Red Poppy Art House

Cello for Peace with Ian Maksin (TWO SHOWS)
2022-05-14 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
WORLD-ACCLAIMED CELLIST RETURNS to SAN FRANCISCO with a CONCERT to SUPPORT PEACE in UKRAINE

*We have missed our packed events, but due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic and with respect to the safety of our staff, volunteers & artists, we must operate at a limited capacity. We can only accommodate 25 guests per show. Please purchase your tickets soon.

*Please be advised that no concessions will be served during the event*
Advance tickets are available online for both shows. It is advised to purchase advance tickets for this event. If tickets sell out online, tickets will not be available at the door.

FEATURING:
Ian Maksin – cello, vocals
Cellist, composer and multilingual vocalist singing in 30 languages Ian Maksin returns to San Francisco as part of the North American tour to support peace in Ukraine. Portion of the ticket and merch proceeds will go to humanitarian relief funds. Ian will sing in Ukrainian, Polish, French, Italian, Yiddish, Farsi, Armenian, and several other languages and will also share original instrumental music from his last year’s release “The Alchemist”, as well as some brand new compositions that haven’t been recorded yet.
ABOUT IAN MAKSIN:
BREAKING BOUNDARIES both musical and geographical, cellist, composer and multilingual vocalist IAN MAKSIN has created his own unique style by blending elements of different genres and traditional music from around the globe in a new way using his cello as the main unifying force.
ONE-MAN ORCHESTRA: In addition to cello, he used an electronic device called the loop pedal, which allows him to create “loops” or layers by recording and replaying his own playing in real time.
SINGING IN 30 LANGUAGES: What began as a hobby and a passion for linguistics and travel has become part of a unique concert experience. At this time Ian Maksin sings in Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, English, Farsi, Armenian, French, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, Mongolian, Bambara (one of the tongues spoken in West Africa) and many other exotic languages. Most of this repertoire was amassed by Maksin during his world travels, jam sessions and collaborations with local musicians. Many of his original songs and instrumental compositions are also infused with flavors of ethnic music from countries and regions where he drew inspiration from: Mongolia, West Africa, Middle East, the Balkans, Andalusian flamenco.
THE GLOBAL MUSICIAN: Ian Maksin was born in Leningrad, former USSR, into a multinational family and grew up absorbing many cultures and traditions from an early age. He began playing guitar and piano at age 3 and cello at age 6 at the School for Gifted Children in Leningrad and then came to the USA at 16 to continue studies at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. After working for many years in the classical genre including a three-year tenure with the New World Symphony in Miami Ian has decided to look for his own musical path. His diverse musical experience, including playing rock and blues guitar and passion for jazz and world music has allowed him to take the cello to a new dimension and develop his own distinct style as a musician and composer. In Ian’s own words: “At some point I realized that music is much more than mere entertainment. Music is one of most powerful and unifying forces in the world, capable of healing, inspiring, bringing people together and bringing peace among them. I believe that cello will save the world”.
Preview the music:

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EVENT DETAILS
Time: (First Show) 6:30 pm doors, 7:00 pm show / (Second Show) 8:30 pm doors, 8:45 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $35 general, $25 student & senior with valid ID
Note: 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.
Purchase advance tickets for this event:
Note: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee seats. Seating is first come, first served.
RSVP to the Facebook event:

Purchase tickets online: Cello for Peace with Ian Maksin (TWO SHOWS)

COVID-19 Precautions:
We appreciate your patience and support as we learn together how to navigate the challenges around COVID, to create a safe space for our artists, staff and community for in person events.
Please review the following information carefully:
To make the event a safe and comfortable one for all, Red Poppy will be strictly enforcing COVID-19 Vaccine requirements. Please note that we will NOT make any exceptions. All guests will be required to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccinations (2 doses + 1 booster at least) and a photo ID at the door to gain entry.
All guests will be required to wear masks indoors during the event at all times.

We’re back, in-person! Thursday April 28th with "Una Noche de Tango"
2022-04-28 18:00 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Thursday, April 28th, 2022
Re-Opening with “Una Noche de Tango”
Thursday, April 28th, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm | FREE

We are thrilled to welcome you back into our cozy art house!
This Thursday April 28th, come and celebrate with us as we resume our “Performance Series”.
With “Una Noche de Tango” featuring Charles Gorczynski on bandoneon, Sascha Jacobsen on double bass, and Scott O’Day on guitar!
This is our very first show after 113 weeks!
Your presence is much appreciated!
We plan to resume our “Performance Program” with a few shows per month with limited capacity, to slowly build up to our pre – COVID capacity. As we are building our team to present programs, we are looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our Performance Host / Event Production team. We also look for volunteers for our events. Please read the announcement at the end of this email.
We want to give a special shout out to a few amazing organizations that have recently awarded us with their funds: California Art council for Impact Project grant to support the MAPP (Mission Arts Performance Project), and the Cultural Organizations General Operating Relief. We are also very excited to share that we received Community vision’s San Francisco Arts Reopening Fund to support our reopening process.
We are incredibly grateful for YOU: Our amazing community members, artists, donors, and audience who have supported us and helped us get through the last 2 challenging years. With your support, we will be able to continue our work in presenting unique artistry in 2022.
Your Red Poppy Family

OUR COVID PROTOCOLS
We appreciate your patience and support as we learn together how to navigate the challenges around COVID, to create a safe space for our artists, staff and community for in person events.
We missed our packed events, but for our staff, volunteers & artists safety, we need to keep a Limited capacity and follow safety guidelines.
For all our events, guests will be required to:

Provide proof of COVID-19 vaccinations (2 doses + 1 booster at least) and a photo ID
Wear masks indoors during the event at all times.

Recognizing that not everybody is ready to return to in-person events, and wearing masks for a long duration of time might be hard, we are also working on expanding our virtual capacity and continue to offer virtual events as well as the flexibility of blending virtual and in-person programs.
We look forward to seeing you soon, whether in-person or virtually!
Thursday April 28th with “Una Noche de Tango”
Come and celebrate with us as we resume our performance program series after over 2 years!

TWO SHOWS
Date: Thursday April 28, 2022
Time: (First Show) 6:30pm doors, 7pm show /(Second Show) 8:30pm doors, 8:45pm show
Admission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $35 general, $25 student & senior

TICKETS

*We missed our packed events, but due to COVID, and our staff, volunteers & artists safety, we need to keep a Limited capacity. We can only accommodate 25 guests per show. Please get your tickets soon. *Please be advised that no concessions will be served during the event*

Argentine Tango in concert with Trio Gorczynski, Jacobsen, O’Day
An evening of classic Tango music from Argentina. Their romantic Tango sound is cool, impassioned, sensuous, seductive and enticing. The members of the trio have crossed the country and the world to be here for the concert!

FEATURING
Charles Gorczynski – bandoneón
Sascha Jacobsen – contrabajo
Scott O’Day – guitarra

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Sascha Jacobsen
He was born into a musical family, going as far back as his great, great, great, great-grandfather, who was a bassist for the Moscow Opera. His mentors have been Michael and James Finley, John Brecher, Nico Abondolo, and Dennis Trembly, as well as Wolfgang Guttler and Shinji Eshima. He completed a Master’s degree at the University of Southern California and has served on the faculty at The California Jazz Conservatory, Humboldt State University, Laney College, Golden Gate Bass Camp, and the Sequoia Chamber Music Festival. Sascha has performed with Kronos Quartet, Rita Moreno, Hugh Jackman, Martin Short, Mandy Patinkin & Patti LuPone, Marc Shaiman, Bonnie Raitt, Randy Newman, Josh Groban, Kristin Chenoweth, Andrew Lippa, Eddie Duran, Dave MacNab, Tim Weed, Tango masters Raul Jaurena, Pepe Motta, and Maria Volonte, Flamenco greats Chuscales, Jose Luis Rodriguez, and Juanito Pascual, as well as Grammy winning artists Mads Tolling and Tupac Mantilla, and many others. He was a founding member of the Classical Revolution movement, which has spread around the world and has performed with Adam Theis and the Jazz Mafia.
Sascha also performed as principal bass with the Santa Cruz Symphony, and the American Musical Theatre in San Jose, and as a section member of the Monterey Symphony and the Sarasota Opera, as well as on the world premier production of Rita Moreno’s Life Without Makeup, Martin Short’s Fame Becomes Me, and Hugh Jackman In Performance, recorded the new cast album of A Chorus Line, and has toured the world with the Argentine Tango group: Trio Garufa.
He is the founder of the Musical Art Quintet which performs his original works. Strad Magazine say his music is “…Stylish and Vigorous…beautifully arranged”. SF Bay Gaurdian says “composer-bassist Sascha Jacobsen’s concoctions hop nimbly through a world of styles while impressing with ear-catching intricacy and handsome technique.”. East Bay Express says “Classical Music is sexy again”. SF Weekly says: “Classical training and a taste for evocative melodies underpin this sound”.
www.saschajacobsen.com

Charles Gorczynski
Oakland, California based composer and bandoneonist Charles Gorczynski writes modern tango and contemporary chamber music without stylistic restriction. As leader of the acclaimed bay area sextet Redwood Tango Ensemble and member of Barreiro Tango Trio, he has toured extensively in North America and Europe, including performances in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Portland, Seattle, Montreal, Pisa, and Rome. Charles has performed Astor Piazzolla’s Bandoneon Concerto “Aconcagua” with composer Mason Bates’ Mercury Soul Orchestra, has worked with the California Symphony, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and has debuted his compositions on concert bills with the Kronos Quartet, Friction Quartet, Diego Schissi, and Tango Sin Fin. He actively supports local community and publishes scores and transcriptions on his personal website. Charles has toured internationally as bandoneonist for the Argentine tango groups Tango BC Trio, Barreiro Tango Trio, and Alejandro Ziegler Quartet, and collaborated on dozens of tango albums. His compositions for various ensembles have been debuted with Chamber Music Northwest Festival in Portland and with IntermusicSF in San Francisco, where he was twice awarded the MGP grant (2016 / 2018) commissioning new compositions in the style. Handling woodwinds and electronics, his improvisational work with the long-standing Colorlist (with Charles Rumback and John Hughes) produced six albums exploring “lush, hypnotizing soundscapes… a gorgeous constellation of melodic lines…” (Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader), noted as “a splendidly fresh free-jazz trip… spellbinding” (Igloo Magazine) . Colorlist released their most recent album ‘Full Circle’ with Serein Records, where “the band creates soundscapes that are clearly informed by jazz but incorporate a sonic palette rooted in the broad genre of electronica, which allows them to explore realms of bubbling and pittering ambience, collections of subtly glitching gestures, and washes of frequencies that emphasize the ambiguity of sound.”(Margasak, Chicago Reader)
Charles has released albums with Serein Records, 482 Music, Ropeadope Records, Front Forty Press, and has recently launched his own imprint Caverns Records.
https://www.charlesgorczynski.com/

Scott O’Day
Scott received a Bachelor’s of Music in guitar performance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master’s of Music in guitar performance from San Francisco State University. He attended La Escuela de Musica Popular de Avellaneda in Buenos Aires. Scott has travelled the world to learn flamenco, tango and other folk music. He grew up in North Carolina playing blues and folk. Scott directs and performs regularly with his various tango ensemble projects. He has toured the United States with tango dance bands and is active throughout the country as a musician in the tango dance community. Scott is proficient in French and Spanish. More information can be found at www.scottoday.com.

Upcoming In-Person Programs

Save the dates for Adrian Arias Artistic residency and ILLUSION SHOWS at Red poppy art house:
Sunday, May 22nd (ILLUSION SHOW Part #1)
Saturday, June 4th at MAPP (ILLUSION SHOW Part #2)
Saturday, June 18th (ILLUSION SHOW Part #3)

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adrian Arian is a poet, visual artist, performer, art teacher, and South American cultural activist based in the Bay Area for two decades. His poetry and visual art have won awards and local and international recognition. His work has been presented at the Young Museum, San Marcos Museum, Poetic Nights of Struga, Macedonia, Benamil Residence in Spain, Venice Biennale, Latin American Biennial of Lima, etc. Creator of the multidisciplinary event Illusion Show, and the Poem of the Day.

PREVIEW THE MUSIC

Sascha Jacobsen

Charles Gorczynski & Scott O’Day

ONLINE EVENT DETAILS
Time: April 28th, 7pm- 10:00pm (ONLINE)
Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House facebook page

DONATE

April 2nd MAPP (Online)
2022-04-02 19:00 - 22:00 | CA
April 2nd MAPP (Online)
Building Community Resilience Through the Arts
Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm | FREE

During the last 2 years, our goal has been to continue providing excellent and uplifting programs to our dedicated audiences. We are pleased to announce the next FREE MAPP program.
Our MAPP FESTIVAL program includes 4 performances on FEB 5TH, live streamed from Mexico City, Los Angeles & the Bay Area to your homes!
From Peruvian music & Puerto Rican Cuatro, to Klezmer-Rock.
Live streaming will be available on Facebook
Please consider investing in the future of the Arts and the Artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.
Make a gift to the Red Poppy Art House today!
Red Poppy Art House Needs You

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 have 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 are pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continues to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We look forward to the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.
This program is funded by California Arts Council Impact Project Grant and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and 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
Host & Tech Support: Leeav Sofer
PR & Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary
RPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) APRIL 2nd

SATURDAY APRIL 2ND

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artists

7:00 -7:05 pm
Introduction, Artists meet and greet
The host Leeav Sofer will meet and greet the artists

7:05 – 7:50 pm
Alejandro y Maria Laura
Peruvian / indie folk Music Live from Mexico city
Maria Laura Bustamante – Vocals and keyboard
Alejandro Rivas -Vocals and Guitar

7:55- 8:30 pm
Songs for the Heart and Soul
Singer-Songwriter/World
Adrienne Shamszad – Vocalist, Songwriter

8:35- 9:10 pm
Pedro José Pastrana ”Puerto Rican Cuatro”
Music for an (extra) ordinary future with an instrument from the past
Pedro José Pastrana – Cuatro

9:15-10:00 pm
“THIS WORLD IS YOURS” premier by Mostly Kosher duo
Experimental Judaic cultural genre & Klezmer-Rock
Leeav Sofer – Vocals, Piano, Accordion, Clarinet
Janice Mautner Markham – Violin, Vocals

PERFORMANCES (ONLINE) APRIL 2nd

Alejandro y Maria Laura
Duo from Perú, Indie folk LIVE from Mexico City
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Alejandro y Maria Laura is a duo from Perú. They have crafted original and genre bending songs with latin american roots. Their setup is intimate but playful. Their songs are like instant pictures of their own relationship and life, most recently regarding themes such as parenting, social and political issues in their home country, and global climate crisis.
Featuring:
Maria Laura Bustamante – Vocals and keyboard
Alejandro Rivas -Vocals and Guitar
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Duo, bandleaders, life partners and co-authors from Perú. Since 2009, Alejandro y María Laura have published three records, one EP, thirteen singles and two compilatory albums with deeply felt songs such as “Agüita del Equilibrio” and “Una fiesta cualquiera”.
The couple has recorded songs with renowned latin american artists, among them, Andrea Echeverri (Aterciopelados), Kevin Johansen, Paulinho Moska, Perotá Chingó, Juan Campodónico and Susana Baca.
In the past years they have been awarded with the Ibermúsicas award for songwriting (2016), the Luces award from Diario El Comercio and a Golden Record for the álbum Paracaídas. They have showcased their music in the HBO series “Encuentros en Brasil” and the NPR show “World Café Live”.
In 2019 they celebrated their tenth anniversary in Perú’s most important theater “Gran Teatro Nacional”. The same year they participated in festivals such as Festival Estereopicnic (Colombia) and Festival Selvámonos (Perú).
Alejandro y Maria Laura are now living in Mexico City and producing their fourth album.

Adrienne Shamszad | Singer + Songwriter
Songs for the Heart and Soul
Featuring:
Adrienne Shamszad – Vocalist and Songwriter
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Adrienne Shamszad is a singer, songwriter, composer and teaching artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her musical style expresses the union of American Roots and Iranian Tradition, a blend of folk, soul and blues infused with Iranian vocals, melodies and poetry. She combines her study of Iranian Classical music with her decades of experience in American songwriting craft to tell the story of her unique perspective with longing, hope, humor and depth. Adrienne is a multi-instrumentalist and accompanies herself on guitar, piano, and Iranian Setar. She will showcase several songs she has composed during the pandemic and a few re-imagined classics.

Pedro José Pastrana | Puerto Rican Cuatro
Music for an (extra) ordinary future with an instrument from the past
“What does it mean to create and play Puerto Rican music? To capture that duality, the compositions for this performance make use of cultural elements but outside of their traditional context, by combining the melodic elements of folk music, jazz harmonies and Afro-Puerto Rican rhythms”.
Featuring:
Pedro José Pastrana – Cuatro
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Pedro José Pastrana grew up playing the national instrument “cuatro”. His passion for discovery got him to move out his native Puerto Rico and travel different countries allowing him to explore other musical cultures. After years as a sideman, all of these collaborations have been the spark for this original project, fusing all of his influences into one story. With a passion for genre bending rooted in folk music, Pedro brings his dynamism to the fore and shows the versatility of the instrument in popular and world music.”

The Making-of “THIS WORLD IS YOURS”
Sneak preview of Mostly Kosher’s newest album, ​​Experimental Judaic cultural genre & Klezmer-Rock
In this engagement, Mostly Kosher’s bandleader Leeav Sofer and premiere violinist and co-founder, Janice Mautner Markham, will guide the audience through multiple songs off of the album and the multiple layers of cultural history that informed each original, new song. This musical journey will explore ties to historical composers, Jewish diaspora languages as well as the social justice themes tied to the band’s outreach work in Skid Row.
Featuring:
leeav sofer – Vocals, Piano, Accordion, Clarinet
Janice Mautner Markham – Violin ,Vocals
ALBUM DESCRIPTION:
MOSTLY KOSHER, the acclaimed Los Angeles Klezmer-Rock band, boldly redefines their musical genre with a much anticipated 2nd album, This World is Yours. The ensemble takes the listener through a timeline of history with modern protest music, toppling norms of intolerance and indifference. Birthed into an urban jungle of street Jewish folk music, we are led through deserts, wars, failures, triumphs, love & survival.
The first song begins with footsteps into a shtetl (village) leading us into the depths of old world Judaic folk music, tavern-style! The album’s odyssey quickly twists into the modern era, inspired by the great rock operas of Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and Decemberists’ Hazards of Love, to reimagine messages of social justice, mutual understanding, sabotaged love and unstoppable joy. The album stands as a natural successor to the Judaic roots genre, and reminds society to pass this age-old message on to future generations: “You save one life, you save the world” – The Talmud. The title track is amply named: this world is yours.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Led by frontman Leeav Sofer, one of Jewish Journal’s “30 under 30” most accomplished professionals in the Los Angeles Jewish diaspora, Mostly Kosher is comprised of some of the highest regarded Los Angeles musicians: violinist Janice Mautner Markham, drummer Eric Hagstrom, bassist Adam Levy, accordionist Gee Rabe, trombonist Taylor Covey and Aníbal Seminario on clarinet and sax.

CURRENT EXHIBITION: Paintings & Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution by Adrian Arias

Paintings in Pandemic and Revolution | Adrian Arias
The current exhibition on view in walls of The Red Poppy Art House

ARTIST STATEMENT
Adrián believes that poetry is in constant motion, and that feeds on each discipline to continue among us. Sometimes it is a photograph of a feather lying on the shore, sometimes a book-object that seems to tell us the future, sometimes the body moving slowly between blue lights to go dancing with paper and umbrellas, without rain. The absurd, the light, the sensual, the shadow, the dreams, are often elements in the daily life of Adrian, who in addition to declaring himself a Poet in motion, is an art teacher and a cultural organizer of events.

“During 2020 Adrian returned to an old style of painting that he used in Lima, Peru in the 80s, one that was baptized as” Virus Style “, because it is based on painting and spontaneous writing, which grows rapidly with the motivation of what we hear or see around us.
These works are the result of collaborations and virtual conversations with friends from different parts of the world. Adrian was connected with poets and musicians from Argentina, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and various states of the USA, creating several of the pieces in this exhibition live, online. In addition, Adrian spent some time creating his “Monsters of the Day”, showing his feelings about the pandemic, which are also part of this exhibition.

Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution | Adrian Arias

Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution, inspired by Adrian Arias’ lucid dream of a fortune teller and cards embellished with images of viruses, masks, Black Lives Matter, marches, and protests, is a unique 81-card Tarot deck. It is accompanied by an exquisite book of poetry, created by 67 internationally-recognized artists and poets (24 visual artists, 43 poets) with deep ties to the San Francisco Bay Area, who span three generations. These award-winning poet laureates, novelists, authors, muralists, painters, graphic artists, performance artists, composers, musicians, and dancers are each committed to social, environmental, food, public health, and climate justice, and have used their powerful talents to create tarot images and poems in response to the critical times we are living in. This deck is a bold expression of hope, resilience, resistance, and the courage to continue forging a path to justice and love.
Presented in partnership with Red Poppy Art House, Nomadic Press, and Baldocchi Projects & Collaborations. Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution (81-CARD DECK) is available here for purchase.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adrian Arian is a poet, visual artist, performer, art teacher, and South American cultural activist based in the Bay Area for two decades. His poetry and visual art have won awards and local and international recognition. His work has been presented at the Young Museum, San Marcos Museum, Poetic Nights of Struga, Macedonia, Benamil Residence in Spain, Venice Biennale, Latin American Biennial of Lima, etc. Creator of the multidisciplinary event Illusion Show, and the Poem of the Day.

PREVIEW THE PERFORMANCE
Alejandro y Maria Laura

Adrienne Shamszad

Pedro José Pastrana

Mostly Kosher

ONLINE EVENT DETAILS
Time: April 2nd, 7pm- 10:00pm (ONLINE)
Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House facebook page

DONATE

February 5th MAPP (Online)
2022-02-05 19:00 - 21:30 | Online, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
February 5th MAPP (Online)
Building Community Resilience Through the Arts
Saturday, February 5th @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm | FREE

Click here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming on Facebook.
During the last 2 years, our goal has been to continue providing excellent and uplifting programs to our dedicated audiences. We are pleased to announce the next FREE MAPP program.
Our MAPP FESTIVAL program includes 3 performances on FEB 5TH, live streamed from New York, Oakland and Buenos aires to your homes.
Live streaming will be available on Facebook
Please consider investing in the future of the Arts and the Artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.
Make a gift to the Red Poppy Art House today!
Red Poppy Art House Needs You
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 have 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 are pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continues to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We look forward to the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.
This program is funded by California Arts Council Impact Project Grant and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and 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
Host & Tech Support: Leeav Sofer
PR & Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary
RPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) FEB 5TH

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5TH

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artists

7:00 -7:05 pm
Introduction, Artists meet and greet
The host Leeav Sofer will meet and greet the artists

7:05 -7:40 pm
Raga Piano with Utsav Lal
Indian Classical Music on the Piano
Utsav Lal – Piano

7:45 – 8:15 pm
Amy D.
Vocalist +Songwriter
A dream-like fusion of jazz, soul, R&B, and world music
Amy D – Vocalist, Songwriter

8:20 – 9:30 pm
Trio Faryna Satorre Jacobsen
Tango Argentino a la Parilla, Argentine Tango for listening and dancing
Hugo Satorre – Bandoneon
Emiliano Faryna – Guitar
Sascha Jacobsen – Bass

PERFORMANCES (ONLINE) FEBURARY 5TH

Raga Piano with Utsav Lal
Indian Classical Music on the Piano
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Creative Indian pianist/ composer and Young Steinway Artist, UTSAV LAL delves into the soulful depths of Indian ragas in his distinctive, unapologetically original take on piano and Indian classical music.
In this concert, Lal will present a beautiful late evening raga in the traditional solo exploratory style of Alap-Jod-Jhala. Dating back centuries, with extraordinarily elaborate rules & systems to govern pitch, rhythm and structure, Indian Classical Music is one of the most ancient classical traditions on earth and at the very heart and soul of Indian music is the raga. The music is completely improvised and the raga slowly expands from a single note outward to complex waves of rhythms and virtuosic passages. Lal will also present some composition(s) from various forms of Indian classical, folk and devotional repertoire which will reflect strong influences from his experiences in jazz, Irish music and free improvisation. With his ingenious interpretations of Indian Classical Music on a Western instrument, Utsav Lal’s music is captivating with great range and variety in tempo, dynamics and emotion and is known for its powerful intensity.
Featuring:
Utsav Lal – Piano
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Indian pianist/composer UTSAV LAL, often known as the ‘Raga Pianist’ is recognised as the rarest of pianists. Stunning the world with his innovative handling of Indian Classical Music on a Western instrument, The Irish Times describes Utsav Lal as “a fleet-fingered performer whose best moments can be both highly evocative and dazzling.” Lal’s ground-breaking work has garnered an impressive career spanning two decades, with solo performances at world famous venues like Carnegie Hall (New York), Southbank Centre (London), Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Steinway Hall (New York), Asia Society (HongKong), Arts Center (Melbourne).
Treading the careful line between an ancient tradition and the innate desire for innovation with utmost respect, Lal’s music is acclaimed for its sincerity, depth and powerful intensity. With unfailing clarity of technique and rhythmic virtuosity, his work is deeply influenced by Dhrupad and gains inspiration from a vast array of sources such as The Necks, Thelonious Monk, Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou and Cecil Taylor. Lal has challenged commonly understood ways of improvisation to develop his own unique voice for the piano, taking stage at leading festivals including Novara Jazz (Italy), San Francisco Silent Film (USA) AsiaTopa Festival (Australia), Masters of Tradition (Ireland).
Endorsed as Young Steinway Artist, TiE Aspire Young Indian Achiever,, Yamaha Jazz Scholar, Lal has been recognized for his extensive collaborative work with Irish, Scottish, Jazz and Experimental artists including leading names like Winifred Horan, Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, Australian Contemporary Circus Theatre CIRCA, Talvin Singh, George Brooks, Rajna Swaminathan. Lal has 7 solo record releases which include a historic world’s first album on the microtonal “Fluid Piano” (2016). Lal holds a Masters in Contemporary Improvisation (New England Conservatory of Music), Bachelor’s in Jazz (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and is a disciple of Dhrupad vocalist Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar.

Amy D. Vocalist +Songwriter
A dream-like fusion of jazz, soul, R&B, and world music with voice, vocal looping, and piano for an intimate solo performance
Featuring:
Amy D – Piano, Vocals
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
The soulful, effortless sounds of vocalist and songwriter Amy D. envelop listeners in a dream-like fusion of jazz, soul, world, and R&B styles, bridging genres and generations alike.
Combined with inspiring lyrics and heartfelt storytelling, her music is a timeless soundscape inviting reflection, healing, and growth. There is intentional meaning in it all.
In a time where the world invites innovation and diverse influence, Amy D. ‘s songs imbue a multitude of juxtapositions: nostalgia with modern themes, powerful purpose with soft sophistication, lightness and warmth with cool, blue depths. Throughout, her textures are lush and uncomplicated, infusing art with a colorful breath of fresh air. First creating a stir in the San Francisco Bay Area and now beyond, Amy D. partnered with producer and master keyboardist Michael Aaberg (Goapele, Lalah Hathaway, Derrick Hodge) for her debut portrait album, LIKE YOU (2019), now available on all streaming platforms.

Trio Faryna Satorre Jacobsen
Tango Argentino a la Parilla, Argentine Tango for listening and dancing
Featuring:
Hugo Satorre – Bandoneon
Emiliano Faryna – Guitar
Sascha Jacobsen – Bass

ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Sascha Jacobsen will join the Faryna-Satorre duo to perform their own arrangements, seeking to adapt the sounds and articulations characteristic of the orchestras of the years 40’s and 50’s to their band format.
The particularity of the Faryna-Satorre duo has to do with the orality of its arrangements, it is rehearsed and played without paper and improvisation is allowed, thus achieving a fresh and constantly renewed sound.
With great acceptance from the milonguero public, since its inception, the duo has performed in the most important venues of the tango scene in Buenos Aires. In August 2019 they toured France, performing in Paris, Lyon and Tarbes.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Hugo Satorre, bandoneonist musician, born in Buenos Aires on July 15, 1977, began his studies at the Juan José Castro Conservatory; to then continue them with the most prestigious bandoneonists of today.
He is a member of the Orquesta Victoria. In turn, he shares a duo project with Adrián Ramírez, the Duo Ramirez-Satorre with whom he was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2013. He integrates numerous projects from different musical aspects. He was part of Otro Aires, the Escuela de Tango orchestra, La tuba tango, Tanguetto and the show “Tango Fire”. In 2016 he edited his first solo work. An album dedicated exclusively to the work of the brilliant arranger Maximo Mori.
He shared the stage with the masters Leopoldo Federico, Emilio Balcarce, José Libertela, Atilio Stampone and Néstor Marconi and has performed in the most prestigious theaters and concert halls on five continents. Among them we can highlight: the Sydney Opera House (Sydney); The Esplanade (Singapore); the Walt Disney Hall (Los Angeles); the Teatro Colón (Bs As), The Arts Center (Melbourne) and the Shangai Oriental Art Center (Shanghai). In March 2012, he accompanied the tenor Plácido Domingo on a stage set up on Av. 9 de Julio in front of more than 120,000 people.
Emiliano Faryna, guitarist, musician, composer and arranger, born in Buenos Aires on April 25, 1980, began his musical studies at the age of ten. He also studied at the J. P. Esnaola music school and in a particular way with the teacher Marcelo Gutfraind.
He was a member of various Argentine music ensembles, including Alejandro Brittes, Nicolás Colacho Brizuela, Luisa Calcumil, Angel Pulice and Ruth De Vicenzo, Joao Gentil, Cesar Pavón, Jorge Tolosa and Luis Santa Cruz, with whom he made recordings and tours. for Argentina, South America and Europe.
He currently works as an arranger and session musician, he is a member of Ventarrón y Varela, Rudi Flores Trio as well as directing his own musical proposal.
Sascha Jacobsen was born into a musical family, going as far back as his great, great, great, great-grandfather, who was a bassist for the Moscow Opera. His mentors have been Michael and James Finley, John Brecher, Nico Abondolo, and Dennis Trembly, as well as Wolfgang Guttler and Shinji Eshima. He completed a Master’s degree at the University of Southern California and has served on the faculty at The California Jazz Conservatory, Humboldt State University, Laney College, Golden Gate Bass Camp, and the Sequoia Chamber Music Festival.
He is currently residing in Argentina where he is performing and studying Argentine Tango and Folk music.
Sascha has performed with Kronos Quartet, Rita Moreno, Hugh Jackman, Martin Short, Mandy Patinkin & Patti LuPone, Marc Shaiman, Bonnie Raitt, Randy Newman, Josh Groban, Kristin Chenoweth, Andrew Lippa, Eddie Duran, Dave MacNab, Tim Weed, Tango masters Raul Jaurena, Pepe Motta, and Maria Volonte, Flamenco greats Chuscales, Jose Luis Rodriguez, and Juanito Pascual, as well as Grammy winning artists Mads Tolling and Tupac Mantilla, and many others. He was a founding member of the Classical Revolution movement, which has spread around the world and has performed with Adam Theis and the Jazz Mafia.
Sascha also performed as principal bass with the Santa Cruz Symphony, and the American Musical Theatre in San Jose, and as a section member of the Monterey Symphony and the Sarasota Opera, as well as on the world premier production of Rita Moreno’s Life Without Makeup, Martin Short’s Fame Becomes Me, and Hugh Jackman In Performance, recorded the new cast album of A Chorus Line, and has toured the world with the Argentine Tango group: Trio Garufa.
He is the founder of the Musical Art Quintet which performs his original works. Strad Magazine say his music is “…Stylish and Vigorous…beautifully arranged”. SF Bay Gaurdian says “composer-bassist Sascha Jacobsen’s concoctions hop nimbly through a world of styles while impressing with ear-catching intricacy and handsome technique.”. East Bay Express says “Classical Music is sexy again”. SF Weekly says: “Classical training and a taste for evocative melodies underpin this sound”.
Sascha’s passion for music and dance has led him to collaborate with great dance groups such as The Flamenco Theatre Company of San Francisco, Tango Fatal with Choreographer Jorge Torres (Forever Tango), The Island Moving Company, San Jose Dance, and the Chitresh Das Dance Company with Jason Samuels Smith.
He is in demand as a performer, composer, and arranger with commissions from the San Francisco Arts Council, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, San Jose Dance, San Jose Youth Symphony, Berkeley Youth Symphony and SF Friends of Chamber Music. Sascha is also dedicated to teaching and has coached the students at SF School of the Arts, Sacred Heart College Prep, Oakland School for the Arts, Balboa High School, St. Ignatius Prep and talented private students.

CURRENT EXHIBITION: Paintings & Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution by Adrian Arias

Paintings in Pandemic and Revolution | Adrian Arias
The current exhibition on view in walls of The Red Poppy Art House

ARTIST STATEMENT
Adrián believes that poetry is in constant motion, and that feeds on each discipline to continue among us. Sometimes it is a photograph of a feather lying on the shore, sometimes a book-object that seems to tell us the future, sometimes the body moving slowly between blue lights to go dancing with paper and umbrellas, without rain. The absurd, the light, the sensual, the shadow, the dreams, are often elements in the daily life of Adrian, who in addition to declaring himself a Poet in motion, is an art teacher and a cultural organizer of events.

“During 2020 Adrian returned to an old style of painting that he used in Lima, Peru in the 80s, one that was baptized as” Virus Style “, because it is based on painting and spontaneous writing, which grows rapidly with the motivation of what we hear or see around us.
These works are the result of collaborations and virtual conversations with friends from different parts of the world. Adrian was connected with poets and musicians from Argentina, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and various states of the USA, creating several of the pieces in this exhibition live, online. In addition, Adrian spent some time creating his “Monsters of the Day”, showing his feelings about the pandemic, which are also part of this exhibition.

Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution | Adrian Arias

Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution, inspired by Adrian Arias’ lucid dream of a fortune teller and cards embellished with images of viruses, masks, Black Lives Matter, marches, and protests, is a unique 81-card Tarot deck. It is accompanied by an exquisite book of poetry, created by 67 internationally-recognized artists and poets (24 visual artists, 43 poets) with deep ties to the San Francisco Bay Area, who span three generations. These award-winning poet laureates, novelists, authors, muralists, painters, graphic artists, performance artists, composers, musicians, and dancers are each committed to social, environmental, food, public health, and climate justice, and have used their powerful talents to create tarot images and poems in response to the critical times we are living in. This deck is a bold expression of hope, resilience, resistance, and the courage to continue forging a path to justice and love.
Presented in partnership with Red Poppy Art House, Nomadic Press, and Baldocchi Projects & Collaborations. Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution (81-CARD DECK) is available here for purchase.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adrian Arian is a poet, visual artist, performer, art teacher, and South American cultural activist based in the Bay Area for two decades. His poetry and visual art have won awards and local and international recognition. His work has been presented at the Young Museum, San Marcos Museum, Poetic Nights of Struga, Macedonia, Benamil Residence in Spain, Venice Biennale, Latin American Biennial of Lima, etc. Creator of the multidisciplinary event Illusion Show, and the Poem of the Day.

PREVIEW THE PERFORMANCE
Utsav Lal

Amy D

Dúo Faryna Satorre Flor de lino

Sascha Jacobsen

ONLINE EVENT DETAILS
Time: February 5th, 7pm- 9:30pm (ONLINE)
Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House facebook page

DONATE

December 4th MAPP (In Person & Virtual)
2021-12-04 15:00 - 18:30 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
December 4th MAPP (In Person & Virtual)
Saturday, December 4th @ 3:00 – 6:30 pm | FREE

The event will be also streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page.
During the last 22 months, our goal has been to continue providing excellent and uplifting programs to our dedicated audiences. We are pleased to announce our very first IN PERSON program!
Our (FREE) MAPP program includes 3 performances with 12 musicians on December 4th, 2021 live and in person at Red Poppy Art House located at the corner of 23rd and Folsom in mission street.
MAPP (Mission Arts Performance Project)
Date: Saturday December 4th, 2021
Time: 3 pm- 6:30 pm
Location: Red Poppy Art House
Please note: In accordance with San Francisco’s city health ordinance, we are requiring proof of full vaccination and a photo ID at the door. Face coverings are required inside AT ALL TIME. Limited capacity inside. RSVP REQUIRED!
Please support the Red Poppy Art House while we are in the process of Reopening. Please consider investing in the future of the Arts and the Artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.
Make a gift to the Red Poppy Art House today!
Red Poppy Art House Needs You
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 have 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 are pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continues to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We look forward to the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.
This program is funded by California Arts Council Impact Project Grant and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and SF Art Reopening Fund.
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
Tech support: Bob San
PR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary
RPAH PROGRAM (IN PERSON) DEC 4TH

SATURDAY DEC 4TH

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artists

3:00 – 4:00 pm
Rawcoustic Trio
Music from Spain, Brazil, Argentina,
Venezuela, and the US
Rebecca Kleinmann – Flutes & Vocals
Marlon Aldana – Percussion Carlos Caminos – Guitar

4:15 – 4:55 pm
Pablo Estigarribia
Latin Grammy Nominee & Tango Pianist
Pablo Estigarribia – Piano

5:15 – 6:30 pm
Istanbul Connection
Old school Balkan Latin folk music
in a funky Bay Area context
Kata Miletich- vocals
Raul Vargas- vocals and cajon
Haluk Kelecioglu- vocals, oud and violin
Greg Jenkins- vocals, clarinet and saxophone
Danny Cao- trumpet
Joaquin Zamudio- bass
Bob San- guitars
Melissa Cruz- drums and flamenco dance

CURRENT EXHIBITION: Paintings & Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution by Adrian Arias

PERFORMANCES (IN PERSON) DECEMBER 4TH

RAWCOUSTIC TRIO
Music from Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and the US
With a raw, innate musical chemistry and deep foundations in the music of Brazil, Span, Argentina, Venezuela and swing, Rawcoustic Trio will bring joy to audiences through their virtuosic melodies, beautiful grooves and playful improvisations.
Featuring:
Rebecca Kleinmann – Flutes & Vocals
Marlon Aldana – Percussio
Carlos Caminos – Guitar
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Rebecca Kleinmann, a natural improviser with a rich international career, uses highly-tuned musical instincts to deliver heartfelt melodies and shape intriguing solos, her playing informed by immersion in the cultures of Jazz, Spain, Brazil and beyond. Several composers including Hermeto Pascoal, Jovino Santos Neto, Ian Faquini, Carlos Oliveira, Dan Neville and others have written original music inspired by her. She has performed and recorded with world class musicians including all the above-mentioned composers, Airto Moreira, Toninho Horta, dancers Rosagela Silvestre, Melissa Cruz and others. She leads several ensembles, teaches, tours widely and locally graces the stages including the SF Jazz Center, Yoshi’s, the Sound Room, the Healdsburg Jazz Festival and The San Jose Jazz Festival. The Red Poppy was the first venue she ever played in the Bay Area, and is still her favorite!
Drummer and Percussionist Marlon Aldana was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. Aldana is a multi-genre accompanist and educator based in Berkeley California. As a young musician, Aldana exposed himself to many styles, and joined many groups, from Cumbia and Salsa to Rock, Funk and Metal. In the summer of 2012, Aldana toured and performed in Mexico and the US on bicycle with American Folk band “Los Ginger Ninjas”, while carrying their gear on bikes. Seeking musical development, Aldana moved to California.
In 2013 Aldana was introduced into the Flamenco world by Maestro Guitarist Jason McGuire “El Rubio”, who became his teacher and mentor, and took on The Jason McGuire Trio as a full time project, resulting in an album.
Aldana has been 1st call percussionist to several Flamenco dance companies such as Caminos Flamencos led by Emmy Award winning Yaelisa, Theater Flamenco, La Tania Flamenco, Agua Clara Flamenco, and others. Since then Aldana has traveled Spain to study with great percussionists such as Paquito Gonzalez, Israel Suarez “Piraña” and Paco de Mode. Aldana has shared stage with renowned artists such as Flamenco guitarists and Grammy Award winner Antonio Rey, Legendary Rumbero John Santos, former Pedrito Martinez pianist Edgar Pantoja, Jazz Mafia, Jose Luis de La Paz, Bay Area Bassist Jeff Chambers, Flamenco Pianist Alex Conde, Flamenco singers Mara Rey, Jose Mendez, Jesus Montoya, Manuel Moreno Carrasco, Flamenco Dancers Alfonso Losa, Andres Peña, Ivan Vargas, Juan Ogalla, Fanny Ara and may others.
In 2018 and 2019 Aldana collaborated and accompanied the Oakland Symphony led by Conductor Omid Zoufonoun. The first time performing a series composed and arranged by Flamenco pianist Alex Conde, and the second time with the Avalon Flamenco Suite composed by renowned Flamenco guitarist Jose Luis de la Paz.
Aldana is now working on building an independent home studio and writing/composing some material of his own.
Carlos Caminos is a composer and guitarist with over 20 years of experience as a performer. His original music is strongly influenced by Latin rhythms and grooves, Flamenco, Venezuelan Music and Jazz.
He studied Flamenco with teachers Carlos Zárate and Emilio Maya, and Flamenco Guitar at Carmen de las Cuevas School (Granada, Spain, 2001) and Jazz guitar with Johann Espinoza, founder of Bajo Sospecha group (Mérida, Venezuela, 1999).
He has worked in the following projects: Rostros concert for Group and Symphonic Orchestras with the Latifonia Foundation (Venezuela, 2008); live music and dance group Raíz de Agua (Venezuela, 2004) under the direction of Juliana Mendonca; Afro-Venezuelan rock group Mirada Interna (Venezuela, 2015), directed by Jorge Espinoza, among others. He has also performed as guest artist in other projects such as the Mérida Jazz Big-Band (Venezuela, 2015) under the direction of Pablo Gil.
Carlos Caminos performs regularly in the Bay Area with his own project, Trio Caminos, and collaborating with groups such as Tangueros Del Oeste (Electro-Tango), Byrds of A Feather (Jazz-Reggae) and Angelo Tomandl Harmonica Funk Band.

Pablo Estigarribia
Latin Grammy Nominee & Tango Pianist
Tango has been the music of Buenos Aires for two centuries. It captures the suffering, nostalgia, intensity and fire of the Argentine people.
In this performance, Pablo will perform a part of Horacio Salgán piano transcriptions, which is the result of almost two years of decoding this rare recording into a studio album and a music book with all the scores and research notes of the project. The repertoire will feature traditional tango and some of the original work by the Maestro.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Pablo Estigarribia is a Latin Grammy nominee and world-renowned tango pianist, arranger and composer. Like many artists of this genre, he began his training as a classical musician and soon branched out into the world of tango. He studied at the National Conservatory in Buenos Aires, where he won the Bienal Juvenil National Competition for Young Artists. After graduating, he spent several years on the frenzied performance circuit in Argentina, collaborating with the Congress Chamber Orchestra, the National Radio Orchestra, and the Chaco Symphony, among many others. Seeking to broaden his musical horizons beyond the classical realm, Estigarribia took a brief detour through jazz and then discovered tango in 2005. He quickly won the Orquesta Escuela de Tango scholarship and performed with this superb ensemble under the direction of Maestro Emilio Balcarce. Estigarribia continued working with Balcarce shortly thereafter when he first toured Europe.
Estigarribia rapidly established himself as a nuanced and masterful tango performer in Germany, France, Belgium, Japan, Russia, Finland, Canada, the United States and Cuba. He has been featured in over a thousand concerts, joining Argentine tango legends like Maria Graña, Victor Lavallén, Leopoldo Federico, Nestor Marconi, Horacio Cabarcos, Emilio Balcarce and many others. Estigarribia’s album Tangos Para Piano (EPSA) won the prestigious 2015 Gardel Prize for Best Tango Album by a New Artist. After receiving wide acclaim for this album, he earned coveted recognition from the Argentine tango industry as an expert in the art of tango music. He is a recipient of the Argentine Tango Society’s Medal of Honor for his educational forays at the Stowe Tango Music Festival (Vermont, USA) in multiple years. Estigarribia’s ascendancy brought him to Japan in 2016 where he was lauded in the Tokyo press following his performances. He then became sought after in the United States, where he played in New York’s famous Blue Note Jazz Club. He has made performance and interview appearances on NBC, Univision, Telemundo, and The Huffington Post. Estigarribia splits his time between his native Buenos Aires, Argentina, and New York City.

Istanbul Connection
Old school Balkan Latin folk music in a funky Bay Area context
Featuring:
Kata Miletich – vocals
Raul Vargas – vocals and cajon
Haluk Kelecioglu – vocals, oud and violin
Greg Jenkins – vocals, clarinet and saxophone
Danny Cao – trumpet
Joaquin Zamudio – bass
Bob San – guitars
Melissa Cruz – drums and flamenco dance

ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Istanbul Connection is a Bay Area musical collective formed in 2015 when 13 members of the hottest Balkan and Latin bands were gravitationally pulled to visit the city of Istanbul. With a mind towards cross-cultural connection and sonic expansion, these die-hards flew 7,000 miles to represent a piece of the Bay Area music scene. In the process, they have cemented themselves as a supergroup of groove and since their epic beginnings, the band has performed sold-out-show after sold-out-show. They continue to draw their inspiration from the Turkish Maqam, Flamenco, Rumba, Balkan, and Cumbia they are so deeply rooted in.

CURRENT EXHIBITION: Paintings & Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution by Adrian Arias

Paintings in Pandemic and Revolution | Adrian Arias
The current exhibition on view in walls of The Red Poppy Art House

ARTIST STATEMENT
Adrián believes that poetry is in constant motion, and that feeds on each discipline to continue among us. Sometimes it is a photograph of a feather lying on the shore, sometimes a book-object that seems to tell us the future, sometimes the body moving slowly between blue lights to go dancing with paper and umbrellas, without rain. The absurd, the light, the sensual, the shadow, the dreams, are often elements in the daily life of Adrian, who in addition to declaring himself a Poet in motion, is an art teacher and a cultural organizer of events.

“During 2020 Adrian returned to an old style of painting that he used in Lima, Peru in the 80s, one that was baptized as” Virus Style “, because it is based on painting and spontaneous writing, which grows rapidly with the motivation of what we hear or see around us.
These works are the result of collaborations and virtual conversations with friends from different parts of the world. Adrian was connected with poets and musicians from Argentina, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and various states of the USA, creating several of the pieces in this exhibition live, online. In addition, Adrian spent some time creating his “Monsters of the Day”, showing his feelings about the pandemic, which are also part of this exhibition.

Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution | Adrian Arias

Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution, inspired by Adrian Arias’ lucid dream of a fortune teller and cards embellished with images of viruses, masks, Black Lives Matter, marches, and protests, is a unique 81-card Tarot deck. It is accompanied by an exquisite book of poetry, created by 67 internationally-recognized artists and poets (24 visual artists, 43 poets) with deep ties to the San Francisco Bay Area, who span three generations. These award-winning poet laureates, novelists, authors, muralists, painters, graphic artists, performance artists, composers, musicians, and dancers are each committed to social, environmental, food, public health, and climate justice, and have used their powerful talents to create tarot images and poems in response to the critical times we are living in. This deck is a bold expression of hope, resilience, resistance, and the courage to continue forging a path to justice and love.
Presented in partnership with Red Poppy Art House, Nomadic Press, and Baldocchi Projects & Collaborations. Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution (81-CARD DECK) is available here for purchase.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adrian Arian is a poet, visual artist, performer, art teacher, and South American cultural activist based in the Bay Area for two decades. His poetry and visual art have won awards and local and international recognition. His work has been presented at the Young Museum, San Marcos Museum, Poetic Nights of Struga, Macedonia, Benamil Residence in Spain, Venice Biennale, Latin American Biennial of Lima, etc. Creator of the multidisciplinary event Illusion Show, and the Poem of the Day.

PREVIEW THE PERFORMANCE

Carlos Caminos

Rebecca Kleinmann & Marlon Aldana

Pablo Estigarribia

Istanbul Connection

ONLINE EVENT DETAILS
Time: December 4th, 3pm- 6:30pm (IN PERSON)
Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)

DONATE

Tarot in Pandemic & Revolution | Created and Curated by Adrian Arias | October 30th Event (Online)
2021-10-30 13:00 - 15:00 | Online, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Online Pre-Release Showcase Celebration
October 30th @ 1:00 – 3:00 pm Free

Check the facebook event page for more information about the live streaming.
Presented in partnership with Red Poppy Art House, Nomadic Press, and Baldocchi Projects & Collaborations.
Please join us for this free event celebrating the exquisite Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution deck curated by Adrian Arias who will take us on a beautiful multi-disciplinary journey with poets, visual artists, musicians, and dancers whose works are featured in the deck.
This event will also feature an auction of one-of-a kind Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution prints and box sets created by Adrian Arias.
This is a fundraiser for Red Poppy Art House and Nomadic Press.
DONATE to Red Poppy Art House and Nomadic Press today.

ABOUT THE PROJECT
Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution, inspired by Adrian Arias’ lucid dream of a fortune teller and cards embellished with images of viruses, masks, Black Lives Matter, marches, and protests, is a unique 81-card Tarot deck. It is accompanied by an exquisite book of poetry, created by 67 internationally-recognized artists and poets (24 visual artists, 43 poets) with deep ties to the San Francisco Bay Area, who span three generations. These award-winning poet laureates, novelists, authors, muralists, painters, graphic artists, performance artists, composers, musicians, and dancers are each committed to social, environmental, food, public health, and climate justice, and have used their powerful talents to create tarot images and poems in response to the critical times we are living in. This deck is a bold expression of hope, resilience, resistance, and the courage to continue forging a path to justice and love.
Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution is available for purchase soon at www.nomadicpress.org.
We want to thank all of the artists for their gracious generosity in contributing their passions and talents to Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution:
Adrian Arias, Agneta Falk, Alejandro Murguía, Allison Snopek, Anaís Azul, Anna Lisa Escobedo, Arisa White, Ayodele Nzinga, Bobby Coleman, Brett Cook, CeCe Carpio, Chun Yu, Ph.D., Danica Conneely, Daria Halprin, devorah major Dr. Rupa Marya, Emma Brown, Guillermo Galindo, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Hugh D’Andrade, Jack Hirschman, Jahan Khalighi, Janice Mirikitani, Jenna Frisch, Jennifer Barone, Jodie Kleeman, John Curl, José Galloso, Justin Hoover, KaliMa Amilak, Karen Melander Magoon, karin turner , kata miletich, Keith Hennessy, Kim Shuck, Kristi Williamson, Lisbit Bailey, Mahnaz Badihian, Malik Seneferu, Mara Lea Brown, Marissa Arterberry, Mark Eisner, Maw Shein Win, Michael Warr, Mimi Cézanne Stoll, MK Chavez, Naomi Quiñonez, Nancy Hom, Nina Serrano, Pancho Peskador, Paul S. Flores, Rafael Jesús González, Robert Wyald, Susan Matthews, Susana Aragon, Tania Esmeralda Padilla,Tureeda Mikel, Virginia Barrett, Wanda Sabir, William Brown, Yolanda M. López, Ytaelena Lopez.

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ABOUT THE CREATOR AND CURATOR
Adrian Arias, Is a visual artist, poet, performer, curator, activist, and cultural promoter, who brings together multidisciplinary artists to engage in community projects with messages of social justice, racial equality, climate change, peace, beauty, health, and hope in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He has participated in international poetry performances: The poetic Nights of Struga, Macedonia, winning the prize for the best poem of the festival, and is one of the founders and creators of MAPP (Mission Arts Performance Project) and creator of festivals in the San Francisco Bay Area such as: VideoFest, Luna Negra, and ILLUSION show.
In Pandemic 2020-2021, Adrian has been commissioned to create a series of pieces related to both BLM movement and his personal vision of freedom, like BLM on the pavement of the Petaluma Regional Library, the altar dedicated to George Floyd in Somarts, among others. Adrian uses his dreams as creative initiatives, which he makes come true in performances and community projects, such as his multimedia shows called DREAMS, or most recently Tarot in Pandemic & Revolution, where 24 visual artists and 43 poets from the SF Bay Area have participated. “Adrian Arias, the ever brilliantly inventive poet of the gesturing Word”. Jack Hirschman, Emeritus Poet Laureate of San Francisco.
Learn more at www.adrianarias.com
PROGRAM TEAM:
Creator & Curator: Adrian Arias
Collaborators: Nomadic Press, Baldocchi Projects & Collaborations, Red Poppy Art House
Emcee/Announcer: Nazelah Jamison
Tech support: Tula Biederman
RPAH’s Artistic & Managing Director: Dina Zarif
Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary

SATURDAY OCTOBER 30th

Time
Title
Artists

1:00-1:10 pm
Introductions
J. K. Fowler; Reneé Baldocchi, Adrian Arias, and Dina Zarif
Emcee/Announcer: Nazelah Jamison

1:15-35 pm
X Espadas/X Swords;
La Madre/The Mother;
El Corazon/The Heart
Rupa Marya
Adrian Arias
Tarot Reading by Tania Esmeralda Padilla

1:40-2:00 pm
El Ermitaño/The Hermit;
VII Copas/VII Cups;
IX Bastos/IX Wands;
As de Oros/Ace of Pentacles
Pancho Peskador
Jodie Kleeman
Robert Wyald
Mara Lee Brown

2:05 – 2:25 pm
As de Bastos/Ace of Wands;
El Mundo/The World;
As de Espadas/Ace of Swords
Paul Flores
Mark Eisner
Kim Shuck

2:30 – 2:45 pm
II Copas/II Cups;
El Juicio/The Judgement,
X Oros/X Pentacles
Guillermo Galindo
Susana Aragon
Tania Esmeralda Padilla

2:45 – 3:00 pm
Auction Results,
Altar Installation. Announcements
Emcee/Announcer: Nazelah Jamison
Adrian Arias

TAROT IN PANDEMIC & REVOLUTION

Emcee/Announcer
Nazelah Jamison is a Bay Area-based performance poet, author, actor, vocalist and emcee. Her first book of poetry, Evolutionary Heart, was released on Nomadic Press in 2016. Her work can also be found in Culture Counts Magazine (2021), The Racket Journal : Issue Fifteen (2020) and others. In her spare time, Nazelah enjoys writing horror screenplays and saving the day. She hosts the Nomadic Press Virtual Open Mic every Friday on zoom, and gives the best hugs in the Bay Area.

X Espadas/X Swords | La Madre/The Mother | El Corazon/The Heart

Featuring: Rupa Marya and Ramaytush Ohlone Land Acknowledgement and performance, Adrian Arias, and a card reading by Tania Esmeralda Padilla

Dr. Rupa Marya is a physician, an activist, a mother, and a composer. She is an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she practices and teaches internal medicine. She is a cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition, a collective of health workers committed to addressing disease through structural change. At the invitation of Lakhóta health leaders, she is helping to set up the Mni Wiconi Clinic and Farm at Standing Rock to decolonize medicine and food. She is a cofounder of the Deep Medicine Circle, an organization committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, and learning. Working with her husband, the agroecological farmer Benjamin Fahrer, and the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone, she is a part of the Farming Is Medicine project, where farmers are recast as ecological stewards of rematriated land and food is liberated from the market economy. She has toured twenty-nine countries with her band, Rupa and the April Fishes, whose music was described by the legend Gil Scott-Heron as “Liberation Music.” www.rupamarya.org

El Ermitaño/The Hermit; VII Copas/VII Cups; IX Bastos/IX Wands/​​ As de Oros/Ace of Pentacles

Featuring: Pancho Peskador, Jodie Kleeman, Robert Wyald, and Mara Lea Brown
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Peskador is a visual artist and muralist from Chile. He attended Escuela de Bellas Artes in Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, where he was introduced to printmaking and other mediums. Due to his interest in printmaking, in 1995, he joined a cooperative of printmakers, Taller de Artes Visuales (TAV), in Santiago, Chile. He was quickly identified by senior artists, Carlos Donaire and Guillermo Frommer, who invited him to participate in shows in Chile and abroad. In 1995, Pescador immigrated to the Bay Area and it is here where he developed a passion for street art. Soon after, he began to work on public art projects, primarily through murals. In 2003, Pescador and other Chilean artists and intellectuals from the Bay Area found the 9-11 Squared Collective, a group dedicated to raising awareness about the complex relationships between. @panchopescador

Jodie Kleeman (also known as Jójø Wildeflèür) channels Lady Dosis, and is the co-writer of Poetry Nap. Jodie has been participating in performance art since she was 8 years old. She loves the funny, queer, fabulous, grounded, real and surreal, and is a self-taught, self-identified curious and hilarious woman. www.poetrynap.com

Robert Wyald—like you, every moment a coordination of many efforts throughout time, including trees, algae, sunlight, plants, and humans—has moments as a producer, director, actor, artist, writer, guide and multicellular organism symbiotic with plants and microorganisms. His most recent work includes the podcast and live show, Poetry Nap, La décadanse, and Knights of Revery. www.wyald.com

Mara Lea Brown explores human singularity and relationships through charcoal drawing, painting and mixed media with elements from nature. In her portraiture Mara enjoys the process of learning from the individual as well as from a phenomenological exploration of the human form. The search for connection and belonging are often subtly present in her work. Website: www.maraleabrown.com

As de Bastos/Ace of Wands; El Mundo/The World; As de Espadas/Ace of Swords

Featuring: Paul Flores, Mark Eisner, and Kim Shuck
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Paul S. Flores creates plays, oral narratives, and spoken word works about transnationality and citizenship that spur and support societal movements that lead to change. As a San Francisco artist of Mexican and Cuban-American heritage, Paul S. Flores has built a national reputation for interview-based theater. He integrates Latino and indigenous healing practices to tell the stories of real people impacted by immigration and systemic inequalities. From “Along the Border Lies,” “Brown Dreams,” to “Representa!,” “YOU’RE GONNA CRY,” “PLACAS,” “ON THE HILL: I AM ALEX NIETO,” to “We Have Iré,” his most recent play, Flores dives deep into his themes. Website: www.paulsfloresart.com

Mark Eisner is the author of Neruda: The Biography of a Poet (Ecco), a finalist for the 2019 PEN/ Bograd Weld Prize in Biography. It caps off a series project on the poet that began with City Lights’ 2004 Essential Neruda: Selected Poems, which he edited and was a contributing translator. Most recently, Mark co-edited the anthology Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution, published by Tin House in 2020. Website: www.markeisner.net

Kim Shuck is a complex protein. Both a bead artist and a poet, Shuck served as San Francisco’s 7th Poet Laureate and her work is danced in ceremony across the Northern parts of the Western Hemisphere. www.kimshuck.com

II Copas/II Cups; El Juicio/The Judgement, X Oros/X Pentacles

Featuring: Guillermo Galindo, Susana Aragon, and Tania Padilla
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Guillermo Galindo | Post-Mexican composer/artist/ Jungian Tarotist
The extent of the work of experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist and visual media artist Guillermo Galindo, redefines the conventional limits between music, the art of music composition and the intersections between art disciplines, politics, humanitarian issues, spirituality and social awareness. www.galindog.com

Susana Aragon is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. She works with paint, print, video poetry,poetry, video installation,costume design and education. Aragon has shown her work internationally. Currently the pandemic has shown how interconnected we are as human beings and how art can help to connect, process and imagine our spiritual world. Website: www.susanaaragon.art

Tania Esmeralda Padilla is a visual artist working in watercolor, ink, graphite, and digital media. Her work explores themes of introspective awareness, nature, mythology and the impacts of technology. Currently, she is based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico creating new bodies of work in illustration, animation, and interactive code based art. She received her B.F.A. at California Institute of the Arts in Experimental Animation and 2 Single Subject Teaching Credentials in Art and Computer Science from SF State University. www.Taniapadilla.com

ABOUT THE COLLABORATORS

Nomadic Press
Through publications, events, and active community participation, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word. Through its limited means, we are simply attempting to help right the centuries’ old violence and silencing that should never have occurred in the first place and build alliances and community partnerships with others who share a collective vision for a future far better than today.

Baldocchi Projects and Collaborations
Baldocchi Projects and Collaborations partners with San Francisco Bay Area artists and organizations focused on social justice, public health, sustainable living practices,and hope-inspired visions by providing curatorial, exhibition/performance programming, art consultation, and grant-writing expertise. Baldocchi Projects and Collaborations is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts

Red Poppy Art House
The Red Poppy Art House is a neighborhood center for the intersection of cultural and inter-generational artistic engagement located in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. The Poppy is an artist-driven organization that seeks to empower and transform society by addressing current social issues that impact our community and society at large through creative processes.

ONLINE EVENT DETAILS
Time: October 30th, 2021, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)
The event will be streamed live through https://www.facebook.com/NomadicPress/

DONATE

October 2nd MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts
2021-10-02 19:00 - 22:00 | Online, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
October 2nd @ 7:00 – 10:00 pm Free
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page

Click here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming on Facebook.
During the last 18 months, our goal has been to continue providing excellent and uplifting programs to our dedicated audiences. We are pleased to announce the next FREE MAPP program.
Our MAPP FESTIVAL program includes 4 performances on Oct 2nd, live streamed from artists’ homes to your homes. Live streaming on Facebook
Please consider investing in the future of the Arts and the Artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.
Make a gift to the Red Poppy Art House today!
Red Poppy Art House Needs You

MISSION ARTS & PERFORMACE PROJECT (MAPP)
Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 have 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 are pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continues to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We look forward to the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.
This program is funded by California Arts Council Local Impact Grant and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and 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
Tech Support: Leeav Sofer
PR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary

RPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2nd

SATURDAY OCTOBER 2ND

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artists

7:00 -7:05 pm
Introduction, Artists meet and greet

7:05 -7:45 pm
Anais & Adrian
Bay Area Artists connected through music, poetry and painting
Adrian Arias – Visual Artist Anaís Azul – Singer-songwriter, composer

7:50 – 8:25 pm
My Americana soul
Songs for my grandma Ruby and other Americana
Ren Geisick – Vocal

8:30 – 9:05 pm
Baroque to Contemporary
A Modern Take on An Ancient Instrument
Amelia Romano – Harp

9:05 – 10:00 pm
Dan Cantrell and the Dainty Krakens
“Smote by song”
Traditional songs and music from the Middle East, the Levant, Balkan Folk tradition, Romany Diaspora and Sephardic singing tradition
Dan Cantrell – accordion, piano and voice
Rachel Valfer Sills – oud and voice
Faisal Zedan – percussion and voice
Elizabeth Strong – dance

PROGRAM (ONLINE) OCTOBER 2nd | 7 – 10 pm

Anais & Adrian
Bay Area Artists connected through music, poetry and painting
DESCRIPTION:
Percussion often exists as part of a larger ensemble to create sonic texture and rhythmic energy, but I enjoy the challenge of creating standalone musical statements as a percussion soloist. This is a collection of composed and improvised pieces for solo percussion.
Featuring:
Adrian Arias – Visual Artist
Anaís Azul – singer-songwriter, composer
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Adrian Arias, is a visual artist, poet, performer, curator, activist, and cultural promoter, who brings together multidisciplinary artists to engage in community projects with messages of social justice, racial equality, climate change, peace, beauty, health, and hope in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He has participated in international poetry performances: The poetic Nights of Struga, Macedonia, winning the prize for the best poem of the festival, and is one of the founders and creators of MAPP (Mission Arts Performance Project) and creator of festivals in the San Francisco Bay Area such as: VideoFest, Luna Negra, and ILLUSION show.
In Pandemic 2020-2021, Adrian has been commissioned to create a series of pieces related to both BLM movement and his personal vision of freedom, like the BLM on the pavement of the Petaluma Regional Library, the altar dedicated to George Floyd in Somarts, among others.
Adrian uses his dreams as creative initiatives, which he makes come true in performances and community projects, such as his multimedia shows called DREAMS, or most currently Tarot in Pandemic & Revolution, where 24 visual artists and 37 poets from the SF Bay Area have participated.
“Adrian Arias, the ever brilliantly inventive poet of the gesturing Word”. Jack Hirschman, Emeritus Poet Laureate of San Francisco.
Peruvian first generation immigrant Anaís Azul (they/them) is a California Based singer-songwriter, composer, and teaching artist. Described as “stunningly honest and vulnerable,” their artistry engages with music as a tool for community building, cross-genre collaboration, and collective healing.
Azul writes music that is in conversation with jazz harmony, classical melodies, and Latin American singer-songwriter traditions. Their songs are bilingual (Spanish and English) and about mental health, queerness, facing harsh realities and finding inner peace in spite of chaos. Press highlights include a feature on Remezcla, NPR, WBUR, and Berkeleyside for their work not only as a performer, but as a community arts organizer.
Classically-trained with an experimental spirit, Azul received their B.M in Music Composition and Theory from Boston University with a concentration in piano. Having composed and arranged for theatre and orchestra, Azul composed the music for the award-winning Displaced: A Response to Qurban produced by the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Their current projects include serving as sound designer for Brandeis University’s production of “The Laramie Project” (Boston, MA) and co-organizer of Weird Folk Fest (Boston, MA). Outside of their performance life, Anaís currently teaches private music lessons in Spanish at Escuela Bilingue Internacional (Emeryville, CA) and is pursuing a Composer-Performer MFA at California Institute of the Arts.

My Americana soul
Songs for my grandma Ruby and other Americana
Featuring:
Ren Geisick- Vocal
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Ren Geisick is a jazz singer turned singer/songwriter from Silicon Valley, California. Her first album, “Ren, Love Song” produced by Jesse Harris, was released in 2017 and, since May 2019, Ren has been releasing singles from her upcoming “Ruby EP” inspired by the life, and catchphrases of her Grandma Ruby from Oklahoma. Borrowing elements of jazz, blues, country, and soul, Ren delivers heartfelt performances of original music and reimagined classics.

Baroque to Contemporary
A Modern Take on An Ancient Instrument
DESCRIPTION:
Performing baroque and contemporary works on lever harp, Amelia is excited to share a program featuring the lever harp in the repertoire of the 18-19th century.
Featuring:
Amelia Romano – Harp
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
An eclectic blend of austere serenity and kinetic vibrancy, Amelia Romano takes what is known about conventional harp and surpasses it every time. Pulling from her roots in the cultural hotbed of San Francisco, Amelia not only plays music from the repertoire but reprises them and creates originals. Latin American music, jazz and classical are all genres that she touches but her music defines its own path.
A San Francisco native, she began her lessons on a lever harp, at the age of 9, with Diana Stork, who inspired early compositions, improvisation and playing in a variety of youth ensembles, including the Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble. She graduated from the San Francisco School of the Arts High School, performing Laura Zaerrs’ Celtic Concerto, and releasing her first solo album, Seeking Peace, in her senior year.
Amelia earned a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Field Studies at U.C. Berkeley in 2010, with a thesis examining the legacy of the South Africa apartheid. She continued her harp studies while an undergraduate, with Dr. Cheryl Ann Fulton. She spent 2010-2011 at Ntonga Music School in Gugulethu Township, Cape Town, South Africa, sponsored by the Playing for Change Foundation. South Africa deeply shaped her musical creativity and desire to re-conceive her sound. With her return to the S.F. Bay Area in 2011, she took up the electric harp and formed StringQuake, (2012) and Luminance, (2016). She released two full length albums with StringQuake: Take 15 and Cascade, and two EP’s with the Luminance Ensemble. Luminance in 2018 and Late Dawn in 2021.
Currently pursuing an undergraduate and masters degree in classical lever harp performance at San Francisco State University, studying with pedal harp instructor, Karen Gottlieb, she finds deep satisfaction composing and arranging for her chamber music ensembles – forging new sounds and directions in the global lever harp community.

Dan Cantrell and the Dainty Krakens
Smote by song
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
The Dainty Krakens perform traditional songs and music from the Middle East, the Levant, Balkan Folk tradition, Romany Diaspora and Sephardic singing tradition. Their original songs and music reflect the merging of ideas and cultures from their areas of study and mastery but also combine to form a new living tradition rich with reflections into the past but strong with hope for harmonious new blending. These humble monsters are always looking for the love, beauty, and fun in music, and revel in the discovery of new crossroads that tie us all together in song and spirit. They will be joined by the cuddly Cthulhu of dancing, Elizabeth Strong, who’s deadly undulations smite the eyes and gently join the fight for beauty and harmonious exploration.
Featuring:
Dan Cantrell – accordion, piano and voice
Rachel Valfer Sills – oud and voice
Faisal Zedan – percussion and voice
Elizabeth Strong – dance
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Accordionist/pianist/saw player Dan Cantrell is an Emmy winning composer known for his innovative and energetic approach to documentary film and television scoring. He can be heard on albums from Tom Waits, Joanna Newsom, the Toids, Beats Antique, as well as numerous self-produced albums. He was recently a featured soloist with the San Francisco Symphony and has performed with the Oakland Symphony, Mike Marshall, members of the Klezmatics, Brave Old World, and Fishbone.
Dan composed music for three seasons of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack on Cartoon Network and received an Emmy Award for his scoring work on the PBS documentary Home Front. Influenced by the music of Eastern Europe, Early American Jazz and modern alternative rock, His extensive scoring catalogue for film and television is described as “hauntingly beautiful…quirky and energetic” (SF Bay Guardian). Dan’s music spans a wide range of emotion and style, rich with virtuosic performance, lush acoustic orchestrations, sonic textures resonant with sound design, and strikingly innovative melodic themes.
Rachel is a passionate vocalist and oudist (Middle Eastern lute) who brings depth of feeling to every song. Born to a family of esteemed musicians, she began studying music at the age of 6. Upon arriving in Israel/ Palestine, Rachel studied maqam and Persian dastgah modal systems for six years at the Center for Middle Eastern Music Studies, with masters such as Eyhab Nimir, Piris Eliyahu and Shlomo Takhalov. Over the years Rachel has performed with many ensembles in the Bay Area, California, and toured the country with the Qadim Ensemble. With vocals touted as ‘succulent’ by NPR, and dubbed ‘the golden throated one” by fans, Rachel is known both here in the Bay Area as well as in the Middle East for her authenticity in representing the vocal traditions, from cultures spanning Central Asia, the Balkans, Caucauses, Greece/Turkey and the Levant. She is known for keeping the beautiful Ladino song tradition alive and evolving.
Faisal Zedan is a master percussionist in the Syrian classical tradition. He plays riqq (tambourine), derbakki (goblet drum), and tar (frame drum) with equal mastery. Born in 1972 in oum D’Baib, Syria, Faisal Zedan grew up impassioned with the derbakki. At the age of 15, after intensive study with a local drummer, Faisal began studies of the wide repertoire of Arabic music. Upon arriving in California in 1992, he met UCLA’s noted professor of ethnomusicology, Dr. Ali Jihad Racy, and was invited to join the acclaimed UCLA Near East Music Ensemble. Faisal co-founded the Near East music group, Kan Zaman, in 1993. Faisal is on the faculty of the the Middle East Music Camp and the Kosmos Camp in Northern Califo
Elizabeth Strong is a Bay Area based dancer, choreographer and dance ethnologist who is passionate about tradition and finding ways to relate these roots to our lives and art today. She currently teaches Turkish Roman dance, finger cymbals and Folkloric Belly Dance and is loving learning more about Greek circle dance. You can study with Elizabeth weekly on Zoom or in Berkeley, CA.

PREVIEW THE PERFORMANCE
Anais & Adrian

Ren Geisick

Amelia Romano

Dan Cantrell and the Dainty Krakens

CURRENT WINDOW EXHIBITION

Portrait of Place | Lauren Bartone
The current exhibition on view in the windows of The Red Poppy Art House
ARTIST STATEMENT
Making art is how I raise a question or explore a problem. This means my work is often driven by subject matter that I have personal experience with; subjects from my daily life that challenge me. Paper trash, found objects, and site-specific materials become important in my work because of the experiences they reference. In public works, I produce images with the materials brought to the project by participants, and the result is the product of some form of dialogue. In my paintings and sculptures, the materials are borrowed from everyday life and are transformed, or are represented as subject matter. In either case, I enjoy finding meaning in the little bits of refuse that are leftover from my daily life.

ONLINE EVENT DETAILS
Time: October 2nd, 2021, 7:00 pm -10:00 pm
Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page

DONATE

June 5th MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts
2021-06-05 19:00 - 22:00 | CA
June 5th @ 7:00 – 10:00 pm Free
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page

Click here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming on Facebook.
During the last year, our goal has been to continue providing excellent and uplifting programs to you and we are pleased to announce our seventh online FREE MAPP program.
Our MAPP FESTIVAL program includes 5 music performances on June 5th, live-streamed from artists’ homes to your homes. Live streaming on Facebook
Now, more than ever, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community, and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.
Make a gift to the Red Poppy Art House today!
Red Poppy Art House Needs You

MISSION ARTS & PERFORMACE PROJECT (MAPP)
Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 have 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 are pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continues to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We look forward to the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.
This program is funded by California Arts Council Local Impact Grant and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.
RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:
Curator | Artistic Director | Interim managing director: Dina Zarif
Tech support and moderator: Leeav Sofer
PR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary

RPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) SATURDAY JUNE 5th

SATURDAY JUNE 5TH

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artists

7:00 -7:05 pm
Introduction, Artists meet and greet
MC Leeav Sofer and Curator Dina Zarif will greet the Artists, and present the performance program.

7:05 -7:30 pm
Inner Dialogue
A collection of solo percussion compositions and improvisations
James Yoshizawa – Percussion

7:30 – 8:00 pm
Cross the line
Folk music, jazz harmonies and Afro-Puerto Rican rhythms
Pedro Pastrana – Puerto Rican cuatro

8:00 – 8:30 pm
Journey To A Mystical Realm
Ethno-Electro World Music from Arabia to India
Narayan Sijan – Vocalist, Instrumentalist, Electronics

8:30 – 9:15 pm
CuarenTango
The voice of the heart Argentine tango
Sumi Lee – Piano
Teresa Tam – Vocal
Daniel Fabricant – Bass

9:15 -10:00 pm
“Pastimes”
Quinn Johnson Trio
Afro Cuban, Brazilian, funk, and jazz
Quinn Johnson – piano
Chris Wabich – drums & percussion
Kevin Axt – bass

PROGRAM (ONLINE) JUNE 5th

Inner Dialogue
A collection of solo percussion compositions and improvisations.
DESCRIPTION:
Percussion often exists as part of a larger ensemble to create sonic texture and rhythmic energy, but I enjoy the challenge of creating standalone musical statements as a percussion soloist. This is a collection of composed and improvised pieces for solo percussion.
Featuring:
James Yoshizawa- drum and percussion
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
James Yoshizawa is a versatile drummer, percussionist and educator based in Los Angeles, CA. As a drum set player, he is most often involved in progressive, original jazz ensembles such as the Nick Mancini Collective, the Kim Project, and Saga. He served as the bodhrán soloist and percussionist in the Broadway musical, Come From Away in its 2016 run at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC. in 2019, he was invited to Ireland to compete in the All-Ireland International Bones Competition where he was awarded 2nd place. He has also been a guest artist at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival in Fairbanks, AK since 2013.

“Cross the line”
Folk music, jazz harmonies, and Afro-Puerto Rican rhythms.
DESCRIPTION:
“Rough around the edges, Pedro’s acoustic chugging and carefully-placed melodic intricacy invoke an earthy quality into his sound, creating an (extra) ordinary future with an instrument from the past.”
This solo act is a representation of hope and all we have to endure to reach our potential and find the things we want most in life. The music combines the melodic elements of folk music, jazz harmonies, and Afro-Puerto Rican rhythms.”
Featuring:
Pedro Pastrana – Puerto Rican cuatro
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Pedro José Pastrana grew up playing the national instrument “cuatro”. His passion for discovery got him to move out of his native Puerto Rico and travel to different countries allowing him to explore other musical cultures. After years as a sideman, all of these collaborations have been the spark for this original project, fusing all of his influences into one story. With a passion for genre-bending rooted in folk music, Pedro brings his dynamism to the fore and shows the versatility of the instrument in popular and world music.”

Journey To A Mystical Realm
Ethno-Electro World Music from Arabia to India
Featuring:
Narayan Sijan- Composer, Producer, Vocalist, Instrumentalist, Electronics
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist & vocalist Narayan Sijan lived on the Silk Road from 1994-2006, learning & performing music with mystics, masters & locals. He creates musical storytelling from original compositions & traditional melodies. Electronic music is created by two-time GRAMMY nominee producer & programmer Carmen Rizzo whose credits range from Seal, Coldplay A.R. Rahman to co-founding the world/electronic act Niyaz. Karavan Sarai’s recent album ‘TORN IN LOVE’ was selected as #22 of the Best World Music Albums of 2020, while spending over 12 weeks in the Top Ten world music charts (NACC). Debut album Woven Landscapes (2015) reached #6 on the world music charts (CMJ). Painted Sands (2018) peaked at #4, with over 10 weeks in the top ten world music charts (NACC). This evocative visual and sonic journey carries listeners to a nighttime courtyard of a virtual Silk Road palace, the Karavan Sarai that gave the project its name.
Performing at large festivals from Bali Spirit Festival in Indonesia, Spirit of Tengri in Kazakhstan & Lighting in a Bottle (LIB) in California to cultural art centers such as Makan in Egypt & CoSM (Alex Grey) in New York.

CuarenTango
The voice of the heart – Argentine tango.
DESCRIPTION:
CuarenTango presents traditional and contemporary vocal tango pieces written & arranged by world-renowned maestros from the mid 20th century to the current time. The program will include a variety of duo and trio pieces including a Piano-Bass tango piece and Voice-Bass jazz pieces to add North American flavor.
Featuring:
Sumi Lee- Piano
Teresa Tam- Vocal
Daniel Fabricant- Bass
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Sumi Lee is a classically trained pianist who obtained a master’s degree in music, piano performance, from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has also been professionally trained as a tango pianist from La Orquesta Escuela de Tango Emilio Balcarce, the most prestigious tango orchestra school in the world sponsored by the city government of Buenos Aires. Lee is a widely respected piano teacher and is on the Board of Directors for the San Francisco branch of the Music Teachers’ Association of California. While living in Buenos Aires, she performed with living maestros and musical directors such as Víctor Lavallén, Jose Pepe Colangelo, Osvaldo Piro, Roberto Alvarez, Daniel Binelli, Mauricio Marceli, Nicolas Ledesma, and many more. Her latest concert at Teatro General San Martin in Buenos Aires was sold out to a large audience and aired live via national radio 2*4 and TV. Since moving back to the Bay Area in 2018 after receiving her diploma, she has performed Argentine tango music in the U.S. and Asia with her own group and produced her own contemporary tango music.
Teresa Tam grew up playing violin in orchestras and singing in choirs since her childhood in Taiwan. As an undergrad, Teresa made her solo debut with the prestigious American Bach Soloists right here in the Bay Area performing the Magnificat in D Major BWV 243 by J.S. Bach. She has had the honor of performing as a soloist under the direction of conductors Jeffrey Thomas, Joshua Rifkin, and more. After receiving her M.M. in vocal performance from Boston University, she then began collaborating in various duos with jazz guitarists and performed as a featured soloist with jazz bands around the Bay Area. She rediscovered Argentine Tango both as a dancer and vocalist in 2018 and was once again pulled into the mesmerizing world of Tango music. After attending the Tango for Musician program with Tango Sin Fin, she continued to collaborate with Tango musicians and performed all over the SF Bay Area. In 2019, the voice and guitar Duo Telar was born with Argentine tango guitarist, arranger, and musical director Maxi Larrea. Together, they weave together different genres of music and breathe new life into beautiful familiar melodies with playful harmonies and arrangements. When she is not busy performing, she is empowering others by working as a vocal coach and crafting custom modern portraitures as a photographer for clients worldwide.
Daniel Fabricant may be the most versatile bassist in San Francisco—and the most in-demand. Playing upright or electric, he adapts to a wide range of musical settings, from intimate chamber groups to sprawling dance bands and Latin ensembles. Fabricant has performed internationally with Piaf! The Show, Michael Feinstein, Betty Buckley, Joan Rivers, Spencer Day, Ann Hampton Callaway, Petula Clark, and Mary Wilson of the Supremes, among others. In the Bay Area, he regularly plays with Lavay Smith And Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Rupa and the April Fishes, and Redwood Tango Ensemble. He has appeared at A.C.T., SFJAZZ, Yoshi’s, The Freight and Salvage, and Feinstein’s, and New York City venues including Jazz at Lincoln Center, Café Carlyle, and Carnegie Hall. Fabricant is also an accomplished music instructor, teaching orchestra, guitar, bass, and ukulele to students of all ages in private and group settings.

“Pastimes (from times past)” | Quinn Johnson Trio
Afro Cuban, Brazilian, funk, and jazz.
DESCRIPTION:
Quinn Johnson Trio will perform songs from the newly released album “Pastimes (from times past)”, a collection of original music by Quinn Johnson which was recorded during the pandemic and released 3/1/2021. This album represents a cross-section of American and world music as filtered through the lens of the composer’s life.
Featuring:
Quinn Johnson – piano
Chris Wabich – drums and percussion
Kevin Axt – bass
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Pianist and composer Quinn Johnson has lived in four different countries on three different continents and has played music from around the world with Cuban, Brasilian, Persian, African, Middle Eastern, and Chinese artists. Some of those he has had the pleasure of working with include Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Rita Coolidge, Martin Short, Jack Sheldon, Diane Schuur, Tom Scott, Richard Carpenter, Judith Hill, Poncho Sanchez, Flora Purim, Wayne Brady, John Densmore (of The Doors), Elba Ramalho, Down to the Bone, Jerry Seinfeld, Airto Moreira, Francisco Aguabella, Christopher Cross, Alvaro Torres and Dancing with the Stars (US/Canada tour). Quinn was the music director/pianist for American songbook singer Steve Tyrell for 16 years. He is currently the music director for pop singer Debby Boone, as well as piano/keyboardist for the Clare Fischer Big Band, which received the 2013 Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album.
Quinn has performed at jazz festivals around the globe, including places such as Montreux, Bangkok, Vienne, Recife (Brasil), Detroit, San Jose, Capetown, Vitoria (Spain), and Syracuse.
He has performed on many TV shows including The Tonight Show, The David Letterman Show, The Today Show, The View, the Emmys, America’s Got Talent, and his playing can be heard on many TV shows as well as feature films. One of his compositions can be heard on the Emmy award-winning show “Homeland”.
Quinn has released several CDs on different labels, and currently composes, arranges, and produces music for artists in various genres. His last release “TRIO con CLAVE“, an exciting blend of American standards and Cuban rhythms, continues to get airplay 5 years after its release. The new release “Pastimes (from times past)”, is a collection of original music that Quinn composed over the past couple of decades, performed with a diverse group of old friends.
From Los Angeles, Chris Wabich is a well-known, original voice on drumset, steel drum, and percussion. The variety of artists he works with reflects his versatility as both musician and producer. He is heard with Ludacris, Sting, Leonard Cohen, Stanley Jordan, Brian Johnson (AC/DC) Sheila E., Mark Murphy, the Zappa Family, Larry Koonse, Billy Vera, Turkish superstar Omar Faruk, Boogsie Sharpe, and Prog Rock legends Kevin Ayers (Soft Machine), and Richard Sinclair (Caravan). Soundtracks include “Malcolm in the Middle”, “American Idol”, “Better Homes and Gardens”, “Wild California” IMAX, and Lalo Shifrin’s “After The Sunset”.
Chris has been arranging and producing projects including 7 Billboard charting hits for Margo Rey/John Oats (of Hall and Oats) Jason Paige (of Pokemon fame), Katisse, Allen Hinds, and Omar Faruk Tekbilek.. Chris has 9 Grammy nominations and has been a featured artist at 27 PAS Day of Percussion events. Chris is sponsored by INNOVATIVE PERCUSSION sticks, TYCOON percussion, ROLAND electronics, TURKISH cymbals, CADESON drums, and REMO drumheads
Kevin Axt was born in Burbank and has been a freelance musician in LA since 1982. He began studying classical guitar at the age of 13, later adding tuba, electric bass, and finally string bass to his instrumental arsenal by his late teens. He attended USC on an orchestral scholarship studying string bass with LA Phil co-principal bassist, Dennis Trembley. He has performed, recorded and toured with artists as diverse as Natalie Cole, Jack McDuff, Jimmy Smith, Hank Jones, Phil Woods, Lalo Schifrin, Shelby Lynne, Queen Latifah, Placido Domingo, Pat Williams, Russell Watson, Patti Austin, Bobby Shew, Chuck Mangione, Bernadette Peters, Cristian Castro, Lea Salonga, KD Lang, Dave Koz, The Tierney Sutton Band, David Benoit, Bob Florence, Mitch Forman and Chuck Loeb, Robben Ford, Jack Sheldon, Etta James, James Moody, Christopher Cross, Cheryl Bentyne, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Glenn Frey, and Melissa Manchester to name just a few.
Kevin has performed on over 150 albums and has performed bass in dozens of theater, film and television productions including La La Land (2016), Ford v Ferrari (2019), and Crazy Rich Asians (2018). Kevin has played on projects that have garnered a total of 12 Grammy nominations.

PREVIEW THE PERFORMANCE
James Yoshizawa – Bodhrán Improvisation | Elevator Music

Pedro Pastrana – Cuatro (Latin American string instrument)

Narayan Sijan| Karavan Sarai live at Red Poppy Art House

Teresa Tam -Vocal | Corazón Tango at Red Poppy Art House

Daniel Fabricant- Bass | The Nice Guy Trio

Sumi Lee- Piano | Zamba de Usted

Pastimes (from times past)| Promo for the new CD from Quinn Johnson

CURRENT WINDOW EXHIBITION

Portrait of Place | Lauren Bartone
The current exhibition on view in the windows of The Red Poppy Art House
ARTIST STATEMENT
Making art is how I raise a question or explore a problem. This means my work is often driven by subject matter that I have personal experience with; subjects from my daily life that challenge me. Paper trash, found objects, and site-specific materials become important in my work because of the experiences they reference. In public works, I produce images with the materials brought to the project by participants, and the result is the product of some form of dialogue. In my paintings and sculptures, the materials are borrowed from everyday life and are transformed, or are represented as subject matter. In either case, I enjoy finding meaning in the little bits of refuse that are leftover from my daily life.

ONLINE EVENT DETAILS
Time: June 5th, 2021, 7:00 pm -10:00 pm
Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page

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Celebrating CARNAVAL SAN FRANCISCO 2021 with Raizes do Choro e Samba (Online Premiere)
2021-05-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Online, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Date: Saturday, May 29, 2021
Time: 7 pm- 8pm (Online Video Premiere)
Admission: Suggested donation of $5
Paypal: donations@redpoppyarthouse.org
Website: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NjcwOQ==
A Virtual presentation in celebration of CARNAVAL SAN FRANCISCO 2021!
With Raizes do Choro e Samba – a project between the Bay and Brasillllll!
(Samba, Choro, Maxixe, Samba de Raiz, Brazilian Music)
FEATURING:
Musicians in Brazil:
· Mayté Corrêa – Vocal (Niteroi/Rio)
· Claudia Villela – Vocal (Santa Cruz, CA)
· Harvey Weinapel – Clarinet/Sax – (Berkeley, CA)
· Whatson Cardoso – Clarinet – Niteroi/Rio
· Tiago Souza – (bandolim)
· Ronaldo do Bandolim – (bandolim) Rio/Niteroi
· Rogério Souza Violão 7 – cordas Rio/Niteroi – Production in Niteroi with Brazilian musicians in Brazil and arranger
· Felipe Tauil engineer – Rio/Niteroi and afoxé on Pelo Telefone
Musicians in EUA
· Edinho Gerber – Violão 7-cordas Rio/Niteroi & Video edits
· Claudia Villela – Vocal – (Santa Cruz, CA)
· Ami Molinelli – Percussion (pandeiro and percussion/producer – (San Francisco, CA)
· Vanessa Isaac – Dance – Santa Barbara (on Pandu-cada and Alfa-Zema
· Dan Feiszli – Engineer
· Celso Alberti – Engineer
SPECIAL GUESTS
· Jane Lenoir flute on De Mal a Pior – Berkeley, CA
· Brian Moran – Cavaco on Pelo Telefone – El Cerrito, CA
· Liza Wallace – Harp on “alfazema”
· Clarice Cast – Percussino on “Alfazema” (Los Angeles, CA)
· Youth Ensemble led by Zack Pitt Smith: with Ananya Goenga and Zoe King

Musicians Ami Molinelli, Rogerio Souza, and Edinho Gerber, (Duo Violão + 1) will expand the choro repertoire and further explore the roots and intersections of choro and samba featuring a virtual presentation of songs including musicians in Brazil and the US. The trio Duo Violão + 1 will expand to feature vocalist, Claudia Villela, and clarinetist, Harvey Wainapel, as well as a huge line-up of special guests like Ronaldo do Bandolim, Whatson Cardoso (clarinet), Tiago Souza (mandolin), and Rio based vocalist Mayte Correira. Local guests include Jane Lenoir (flute) and Brian Moran (Cavaco). In addition, a newly commissioned piece by Brazilian dancer Vanessa Isaac will premier with a 4-pandeiro composition by Ami Molinelli. This show will feature a blend of compositions to highlight the links between choro and urban samba as showcase a gender balance of choro and samba composers with compositions by Chiquinha Gonzaga and Dona Ivone Lara as well as original choro and 4 pandeiro piece for dance and feature “Pelo Telefone” the first official samba and showcase historical references that are lesser-known to Brazil’s musical history.
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This event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House‘s main Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/RedPoppyArtHouse
Tune in 10 minutes before the event starts to test your devices for connection.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Ami Molinelli is a professional percussionist and educator specializing in Brazilian and Latin percussion. Ami received her Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts. Her performance and recording credits include theater, television (NBC). She is a freelance performing artist as well. She is endorsed by Latin Percussion (LP) and Rhythm Tech.
Her last album, História do Choro with Duo Violão Brasl + 1 was released in 2019 and was celebrated as one of the best jazz albums from the Bay Area for 2019. (Andy Gilbert, San Jose Mercury News) She is a two-time San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Recipient 2018 and 2020.
Saxophonist/clarinetist Harvey Wainapel has his feet firmly planted in two musical worlds. His jazz experience has led to performances and/or recordings with the likes of McCoy Tyner, Kenny Barron, Joe Henderson, and the Metropole Orchestra. He has toured internationally with Ray Charles, Joe Lovano, and Airto Moreira/Flora Purim.
Claudia Villela’s voice gets all the attention, and it’s easy to understand why. Her glorious five-octave instrument is one of the wonders of jazz, lithe and startlingly beautiful in every register. Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, she sings mostly in Portuguese, interpreting lyrics with keen emotional insight and supple rhythmic command. A supremely inventive scat singer, she has honed a vivid vocabulary of sounds that can evoke the hollow thump of a tabla drum, the muted trumpet of Miles Davis, the insistent twang of a berimbau, the ethereal call of a flute, or the distortion-laden Stratocaster licks of Jimi Hendrix. In recent years, Villela’s international reputation as a performer and composer has continued to grow through appearances at the world’s most prestigious jazz festivals and clubs.
A master of both 6 and 7 string guitars, Rogério Souza is one of the foremost representatives of the music of Rio de Janeiro. Rogério is constantly producing and performing in concerts and events that showcase traditional Brazilian music, especially Samba and Choro. He has worked with a multitude of world class Brazilian Musicians as musical director and producer for concerts, TV shows, CDs, and DVDs. Some of these artists include: Baden Powell, Paulinho da Viola, Sivuca, Ney Matogrosso, Altamiro Carrilho, João Bosco, Paulo Moura, Ivan Lins, Guinga, Turíbio Santos, Rafael Rabello, Cristovão Bastos, Nó em Pingo D’agua, Época de Ouro, Elizeth Cardoso, Elza Soares, João Nogueira, Dona Ivone Lara, Nelson Cavaquinho, Guilherme de Brito, Delcio Carvalho, Martinho da Vila, and Zeca Pagodinho.
Edinho Gerber possesses a rich musical vocabulary developed in the two countries where he was raised: the United States and Brazil. Navigating effortlessly between the genres of choro, jazz, samba, and blues, he is always in search of the intersection points within his dual cultural identity. A staple in the Chicago music scene for many years, he was a highly in-demand sideman having played with countless U.S.-based Brazilian groups, including Som Brasil, Renato Anesi Trio, A Cor do Brasil, and led the samba-jazz group Zona Sul.
Dancer: Vanessa Agle Isaac is a performer, choreographer, dance educator, producer, and writer. She is the artistic director and choreographer for the Vanessa Isaac Dance Company. Her choreography finds inspiration in her homeland, Brazil. In her work, she fuses Contemporary dance with Samba and diverse Brazilian dances and rhythms.
Vanessa co-directed and co-produced the show “From Africa To The Americas”. Choreographed and danced for the show of “Raoni, Um Tango a Brasiliera” music by Brazilian composer Paris Psaros. She has been a guest choreographer and performer for the Los Angeles International Jazz Festival, Anatomy Riot Contemporary Dance Project in Los Angeles, Heal the Ocean Organization, and for the Santa Barbara Choreographers Forum.
Other illustrious guests: Ronaldo do Bandolim (Mandolin), Whatson Cardoso (Clarinet), Tiago Souza (mandolin) Mayte Correia (vocals) Felipe Tauil (percussion), Jane Lenoir, (Flute) Brian Moran (Cavaco/guitar) , Zack Pitt-Smith (Reeds) and the youth choro-stra, Clarice Cast (Brazilian percussionist in LA) and harpist Liza Wallace (LA) ”
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LEARN MORE:
www.amimo.com FB: @amimolinellihart

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7 – 8 pm
Admission: (Online) FREE
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April 3rd MAPP (Online): In solidarity with the Asian community
2021-04-03 11:00 - 22:00 | CA
April 3rd @ 11am- 12:00 pm | Visual Art Workshop | Exhibition
April 3rd @ 7:00- 10:00 pm | Performances
Click here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming on Facebook.

Red Poppy Art House’s April MAPP is dedicated to the victims and families of the Atlanta spa shootings.
“In solidarity with the Asian community”
In response to the senseless atrocities that occurred recently toward people of Asian descent, the Red Poppy Art House stands in solidarity with the Asian community and any person on this planet who experiences racial injustice. It is clear there is much progress to be made as a society to create a more just and equitable world, but we take comfort in knowing that our staff, board members, artists, and community stand with us in denouncing all acts of hate and mistreatment. The Red Poppy’s greatest strength and the beating heart of our programming itself is a melting pot of cultures that delivers self-expression and education in its truest form. Without diverse voices and cultural expression, we simply would not exist. Please join us at this moment and here forward to support our fellow Asians and Asian-Americans and take every opportunity to stand up for equality and the rights we all deserve, as one community.
During these challenging times, it is our goal to continue providing uplifting programs to you and we are pleased to announce our sixth online FREE MAPP program. Our MAPP FESTIVAL program includes a Multimedia presentation and music performance, honoring Asian American history and culture, 4 music performances, a shadow Puppet project, and a visual art workshop and will be live-streamed from the artist’s homes to your homes. Live streaming on Facebook
Now, more than ever, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community window and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.
Make a gift to Red Poppy Art House today!
Red Poppy Art House Needs You
Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 have 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 are pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continues to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We look forward to the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.
This program is funded by the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and California Arts Council Local Impact Grant and will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.

RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:
Curator: Dina Zarif / Artistic Director
Tech support and moderator: Leeav Sofer
PR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary

RPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) SATURDAY APRIL 3RD

THE MORNING VISUAL ART WORKSHOP

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artists

11:00 -11:10 am
Introduction, Artist meet and greet | RPAH window Exhibition
Curator Dina Zarif will greet the Artist; Introduction about the current Window exhibition at RPAH: “Portrait of Place
Lauren Bartone – Visual Artist

11:10 am -12:00 pm
Creative Map Making workshop
Using Found Materials to Create a Portrait of Place
Lauren Bartone – Visual Artist

THE EVENING PROGRAM & PERFORMANCES

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artists

7:00- 7:05 pm
Introduction, Artists meet and greet
Curator Dina Zarif and MC Leeav Sofer will greet the Artists, and present the
performance program

7:05 – 7:35 pm
HOME IN ASIAN AMERICA
Multimedia + Live music honoring Asian American history
Kyoko Takenaka – Director, musician, filmmaker, and actor

7:35 – 8:00 pm
A little bird, a little light
Stories of spring sung with gayageum, folky Korean tunes from China
Joyce Kwon – voice & gayageum (traditional Korean instrument)

8:00 – 8:30
Songs from the Saint Joan Suite
Music and Shadow puppet performance
Ali Dineen – voice and piano and Shadow Puppet

8:30 – 9:15 pm
Louda y Los Bad Hombres
Music, Art, Activism, Nuevo Latino Soul
Alex Shapiro-romano – Drums
Dave Eagle – Percussion
Jeff Gomez – Percussion
Leo Nava – Guitar
Marley Edwards – Bass
Louda Laura Camacho – Vocals

9:15 – 10 pm
TRIO CAMINOS | Acoustic Rivers
Latin, Flamenco, Jazz and Venezuelan Music (Joropo, Vals, Merengue)
Carlos Caminos- Guitar
Sascha Jacobsen – Bass
Marlon Aldana- Percussion

WORKSHOP: SATURDAY APRIL 3rd @ 11 am
Creative Map Making | Lauren Bartone
Using Found Materials to Create a Portrait of Place

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Using paint and collage materials found from our homes or local neighborhood, we will make a creative map of our space. These collages will function as a kind of interpretive portrait of a place, one that reflects the way we see it and use it.
MATERIALS

A printed map of your house, block, neighborhood or city, glue stick, or elmer’s glue, scissors, cardboard and/or drawing paper, drawing pencil, pens, watercolors, brushes, and paper scraps such as paper bags, receipts, junk mail, flyers, clean food packaging. Anything you can think of.

Next Level Materials
Ready to go pro? Use an exacto knife and cutting mat instead of scissors. Use an illustration board instead of cardboard. Use PVA glue and a brush instead of a glue stick.

ARTIST BIO:
Lauren Bartone is grounded in an interdisciplinary balance of painting, community dialogue, and
collective work. After initially studying painting in Florence, she completed a BA in fine art at UCLA in 2002. This was followed by an MA in Education at UC Berkeley in 2005 and an MFA at VCFA in 2012. In 2015 she produced her project A City in Maps as artist in residence at the deYoung Museum of Art in San Francisco, and later created other interactive projects with the deYoung, including Paradise and A Map for the Centennial of the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Additional artist residencies include Kala and Art Works Downtown. In 2016 she partnered with the San Francisco Arts Council to make SF New City Atlas for the Art on Market Street poster series, and more recently she produced a series of paintings and small sculptures exploring the value of domestic labor for her solo show 16 Tons, at the College of Marin Gallery. Her work has been generously supported with grants by the Pirkle Jones Foundation, the Marin Arts Council, and the VCFA Levin/Lutz Award. She currently lives with her partner and three children in downtown San Rafael.
For You

CURRENT WINDOW EXHIBITION: APRIL – JUNE
Portrait of Place | Lauren Bartone
The current exhibition on view in the windows of The Red Poppy Art House

ARTIST STATEMENT
Making art is how I raise a question or explore a problem. This means my work is often driven by subject matter that I have personal experience with; subjects from my daily life that challenge me. Paper trash, found objects, and site-specific materials become important in my work because of the experiences they reference. In public works, I produce images with the materials brought to the project by participants, and the result is the product of some form of dialogue. In my paintings and sculptures, the materials are borrowed from everyday life and are transformed, or are represented as subject matter. In either case, I enjoy finding meaning in the little bits of refuse that are leftover from my daily life.

PROGRAM (ONLINE) APRIL 3rd

Video: “ASIAN AMERICAN BLUES” by Kyoko Takenaka
“HOME IN ASIAN AMERICA”
Multimedia + Live music + q&a from artist Kyoko Takenaka
Director, musician, filmmaker, and actor Kyoko Takenaka will perform “If We All Wait,” a powerful song about Asian American history; and share segments from their multimedia piece, “HOME,” and “Kung Flu Virus: Come Fly Me Away” followed by a short Q&A.
Artist Statement
As a ﬁrst generation Japanese-American artist living in Tongva Land, I have found myself yearning to explore just what it means to “go back to your country” during the time of COVID-19—when Anti-Asian hate crimes continue to rise in America. I have never lived in Japan and grew up in the states all of my life. But this land, Tongva land, was never ours to claim and it feels Asian- Americans are constantly and starkly reminded that no matter our journey, no matter how many decades or generations of pursuing the American dream, we can always belong, but rarely feel a complete belonging.
I compare my yearning to my parents:
What myths do we each hold about the promise of faraway places?
Dedicated to Vicha Ratanapakdee, Soon Chung Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, and all of our Asian-American elders who moved to America, with this promise and hope of faraway places.
Video: KUNG FLU VIRUS: COME FLY ME AWAY
Why are you keeping me here? You said I don’t belong here – Kung flu Virus, come fly me away.”
“I feel like I’m exploring three sides of me here in Japan –
one that feels distinctly American, that feels like a lucky giddy visitor taking it all in for the first time; one that deeply and ancestrally remembers the familiarity of this land and can finally breathe easier and tread lightly;
and the curious non-binary Asian-American artist that holds both dualities, and explores a new creative space where their art is no longer driven entirely by diasporic anger.
But it’s that same curiosity that is often met with this deep isolation and knowing—that no matter where I physically go, I will never be separated from this rooted anger and grief, or be able to escape the never-ending longing for home.”
Video: “Home” by Kyoko Takenaka Video info: “These are real-life audio recordings from men who came up to me in bars. I made this film, HOME, encapsulating over 7 years of recorded micro-aggressions. It’s a visual + sonic collage of my experiences growing up in America as an Asian-American femme.” – Kyoko Takenaka
In “Home,” artist and filmmaker Kyoko Takenaka unveil a visual and sonic portrait of belonging and memory in four chapters. Calling upon the experiences that underline their otherness as an Asian-American, the film chronicles their contemplations through original song and poetry, as well as video clips, audio recordings, and digital conversations captured from real-life experiences over the span of seven years. Through references to pop culture, racist imitations of Asians, and a defining return to their childhood home, “Home” is a multimedia statement on how the affirmation of culture, resistance, and resilience can disrupt enduring myths and redeem our histories.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Kyoko Takenaka (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary performance artist, actor, musician, ﬁlmmaker, and movement facilitator based between Tongva land (L.A.), Tokyo, and London. Their name Kyoko means “vibrations of sound child” in Japanese. Kyoko believes in artistic expression as a conduit for personal and collective liberation and is constantly exploring un-binary ways of thinking, moving, and creating.
Takenaka’s multimedia piece, “Home,” has garnered much attention in the media this past week, and has been recognized by the Japan Film Festival, L.A. Shorts International Film Festival, the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, and performed at the Japanese American National Museum and the Los Angeles Asian Paciﬁc Film Festival.
They are also the guitarist/singer-songwriter of the queer multi- continental band, ‘Wastewomxn’, channeling diasporic experience and Afro-Asian unity and liberation through their work.
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A little bird, a little light
Stories of spring sung with gayageum
A folky Korean tune from China, a yearning waltz from Brazil, and a midcentury ballad from the States, plus Joyce’s original songs on gayageum
Featuring:
Joyce Kwon – voice & gayageum (traditional Korean instrument)
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Joyce Kwon is a singer, composer, and gayageum player making folk music for folks of the diaspora. She released her album “Dream of Home” for those who reside in between, marginalized in their homeland and out of place in the motherland. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Joyce is the eldest of three sister bears (go bears!) and got her master’s degree in jazz voice at the Manhattan School of Music, before continuing her gayageum studies in Seoul. She now resides in Los Angeles, looking forward to a future of sitting in cramped restaurants with friends and wearing shoes without holes.
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Ali Dineen
Songs from the Saint Joan Suite
Ali Dineen will perform songs from the work in progress, the Saint Joan Suite, based on the life and transgender identity of the historical figure and Saint Joan of Arc. Ali began this project while in a residency in the winter of 2020 and has been developing it ever since. Ali will also perform a shadow puppet “cranky” based on a song from the Georgia Sea Islands.
Featuring:
Ali Dineen – voice and piano and Shadow Puppet
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Hailing from Queens NY, Ali Dineen is an artist & teacher who has performed her original music regularly in New York City and across the so-called United States. Ali’s lyrics highlight the intersections between personal experience, larger histories, and systems of power. Ali has performed at the Museum of Art and Design, the Caramoor American Roots Music Festival, the Savannah Music Festival, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Folk Festival. Ali was awarded the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency in Taos, New Mexico in the winter of 2020. Ali teaches voice and harmony at the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, works with local Brooklyn puppet troupe extraordinaire The Boxcutter Collective, and performs in a duet with Feral Foster. Ali released her third album, “Hold On,” in February of 2020.
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Louda y Los Bad Hombres
Music, Art, Activism, Nuevo Latino Soul
Louda y Los Bad Hombres are a paella of art, music and activism surging from San Francisco. Including acoustic bass, Latin, and other eccentric percussions, Louda y Los Bad Hombres house a signature bilingual sound blending Latin and American rhythms with performance excellence led by charismatic powerhouse vocalist, Louda. Tune into this Nuevo Latino Soul group with original compositions and reimagined classics, streaming everywhere. They were featured in the Bay Area’s Longest running bilingual newspaper, El Tecolote, for performing at The Chapel pre-pandemic, December 2019.
Instagram, Facebook, Spotify
Featuring:
Alex Shapiro-romano – Drums
Dave Eagle – Percussion
Jeff Gomez – Art And Percussion
Leo Nava – Guitar
Marley Edwards – Bass
Louda Laura Camacho – Vocals
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Alex Shapiro- Romano grew up in the Bay Area and has been playing drums since he was a boy. During high school, he was the drummer in the Berkeley High Jazz Ensemble and won multiple awards. Alex graduated from the California Jazz Conservatory in 2019 with a B.M. in jazz studies. While going to CJC he met the Bad Hombres and Louda. In addition to playing drums, Alex composes and produces music.
Marley Edwards is from Redwood City. He started playing electric bass about 15 years ago and then moved to stand-up bass not long after. He has studied Jazz music for 8 years, first at the College of San Mateo, and then at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley where he received a B.M. in Jazz studies in May 2019. Marley is interested in playing different styles of music in an authentic way, especially music from other countries. Hearing music from his mother’s home country of Nicaragua has no doubt led to this interest.
Jeff Gomez is a graphic artist and musician living in San Francisco. He has been drawing since before he can walk. In high school, he picked up guitar and drums to further his creative adventures. He left his Southern California home to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. His style in art, music, and life has always been influenced by the vibrant colors and melodies of his Mexican American upbringing, and his curiosity and admiration of all cultures.
Leo Nava‘s interest in music began at three years old in the backyard of Tia’s house warming party. A mariachi band had been hired to play, and they found their biggest fan in little Leo, who stood in front of them, enamored, through the whole party. Since then Leo has spent a lifetime studying, composing, teaching, and playing music. He graduated from the California Jazz Conservatory in 2016 with a BM in Jazz Studies. Since then he has focused on teaching and composing and arranging music for Louda y Los Bad Hombres. His goal is to blend music from his Latinx heritage with modern jazz and hip-hop.
Dave Eagle is a Berkeley native who has been playing percussion before he could walk. His musical abilities were greatly influenced by his father, who is a conga drummer and a collector of world music, and Capoeira Mestre who introduced him to Brazilian culture and music. Now you can find him in the community playing weekly at a church and at many senior centers throughout the Bay Area. He also plays most nights at local venues with different bands, playing many styles and instruments; including New Orleans, Boogie and Blues washboard, Brazilian, Latin, Reggae, and more. Dave lives his life trying to spread the love of music to make people happy and dance!
Laura Camacho, a Chicago native, has been creating in the Bay Area since 2017. Beginning her classical career at Jones College Prep, she pursued a BA in Music at Northeastern Illinois University, where she took part in classical, theatrical, and jazz ensembles. From 2011 to 2014, she began her commercial assent into the music industry joining the Chicago ska band, Run and Punch. Without haste, she launched her solo career as LOUDA. Since 2017, LOUDA y Los Bad Hombres has been a collaborative ensemble of Art, Music, and Activism. Switching stages, Laura is also a music teacher and has been MC/host for local not-for-profit events.
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TRIO CAMINOS
Acoustic Rivers
TRIO CAMINOS puts together a fun mix of rhythms, grooves, and musical styles including Latin, Flamenco, Jazz, and Venezuelan Music (Joropo, Vals, Merengue). Lifelong performers are coming together on this occasion for some serious jamming to uplift our spirits.
Featuring:
Carlos Caminos- Guitar
Sascha Jacobsen – Bass
Marlon Aldana- Percussion
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Marlon Aldana, Drummer and Percussionist born in Guadalajara, Mexico. Aldana is a multi-genre accompanist and educator based in Berkeley California. As a young musician, Aldana exposed himself to many styles, and joined many groups, from Cumbia and Salsa to Rock, Funk, and Metal. Aldana has shared stage with renowned artists such as Flamenco guitarists and Grammy Award winner Antonio Rey, Legendary Rumbero John Santos, former Pedrito Martinez pianist Edgar Pantoja, Jazz Mafia, Jose Luis de La Paz, Bay Area Bassist Jeff Chambers, Flamenco Pianist Alex Conde, Flamenco singers Mara Rey, Jose Mendez, Jesus Montoya, Manuel Moreno Carrasco, Flamenco Dancers Alfonso Losa, Andres Peña, Ivan Vargas, Juan Ogalla, Fanny Ara and may others.
In 2018 and 2019 Aldana collaborated and accompanied the Oakland Symphony led by Conductor Omid Zoufonoun. Thanks to his career trajectory Aldana was granted a scholarship at the California Jazz Conservatory where he currently studies. Aldana is now working on building an independent home studio and writing/composing some material of his own.
Sascha Jacobsen was born into a musical family, going as far back as his great, great, great, great-grandfather, who was a bassist for the Moscow Opera. He completed a Master’s degree at the University of Southern California and has served on the faculty at The California Jazz Conservatory, Humboldt State University, Laney College, Golden Gate Bass Camp, and the Sequoia Chamber Music Festival. Sascha has performed with Kronos Quartet, Rita Moreno, Hugh Jackman, Martin Short, Mandy Patinkin & Patti LuPone, Marc Shaiman, Bonnie Raitt, Randy Newman, Josh Groban, Kristin Chenoweth, Andrew Lippa, and many others. He is the founder of the Musical Art Quintet which performs his original works. Strad Magazine says his music is “…Stylish and Vigorous…beautifully arranged”. SF Bay Guardian says “composer-bassist Sascha Jacobsen’s concoctions hop nimbly through a world of styles while impressing with ear-catching intricacy and handsome technique.”. East Bay Express says “Classical Music is sexy again”. SF Weekly says: “Classical training and a taste for evocative melodies underpin this sound”.
He is in demand as a performer, composer, and arranger with commissions from the San Francisco Arts Council, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, San Jose Dance, San Jose Youth Symphony, Berkeley Youth Symphony, and SF Friends of Chamber Music.
Carlos Caminos is a Venezuelan-American musician, composer, and performer with over 25 years of experience performing as a Guitarist. A long career has taken him on a journey of very diverse projects and collaborations. His project, Caminos Music is the result of years developing a passion for learning: Flamenco (Bulerías, Soleá por Bulería, Alegrías, Fandangos de Huelva, among others), Latin Music (Salsa, Bolero, Son, Tangos, Cumbia, and more), Venezuelan Music (Joropo, Vals, Merengue) and Latin Jazz.
Carlos Caminos has co-founded several projects: Raíz de Agua, a Live Music and Theatrical Dance group with choreographer Juliana Mendonca and music producer Jorge Espinoza; Latifonía, a project of Latin American and European Music for Band and Symphonic Orchestra; A Tono Acústico, contemporary Venezuelan Music; New Caminos Duo, Piano – Guitar recitals with Classical Pianist Sebastian New; Trio Caminos, Flamenco, and Latin American Music acoustic music project. He has lived in different countries, attaining musical experience from diverse sources. Growing up and performing in South America made Latin Music part of his musical heritage. Studying in Granada, Spain, with local Flamenco Guitar teachers allowed him to dive further into this unique guitar culture. Living in the U.S.A. has set the stage for interaction with great artists working for very diverse projects that include Physical Theater, Contemporary Dance, art shows, Tango music, Reggae, Flamenco, Electronic music, and more.

PREVIEW THE PERFORMANCE
Asian American Blues by Kyoko Jinjabrew

Dream of home … but don’t go back there by Joyce Kwon

little bird by Joyce Kwon

I Know Moonlight, I Know Starlight by Ali Dineen

Louda y Los Bad Hombres

MARIA LAYA: New Caminos Duo

Trio Caminos @RPAH

ACreative Map Making | Lauren Bartone

ONLINE EVENT DETAILS
Time: June 5th, 2021, 7:00 pm -10:00 pm
Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page

February 7th MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts | Workshop | Exhibition
2021-02-07 15:00 - 16:00 | CA
Feb 7th @ 3:00-4:00 pm | Visual Art Workshop
Feb 6th @ 7:00- 10:00 pm | Performance
Click here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming on Facebook.
During these challenging times, it is our goal to continue providing excellent and uplifting programs to you and we are pleased to announce our fifth online FREE MAPP program. Our TWO DAY MAPP FESTIVAL program includes 4 music performances on February 6th and a visual art workshop on February 7th and will be live-streamed from artists’ homes to your homes. Live streaming on Facebook
Performances on February 6th
Now, more than ever, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community, and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.
Make a gift to Red Poppy Art House today!
Red Poppy Art House Needs You
Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 have 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 are pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continues to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We look forward to the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.
This program is funded by California Arts Council Local Impact Grant and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.
RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:
Curator: Dina Zarif / Artistic Director
Tech support: Leeav Sofer
PR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary

FEBRUARY 7TH WORKSHOP

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 TH

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artists

3:00- 3:10 pm
Introduction, Artist meet and greet | RPAH window Exhibition
Curator Dina Zarif will greet the Artist, Introduction about the current Window exhibition at RPAH: “Hold me in the Palm of your Hand”
Andrea Guskin -Visual Artist

3:10 – 4:00 pm
Workshop: Between the Palm Lines, Layers of Home
Rubbings, Transfers, Tape and String: Using Everyday Objects to Create Meaningful Artworks
Andrea Guskin -Visual Artist

CURRENT WINDOW EXHIBITION: FEBRUARY – APRIL

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Hold me in the Palm of your Hand | Andrea Guskin
Current exhibition on view in the windows of The Red Poppy Art House
ARTIST STATEMENT
Using the everyday materials of mending, my work explores the layers of social and emotional experience related to ancestry, immigration, and domestic life. Thread and cord are sewn, tied and knotted: they speak of the tight ropes we all walk, each step composed of mundane and extraordinary moments, containing influences both known and unknown. The work is designed to move beyond the boundaries of the art object, mapping paths that become routes of connection and experience.

Hold me in the Palm of your Hand, the current exhibition on view in the windows of The Red Poppy Art House, began during the first two months of sheltering in place in 2020. Missing friends and family, I started asking them to send an image of their palm. Staring at the lines of their palm, I began to sew them into the canvas: building the lines of my loved ones little by little, piece by piece, brought me closer to them in my mind. The paintings created alongside them speak of the water, land, and bridges that lie between the people represented as palm lines as well as the tangible absence and distance that exists between us. For more info please visit www.andreaguskin.com
ARTIST BIO:
Andrea Guskin is a San Francisco Bay Area artist who was raised amongst the woods and college campuses of Wisconsin and Ohio. She began drawing by pillaging her father’s office supplies for fine tip pens and yellow pads, filling them with costumed figures while lounging on a 1970’s shag carpet.
After studying painting at Antioch college, Andrea moved to NYC and became a part of the art and songwriter community on the Lower East Side, joining a group of artists working without heat in an 1897 former school building (now known as The Clemente). It was here that the figures in her paintings began to deconstruct into minimal skeletal portraits in black and white, which formed the bridge to her architectural tape drawings and her abstract explorations related to the home.
Since moving to the Bay Area in 2003, Andrea has expanded the materials and themes she works with–incorporating small ordinary objects and domestic mending materials such as thread, burnt matches, cotton rounds, tape, and rubber bands. She uses these objects to explore ideas related to domesticity, refuge, and ancestry.
Andrea has recently added a participatory community aspect to her work, merging her years in museum education (The Oakland Museum/The Contemporary Jewish Museum) and her art practice. One example is the ongoing From Where to Here Project, a series of events in which participants are invited to reflect on their own and their families’ journeys to the Bay Area.
In 2020, Andrea founded Virtual Cultural Connections, a Bay Area program designed to promote cultural awareness in schools and support local artists. She currently lives and works in San Leandro with her husband and two sons.

WORKSHOP: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7TH

Between the Palm Lines, Layers of Home | Andrea Guskin
Rubbings, Transfers, Tape, and String: Using Everyday Objects to Create Meaningful Artworks
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
I often incorporate household fragments and objects in my work: using ubiquitous items such as used matches, rubber bands, and cotton rounds. In this workshop, we will gather objects from home to create a texture and line board that can be used over and over, transforming found everyday pieces into layered worlds on paper. This workshop is a chance to be playful and experiment with what’s around you–it’s meant for everyone and requires no previous art experience.
Since ancestry is an important part of my work, I will show you how to use this process with a printed copy of a vintage family photograph and how to make a simple photo transfer using an inkjet printer and a piece of label paper. Additionally, I will demonstrate how I would integrate this drawing into the larger narrative of my work by finding a place for it in one of the wall installations currently unfolding in my studio.
Pencil rubbings have been used widely by artists to add additional layers of meaning and interest to drawings. Here is an example by Max Ernst, who created many drawings using this technique, also called frottage.
Max Ernst, When Light Cartwheels 1925

MATERIALS
For Rubbings (Frottage)

Scissors
Glue stick
Copy Paper: with or without printed image
A piece of cardboard, wood or heavy paper: this will be the base for the objects
Pencil: 2B will work but a softer pencil is ideal (4B or 6B)
String (preferably thicker than standard thread, yarn or cord will work well)

Household objects: I used playing cards (to cut into shapes), cotton rounds, a key, an earring, a feather and a game board. Look for things with interesting shapes and cut-outs, that are fairly flat.
Optional

Colored Masking Tape
Black paper for the background
A printed copy of a photograph of a family member or friend
A picture of a palm
Colored pencils
woodless pencils

For photo transfers:

An inkjet printer
A sheet of printable label paper (I use Avery)
Paper (any thickness)

WORKSHOP INSTRUCTIONS
Step one: Gathering
The Essentials: scissors, glue, lightweight paper, string, pencil, and some kind of board for backing.
Household Objects: I found cards, a feather, an old Trouble game board, a key, a cotton round, an earring, and a wooden toy remnant. I printed out a photograph of my grandfather working in a chemistry lab and the palm of my nephew Ricardo who lives in Trinidad.

String drawing with Palm Lines: Who’s palm lines will you create? You can use your own or a picture of someone else’s palm.
Cut at least three pieces of string, one for each line of the main lines in the palm. I cut four for his palm, as the line across the middle line was so strong.
Arrange string on your board, echoing as closely as possible the lines of the hand.
Run the string over the glue stick, or add glue to the board–then adhere the string to the board (you will need to wait for the glue to dry before rubbing)
Step two: Arranging your household objects and shapes on the board
Glue or tape objects onto your board. I taped everything but the string, so I can move the objects around freely. One of the advantages of this technique is being able to repeat a shape/texture easily, so choose shapes that fit in with any concepts or ideas you have for your project.

Step Three: Rubbing
Start with a Warm-up. Holding your paper firmly on top of the board, rub back and forth using the side of your pencil until the lines and shapes appear. Shift the paper around to gather more rubbings.
After you complete your warm-up, you will have an idea of which objects you prefer to use on your final piece. Here are some ways to add to your piece:
Use a printed copy of a photograph instead of a blank sheet of paper. It works best if it’s a light-colored photograph. Cut it out if desired and place it on black paper.
Use colored masking tape to make a design on paper before you start rubbing. Use the rubbings to fill in the negative spaces of the design. Find your favorite area of the page and cut it out.
Photo Transfer Technique for Inkjet printer
Take all the labels and sticky parts of a sheet of white address labels for inkjet printers (Avery labels work well)

Place in your printer (in mine I have to place it upside down)
Print the photograph (it will print in reverse). Transfer immediately after printing, while the ink is still very wet. Make sure to use a board or larger paper to protect the surface you are working on.

– Lay a piece of paper (or wood) down on top of the image. For this, I only wanted to print a selection of the image.
Pat the back firmly all around with your whole palm.
Lift and see the image!
It will most likely not be “perfect” but contain some spots that didn’t transfer completely. Personally, I like this effect.
If you like, remove the ink by transferring the rest of the ink onto scrap paper and re-use the same sheet to transfer once again. It will dry in about an hour.

Images from Past Exhibitions:

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Time: Feb 6th, 7:00 pm -10:00 pm (Performances), Feb 7th, 3:00 PM – 4:00pm (Visual Art Workshop | Exhibition)
Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page

February 6th MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts | Performances
2021-02-06 19:00 - 22:00 | CA
Feb 6th @ 7:00- 10:00 pm | Performances
Feb 7th @ 3:00- 4:00 pm | Visual Art Workshop | Exhibition
Click here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming on Facebook.
During these challenging times, it is our goal to continue providing excellent and uplifting programs to you and we are pleased to announce our fifth online FREE MAPP program. Our TWO DAY MAPP FESTIVAL program includes 4 music performances on February 6th and a visual art workshop on February 7th and will be live-streamed from artists’ homes to your homes. Live streaming on Facebook
Visual Art workshops on February 7th
Now, more than ever, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community, and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.
Make a gift to Red Poppy Art House today!
Red Poppy Art House Needs You
Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 have 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 are pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continues to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We look forward to the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.
This program is funded by California Arts Council Local Impact Grant and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.
RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:
Curator: Dina Zarif / Artistic Director
Tech support: Leeav Sofer
PR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary

RPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) FEBRUARY 6TH & 7TH

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artists

7:00 -7:05 pm
Introduction, Artists meet and greet
Curator Dina Zarif will greet the Artists, and present the
performance program.

7:05 -7:10 pm
Announcement
“Urban Prophets” Announcement by Arturo Moh Mendez

7:10 – 8:00 pm
The Anthony Blea Yelapa Trio | LIVE from Mexico
Latin, Jazz, and imagination
Anthony Blea – Violin
Lincoln Andrews – Bass
Kyle Madrigal – Guitar

8:00 – 8:40 pm
“All come to look for America”
Music for voice and piano guides us as we search for America together.”
Simon Barrad – Voice, Baritone
Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad – Piano

8:40 – 9:15 pm
Mi Corazón, Mi Canto
Traditional and contemporary sounds of Latin America.
Monica Maria – Voca, Guitar

9:15 -10:00 pm
“Live from the Desert”
Klezmer/Balkan DJ Set with Live Horns
Mayvn – DJ/Clarinet
Joey Jay – Sax

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 TH

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artists

3:00- 3:10 pm
Introduction, Artist meet and greet | RPAH window Exhibition
Curator Dina Zarif will greet the Artist, Introduction about the current Window exhibition at RPAH: “Hold me in the Palm of Your Hand”
Andrea Guskin -Visual Artist

3:10 – 4:00 pm
Workshop: Between the Palm Lines, Layers of Home
Rubbings, Transfers, Tape, and String: Using Everyday Objects to Create Meaningful Artworks
Andrea Guskin -Visual Artist

CURRENT WINDOW EXHIBITION: FEBRUARY – APRIL
Hold me in the Palm of your Hand | Andrea Guskin
Current exhibition on view in the windows of The Red Poppy Art House.

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WORKSHOP: SUNDAY FEBRUARY 7TH

Between the Palm Lines, Layers of Home
Rubbings, Transfers, Tape and String: Using Everyday Objects to Create Meaningful Artworks
PERFORMANCES (ONLINE) FEB 6TH

The Anthony Blea Yelapa Trio
Latin, Jazz,and imagination
The Anthony Blea Yelapa Trio has taken this time to hunker down and rehearse in the isolated beach/jungle town of Yelapa in the State of Jalisco Mexico.
Featuring:
Anthony Blea – Violin
Lincoln Andrews – Bass
Kyle Madrigal – Guitar

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Anthony Blea was born and raised in San Francisco. He started playing the violin at age eight in public schools and he was accepted to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music at age eleven as a full scholarship student. Anthony went on to receive a Bachelor’s Degree from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Raphael Bronstein and a Masters Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory where he majored in String Quartet performance. Having played with Afro-Cuban bands in San Francisco and New York City, Anthony continues to play a wide variety of music in the Bay Area and internationally. He has played and recorded with artists such as Israel Lopez “Cachao”, Ray Charles, S.F. Opera Orchestra, John Santos Ensemble, Jazz Mafia, Anthony Blea y su Charanga, Charanga 76, Orquesta Broadway and many more.
Anthony is also a professor of Music at the San Francisco City College where he teaches Orchestra, Violin and Community Choir.
Lincoln Andrews is a musician and sound engineer, born and raised in the mountains of Northern California. Learning to play the bass and produce music at the age of 10, Lincoln went on to study sound engineering and music theory at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts. After graduation, Lincoln began touring in a jazz/rock fusion band with this older brother, Blue Luke. Lincoln also became the head engineer at Russian River Records, producing albums for local artists out of Mendocino County. Eventually Lincoln moved back to the bay area where he became an instructor at the Academy of Art University, a sound engineer at the SFJAZZ Center, and a City College of San Francisco alumni from performing in Anthony Blea’s Charanga Orchestra for 3 years. Lincoln then moved to New York City where he focused on his bass performance while studying under the great John Benitez and performing in jazz jam sessions. Now relocated back to Northern California, Lincoln is in the process of building his own professional music studio, and performing as much as possible during these pandemic times.
Kyle Madrigal is a California boy that’s always been fascinated by fluctuating frequencies in air. Tickling tympanic membranes with artists like Charley Crockett and Dirt Floor Band, sharing the stage with Willy Nelson and George Clinton. Kyle is most at home in the murky depths of sludgy sound and finding a polished pearl to aurally impart to your ears.

“All come to look for America”
A musical journey through the possibilities and empty promises of what America is, and what it hopes to be. Music for voice and piano guides us as we search for America together.”
Featuring:
Simon Barrad – Voice, Baritone
Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad – Piano
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
The versatility of Grammy-nominated baritone, Simon Barrad, has been heard across the United States and Europe in opera, Lieder, and oratorio concerts. Features in recent seasons in the United States include performances at Cincinnati Opera, the Art of the Piano Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the Token Creek Festival, and the Marlboro Music Festival. However, the 2015/16 Fulbright scholar to Finland has also headlined concerts across the Atlantic at venues including Helsinki’s Musiikkitalo, Finland’s National Opera House, and the Berlin Philharmonie. Highlights of upcoming seasons include Mr. Barrad’s Wigmore Hall and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society debut recitals, as well as Bay Area engagements including Inspector Kildare in Kevin Puts’ Elizabeth Cree with West Edge Opera, and a virtual Passover celebration – Dayenu with Taste of Talent.
Ukraine native Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad is an active pianist and collaborator on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Before graduating with honors from the Special Music School in Kyiv, she won top prizes at various international piano and chamber music competitions, including the Prokofiev International Competition for Young Pianists (Donetsk, Ukraine), the International Competition for Young Pianists (Belgrade, Serbia), and the International Chamber Ensemble Competition (St. Petersburg, Russia). Barrad also enjoys a vibrant collaborative career spanning opera, choral music, vocal recitals, and chamber music, and she recently held the position of principal coach with Queen City Opera in Cincinnati. Recent summer festivals include Songfest and the prestigious Merola Opera Program in San Francisco. Kseniia currently resides in San Francisco, where she is a pianist and vocal coach in the Adler Fellowship at San Francisco Opera. She graduated with her master’s degree in Collaborative Piano from the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati where she recently completed her DMA in Piano Performance.

Monica Maria – Mi Corazón, Mi Canto
Monica Maria will be playing original music and a few of her favorite covers in celebration of her mom’s birthday.
A vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, her music reflects her Californian roots mixed with traditional and contemporary sounds of Latin America.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Monica Maria is a songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. She has been a performing musician for over 18 years and recently released her debut album in 2020 called “Nuevos Caminos.” Combining the sounds of her Californian roots with traditional instruments and rhythms of Latin America, “Nuevos Caminos” is musically innovative while expressing themes of holding love, compassion and appreciation for self, others and the earth
Monica has a BA in Vocal Jazz and World Music from San Francisco State University. Along with her original music project, she is the musical director, vocalist and instrumentalist of La Mezcla’s “Pachuquismo.” Monica has performed with many bands and artists such as La Gente, Laura Rebolloso, Rumbaché, John Calloway, Jesus Diaz y Su QBA and others.

“Live from the Desert”
Klezmer/Balkan DJ Set with Live Horns
Featuring:
Mayvn – DJ/Clarinet
Joey Jay – Sax
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Under the name “Mayvn”, Morgan Nilsen has been acquiring new skills during the pandemic while hunkering down in the ‘Land of Enchantment’, New Mexico. MAPP is her favorite part of the San Francisco community, and she can’t wait to share an experience of live horns (featuring Joey Jay Friedman on Sax) accompanied by electronic beats with the familia. Inspired daily by her surroundings of vast, remote desert beauty, this set is created specifically for MAPP to bring friends together on a journey during a time we can not travel. Instagram.
Joey Jay Friedman has performed music his whole life, following his passion for folk music from Klezmer to the Balkans, Turkey, the Arabic Peninsula and North Africa. He has accompanied Morgan in several Bay Area ensembles including MWE, Istanbul Connection, and Inspector Gadje. While enjoying a more solitary quarantine in New Mexico, he still feels a strong desire to connect musically & virtually with the Bay Area arts environment.
PREVIEW THE MUSIC

Anthony Blea with LaTiDo at the Ramp

Simon & Kseniia, “Francis Poulenc: Chansons villageoises – C’est le joli printemps”

Simon & Kseniia, “Another reason why I don’t keep a gun in the house – Tom Cipullo”

“Mayvn”, Morgan Nilsen, “Desert DJ Series: White Sands”

Mónica María Fimbrez, “Nuevos Caminos”

ONLINE EVENT DETAILS

Time: Feb 6th, 7:00 pm -10:00 pm (Performances), Feb 7th, 3:00 – 4:00pm (Visual Art Workshop | Exhibition)
Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page

December 5th MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts
2020-12-05 19:00 - 22:00 | CA
Click here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming Live on Facebook.
During these challenging times, it is our goal to continue providing excellent and uplifting programs to you and we are pleased to announce our fourth online FREE MAPP program. This program which includes a visual art workshop and music + dance performances will be streamed from artists homes to your homes on Saturday, December 5, 2020
Now, more than ever, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.
Make a gift to Red Poppy Art House today!
Red Poppy Art House Needs You
Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 have 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 are pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continues to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We look forward to the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue 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 Local Impact Grant.
We are also excited and grateful to announce that we have received three amazing grants, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and the Zellerbach family “Community Arts COVID Response Grant” and Grants for the Arts and will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.

RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:
Curator: Dina Zarif / Artistic Director
Tech support: Leeav Sofer
PR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary
RPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) DECEMBER 5TH

SATURDAY DECEMBER 5TH

Visual Art

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artists/ Presenter

7:00- 7:05 pm
Introduction, Artist meet and greet
Curator Dina Zarif will greet the artist and presenter

7:05-8:05 pm
Collage Workshop in times of pandemic and social changes
Adrian will be accompanied by guest artist Kristi Williamson for the demonstration
Adrian Arias / Visual Artist
Kristi Williamson / poet, dancer, singer, healer

Performing Art

8:10- 8:45 pm
Darren Johnston & Justin Dawson Duo
Original Songs and Compositions, Classic Jazz Standards, and Beyond
Darren Johnston / trumpet, voice
Justin Dawson / upright bass

8:50 – 9:25 pm
Songs, Tales and dance from Danistan

Original music inspired and informed by the confluence of cultures and diasporic sounds of the Balkans
Dan Cantrell / accordion and voice
Elizabeth Strong / dance

9:25 – 10:00 pm
“Musical Musings”
Middle eastern and Celtic inspired compositions for violin
Briana Di Mara / violin
Faisal Zedan / percussion

7:05 pm – 8:05 PM, SATURDAY DECEMBER 5TH
Collage in Times of Pandemic and Social Changes / Workshop by Adrian Arias
Adrian will be accompanied by guest artist Kristi Williamson. A poet, dancer, singer, healer

Adrian Arian is a poet, visual artist, performer, art teacher, and South American cultural activist based in the Bay Area for two decades. His poetry and visual art have won awards and local and international recognition. His work has been presented at the Young Museum, San Marcos Museum, Poetic Nights of Struga, Macedonia, Benamil Residence in Spain, Venice Biennale, Latin American Biennial of Lima, etc. Creator of the multidisciplinary event Illusion Show, and the Poem of the Day.

ARTIST STATEMENT:
Adrián believes that poetry is in constant motion, and that feeds on each discipline to continue among us. Sometimes it is a photograph of a feather lying on the shore, sometimes a book-object that seems to tell us the future, sometimes the body moving slowly between blue lights to go dancing with paper and umbrellas, without rain.
The absurd, the light, the sensual, the shadow, the dreams, are often elements in the daily life of Adrian, who in addition to declaring himself a Poet in motion, is an art teacher and a cultural organizer of events.
WORKSHOP:
Adrian’s Collage workshop is open to a personal exploration of what we are experiencing in times of pandemic and social change. We will explore forms of composition, cut, a combination of images, colors, and texture. We will use magazines, solid-colored papers, acrylic paints or those that we have at home, sharpies, glue, scissors, and a hard surface that can be the cardboard of a box or thick cardboard.

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Kristi Williamson is an interdisciplinary teacher, artist, and healer who explores consciousness in the body. Her work in yoga, dance, movement-based expressive arts, transformational ritual theater, and voice; promote a holistic ethic that is alive in her offerings. She is dedicated to bridging the disciplines of creative and healing arts. She has studied and worked extensively with healing movement pioneers Anna and Dari Halprin from Tamalpa Institute, Kundalini Yoga Teacher and Artist, Hari Kirin Kaur Khalsa, and Brazilian Modern Dance Teacher, Rosangela Silvestre. These women have deeply shaped Kristi’s journey interweaving spirituality, embodiment, creativity, ritual, and healing through the arts. Kristi is originally from the coast of Maine and dances between the east and west coast. She weaves her love of nature, beauty making, and devotion into all her creations.
PERFORMANCES (ONLINE) DEC 5TH

Trumpet and Bass Duos with Darren Johnston and Justin Dawson
Original Songs and Compositions, Classic Jazz Standards, and Beyond
Featuring:
Darren Johnston – trumpet, voice
Justin Dawson – upright bass
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Darren has led groups such as Nice Guy Trio, Broken Shadows Family Band, Darren Johnston Quintet, and many others. He’s played with local treasures such as Marcus Shelby, Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, Meklit, ROVA Sax Quartet, Fred Frith, Brass Menazeri, Lisa Mezzacappa, and many more. After 22 years in San Francisco, the winds of Covid have blown trumpeter, composer, and long-time Red Poppy/MAPP veteran Darren Johnston to Cincinnati Ohio for the next few months. During his time in the Bay Area
He’ll be teaming up in Dave’s garage, just outside of Cincinnati, with one of the Natti’s most in-demand young bassists, Justin Dawson. Among many others, Justin is a current member of the JD Allen Trio.

Songs,Tales and dance from Danistan
Original music inspired and informed by the confluence of cultures and diasporic sounds of the Balkans. Dance performance by Elizabeth Strong.

Featuring:
Dan Cantrell – accordion and voice
Elizabeth Strong – dance

ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Dan Cantrell’s music is influenced by deep study and respectful appreciation of traditions found in the Balkans, Turkey and the Middle East. His original music is rooted in classical compositional forms and modern songwriting, but through respectful application of the scales, rhythms and musical gestalts from folk and urban Balkan music he creates a unique fusion. He aspires to find the meeting point where music is moving, engaging, and profoundly beautiful, across geopolitical boundaries and cultural borders. What happens when you create a goth-industrial Turkish Roman musical Fusion? What about Delta Blues in Greek Miroloi vocal dirges? You can find out when you listen to Danistani traditional folk music presented and performed by Dan Cantrell.
Dan is joined for a song or two by his delightful wife Elizabeth Strong. Elizabeth’s vast range of study and breadth of international performances lead her to be aptly fit for presenting the folk dance traditions of Danistan with grace and accuracy. She is, in fact, a royal ambassador to the nation of Danistan, earning the accurate acronym of RAD, which she embodies so well with her scintillating dancing.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Accordionist/pianist/saw player Dan Cantrell is an Emmy winning composer known for his innovative and energetic approach to documentary film and television scoring. He can be heard on albums from Tom Waits, Joanna Newsom, the Toids, Beats Antique, as well as numerous self-produced albums. He was recently a featured soloist with the San Francisco Symphony and has performed with the Oakland Symphony, Mike Marshall, members of the Klezmatics, Brave Old World, and Fishbone.
Dan composed music for three seasons of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack on Cartoon Network and received an Emmy Award for his scoring work on the PBS documentary Home Front.
Influenced by the music of Eastern Europe, Early American Jazz and modern alternative rock, His extensive scoring catalogue for film and television is described as “hauntingly beautiful…quirky and energetic” (SF Bay Guardian). Dan’s music spans a wide range of emotion and style, rich with virtuosic performance, lush acoustic orchestrations, sonic textures resonant with sound design, and strikingly innovative melodic themes.

Elizabeth Strong is a San Francisco Bay Area dancer, choreographer, and teacher whose work focuses on the integrity and spirit of traditional dance forms inside of a contemporary framework. Elizabeth was a touring member of Bellydance Superstars, and was a founding member of Bellydance Evolution and of Beats Antique’s dance company with Zoe Jakes. A former principal member of Katarina Burda’s Aywah! Ethnic Dance Company, Elizabeth has traveled to Egypt, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Greece and Bulgaria to study closely at the source and is now considered one of the leading experts in the form. She performs with live music groups including Kugelplex, Inspector Gadje, and Fishtank Ensemble, and renowned world musicians including Faisal Zeidan and Rumen Sali Shopov.
Elizabeth has had original choreographies commissioned by Jill Parker and Jillina Carlano, and has received grants from Zellerbach Foundation and from Bill Graham Presents Foundation. Her Turkish Roman instructional DVD was released in 2011. Elizabeth currently teaches and performs internationally and she teaches weekly online from Berkeley, CA.

“Musical Musings”
Middle eastern and Celtic inspired compositions for violin

Featuring:
Briana Di Mara – violin
Faisal Zedan – percussion, vocals

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Eclectic Bay Area violinist Briana Di Mara brings her love of the instrument and its soulful expression to every performance. She was trained in western classical music as a child and has since gone on to study and perform a wide variety of traditional styles including Celtic, Balkan, Turkish, and Arabic. She harmoniously weaves these influences into her own unique sound and compositions. She is known for her evocative improvisations and skillful ability to play a broad range of genres from many different cultures.
She has performed and recorded with numerous artists, some of whom include Stellamara, the Ali Paris Project, Beats Antique, Darioush Sami, Dan Cantrell, Moh Alileche, Sweet Moments of Confusion, Lounès Kheloui, La Ruya, and many more! She has also collaborated with well-known dancers such as Zoe Jakes, Rachel Brice, Miriam Peretz, and Jill Parker. These projects have led her to perform in a wide variety of venues, theaters, and festivals around the globe, inspiring audiences with her expansive interpretation of world music and exciting interaction with dancers.
Her award-winning debut album, “Haven”, has earned rave reviews and reflects the dynamic collaborations that she has built around her original compositions.

PREVIEW THE MUSIC
Darren Johnston

Dan Cantrell & Elizabeth Strong

Elizabeth Strong

Briana Di Mara

Faisal Zedan

ONGOING: “Red Poppy’s Window Exhibition”
Works by Jennifer Bloomer, Megan Wilson & Ronni Goodman at the “Window Exhibition at RPAH”.
Building Community Resilience Through the Arts | “Red Poppy’s Window Exhibition” October – December
“The Stains and Misdirections of Manifest Destiny”
Megan Wilson
Growing up as a fifth-generation Montanan, Megan Wilson was surrounded by the mythology and iconography of the American West, and specifically that of the cowboy. Images of rugged men with their code of stoic endurance, self-reliance, loyalty, courage, and camaraderie, on horseback riding across the plains, wrangling cattle and spitting chew were everywhere – from the paintings of Charles M. Russell, Frederick Remington, and Will James to the landscape itself. However, the reality is the painful and violent history of manifest destiny that annihilated much of the indigenous peoples and wildlife of the West. The 19th century doctrine gave American settlers the rationale of a ‘God-given destiny’ to expand westward across North America and beyond. Framed in the context of morality, divinity, freedom, and the presumed greatness of a white America, the ideology was used to justify the forced removal of Native Americans from their land, the subsequent genocide of their people, and later, claims to Pacific islands. The mass migration also served industrialists who benefited from the labor force that established in the west to build the railroads, work the land, build the cities, and mine the natural resources.
Wilson’s latest body of work, The Stains and Misdirections of Manifest Destiny explores and calls attention to the painful history of manifest destiny and its lasting racist, imperialist influence on American social and political ideology today.
The Stains series uses the traditional craft of quilling (paper filigree) to create intricate drawings that evoke 19th century quilt patterns set against a stained foundation. The handicrafts of quilling and quilting spread from England to the American colonies and then to the American West. Wilson began quilling as a child when her grandmother passed on the fashionable craft of her childhood to her granddaughter.
The Misdirections series counters the glorification of the west using revisions of existing historical texts branded into leather hides and stretched over wood placards to create new narratives and new directions for moving forward from a past rooted in the arrogance of manifest destiny.
Kemp-Greene-Wilson-Metzner is a series of suede works with narratives and ornamentation from Wilson’s ancestral history of pioneer families who migrated from Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa to Utah, Idaho, and Montana in the 19th century as a protestant, Mormon, and Jewish settlers, homesteaders, miners, and railway workers.
Megan Wilson’s quilling drawings at Red Poppy Art House are part of the Stains series.

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Ronnie Goodman was a self-taught homeless artist and former distance runner living in San Francisco. He was inspired by the beauty of this city and its diversity, balanced with the struggles of human despair. With his brush, Ronnie tried to capture these raw emotions in painted images. Rest in Power Ronnie.

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Posters for Change
Jennifer Bloomer
Jen is an artist, facilitator and the founder of Radici Studios in San Francisco. For the past two decades, she has painted and taught art in Guatemala, India, Italy, Colorado, Eritrea, Thailand, Kenya and California. Jen has a BA in Latin American Studies, a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting, and a Masters Degree in Expressive Arts Therapy. She has created art with people aged 1 to 81 giving space for them to find their unique creative voice in the world through the arts. Jen’s own activist art can be seen in local murals, at marches for social justice across the country, and across social media. Her work has been shown internationally by Amplifier Art, and is included in the Library of Congress archive. Jen believes that the intersection of creativity, connection and community holds the answer to our personal and collective healing.

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ONLINE EVENT DETAILS
Time: Dec 5th, 7:00 pm – 8:05 pm (Visual Art), 8:10 pm- 10 pm (Performances)
Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House Facebook page
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page

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October 3rd MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts
2020-10-03 11:00 - 22:00 | CA
Click here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming Live on Facebook.
Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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. This program is funded by the California Arts Council Local Impact Grant. We are excited and grateful to continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.
In an effort to continue presenting this deeply important program, Red Poppy Art House is presenting our third online MAPP. Visual Art workshop and performances live stream from artist’s homes to your homes on October 3rd, 2020.
Now, more than ever, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community, and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.
Make a gift to Red Poppy Art House today!
Red Poppy Art House Needs You
TEAM:
Curator and Moderator: Dina Zarif / Artistic Director
Special guest and presenter: Jennifer Friedenbach / Executive Director of Coalition On Homelessness
Tech support: Leeav Sofer
PR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary

RPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) October 3rd

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3RD

Visual Art | The Window Exhibition at RPAH | COH Art Auction

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artists/ Presenter

11:00 -11:05 am
Introduction, Artist meet and greet
Curator Dina Zarif will greet the artists and presenters

11:05- 11:25
“Art Auction” by Coalition On Homelessness
| The window exhibition at RPAH
Presentation about Coalition On Homelessness SF and the Art Auction
Jennifer Friedenbach Executive Director of Coalition On Homelessness

11:30 am-12:30 pm
“Posters for Change” Workshop by Jennifer Bloomer
Create our own posters with messages of change we wish to see in our communities and out in the world
Jennifer Bloomer / Visual Artist

Performing Art

7:00 -7:10 pm
Introduction, Artists meet and greet
Curator Dina Zarif will greet the Artists and present the performance program

7:10 – 7:50 pm
Natalie Cressman and Ian Faquini duo
Music of Brazil, Impressionism, and the Great American Songbook
Natalie Cressman/Trombone
Ian Faquini / guitar

7:55 – 8:30 pm
Aya Safiya and Tano Brock
Traditional music from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
Aya / Vocals, violin, laouto Tano /Vocals, clarinet, laouto

8:35 – 9:15 pm
Strings of the Near East with Gari & Elana
Compositions inspired by the traditional music of Greece and Turkey
Elana Brutman / Lyra with Sympathetic Strings
Gari Hagedus / Oud, Saz

9:20 -10:00 pm
Power Rumba | Dos BandOLEros
“Struggle Makes Our Music Stronger”
Mixing Spanish covers and original compositions for a danceable fun show
Alberto Gutierrez / Guitar, Vocals
Raúl Vargas / Cajón, percussion, Vocals

“ART INTO AUCTION” BY COH (ONLINE)
11:00 – 11:30 am, SATURDAY OCTOBER 3rd

“Art into Auction” by the SF Coalition On Homelessness
Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of Coalition On Homelessness will present the Art Auction
Red Poppy Art House is honored to join SF Coalition on Homelessness for their 20th annual Art Auction and Exhibition and Art walk to feature some of the auction artworks to preview in-person at the “Red Poppy’s Window Exhibition”.
The “Window Exhibition at RPAH” will preview works by Jennifer Bloomer, Megan Wilson & Ronni Goodman.
The SF Coalition on Homelessness Art Auction and Exhibition will be a week-long online art auction event, with all artwork available to preview online and featured artwork available to preview in-person in some local venues at the SF Mission District!
For more information check the Art Auction website at here

COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS
The Coalition on Homelessness organizes unhoused people and front line service providers to create permanent solutions to homelessness while protecting the human rights of those forced to remain on the streets. The organization has a 30 year history of winning tangible change for our unhoused neighbors, including thousands of units of housing, jobs, treatment, and human rights utilizing a variety of tactics from protest, legislation, ballot initiatives, creative media to legal action.

Jennifer Friedenbach / Executive Director of Coalition On Homelessness
Committed to a struggle to end mass homelessness by addressing the structural causes and crafting permanent fixes. Her work is about developing consensus on solutions to the homeless crisis centered on the experience and expertise of those who have survived or are still living without housing. Excellent meeting facilitation, policy development, messaging expertise, and unsticking ambivalence and entrenched mindsets. Jennifer is always learning from the brilliance around me and knows how to stay positive. Adept at moving controversy to collective problem-solving. Working in collaboration with many others has led to literally thousands of people in SF stabilizing in housing, rising out of poverty, averting homelessness, and addressing the many side effects of homelessness in order to flourish. However, due to rising rents, alongside immoral inaction on the part of policymakers, her work has a long way to go. Urgent meaningful action is what she works for.

ONLINE AUCTION

Art Auction 20, Transforming Art into Action will feature over 100 pieces of art, taking place online starting October 1st and ending October 8th. Many of the art pieces will be displayed in storefronts in the Mission District, and supporters can do their own art walks at any time convenient to them. This is a major annual fundraiser for the Coalition on Homelessness and is deeply connected with our use of art to communicate complex social problems, whether that be through printing posters with unique art or the production of our twice-monthly street newspaper Street Sheet. The newspaper serves as a creative outlet for unhoused community members through artwork, poetry, creative writing, and journalism. The newspaper is sold by impoverished vendors who keep 100% of the proceeds and ensures San Franciscans can hear directly from those who are so personally standing at the intersection of the housing crisis, racism, and the deep structural inequities that drive homelessness.
View the Art Auction 20 Art Walk Venue Map here
All artwork will be available for preview online

“Red Poppy’s Window Exhibition” October thru December
The “Window Exhibition at RPAH” will preview works by Jennifer Bloomer, Megan Wilson & Ronni Goodman. This exhibition is a part of the Art Auction by COH.

“The Stains and Misdirections of Manifest Destiny”
Megan Wilson
Growing up as a fifth-generation Montanan, Megan Wilson was surrounded by the mythology and iconography of the American West, and specifically that of the cowboy. Images of rugged men with their code of stoic endurance, self-reliance, loyalty, courage, and camaraderie, on horseback riding across the plains, wrangling cattle and spitting chew were everywhere – from the paintings of Charles M. Russell, Frederick Remington, and Will James to the landscape itself. However, the reality is the painful and violent history of manifest destiny that annihilated much of the indigenous peoples and wildlife of the West. The 19th-century doctrine gave American settlers the rationale of a ‘God-given destiny’ to expand westward across North America and beyond. Framed in the context of morality, divinity, freedom, and the presumed greatness of a white America, the ideology was used to justify the forced removal of Native Americans from their land, the subsequent genocide of their people, and later, claims to Pacific islands. The mass migration also served industrialists who benefited from the labor force that established in the west to build the railroads, work the land, build the cities, and mine the natural resources.
Wilson’s latest body of work, The Stains and Misdirections of Manifest Destiny explores and calls attention to the painful history of manifest destiny and its lasting racist, imperialist influence on American social and political ideology today.
The Stains series uses the traditional craft of quilling (paper filigree) to create intricate drawings that evoke 19th-century quilt patterns set against a stained foundation. The handicrafts of quilling and quilting spread from England to the American colonies and then to the American West. Wilson began quilling as a child when her grandmother passed on the fashionable craft of her childhood to her granddaughter.
The Misdirections series counters the glorification of the west using revisions of existing historical texts branded into leather hides and stretched over wood placards to create new narratives and new directions for moving forward from a past rooted in the arrogance of manifest destiny.
Kemp-Greene-Wilson-Metzner is a series of suede works with narratives and ornamentation from Wilson’s ancestral history of pioneer families who migrated from Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa to Utah, Idaho, and Montana in the 19th century as a protestant, Mormon, and Jewish settlers, homesteaders, miners, and railway workers.
Megan Wilson’s quilling drawings at Red Poppy Art House are part of the Stains series.

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Ronnie Goodman was a self-taught homeless artist and former distance runner living in San Francisco. He was inspired by the beauty of this city and its diversity, balanced with the struggles of human despair. With his brush, Ronnie tried to capture these raw emotions in painted images. Rest in Power Ronnie.

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Posters for Change
Jennifer Bloomer
Jen is an artist, facilitator, and founder of Radici Studios in San Francisco. For the past two decades, she has painted and taught art in Guatemala, India, Italy, Colorado, Eritrea, Thailand, Kenya, and California. Jen has a BA in Latin American Studies, a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting, and a Masters Degree in Expressive Arts Therapy. She has created art with people aged 1 to 81 giving space for them to find their unique creative voice in the world through the arts. Jen’s own activist art can be seen in local murals, at marches for social justice across the country, and across social media. Her work has been shown internationally by Amplifier Art and is included in the Library of Congress archive. Jen believes that the intersection of creativity, connection, and community holds the answer to our personal and collective healing.

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11:00 am – 12:30 pm, SATURDAY OCTOBER 3rd

Posters for Change / Workshop by Jennifer Bloomer
Create our own posters with simple materials with messages of change we wish to see in our communities and out in the world
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I believe in the power of creativity to create tangible, powerful, change in the world. Art has the ability to go beyond words and move hearts and change minds. My art and workshops aim to energize individuals and communities to reflect, listen deeply to one another and come together as a community to rally for justice, respect, and love.
WORKSHOP:
In this art workshop, we’ll be making posters with messages of change we wish to see in our communities and out in the world. I will share my own brainstorming process and walk you through how to come up with your own images and words to invigorate others about issues you care about. We’ll create our own posters with simple materials you might have around your house. No experience art-making- all are welcome!
Materials:

Piece of Cardboard (15″ x 20″ or bigger)
Acrylic paint
Paintbrushes
Sharpies or Markers

PERFORMANCES (ONLINE) OCT. 3RD

Natalie Cressman and Ian Faquini
A uniquely intimate duo featuring original material in three languages, drawing from the music of Brazil, Impressionism, and the Great American Songbook.
Featuring:
Natalie Cressman – Trombone
Ian Faquini – guitar
Trombonist and singer/songwriter Natalie Cressman and Brazilian composer, guitarist, and singer Ian Faquini have created a uniquely intimate collaboration, drawing from impressionism, jazz, and the great Brazilian songwriting tradition. The duo’s global take on music is largely expressed through the distinct compositional voice of Faquini, with occasional lyrics penned by Cressman. Their original material features songs in three different languages and encompasses a vast spectrum of musical ground. With the warm instrumentation of acoustic guitar and trombone and two-part vocal harmonies hugging the Brazilian-accented Portuguese, Cressman & Faquini weave their musical voices together to create a fully orchestrated sound befitting a much larger ensemble.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Natalie Cressman has spent the past ten years touring the jam band circuit as a horn player and vocalist with Phish’s Trey Anastasio, while also collaborating with many illustrious figures on the New York City jazz scene. When she’s not performing her own music, Cressman can be found collaborating with some of the most illustrious figures in rock, funk, jazz and beyond, which have included Phish, Big Gigantic, Carlos Santana, Escort, Wycliffe Gordon, Nicholas Payton, Anat Cohen, The Motet, and Umphrey’s McGee.
Born in Brasília and raised in Berkeley, Ian Faquini was a member of the renowned Berkeley High School Jazz program before going on to study at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley and, immediately after graduating, joined the faculty there. He has performed throughout Europe, Japan, Brazil and the United States and has shared the stage and recording studio with such names as Guinga, Brad Mehldau, Chris Potter, Spok, Lee Konitz, Fleurine, among many others.

Aya Safiya and Tano Brock
Traditional music from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
Featuring:
Aya Safiya – vocals, violin, laouto
Tano Brock – vocals, clarinet, laouto
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Aya Safiya and Tano Brock have been musical collaborators for over a decade. They met at a music camp in their teenage years, and began playing Greek and Balkan music together. In 2014, along with Cecilia Peña-Govea and Miguel León, they formed Taraf de Locos, a SF Bay Area group that created a unique blend of Balkan and Afro-Latin music styles. Following an album release and tour with Taraf de Locos, Aya and Tano traveled to Eastern Europe together to discover and study music. They have since been collaborating on a regular basis; continuing to play Greek and Balkan traditional styles, as well as contemporary original music. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Aya and Tano have been frequently performing live-stream concerts from their home studio, both independently and as a part of larger concerts/festivals.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
With strong messages and emotional vulnerability, Bay Area raised artist Aya Safiya reveals her diverse and complex identity in her singing and songwriting. Her first EP “Aya Safiya,” released in 2018, was a transitional introduction to her electronic singer-songwriter career initiated after decades of working as a Greek/Mediterranean/Balkan-music singer and violinist. Aya was 15 when she first started performing and has since gone on to perform at Greek festivals in the US and in Greece, as well as at venues such as The Great American Music Hall in SF, the Grand Prospect Hall in NYC, and the House of Blues in Boston. She has also taught classes in regional Greek violin and Greek/Balkan singing at community-based music schools such as The Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, the Sierra Music and Arts Institute in Central California, and Apapachoa in Nicaragua. In July 2020 she released her 2nd EP, “My Other Half.” While the new EP is a continuation of her singer-songwriter project, through it she explores new grounds, incorporating her Japanese-American roots and writing all lyrics in Japanese. Although Aya’s music “lives between the lines of genre and culture,” (Jocelle Koh, Asian Pop Weekly) and “defies standard categorization,” (Mitch Mosk, Atwood Magazine) her intimate, nostalgia evoking songwriting, ethereal singing, and hazy production with help from producer Tano Brock, distinctly conquers a vibe.
Tano Brock is a 24-year-old musician, songwriter, producer, and engineer. Born and raised in San Francisco, CA, Tano began studying and performing music at a young age and had an almost supernatural knack for it ever since he began banging on a drum at only a few months old. Throughout his childhood, Tano accompanied his family to various music camps in California where he was exposed to music from all over the world. At 6 years old, he began studying darbuka, a Middle Eastern drum. He then started studying piano at age 7, and at 12 began teaching himself guitar. In his early teens, he started playing saxophone/clarinet, as well as exploring the world of digital recording and production. At age 18, he released his self-produced debut solo album “Bandit” (2014) – which garnered significant success and launched his career as a composer for synch licensing. In 2019, Tano graduated from Berklee College of Music with a degree focused on performance and music production & engineering. During his time at Berklee, he explored his deep affinity with world music traditions, traveling to Turkey to study with master musicians, and to Cuba for recording sessions in Havana. He is currently producing and mixing for various artists of different styles such as: reggaetón artist La Doña, Indie/J-Pop artist Aya Safiya, pop artist Liv Young, multi-percussionist/vocalist Miguelito Leon, and Ecuadorian vocalist Gerson Eguiguren.

Strings of the Near East with Gari & Elana
Compositions inspired by the traditional music of Greece and Turkey
Featuring:
Elana Brutman —Lyra with Sympathetic Strings
Gari Hagedus — Oud, Saz & more…
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Gari and Elana will play original compositions inspired by the traditional music of Greece and Turkey and influenced by their own cultural understanding of music. Their repertoire is rooted in sentiment, contemplation and a deep respect and love for distant parts of the world.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Gari Hegedus plays violin, viola, and a variety of lutes from Greece and Turkey, including laouto, oud, and saz. Along with playing in Teslim, he also performs with global music group Stellamara, as well as Bay Area groups Janam and The Helladelics. Hegedus has studied with oud master Naseer Shamma and has studied, recorded, and performed with Ross Daly and Kelly Thoma. He has toured with the Mevlevi Dervish Order of America and continues to participate in Turkish ceremonial and devotional gatherings around the country. In addition to being a composer and performer, Hegedus is a talented luthier, repairing stringed instruments of every variety; coaxing sound from sazes, violins, and rebabs; restoring lutes and lyras; making bows; and finding ingenious ways to allow the true voice of an instrument to come forth.
Elana Brutman has dedicated the recent years of her life to the intensive study of the lyra with sympathetic strings, an instrument whose design is based on the traditional Cretan lyra and incorporates elements of the Byzantine lyra and Indian sarangi. She has spent countless hours in deep study with her teacher, Kelly Thoma, in Crete, and has spent many summers in Greece studying with master musicians from Greece, Turkey and Iran.

Power Rumba | Dos BandOLEros
Struggle Makes Our Music Stronger
Featuring:
Alberto Gutierrez – Guitar, Vocals
Raúl Vargas – Cajón, percussion, Vocals
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Dos BandOLEros is a Spanish Rumba Duo founded by Raul Vargas (Makrú) and Muchacho Mandanga in the Bay Area. Mixing Spanish covers and original compositions, Dos BandOLEros offers a really danceable fun show, full of energy and positive messages.

PREVIEW THE MUSIC

Natalie Cressman and Ian Faquini

Aya Safiya and Tano Brock

Gari Hagedus

Power Rumba | Dos BandOLEros
https://www.facebook.com/dosbandOLErossf/videos/3245185558868276

ONLINE EVENT DETAILS

Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Visual Art Workshop / 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm performances
Admission: Free (donations welcome)
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page

Donate

August 1st & 2nd MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts | Workshops
2020-08-02 11:00 - 14:00 | CA
Aug 1 @ 7:00 – 10:00 pm (Performances)
Aug 2 @ 11 am – 12:15 pm (Kitchen Printing, Workshop by Ali Blum) |1:00 pm 2:00 pm (Possibilities, Workshop by Elena Mencarelli)
Click here on the day of the event to see the live performance streaming Live on our Facebook page.
Donate
Launched in 2003, Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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. This program is funded by the California Arts Council Local Impact Grant. We are excited and grateful to continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.
In an effort to continue presenting this deeply important program, Red Poppy Art House is presenting our second online MAPP. Workshops and performances live stream from artist’s homes to your homes on August 1st and 2nd.
Now, more than ever, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community, and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.
Click here to make Make a gift to Red Poppy Art House today!
TEAM
Curator and Moderator: Dina Zarif / Artistic Director
Workshop #1 Introduction: Renee Baldocchi / Visual Artist / Leadership team
Workshop #2 Introduction: Puja Kapur/ Visual Artist / Leadership team
Tech Support: Leeav Sofer / Musician
PR and Digital Marketing: Sarika Dagar / Filmmaker & Designer
AUGUST 2nd WORKSHOPS (ONLINE)

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artist

11:00 – 11:15 am
Introduction, Artist meet and greet
Guest presenter Renee Baldocchi will greet
the artist and present the workshop program

11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Workshop: Kitchen Printing with Ali Blum
Monoprinting and Stamping, Styrofoam Prints
Ali Blum / Visual Artist

1:00 – 1:10 pm
Introduction, Artists meet and greet
Guest presenter Puja Kapur will greet
the artist and present the workshop program

1:10 – 1:50 pm
Workshop: Possibilities,
the Art of Resilience
Create your own shadow box transforming
a challenge into an exciting possibility
through the power of resilience
Elena Mencarelli / Visual Artist

11:00 am – 12:30 pm, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2nd

Kitchen Printing / Workshop by Ali Blum
Create your own artwork using printmaking techniques including mono-printing, food stamping, and foam prints

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ali Blum received her BFA from Cornell University in Painting and her MFA in Printmaking from Washington University in St Louis. She has had residencies at Curtiduria Printshop in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Ali actively exhibits and selected group and solo shows include De Young Museum, Cornell University Hartell Gallery, San Francisco Public Library, Museo de la Filatelia de Oaxaca, Ligne Roset, Front Gallery, Somarts, Paxton Gate Curiosities for Kids, The Mission Cultural Center, and The San Francisco Jewish Library.
Ali teaches at Drew School and the students serve as a constant source of energy and inspiration. She has conducted workshops and Live art demonstrations at the SFMOMA, De Young Friday Night Events, The Academy of Sciences, Asian Art Museum intern program, and The Jewish Museum. She is a member of the California Printmaking Society.
More info: Facebook | Instagram | Website

ARTIST STATEMENT
Art has been a constant in my life. I am interested in capturing the moment when something changes and the magic in the everyday. Hiraesh- a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home that maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past is essential to my work. My interior world is of memories of childhood, books, songs, and nature all of which steers my work.
I have always loved the versatility of printmaking and work mostly in mixed media including mono-printing, screen printing, transfers, drawings, and gouache. I arrive at my images through the process of mono-printing.
Folktales and myths have also been integral to my understanding of the world. Over time, hybrid creatures and genetic engineering have blended with mythological images of my childhood and I find myself drawing connections- the web of life to the environment, politics, climate change, fires, food production, COVID19, and our planet.
The last several months teaching my high school art classes virtually, I found myself turning to options around the house and especially the kitchen to inspire new printing ideas and make it increasingly accessible.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
In this workshop, we will learn a variety of printmaking techniques including mono-printing, food stamping, and foam prints. Emphasis is on experimentation and play. All ages are welcome to participate and enjoy!
In the first part of the workshop, we will explore mono-printing and stamping. In the second half, we will move into foam printing and mixed media. Each section has two materials lists. The first specialized and the second back to basics meaning that you can purchase specific materials or look around and use what you have in your home. Feel free to ask questions and share along the way.

MATERIALS
Monoprinting and Stamping

A Back to Basics List:

Bucket with water
Palette: Flat surface to roll out ink
Ink: Tempera or acrylic are fine though they dry more quickly
Paper: Construction or copier
Printing Matrix: Flat surface perhaps a cookie tray or on styrofoam
Printing Tool: Wooden spoon Paint brushes, sponges
Removal of color: Paper towel, cotton swabs, paperclip
Printmaking stencils: Paper to cut stencils and scissors, onion, baking potato,
feathers, apple, leaves, cut paper, tinfoil, lace, glass, or jar rim or lids.

A Specialized List:

Sink
Palette: Flat surface to roll out ink
Ink: Blick Water Soluble Block Printing Ink
Paper: 10 pieces of printmaking 100% cotton cut to a little larger than the size of your plate
Works best including Stonehenge, Arches, and Strathmore 500
Printing Tool: Plexiglass plate
Printing Tool: Barren
Blow dryer
Removal of color: Kitchen towel or paper towel, cotton swabs, paperclip, knife
Printmaking stencils: Pencil for drawing into styrofoam, cotton swabs for removing ink, onion,
baking potato, feathers, apple, leaves, cut paper, tinfoil, lace, glass, or jar rim or lids.
Paper to cut stencils and scissors

Directions:

Squeeze ink onto a palette and roll out with roller or spread with a brush
Ink up a printing matrix using a roller or brushes
Place stencils down on plate – paper cut out shapes
Place paper on top when you have completed design and print with barren or spoon
Blow-dry and print the next object
You may start a new print and not use a matrix
Ink up leaves in another color and press print
Ink up the plate and use stencils again
Carve potato and stamp onto new paper or the same print
Play, experiment, share out and ask questions

Styrofoam Prints

A Back to Basics List:

Pencil
Sink
Palette: Flat surface to roll out ink
Ink: Tempera or acrylic are fine though they dry more quickly
Paper: Construction paper, copier paper, pages from an book
Printing Matrix: Styrofoam picnic plates, styrofoam meat/vegetable container, or take out containers
Printing Tool: spoon
Paper towel and blow dryer

A Specialized List for Styrofoam Prints:

Pencil
Bucket with water
Palette: Flat surface to roll out ink
Ink: Blick Water Soluble Block Printing Ink
Paper: Printmaking 100% Cotton works best including Stonehenge, Arches, and Strathmore 500
Printing Matrix: Styrofoam specialized plates
Printing Tool: Baren
Blow dryer

Directions:

Squeeze ink onto a palette and roll out with roller or spread with a brush
Draw into styrofoam with pencil
Ink up plate
Place paper on top of the plate and print using barren or spoon
ReInk plate and print again. Pull several prints
After you have pulled four prints wash your plate and dry it
Now add more details into your plate using a pencil.
Ink up the plate with added details and register first pull onto second inking and print (this will be shown during class)
Now you have a two-color print
You may do another reduction or experiment with mixed media. I recommend oil pastels

1:00 – 2:00 pm, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2nd

Possibilities, the Art of Resilience / Workshop by Elena Mencarelli
Create your own shadow box transforming a challenge into an exciting possibility through the power of resilience.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Elena Mencarelli is a polyhedral visual artist. She started making art when she was little, and throughout the years she used painting, objects manipulation, writing, photography, and botanical art to express herself. Her work has been exhibited in Milan (Ita), Melbourne (AUS), and San Francisco (USA).
The different cultural settings she encountered during her travels in different parts of the world, and during her life experiences, helped to develop an interest in multiple creative practices. Nonetheless, her works are unified by an honest love for figurative art. Art Nouveau, Surrealism, and Narrative Art inspire her art practice, while Symbolism and Mythology feed her conceptual research.
In 2016, she accomplished a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts at the DAMS University (ITA). In 2018 she collaborated on the text of A Better Landscape exhibition’s catalog (Unimedia Modern, Genoa, Italy), and in 2019 she published a monographic essay with Silvana Editor (M. R. Ballestra, A Phenomenology of Posthumanism). She worked for Red Poppy Art House as a performances host and art curator from 2016 to 2020.

ARTIST STATEMENT
I have always been fascinated by nature and found objects, and through my art practice, I manipulate these two elements with a poetic language. My artworks tell stories of reinvention, of hope, and of beautiful human fragilities. As a cultural worker with a career started in Italy and developed in international settings, my aim is to unify and nourishing the several communities I encountered along the years through inspiring art projects that can foster values such as human connection and empathy.
Through my last work Possibilities, linked to the “Manifesto of Uncertainty” that I wrote for the Italian art platform Resilience, I hope to encourage anyone to use his/her own creativity to become a more resilient person. Resilience allows us to live life challenges in a constructive way, and to cope with the uncertain historical moment positively.
“Creating art and culture represents the prayer of those who don’t settle for mundane promises and dogmas, of those who suffer, of those who think, of those who can’t express themselves with the limited vocabulary of the common language. Creating art saves us from the world collapsing. Any artwork realized in the midst of this ruins is a talisman preserving hope”. Elena Mencarelli, Manifesto of Uncertainty. More info Website

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
“Possibilities, the Art of Resilience” is a fun workshop where we will build together an art shadow box taking inspiration from a personal challenge. Possibilities is a project conceived during the lockdown for Covid-19. Between April and June 2020 I have created 5 shadow boxes representing different moments lived during the shelter-in-place; each one of them transfigures a challenge produced by the social isolation and by the fear of uncertainty into a possibility for personal growth. This is the power of resilience! Let’s use our creativity and our imagination to cope with these odd times. We’ll take what we think it’s for us unbearable today, and change it into a treasure chest of wonders!
If you can’t build the shadow box with me, you will still learn how to stimulate your resilience and your creativity, and how to apply them through craft skills in the future. You don’t need to have any previous artistic background to enjoy the workshop.
During the workshop, we’ll create the shadow box “Carpe diem” — how to change the grief for an ended experience into a celebration for a new life phase. Using resilience, we can elaborate “endings” as meaningful transitions towards changes.

MATERIALS

Wooden box with a lid (see Blick or Amazon), about 6’’w x 9’’h. If not, you can use cardboard boxes, like a shoe box
Super strong liquid glue
Long wheat stem. If not, use anything that looks similar
Small candles, about 2,50’’h (the dimension that fits into the box’s border)
Box of matches
Dried flower petals
Gold marker/gold paint

What you can add to your list:

Glitters (if so, bring a glue stick to fix them onto the box)
1 small picture representing one of your dreams (could be a place you want to visit, an object you’d like to possess,
a job you’d love to do, a person you miss.) — I suggest glue stick or double-sided tape to bring along

*You can paint the box of your favorite color ahead of time.

ONLINE EVENT DETAILS

Time: 11am – 12:15 pm (Visual Art Workshop #1) | 1:00 pm – 2:00pm (Artist talk and Visual Art Workshop #2)
Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House Facebook page
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House facebook page
Ali’s Facebook event page

Elena’s Facebook event page

Donate

August 1st & 2nd MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts | Performances
2020-08-01 19:00 - 22:00 | CA
Aug 1 @ 7:00 – 10:00 pm (Performances)
Aug 2 @ 11 am – 12:15 pm (Kitchen Printing, Workshop by Ali Blum) |1:00 pm 2:00 pm (Possibilities, Workshop by Elena Mencarelli)
Click here on the day of the event to see the live performance streaming Live on our Facebook page.
Donate
Launched in 2003, Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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. This program is funded by the California Arts Council Local Impact Grant. We are excited and grateful to continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.
In an effort to continue presenting this deeply important program, Red Poppy Art House is presenting our second online MAPP. Workshops and performances live stream from artist’s homes to your homes on August 1st and 2nd.
Now, more than ever, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community, and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.
Click here to make Make a gift to Red Poppy Art House today!
Check the Visual Art workshops on August 2nd Here
TEAM
Curator and Moderator: Dina Zarif / Artistic Director
Workshop #1 Introduction: Renee Baldocchi / Visual Artist / Leadership team
Workshop #2 Introduction: Puja Kapur/ Visual Artist / Leadership team
Tech Support: Leeav Sofer / Musician
PR and Digital Marketing: Sarika Dagar / Filmmaker & Designer
RPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) AUGUST 1st & 2nd
SATURDAY AUGUST 1ST

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artist

7:00 – 7:10 pm
Introduction, Artist meet and greet
Curator Dina Zarif will greet the Artists and
present the performance program

7:10 – 7:45 pm
Balkan and beyond on bellows and mallets
Songs from Eastern Europe and beyond
Balder ten Cate – Cimbalom
Diana Strong – Accordion

7:50 – 8:10 pm
Live from Argentina: Claudio Santomé
Italian and Argentinian arias and
songs by Claudio Santomé
Claudio Santomé / Opera Singer /
Tenor

8:15 – 8:45 pm
“Luminance” Sounds from the Outside
Harp and Trumpet Explorations
Amelia Romano – Lever Harp
Matt Ebisuzaki – Trumpet

8:50 – 9:25 pm
“Accordion + Circus = Rollercoaster of
Music and Magic”
A silly, magical circus experience from longtime
Circus Bella collaborators Calvin Kai Ku
and Rob Reich
Rob Reich – Accordion
Calvin Kai Ku – Magician

9:30 – 10:00 pm
Bianca Rodriguez and Gopal Slavonic
Flamenco dancer accompanied by
Gopal Slavonic on guitar
Bianca Rodriguez – Flamenco dancer
Gopal Slavonic – Guitar

SUNDAY AUGUST 2ND

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artist

11:00 – 11:15 am
Introduction, Artist meet and greet
Guest presenter Renee Baldocchi will greet
the artist and present the workshop program

11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Workshop: Kitchen Printing with Ali Blum
Monoprinting and Stamping, Styrofoam Prints
Ali Blum / Visual Artist

1:00 – 1:10 pm
Introduction, Artists meet and greet
Guest presenter Puja Kapur will greet the artist and
present the workshop program

1:10 – 1:50 pm
Workshop: Possibilities,
the Art of Resilience
Create your own shadow box transforming
a challenge into an exciting possibility
through the power of resilience
Elena Mencarelli / Visual Artist

AUGUST 2nd WORKSHOPS (ONLINE)
11:00 am – 12:30 pm, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2nd
Kitchen Printing / Workshop by Ali Blum
Create your own artwork using printmaking techniques including mono-printing, food stamping, and foam prints

For more information click here

1:00 – 2:00 pm, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2nd
Possibilities, the Art of Resilience / Workshop by Elena Mencarelli
Create your own shadow box transforming a challenge into an exciting possibility through the power of resilience.

For more information click here

AUGUST 1st PERFORMANCES (ONLINE)

Balkan and Beyond on Bellows and Mallets
Bay area locals Balder ten Cate (cimbalom) and Diana Strong (accordion) present a short set of songs from Eastern Europe and beyond
FEATURING:
Balder ten Cate – cimbalom
Diana Strong – accordion
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born into a musical family, Balder ten Cate grew up in the Netherlands but was steeped in eastern European music from a young age. He studied Romanian music with cimbalom master Giani Lincan, as well as, after moving to California in 2008, music from the Balkans with Rumen Sali Shopov. Currently, Balder lives in the Bay Area and performs with the local group’s Orchestra Euphonos, Yeraz Ensemble, and Shasta Power Trio, and the international Trio Dulce Amar and Trio Czinka Panna. Outside of music, Balder is a software engineer and computer scientist working at Google.
Diana Strong’s musical training is grounded in classical piano, along with a lifetime of folk music camps and a wide variety of influences. She picked up the accordion in 2006 and plays an eclectic range of styles including Brazilian forró, klezmer, Balkan, Scandinavian, French musette, swing, and of course original tunes. Current and past projects include Dona Francisca (Brazilian forró), Wind Weavers (original and eclectic instrumental music), Sweet Moments of Confusion (original music for accordion and cello), The Patty Dukes (ukulele and vocal duo with cousin Juliet Strong), Dan Cantrell, Justin Ancheta, Zumpthing (swampy klezmer), Sabaya (Balkan and original), The Red Hot Chachkas (klezmer), the Accordion Babes Calendar (2009 and 2013 issues). Theatrical projects include Mother Courage (Ubuntu, Feb 2019), Uksus (a chamber opera by Erling Wold, 2016), The Red Virgin (Central Works, 2013). Diana has also performed as a dancer/singer in MoToR (body music troupe led by Evie Ladin). She completed her level III Orff Shulwerk music education certification in 2017, teaches private piano and accordion lessons in Oakland and elementary/Orff music in Walnut Creek and Oakland.

Live from Argentina: Claudio Santomé, Tenor
Italian and Argentinian arias and songs by Claudio Santomé
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Claudio Santomé, Tenor; completed training as a music teacher in Buenos Aires with masters from the Teatro Colón where he also sang Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida. After emigrating to the US in 1997, he performed Ariel Ramirez’s Misa Criolla in California, Michigan, Switzerland, Italy, and Argentina. He specializes in Belcanto repertoire singing from Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, and Puccini. In the symphonic repertoire, he sang Carmina Burana, as tenor and baritone, Gustav Mahler’s Ruckert, and Des Knaben Wunderhorn. He is the music director, stage director, and choir conductor of Andanza Spanish Arts, performing famous Zarzuela or Spanish Opera scenes in the US. Since 2009 he has performed Argentine Classical and Popular repertoire from A.Ginastera and C.Guastavino to folk and tango songs. In February 2015, he presented the show “Marplatenses por el Mundo” at Teatro Colon in Mar del Plata with artists from the Buenos Aires Opera House and La Scala di Milano from Italy with a selection from Rigoletto, Carmen, La Traviata.
Recently he has sung as soloist Beethoven 9th Symphony with Revolution Orchestra at Grace Cathedral and Il Trovatore as Manrico with Teatro Mistral.

Sounds from the Outside
Harp and Trumpet Explorations
FEATURING:
Amelia Romano – lever harp
Matt Ebisuzaki – trumpet
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Luminance performs original works inspired by the Yuba River in Northern California and Cottonwood Trees of Aspen Colorado. Turning to nature to restore and remain resilient, their sound features lush trumpet melodies and the rhythmic flair of classical and Latin American harp styles. This duo’s rich combination delights in sound and style.
Formed in the San Francisco Mission district, Luminance performs original works inspired by Latin American music styles and classical traditions. featuring amelia romano on acoustic and electric lever harp, Matt Ebisuzaki on c-rotary-valve trumpet and saul Richmond-Rakerd on cello, the trio bridges fiery rhythms, lush chords and soaring melodies with classics – Chicago’s “color my world” and Vera Lynn’s “a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square,” to create a subtle yet charismatic musical experience.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
An eclectic blend of austere serenity and kinetic vibrancy, Amelia Romano takes what is known about the conventional harp and surpasses every time. Pulling from first-hand experiences in South Africa and from her roots in a cultural hotbed in San Francisco, Amelia not only plays music from the repertoire but reprises them and creates originals. Latin, gypsy, jazz are all genres that she touches but her music defines its own path.
A San Francisco native, she began her lessons on a lever harp, at the age of 9, with Diana Stork, who inspired early compositions, improvisation, and playing in a variety of youth ensembles, including the Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble. She graduated from the San Francisco School of the Arts High School, performing Laura Zaerr’s “Celtic Concerto,” and releasing her first solo album, “Seeking Peace,” in her senior year. Amelia earned a B.A. in interdisciplinary studies at U.C. Berkeley in 2010, while continuing her music education. She spent the following year working in a township music school outside Cape Town, South Africa, sponsored by the “Playing for Change Foundation.” South Africa deeply shaped her musical creativity and desire to re-conceive her sound. With her return to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011, she took up the electric harp and formed “StringQuake,” in 2012 and Luminance Ensemble, Fall 2016. Amelia has been performing in the S.F. Bay Area for over 15 years, and toured in Mexico, the states, and Europe, (June of 2016). In March 2017, she will release her second full-length album, “New Perspectives,” featuring the electric harp and local talent. Moving from Latin rhythms to blues and nostalgic storytelling, “New Perspectives” invites the listener to re-imagine the role of the harp in today’s musical landscape.

Accordion + Circus = Rollercoaster of Music and Magic
A silly, magical circus experience from longtime Circus Bella collaborators Calvin Kai Ku and Rob Reich
Rob Reich will perform a set of his original music for accordion and he will be joined by part of his set by Calvin Kai Ku. Together they will present an Eccentric Circus Experience
FEATURING:
Rob Reich – accordion
Calvin Kai Ku – magician
PROGRAM:
Funnyface Zoom-ba Class
Magic Ring Act
Ride the Roller Coaster
ABOUT THE PROJECT:
Rob Reich has performed in concert halls, circus tents, dance clubs, and chapels. This breadth of experience has made him a foremost performer and composer in the Bay Area. Reich’s music defies genre, combining strong melodic ideas, rhythmic drive, and a spirit of irreverence and experimentation. His many musical projects include serving as a long-time musical director for Circus Bella. Reich recently released an album of original swing music, “Swings Left”. He’s also known for his work with Tin Hat & Gaucho.
Calvin Kai Ku is the Executive-Artistic Director of the Medical Clown Project and professional Magician & Variety Entertainer. With over 10+ years of experience providing joy and laughter into healthcare and professional theatrical productions, he strives to build resilience and enhance human connections through humor and play.

Bianca Rodriguez and Gopal Slavonic
Flamenco dancer accompanied by Gopal Slavonic on guitar
FEATURING:
Bianca Rodriguez – flamenco dancer
Gopal Slavonic – guitar
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Bianca Rodriguez began dancing Spanish Classical/Ballet at the age of 3 in Laredo. Her first teachers were Mina Gutierrez, Cristina Greco, and Jose Greco II. She graduated with a degree in Dance with an emphasis in Flamenco from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Upon studying at UNM she was fortunate enough to perform with Juan Siddi, Yjastros, and Antonio Granjero. Bianca was featured as a soloist in the National Hispanic Center’s production of El Pintor. During her time studying in Sevilla, Bianca’s Flamenco idol Juana Amaya told her during class that she had “peso” a characteristic in Flamenco which is innate and seen in many great dancers. Bianca toured with Flamenco Vivo in their North Carolina residency where she discovered her passion for teaching children. She has choreographed for all ages, recently at St. John’s Catholic School in San Francisco with Katy Alaniz of World Dance Fusion. Under the direction of Carola Zertuche/Theatre Flamenco, she worked with legendary singer Juana la del Pipa, Adela Campallo, Pastora Galván, and Carmen Ledezma. Bianca’s biggest moments in Flamenco have been dancing in Antonio Rey’s Dos Partes de Mi along with Mara Rey, and José del Tomates álbum debut Plaza Vieja produced by Eddie and Catherine Diaz of SJFS. She has performed at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, Brava Theatre, and Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. Rodriguez performed in Madrid at a tablao called La Cueva de Lola, where she worked with up and coming artists. She currently teaches in Berkeley and performs regularly through the Bay Area.
Gopal Slavonic trained at the prestigious ‘Fundacion de Arte Flamenco Cristina Heeren’ in Sevilla, Spain where he studied intensively with leading flamenco guitarists. In his 27 years of dedication to flamenco guitar, Gopal Slavonic has returned to Spain to further his studies several times, most frequently to Jerez de la Frontera. In 2008, Gopal released his CD ‘Dos Orillas’. He has been a resident performer at Copper Spoon in Oakland, Thirsty Bear Brewing Company in San Francisco, Peña Pachamama in San Francisco, Sausalito Seahorse in Sausalito for the last 10 years. He currently lives in Oakland, California regularly performing as an accompanist to song and dance, soloist, and teaching flamenco guitar.
PREVIEW THE MUSIC

Balder ten Cate

Diana Strong

Claudio Santomé

Amelia Romano

Rob Reich

Bianca Rodriguez

ONLINE EVENT DETAILS

Time: Aug 1st, 7:00 pm -10:00 pm (Performances) | Aug 2nd, 11am- 2pm (Visual Art Workshops)
Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House Facebook page

Donate

Canceled: Redwood Tango Ensemble: contemporary tango & new visions
2020-06-12 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Redwood Tango Ensemble (Oakland CA) present a new set of cutting-edge tango compositions by bandoneonist and bandleader Charles Gorczynski, as well as music from some of the most innovative composers in tango today.

FEATURING:
Charles Gorczynski – bandoneon
Elyse Weakley – piano
Ishtar Hernandez – violin
Clare Armenante – violin
Elyse Ader – viola
Anton Estaniel – vello
Sascha Jacobsen – contrabass

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Celebrating their new album for 2020 “We Become The Night Sky, Vol. 1” Redwood Tango Ensemble is a leading North American sextet dedicated to contemporary tango music.
Known for their visceral and powerful stage performances and innovative original music, Redwood Tango Ensemble is a singular voice within the new generation of cutting edge tango composition and future-driven chamber music in North America.
“Bandoneonist and composer Charles Gorczynski, along with Redwood Tango Ensemble, are forging a distinctly new idiom of American tango music.”  – Morgan Luker, Program Director, Tango For Musicians, Author of The Tango Machine
Learn more: Website | Facebook | Bandcamp

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior with valid ID
Note: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door.
Purchase advance tickets for this event:
Note: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee seats. Seating is first come, first served.

RSVP to the Facebook event:

Volunteer for this event!

June 6 MAPP(Online): We are Present
2020-06-06 | CA
June 6th (Online Program) @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm (Visual Art Workshop) | 7:00pm-10:00 pm (Performances) | Free
This event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House facebook page. Click here to see MAPP performances online on June 6, 2020. Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
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Launched in 2003, Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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.
Red Poppy Art House is deeply grateful for the generous grants we recently received from California Arts Council Local Impact Grant and CCI – San Francisco Arts and Artist Relief Fund. We are excited and grateful to continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.
In an effort to continue presenting this deeply important program, Red Poppy Art House is hosting our first virtual MAPP. We are excited to welcome you to join us with this first experiment of presenting our live workshop and performances online
Curator: Dina Zarif / Artists Director
Workshop Introduction: Renee Baldocchi / Managing Director
Tech support: Sarika Dagar / PR and Digital Marketing Manager

RPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE)

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artist

11:00-11:15 am
Introduction, Artist meet and greet
Renee Baldocchi will greet
the artist and present the
workshop program

11:15 am-12:15 pm
The Art of Japanese Book Making
Book Making Workshop,
A field guide for these times
Adele Shaw/ Visual Artist

7:00-7:15 pm
Introduction, Artists meet and greet
Curator Dina Zarif will greet
the Artists and present the
performance program

7:15-7:50 pm
Sergiu Popa
A musical journey from Moldova,
Romania, through the Balkans
and beyond
Sergiu Popa / Accordion

7:55-8:30 pm
Songs of Light and Movement
Mexican songstress performs
a musical set on guitar, accompanied
by dancer Stephanie Sherman on a
few pieces
Diana Gameros/ Vocal & Guitar,
Stephanie Sherman / Dance

8:35-9:10 pm
Levoná Ensemble
Flamenco, Arabic &
Jewish Music & Stories
Asaf Ophir / woodwinds & vocals
Faisal Zedan / percussion & vocals
Josh Mellinger / percussion
David McLean /flamenco guitar

9:15-9:50 pm
Javi Jiménez & Ross Howe
Gypsy Jazz Night
Javi Jiméne/ guitar
Ross Howe/guitar

ABOUT THE PROJECTS & ARTISTS

WORKSHOP (ONLINE)

The Art of Japanese Book Making / Workshop by Adele Shaw
Create your own personal journal to draw, sketch and write in. A field guide for these times

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adele Louise Shaw was inspired by her grandmother’s oil paints when she was six years old. She knew since then that art would allow her to best express herself. In 1989 she received a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, and went further with artistic studies in Italy, Thailand, Japan, New York, Vermont, California, most recently in Mexico.
Following her formal and informal education in the arts, Adele has made her life and livelihood in California. She has found kinship with likeminded people with whom to work and collaborate. Her career has been punctuated with wildly diverse artistic explorations. She lived, worked and exhibited in San Francisco for twenty years. In the 1990’s she owned and maintained a thirty-two machine laundromat to support herself. After learning digital art skills, her creative design work has been hired by Warner Brothers, Neil Young and other creative luminaries. As part of the Hearts in San Francisco project, Adele was commissioned to maintain a public art installation over a five year period which included twenty-one different projects in total. She recently received her second Arts and Cultural Affairs Grant from the City of Davis for her work with Second Bite: the Wisdom of the Apple, a large-scale, immersive, multimedia art installation.
Adele’s work is influenced by her spiritual practices, music and the powers of nature. Her work fuses contemporary art, impressionism and action painting. Since 1998, she has been working with encaustic painting and has been leading encaustic workshops since 2001. She leads a variety of classes and workshops from book binding to geometric designs to painting.
Adele’s artwork has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and can be found in numerous private and public collections. For more information visit Adele’s Website
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Making hand bound books: build community, chronicle these unprecedented times to create durable historical records. These days/weeks/months are so very different from ever before. Binding books is a great way to chronicle the experience and meaning of these times. Books facilitate journaling, drawing, sketching, haikus or poems and the recording of events. Uniquely personal; handmade books are a great way to maintain our roots during these extraordinary times and to share and document our experience.
Handmade books facilitate nearly any type of expression. Whether you’re a writer, reader, visual artist, collage artists or just like to feel the spark of putting pen to paper, hand-bound books embrace countless uses, needs and mediums.
In this Zoom workshop you will learn how to bind your own book. The patterns are reusable countless times and can lead to binding paper, or other matter, into unique collections that are an enduring legacy for yourself, or a gift.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a painter and a book artist. I grew up surrounded by my grandmother’s oil paints and my great-grandparents’ hand-bound books. Both of my great grandparents were part of the Roycroft movement in western New York. Both of these elements fascinated me.
My formal bookbinding studies started with classes in Japan and Thailand where I traveled and worked in different studios to learn their methods. My current book work is focused on a different, newish, book form referred to as “Artist Books”. As an avid experimenter, I continually try new methods and materials, seeking to put my vision into people’s hands.
Most of my hand-bound books are derived from my work as a painter. Many contain original art works, hand painted or printed. My books include recycled materials from everyday life. These artist books become both objects and containers and invite viewer’s participation.
My artist books combine elements of art and found objects that are bound together to create unique works of art. As one book naturally gives way to another, I find endless sources of inspiration to translate into an intimate book form. I see these books as a lasting catalog of passing time.
I believe in building community through the arts. I teach classes out of my studio in Davis, California. I will be co-juror and host of a show of artist books titled: “C O N T E N T : an Artist Book Exhibition” in January, 2021. You can view more of my work on my Website.

MATERIALS
The list of materials to have ahead of time:
A very good list:

1 piece of cardboard for practice – approx 5” x 7”
An awl to poke holes with
Waxed linen thread (4 ply)
Large eyed needles for tapestry or leather stitching
20 sheets of paper folded in half – either direction. This could be computer paper, a pad of paper without lines or specialty paper pencil
2 sheets card stock/thicker paper for front and back covers

Get by with list:

1 piece of cardboard for practice – approx 5” x 7”
An awl – or nail – something to poke holes with
Sewing needle – the larger the eye the better – does not have to be sharp
Thick, strong thread – whatever will fit into the eye of your needle

THE BOOKMAKING INSTRUCTION

PERFORMANCES (ONLINE)

Sergiu Popa
A musical journey from Moldova, Romania, through the Balkans and beyond.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sergiu Popa, originally from Moldova, has become an important part of Montreal’s active world music scene since his arrival in 2002. A Conservatory-trained virtuoso accordionist from a Roma family dynasty of musicians, he is a specialist in traditional music from across the region of Eastern Europe, including folk, Roma (gypsy) and Klezmer styles. Sergiu also, however, has an exceptional capability to absorb a wide variety of influences from the worlds of jazz, Latin and Middle-eastern music, bringing a fresh perspective and inspired improvisations to every performance. Sergiu is also a sought-after teacher of accordion, having taught privately to pupils of all ages and levels, as part-time faculty at Concordia University, Cégep de Drummondville, and offering workshops at camps such as CAMMAC Music Centre, KlezKanada (both in Quebec), Django in June (Massachusetts) Cotati Accordion Festival (California) and the EEFC’s Balkan Camp (New York).
Winner of the Radio Canada Étoiles Galaxie prize (2007), the first Prix Diversité (2008) and finalist at the national Roland V-accordion competition (2009, 2013), Sergiu has performed and recorded as a soloist, and toured Quebec’s major festivals and Maisons de la culture as leader of the multicultural Sergiu Popa Ensemble. He is also a frequent guest artist and collaborator with other local artists such as SoCalled, Kaba Horo, Yves Lambert, Paul Audy and OktoEcho. Sergiu has independently released two solo albums, Obsession Accordéon (2006) and Tous en accord (2014), as well as an instructional DVD, Gypsy & East European Accordion with Sergiu Popa (2010).
Photo credit: David Afriat

Diana Gameros , Songs of Light and Movement
Mexican songstress performs a musical set on guitar, accompanied by dancer Stephanie Sherman on a few pieces.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
If difficult times call for extraordinary voices, Berkeley singer-songwriter Diana Gameros is the woman for the hour. The Mexican-born songstress draws on her long experience without papers to explore the plight of border crossers of all stripes, bringing luminous humanity to a topic defined by searing heat rather than light. Her albums, Eterno Retorno, and Arrullo, are an artistic triumph for these dark times. Gameros has shared the stage with the San Francisco Symphony, Taylor Mac, Bebel Gilberto, Natalia Lafourcade, and her songs and story have been featured on Billboard, Mother Jones, NPR, and PBS, to name a few.
Stephanie Sherman is a dancer, choreographer, scholar, teacher and bilingual poet with a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. From 2018-2019, she received a Fulbright Postdoctoral fellowship to explore the intersections of gender, blindness, and embodied movement at the Centro Universitario de Teatro of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma Mexicana and with Teatro Ciego in Mexico City. In 2006, she received a Fulbright scholarship to choreograph dance-theater in Ecuador, and in 2007, she won the National Performance Network’s Red Latinoamericana’s choreographic residency in Ecuador. She has been faculty at Mexico’s prestigious Academia de la Danza Mexicana of its National Institute of Fine Arts as well as visiting professor at the renowned Universidad de las Américas Puebla.

Levoná Ensemble
Flamenco, Arabic & Jewish Music & Stories
Combining flamenco guitar, ethnic percussion, klezmer clarinet, and folk songs from the Middle East, Levoná Ensemble follows melodies and styles that traveled from one side of the ancient world to the other, bringing them together to explore new possibilities. This celebration of sounds is intermingled with storytelling, drawing from folk traditions as well as original stories.

FEATURING
Asaf Ophir – woodwinds, vocals
Faisal Zedan – percussion, vocals
Josh Mellinger – percussion
David McLean – flamenco guitar

ABOUT THE PROJECT
Levoná began as the band for the highly acclaimed Bay Area musical Love Sick , winning the Theatre Bay Area Award for Best Ensemble in 2017 along with the cast. Love Sick went on to receive the prestigious Glickman Award for Best New Play in 2018, and audiences and critics alike praised its vibrant music as the heart of the play’s energy and wide appeal. Levoná have since continued to perform as an independent group, keeping that same energy alive in both dance and concert halls.

Javi Jiménez & Ross Howe
Gypsy Jazz
Javi Jiménez, a spanish guitarist based in San Francisco Bay Area presents a night of gypsy jazz along with Ross Howe celebrating the music of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli and the Hot Club of Paris. Javi and Ross have been playing gypsy jazz together for over 5 years. Their style is very open and often incorporates latin or flamenco style influences while always maintaining the jazz concept of the improvisation.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Madrid Spain, Javi Jiménez has been playing and studying guitar for over 25 years. In 2007, after graduating from the Conservatory of Jazz Music in Barcelona, Spain, Javi performed all over Europe. During this time, he discovered the music of Django Reinhardt, falls in love with it, and starts studying it. In 2010 Javi arrived in California and has been performing & working as a studio musician and teaching music. He composes, arranges and performs in his own band Barrio Manouche – A Blend of flamenco, gypsy jazz and latin rhythms. The band recently played at the Monterey Jazz Festival and Stern Grove Festival. Learn more: Website
Ross Howe grew up in the Bay Area and was heavily influenced by the vibrant local music scene. In his early 20’s he discovered the music of Django Reinhardt and fell in love with it. Ross started playing Piano at the age of 8 and then turned to cello at 11. By the time he turned 12 has started playing guitar and has been in love with it ever since. His style of playing incorporates elements of classical tradition with the vocabulary of contemporary jazz, and gypsy jazz Manouche music, while always maintaining respect of the jazz guitar traditions and it’s forefathers, particularly the immortal Django Reinhardt. When not composing, playing or teaching guitar, Ross spends as much time as possible surfing and racing sailboats. Ross tries to breathe a bit of fresh air into the art of improvised music through contemporary aesthetics that he hopes his audience will find refreshing. Learn More: Website

PREVIEW THE MUSIC

Sergiu Popa

Diana Gameros

Levoná Ensemble

Javi Jiménez & Ross Howe

ONLINE EVENT DETAILS

Time: 11:00 am – 12:15 pm visual Art Workshop / 7:00pm-10:00 pm performances
Admission: Free (donations welcome)
Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House facebook page

Donate

CANCELED:: Rumberos de Radio Habana: Monthly Community Rumba
2020-05-24 14:00 - 17:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Rumba music originated in the Afro-Cuban neighborhoods of Havana and Matanzas as the soundtrack to community, partnered dancing and get-togethers as a means of cultural expression. Its global diaspora means rumba rhythms have found their way into other genres of music such as country, rock, and blues, and continue to impact the genres of today. Rumberos de Radio Habana bring their own contribution to the Red Poppy on the fourth Sunday of each month for a free afternoon of beat-making, hip-shaking, and good company.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 2:00pm event
Admission: Free; donations accepted for musicians ($5-10)
Volunteer for this event!

CANCELED: Rumberos de Radio Habana: Monthly Community Rumba
2020-04-26 14:00 - 17:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States

CANCELED: April 4 MAPP
2020-04-04 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
Out of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health
recommendations regarding COVID-19, we’ve made the difficult decision to
cancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through
April 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will
refund you.
This is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share
kindness and a smile and take good care of each other.
This link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.
Feel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Warmest regards,
Red Poppy Art House
Mission Arts & Performance Project

Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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.

RPAH PROGRAM:
TBA

To get involved as a host venue, artist, or street-level curator (and curate a space of your own!), come out to the next MAPP meeting. For more information, visit mappsf.com, contact info@redpoppyarthouse.org, or find us on Facebook.

CANCELED: Jessica Fichot: French Chanson & Shanghai Jazz
2020-03-28 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
Out of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health
recommendations regarding COVID-19, we’ve made the difficult decision to
cancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through
April 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will
refund you.
This is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share
kindness and a smile and take good care of each other.
This link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.
Feel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Warmest regards,
Red Poppy Art House
Accompanied by her accordion, toy piano, and fiery band, Los Angeles-based chanteuse and songwriter Jessica Fichot draws from her multi-ethnic French/Chinese/American heritage to create an intoxicating multilingual blend of original French chanson, 1940s Shanghai jazz, gypsy swing and international folk. (Photo by Nicolas Kaviani)

FEATURING:
TBA

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
BLos Angeles-based chanteuse/songwriter Jessica Fichot is a lot like her hometown of Paris; French at heart, but with a soul that’s truly international. Drawing from her multi-ethnic French/Chinese/American upbringing, her music takes the listener on a twisting journey out of the French chanson tradition, into the land of 1940’s Shanghai jazz, gypsy swing, international folk, and into the wilderness of her imagination.
With 3 acclaimed albums under her belt, Jessica has charmed audiences around the world – performing her lively songs at concert halls, festivals and clubs in China, Mexico, Canada and across the US and western Europe. Featuring scorching performances from her bandmates on clarinet/sax, upright bass and guitar, as well as her own beautiful, clear vocals in French, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English, Fichot’s music is truly a dazzling trans-world journey.
Fichot is also an active composer, who has written hundreds of children’s songs for various educational programs, as well as music for many independent video games.
“Brings an art-song sensibility to delightfully catchy tunes.” – LA Times
“Enchantingly original.” – LA Weekly
“A delicious blend of acoustic styles” – San Francisco Chronicle
“A mélange of multicultural inspiration as rich and nuanced as her gorgeous expressive singing voice.” – Seven Days Vermont
Learn more: Website | Facebook | Instagram

EVENT DETAILS
Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior with valid ID
Note: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door.

Purchase advance tickets for this event:

RSVP to the Facebook event:

Volunteer for this event!

CANCELED: Steven Lugerner: SLUGish Ensemble
2020-03-27 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
Out of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health
recommendations regarding COVID-19, we’ve made the difficult decision to
cancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through
April 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will
refund you.
This is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share
kindness and a smile and take good care of each other.
This link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.
Feel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Warmest regards,
Red Poppy Art House
Steven Lugerner performs the music from SLUGish Ensemble’s debut album “An Eight Out of Nine,” plus new selections from an upcoming 2020 release on Slow & Steady Records. Named one of “The Best Jazz Albums of 2018” by Bandcamp and Jazziz Magazine describes the album & ensemble as “Northern California’s less extravagant answer to LA’s thriving crossover jazz-scene… original, earnest and immediate.”

FEATURING:
Steven Lugerner – bass clarinet & baritone saxophone
Keith Ganz – guitar
Javier Santiago – piano
Steve Blum – prophet synthesizer
Giulio Xavier Cetto – bass
Michael Mitchell – drums

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
SLUGish Ensemble is an amoeba-like band under the direction of composer & multi-instrumentalist Steven Lugerner. Their music utilizes traditional acoustic instruments to create layers of pocketed-grooves and melodies that blur the lines between pop, rhythm & blues, jazz improvisation and minimalism. As a band leader, Lugerner has released multiple albums to critical acclaim. His compositions have been described as “A textured, nearly seamless blend of composition and improvisation” – The Village Voice
“Lugerner’s approach to making music is very much his own; and he seems to be pursuing it to impressive advantage.” – The San Francisco Examiner
In a relatively short period of time, the 31-year-old Bay Area native has collaborated with a heavyweight roster of jazz masters including, Grammy nominated pianist Fred Hersch, pioneering pianist Myra Melford, drum legends Albert “Tootie” Heath, Matt Wilson, John Hollenbeck and Allison Miller, saxophonists Jane Ira Bloom, Dayna Stephens and Anat Cohen, trumpeter Ralph Alessi, flutist Jamie Baum and bassist Todd Sickafoose.
Lugerner works full-time at the Stanford Jazz Workshop as Faculty Director / Camp Director, and he is also the director of Slow & Steady Records, a non-profit record label dedicated to showcasing west coast’s creative music.
Learn more: Website | Bandcamp

EVENT DETAILS
Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior with valid ID
Note: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door.

Purchase advance tickets for this event:

RSVP to the Facebook event:

Volunteer for this event!

CANCELED: Rumberos de Radio Habana: Monthly Community Rumba
2020-03-22 14:00 - 17:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
Out of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health
recommendations regarding COVID-19, we’ve made the difficult decision to
cancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through
April 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will
refund you.
This is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share
kindness and a smile and take good care of each other.
This link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.
Feel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Warmest regards,
Red Poppy Art House
Rumba music originated in the Afro-Cuban neighborhoods of Havana and Matanzas as the soundtrack to community, partnered dancing and get-togethers as a means of cultural expression. Its global diaspora means rumba rhythms have found their way into other genres of music such as country, rock, and blues, and continue to impact the genres of today. Rumberos de Radio Habana bring their own contribution to the Red Poppy on the fourth Sunday of each month for a free afternoon of beat-making, hip-shaking, and good company.

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 2:00pm event
Admission: Free; donations accepted for musicians ($5-10)
Volunteer for this event!

CANCELED: Pedro Pastrana & Miguelito Martinez: musical dialogue between Puerto Rico and Mexico
2020-03-21 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
Out of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health
recommendations regarding COVID-19, we’ve made the difficult decision to
cancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through
April 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will
refund you.
This is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share
kindness and a smile and take good care of each other.
This link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.
Feel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Warmest regards,
Red Poppy Art House
This show will present Pedro and Miguelito’s collaboration just how it started at Miguelito’s kitchen – organic, highly improvised and gluten free. It will feature original compositions from both artists as well as familiar tunes that will show how their sound blends together.

FEATURING:
TBA

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Pedro Pastrana grew up playing Puerto Rico’s national instrument cuatro. His passion to explore led him to move out of Puerto Rico and travel to different countries allowing him to discover other musical cultures. After years as a sideman, all of these collaborations helped him find his own voice. Rooted in folk music, Pedro brings his dynamism and shows the versatility of the instrument in contemporary music.
Born in Chiapas, Mexico, Miguelito Martinez studied music and transversal flute at the University of Science and Art in Chiapas and La Universidad Veracruzana, with training in Kodály and Orff. He is the founding director of the Mexican-Caribbean ensemble Corazon Sur and the co-director of Balamcoatl – a collaborative project focused on promoting the rich music and dance traditions of the indigenous people of Mexico.
Learn more: Website | Website

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior with valid ID
Note: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door.
Purchase advance tickets for this event:
Note: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee seats. Seating is first come, first served.

RSVP to the Facebook event:

Volunteer for this event!

CANCELED: Javi Jiménez & Ross Howe: Gypsy Jazz Night
2020-03-20 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
Out of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health
recommendations regarding COVID-19, we’ve made the difficult decision to
cancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through
April 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will
refund you.
This is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share
kindness and a smile and take good care of each other.
This link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.
Feel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Warmest regards,
Red Poppy Art House
Javi Jiménez, a spanish guitarist based in San Francisco Bay Area presents a night of gypsy jazz along with Ross Howe celebrating the music of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli and the Hot Club of Paris. Javi and Ross have been playing gypsy jazz together for over 5 years. Their style is very open and often incorporate latin or flamenco style of influences while always maintaining the jazz concept of the improvisation.

FEATURING:
Javi Jiménez – guitar
Ross Howe – guitar
Sascha Jacobsen – upright bass
Eric Rodgers – violin

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Born in Madrid Spain, Javi Jiménez has been playing and studying guitar for over 25 years. In 2007, after graduating from the Conservatory of Jazz Music in Barcelona, Spain, Javi performed all over Europe. During this time, he discovered the music of Django Reinhardt, falls in love with it, and starts studying it. In 2010 Javi arrived in California and has been performing & working as a studio musician and teaching music. He composes, arranges and performs in his own band Barrio Manouche – A Blend of flamenco, gypsy jazz and latin rhythms. The band recently played at the Monterey Jazz Festival and Stern Grove Festival. Learn more: Website

Ross Howe grew up in the Bay Area and was heavily influenced by the vibrant local music scene. In his early 20’s he discovered the music of Django Reinhardt and fell in love with it. Ross started playing Piano at the age of 8 and then turned to cello at 11. By the time he turned 12 has started playing guitar and has been in love with it ever since. His style of playing incorporates elements of classical tradition with the vocabulary of contemporary jazz, and gypsy jazz Manouche music, while always maintaining respect of the jazz guitar traditions and it’s forefathers, particularly the immortal Django Reinhardt. When not composing, playing or teaching guitar, Ross spends as much time as possible surfing and racing sailboats. Ross tries to breathe a bit of fresh air into the art of improvised music through contemporary aesthetics that he hopes his audience will find refreshing. Learn More: Website

EVENT DETAILS
Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior with valid ID
Note: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door.

Purchase advance tickets for this event:

RSVP to the Facebook event:

Volunteer for this event!

CANCELED: Levoná Ensemble: Flamenco, Arabic & Jewish Music & Stories
2020-03-19 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
Out of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health
recommendations regarding COVID-19, we’ve made the difficult decision to
cancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through
April 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will
refund you.
This is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share
kindness and a smile and take good care of each other.
This link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.
Feel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Warmest regards,
Red Poppy Art House
Combining flamenco guitar, ethnic percussion, klezmer clarinet, and folk songs from the Middle East, Levoná Ensemble follows melodies and styles that traveled from one side of the ancient world to the other, bringing them together to explore new possibilities. This celebration of sounds is intermingled with storytelling, drawing from folk traditions as well as original stories.

FEATURING:
Faisal Zedan – percussion, vocals
Josh Mellinger – percussion
David McLean – flamenco guitar
Asaf Ophir – woodwinds, vocals
Travis Hendrix – bass

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Levoná began as the band for the highly acclaimed Bay Area musical Love Sick , winning the Theatre Bay Area Award for Best Ensemble in 2017 along with the cast. Love Sick went on to receive the prestigious Glickman Award for Best New Play in 2018, and audiences and critics alike praised its vibrant music as the heart of the play’s energy and wide appeal. Levoná have since continued to perform as an independent group, keeping that same energy alive in both dance and concert halls.
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EVENT DETAILS
Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior with valid ID
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CANCELED: Huarango: Afro-Peruvian Music
2020-03-14 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
Out of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health
recommendations regarding COVID-19, we’ve made the difficult decision to
cancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through
April 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will
refund you.
This is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share
kindness and a smile and take good care of each other.
This link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.
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Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Warmest regards,
Red Poppy Art House
Huarango is a contemporary proposal of Afro-Peruvian music, with influences of classical music, jazz and funk, anchored in the strong presence of Afro-Peruvian percussion such as cajón, cajita and quijada de burro (donkey’s jawbone).

FEATURING:
Pierr Padilla ​(Peru) – performer
Javier Trujillo ​(Peru) – guitar
Kyla Danysh ​(USA) – violin
Pedro Rosales ​(Peru) – percussion
Alex Farrell (USA) – bass guitar

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Huarango is a new musical project born in the city of Oakland, California, based in Afro-Peruvian musical roots and the cultural heritage of its people. Huarango has the purpose of being an agent of diffusion of Afro-Peruvian culture in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Learn more: YouTube

EVENT DETAILS
Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior with valid ID
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Canceled: Northern Harmony: singing styles from across the world
2020-03-13 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
Out of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health
recommendations regarding COVID-19, we’ve made the difficult decision to
cancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through
April 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will
refund you.
This is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share
kindness and a smile and take good care of each other.
This link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.
Feel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Warmest regards,
Red Poppy Art House
Nine brilliant young singers present a program of harmony singing styles from across the globe. South African songs and dances, traditional music from Corsica, Georgia & the Balkans, American shape-note singing, and renaissance works.

FEATURING:
Larry Gordon
Avery Martin
Howe Pearson
Stuart Wheeler
Hannah Levy
Sora Harris-Vincent,
Sarina Partridge,
Linnea Sablosky,
Maisie Dolan.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Led by Larry Gordon, Northern Harmony is the highest level performing group under the umbrella of the Vermont based world music organization Village Harmony. Since 1993 they have toured and performed widely throughout America and Europe to great critical acclaim.
Most of the members have sung with Village Harmony since their teenage years, have studied traditional singing styles first hand with native teachers in South Africa, Bulgaria, Corsica and Caucasus Georgia, and many are singing leaders in their own right. Northern Harmony director Larry Gordon founded Village Harmony in 1989 and has led regular Village Harmony singing camps in South Africa, Bulgaria, Georgia, Macedonia, Italy, Germany and England. With Northern Harmony he has led 18 extended European tours.
Learn more: Website

EVENT DETAILS
Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior with valid ID
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Canceled: Sergiu Popa: a musical journey from Moldova and beyond
2020-03-12 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
Out of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health
recommendations regarding COVID-19, we’ve made the difficult decision to
cancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through
April 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will
refund you.
This is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share
kindness and a smile and take good care of each other.
This link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.
Feel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Warmest regards,
Red Poppy Art House
Moldovan accordion virtuoso Sergiu Popa will take the audience on an enchanting musical journey from Eastern Europe, the Balkans and through the Middle East. The passionate, inventive, and versatile performance artist will be joined by friends for an enchanting and nourishing evening of soul-wrenching ballads, village-style tunes and high-energy wedding dances.

FEATURING:
Noémy Braun – cellist
Khatchadour Khatchadourian – vocalist
Rumen Shopov – singer
Valy Lautar – violinist

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Sergiu Popa was born in Chisinau, Moldova. From a young age, he studied traditional folk and Roma (Gypsy) music with his father, Ion Popa (a well-recognized Gypsy accordionist in Moldova, Turkish, Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian music). After moving to Montreal in 2002, Sergiu immersed himself into Middle Eastern and North African repertoire. He is widely celebrated for his ability to seamlessly bend these different styles of music. He has collaborated with many of the great names in Eastern European and Balkan music, such as Dan Armeanca, Carmen Piculeata, Fanfara Ciocarlia, Vadim Kolpakov, and Petar Ralchev.
In this exceptional show, Sergiu will be joined by several guest artists for different parts of the performance, including: Noémy Braun — a cellist since the age of five, Noémy Braun has collaborated on numerous projects in classical, contemporary, jazz and various regions of the world. A great improviser, she is active on the musical stages of Canada and Europe.
Khatchadour Khatchadourian – vocalist grounded in the musical traditions of the Middle East and Armenia, and a Duduk woodwind player based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Rumen Shopov – singer, multi-instrumentalist, and music teacher Rumen Sali Shopov born and raised in the Turkish/Muslim Romani (Gypsy) mahala (neighborhood) of Gotse Delchev, a crossroads in Southwestern Bulgaria’s Pirin Mountain region.
Valy Lautar – violinist graduated from the Conservatory of Moldova, worked for five years as a musician on transatlantic cruise lines, before permanently settling in the new world. Valy specialized in a wide array of styles of music, including traditional music from Moldova and other parts of Eastern Europe.
Learn more: Website | Spotify

EVENT DETAILS

Time: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show
Admission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $30 general, $25 student & senior with valid ID
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