samba Reggae of the Northeast, to the Sertanejo country music of Central Brazil (Brasília, Goiânia), and the urban Hip-hop, funk, and metal scenes of São Paulo.

Sambamba is a Bay Area group that specializes in the authentic joy of samba and bossa nova, performing in the traditional pagode de mesa party style. This style encourages guest musicians to join around the table and sing the songs that every Brazilian seems to know. The core of Sambamba is a trio, which can expand to a quartet or quintet depending on the situation. The band members have been playing together in various Bay Area groups for the last 20 years, and their diverse backgrounds bring an eclectic mix of influences to their music.

Lau Paiva is from Piracicaba, São Paulo. A talented guitarist (violão) and singer, Lau performs a wide range of Brazilian music styles and knows hundreds of songs. He loves collaborating with different musicians and has been performing for many years, both as a soloist and as part of various small groups in the Bay Area.

Rodrigo Lemes is from Goiânia and Rio de Janeiro. He grew up with Sertanejo country music from Goiás and later became captivated by the samba and samba funk of Rio. Rodrigo has played with numerous top Bay Area musicians in groups like Grupo da Sete, Grupo Borogodo, and alongside Maestro Jorge Alabé. Known for his joyful energy, Rodrigo brings dynamic vocals and rhythmic grooves on cavaquinho and pandeiro.

Andrew Scott moved to San Francisco from London and has lived in the Mission and Bernal Heights for 40 years, returning to London annually. He runs Studio 401, which has been recording and producing a diverse array of artists from the Bay Area, London, Brazil, South Africa, and Argentina for over 25 years. In addition to drum-set, Andrew plays a wide range of percussion instruments. He has performed throughout the Bay Area, notably with his groups The Rhyth-o-matics, Kombokwela, and Grupo da Sete. He has also lived in Brazil and participated in Carnaval with Paraiso Samba in London and Samba Rio in San Francisco. Andrew has studied with Maestro Jorge Alabé, Maestro Chuck Brown, and Maestro Marcos Suzano. A specialist in South African jazz, he recently produced the acclaimed Duduvudu CD. Andrew also served as Executive Director of the Mission YMCA for 13 years. His two grown children, Chloë and Jody Scott, are both professional musicians based in the Bay Area.

 

PREVIEW THE PERFORMANCE

R A G A M E N C O

Words, Winds and Strings

 

PREVIEW THE PERFORMANCE

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IN PERSON EVENT DETAILS

Time: December 7th, 2024, 7pm- 10pm (IN-PERSON)

Admission: Free!

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