Red Poppy Art House

Yumi Tomsha
2013-12-28 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
An Evening with Yumi Tomsha, mezzo soprano

Mezzo soprano Yumi Tomsha gave her New York debut recital in 2008 at Bargemusic, the magical ‘floating concert hall.’ As an oratorio soloist, she has been featured in works including Bach’s St. John Passion and Mass in b minor, and Vivaldi’s third Dixit Dominus and Gloria. Yumi is currently working on a solo album that will include the premiere of a song cycle featuring poetry by Japanese and Japanese American women.

Yumi’s program at the Red Poppy Art House will include Japanese and Lithuanian folk songs, as well as music of Handel, Mozart, Bellini, and Rachmaninov.

Yumi Tomsha – mezzo soprano
Akimi Fukuhara– pianist

Admission: $15-20. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

Bolo
2013-12-21 19:30 - 22:00
Acoustic global fusion bridging Africa and India

Bolo is a dynamic ensemble featuring percussionist/singer Surya Prakasha, bassist and bansuri & ney flute player Eliyahu Sills (The Qadim Ensemble), and multi-instrumentalist Evan Fraser (Hamsa Lila). With a fresh improvisational approach, the group creates songs that will move, uplift and transport. With African-sourced grooves, African and Indian melodies and songs, ‘Bolo’ speaks to the heart and to a musical language that bridges continents. Prepare for entrancing music that will inspire your body and soul. Facebook.com/boloensemble

Eliyahu Sills– bass, oud, flutes
Surya Prakasha– percussion, vocals, harmonium
Evan Fraser– ngoni, kalimba, jaw harp, percussion

Admission: $15-20. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

A Night of Latin American Music
2013-12-20 19:30 - 22:00
Long time Chilean Bay Area performers Mochi Parra and Hector Salgado team up with pianist/guitarist/composer Steve Lam, bass player and recent NY New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music graduate Joel Kruzic, drummer Juan Manuel Caipo of Bang Data, and musical guest and former Grupo Raiz member Fernando “Fena’ Torres, for an exciting night of rhythms and melodies from Latin America.

This new group of local musicians will be playing music from Chile, Cuba and Argentina. The group combines the sounds and melodies of the Latin American New Song Movement with their own musical arrangements by using electronic sounds, Bossa

Admission: $10-15. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

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Posadas at the Poppy
2013-12-19 18:00 - 22:00
Join us in a Mission Community Celebration of the Posadas, a cultural tradition with a theme of seeking shelter, which speaks to our ongoing struggles in the Mission. The procession will start at 6pm on the corner of 24th and South Van Ness and ends at the Poppy where we will come together for performances, speakers, food, and drink. Candles will be provided. Please bring percussion instruments for the procession. If you are familiar with Posadas, and you would like a more active role, please contact Isabel Santis at isantis@gmail.com

John Calloway and the New Riders of the Clave Maze
2013-12-14 19:30 - 22:00
Tales of the Mission: Past, Present and Future
Performing for the first time at Red Poppy is flautist, multi-instrumentalist, and arts educator John Calloway, a long-time Bay Area artist with deep cultural and social ties to the Mission. His new ensemble will present a cross-generational mix of jazz, folk and Latin music, with themes related to the Mission district and social justice.

John, a long time collaborator with John Santos, has also performed internationally with Israel Lopez Cachao, Omar Sosa, and Max Roach. He is currently the music director of the Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco and the Afro-Cuban Ensemble of San Francisco State University.

New Riders:
Mike Arnold – bass
Jon Monahan – guitar
David Flores – percussion
Guest Artists:
Alyssa Almaguer – vocals
Carlos Baron – spoken word
Roberto Hernandez – spoken word
Richard Caranza – guitar and vocals
Alicia Mana – vocals

Admission: $15-20. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

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Rob Reich Trio
2013-12-13 19:30 - 22:00
Jazz Accordion with Hot Rhythm
Avoid Friday the 13th blues and come enjoy the Rob Reich Trio’s musical wonders. The Trio performs new original music and choice old tunes with graceful humor and effortless virtuosity. Reich grew up studying piano from age three. After graduating with a degree in Music Composition from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he discovered the accordion, now his primary instrument. Reich’s music defies genres. Whether it’s composing art songs based on the poetry of E E Cummings with Tin Hat or writing circus music for Circus Bella, his music combines strong melodic ideas, rhythmic drive, and a spirit of irreverence and experimentation. robreich.com

Rob Reich – accordion & piano
Todd Sickafoose – bass
Eric Garland – drums

“Whatever context he’s in, Reich transforms it into a creative hothouse where thousands of musical flowers bloom.” – Andy Gilbert, East Bay Express.

Admission: $10-15. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

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Mapp, 10 Years Anniversary
2013-12-07 13:00 - 23:00
Since 2003, the MAPP, Mission Arts and Performance Project has produced 63 neighborhood pop-up art happenings of intimate spaces, all without ever formalizing into a non-profit organization, seeking funding, nor establishing a formal staff structure. Across these 10 years, the MAPP has featured thousands of artists, helping to cross-pollinate ideas and launch careers of artists engaged in social issues. It is a kind of otherworldly art walk, not centered on commercial corridors but within intimate spaces where the magic of genuine connectivity transpires among people across communities and art forms.

The MAPP stands as a testament to the possibility of horizontal organizing among artists intent on building social fabric within our respective communities, as much to celebrate diversity and creativity as to counter the erosion of these qualities that occurs when development displaces artists and minority communities alike.

Why is this MAPP so Special? This December marks the 10 year anniversary of the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP), a non-commercial multidisciplinary and intercultural arts happening that takes place in garages, living rooms, backyards, studios, and community-minded businesses throughout the Mission District of San Francisco on every even month of the year.

Curator: Red Poppy Community

Visual Art: “The Mission Condition – Outwardly Mobile”: a mural+assemblage collaboration by artists Mona Caron and Dustin Fosnot.

Visual-poems: Adrian Arias

Family Art: 1:00-4:00pm.

Performances:
6:10 – 6:25 Ceremonia
6:30 – 6:50 Rayshell, Word Artist/Rapper
6:55 – 7:23 Adrian Arias, Poetry
7:30 – 8:00 Amy LaCour
8:05 – 8:25 Bailes Andinos
8:30 – 9:50 Kamau
9:10 – 10:00 Makrú
10:00 – 11:00 The Poppy House Band

MAPP is free and open to all ages.

Camille Mai Trio EP Release and the Blind Willies
2013-12-06 19:30 - 22:00
Nearly a year after their first show at last January’s MAPP, the Camille Mai Trio returns to the Red Poppy for the release of their debut EP, “We Are No Beautiful Children.” Mixed independently at the SF Conservatory, the EP’s four tracks are a melting pot of French, Argentine, and West Coast culture, interweaving jazz harmonies with middle eastern rhythms while keeping an intimate indie-rock familiarity.

Consisting of Camille Mai on piano/voice/composition, Nahuel Bronzini on guitar/production, Schuyler Karr on bass, and backed by Ben Ring on drums, the trio will perform a mix of new, rhythmically experimental songs and older bluesy-rock ones. They’ll also be joined by halo drum player Gabriel Goldberg and dancer Kenya Moses in some improvised music merging jazz with classical tradition.

The trio will be preceded by Blind Willies, a San Francisco based Americana band with influences ranging from Appalachian ballads, to New Orleans blues, gospel, jazz, soul, cabaret, and rock ‘n roll. Their three albums have been widely acclaimed and played on over 200 radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the UK. They recently returned from a six week tour to Europe (Ireland, England, Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany) and are working on a new album to be released in early 2014.

Camille Mai Trio:

Camille Mai – piano and voice, songwriting
Nahuel Bronzini – guitar
Schuyler Karr – Upright bass
Benjamin Ring – drums

Blind Willies:

Alexei Wajchman – vocal, guitar, harmonica
Misha Khalikulov – cello
Daniel Riera – bass, flute
Alex Nash – drums

Other performers:

Kenya Moses– dance
Gabriel Goldberg – Halo drum

Camille Mai Trio Website
Blind Willies Website
Facebook information for this event

Admission: $10-15. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

The Nightingale Trio + Tre Sisters
2013-12-05 19:30 - 22:00
Intimate harmonies from Eastern Europe

The Nightingale Trio is a women’s vocal group inspired by folk songs and vocal techniques from the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Nila Bala, Rachel LaViola, and Sarah Larsson met each other as students Yale, singing with the Yale Slavic Chorus. Today, the Nightingales sound fuller than a trio, yet still maintain the intimate, tight harmonies of a family band. They are dedicated to recreating the rhythmic, complex, and stunning folk songs that have spanned centuries of Slavic culture, while simultaneously bringing their own unique expression to the dynamic and ever-evolving art form.

Opening: Tre Sisters from Richmond, CA: Camila Luna, Morgan Alicia and Daniela Valdivieso.

Admission: $10-15. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

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Ensemble Mik Nawooj
2013-11-30 19:30 - 22:00
Hip-Hop Orchestra

Taoist composer-pianist JooWan Kim performs with his hip-hop orchestra, Ensemble Mik Nawooj (EMN), a chamber orchestra with a rotating personnel of MCs and an opera singer. Ensemble Mik Nawooj “defies such categories as jazz, classical, and hip-hop” (Oakland Tribune), is “ambitious” (The New Yorker), and is “a cosmic melding of culture and genres” (SF Chronicle). MTV called the group “thirsty to change the name of the game”, and NPR praised it by saying “Whoever said that chamber music couldn’t be hip obviously haven’t heard of Ensemble Mik Nawooj.”

JooWan Kim – music director/composition/piano
Do D.A.T & Sandman – rappers/lyricists
Lauren Woody – opera singer
Carmen Lemonie – flute
Nick Litwin – clarinet
Asuka Yanai – violin
Gabriel Beistline – cello
Eugene Theriault – bass
Louie Flores Jr. – drums

MikNawooj.com Mik Nawooj plays ” Black Swordsman” YouTube

“The future of Hip Hop” – East Bay Express
“Mik Nawooj is thirsty to change the name of the game” – MTV

Opening for Mik Nawooj: Ka Mau

“Style AND substance” is the motto of Ka Mau a multidisciplinary performance artist born and raised in San Francisco, California. For the last ten years Ka Mau has lived in Bali, Indonesia using the art of poetry, rap and dance to connect cultures, inspire creative thought and action and motivate youth to use their creativity as a means of personal and collective empowerment. He was named Best Poet in the 2002 Oakland, California Slam Finals. He is the winner of the 2004 & 2005 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival held annually in Bali, Indonesia. More about Ka Mau at: pitchblackgold.wordpress.com

Admission: $10-15. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

Dance Party @ The Poppy!
2013-11-29 19:00 - 22:00
All Proceeds benefit the Red Poppy!

Latin Dance Party Benefit for the Poppy
Feat DJ Boludo, El Profe, and DJ Guruila, El Estudiante

For those of you that know DJ Boludo, then you know what’s in store for this dance party. Some of you may recall the epic 2007 dance party that he was in on hosted by Indira Urrutia and Todd Brown at Brown’s then loft space on Stevenson St. For those of you that don’t know, DJ Boludo is not someone you will find in the San Francisco club scene. He’s a strictly home-grown house-party specialist of the Mission community. Joining him will be El Profe, DJ Guruila, and El Estudiante, coming back from a long hiatus to spin Latin beats of the African Diaspora including Salsa, Cumbia, Reggae, Samba, 80’s, oldies, and Afrobeat.

Admission: $5-$20
7pm to 10pm

2 Greenprints
2013-11-23 19:30 - 22:00
An informal pena-art-style salon, by Marc Hors

Slide show presentation from an itinerant photographic project which moves on bicycles across the American Continent (From Alaska to the Chilean Antarctic) in search of natural, social and cultural values that characterize the countries of the American Continent. A project promoting solidarity, equity, participation and respect among cultures by linking what we learned from human behaviors, beliefs and traditions with environmental and human right issues.

Suggested donation: $5-10. Doors at 7pm.

Voices for the Poppy: A Special Benefit Concert
2013-11-22 19:30 - 22:00
If you love the Red Poppy Art House, then be there for this special evening occasion and make your support known. Hosted by Ethiopian-born songstress and TED Fellow Meklit Hadero, this unique musical program features an interweave of performances by jazz vocalist Tiffany Austin with Grant Levin on piano, songcraftsman Tom Sway, and instrumentalists Prasant Radhakrishnan, Todd Thomas Brown, Schuyler Karr, and acclaimed poet Michael Warr. 100% of the proceeds will go towards a fund supporting the Poppy’s core staff over the next five months until new funding comes in the spring. If you want to keep artists and art spaces thriving in our beautiful city, then come on down and be a part of the future of the Red Poppy Art House.

Doors at 7PM. Show at 7:30PM
Admission is $15-$50 sliding scale. Please select the ticket price level that best matches what you’re comfortable giving. Thank you for your support! Purchase advance tickets here.

Featured Artists:

Tiffany Austin
Vocalist, songwriter, and Los Angeles native Tiffany Austin possesses a soulful and subtle delivery, that has placed her onstage and onscreen with artists such as Roy Ayers and Marcus Shelby. Since completing her law degree at U.C. Berkeley, Tiffany has graced the stages of SFJAZZ, the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. tiffanyaustinmusic.com

Tom Sway
Tom Sway is nothing short of a great American songwriter whose story-based lyrical compositions possess a rare poetic content with pools of emotion under every metaphor. Tom guides his audience with theateresque sensibility on a tour through nostalgia, laughter, the most delicate tones and an unbridled song- shouting frenzy.

Michael Warr
Poet Michael Warr’s most recent book of poems The Armageddon of Funk (Tia Chucha Press, 2011) received the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature and 2012 Poetry Honor Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. In its announcement BCALA called his book “a poetic soundtrack to Black life.” Armageddonoffunk.com

Nefasha Ayer
Re-joining together for this one night are instrumentalists Prasant Radhakrishnan (saxophone) and Todd Thomas Brown (guitar) of the original ensemble Nefasha Ayer – The Space of In Between, a group founded by Brown and Meklit Hadero in 2006. This performance will especially highlight the expressive complexity of Prasant’s continued study of the South Indian Classical (Carnatic) and Jazz disciplines. prasantmusic.com

Host: Meklit Hadero
Born in Ethiopia, raised in the U.S. and nurtured by San Francisco’s richly diverse arts scene, Meklit Hadero, now a 2012 TED Senior Fellow, has served as an artist-in-residence at New York University, the De Young Museum, and the Red Poppy Art House. She has garnered feature-stories on NPR, PBS and National Geographic. She is a co-founder of the Nile Project, assisting to curate collaborations among musicians from the 11 Nile countries to address the Nile basin’s cultural and environmental challenges. meklithadero.com

Admission: $15-$50. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30. Purchase advance tickets here

Experimental Thursday: Reclaiming Bruj@s
2013-11-21 19:00 - 21:00
Storytelling, Workshop, and Ancestral Tradiciones

Local healers and spoken word artists come together to share their “brujerias.”The suggested donation will include medicinal herbs to take home.

Admission: $5-10. Event 7:00 pm -9:00 pm.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

The Suppression of Sound
2013-11-20 19:30 - 22:00
An Evening of Poetry and Music

An evening of poetry and sound by Thomas Sayers Ellis and saxophonist James Brandon Lewis. This eclectic duo has been performing together for nearly two years and was recently given the thumbs up by poet Amiri Baraka (for their mixture of free Jazz, GoGo, Be Hip Bop Hop and deep Groove) when they opened for him in New York City. The combination of Mr. Ellis’s bold, lyric activism and meditations on race and American culture are pushed and purposely punished by Mr. Lewis’s muscular and exhaustive tenor. A highlight of the performance is Mr. Dynamite Splits, a searing tribute to the Godfather of Soul, James Brown.

Thomas Sayers Ellis – poet
James Brandon Lewis – saxophonist
Raina J. León – poet, opener

Bios:

Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis ’ debut CD Moments (2010) received stellar reviews and was featured on jazzreviews.com, revivalist/okay player, ejazz news, George Mason University radio and All about jazz.com. James is currently working on his second album Divine Travels featuring William Parker, Gerald Cleaver, and poet Thomas Sayers Ellis to be released by Sony’s Okeh Label in early 2014. James Brandon Lewis was recently heralded by Ebony Magazine as “7 Musicians 30 and under to watch”.

Photographer and poet Thomas Sayers Ellis is the author of Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems (Graywolf Press 2010) and The Maverick Room (His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Open Door, Tin House, Grand Street, Poetry, The Nation and Best American Poetry (1997, 2001, 2010). He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Yaddo. Mr Ellis is the Poetry Editor of The Baffler and currently a Visiting Writer at the University of San Francisco where he teaches in the Graduate Writing Program. More at: tsellis.com

Admission: $10-15. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

Makrú
2013-11-16 19:30 - 22:00
Healing music for a hurting Mission

Landing in San Francisco from different parts of the world, Makrú fuses Rumba Flamenca, Reggae, Cuban Son, Cumbia, Ska, and other global beats to create a unifying, positive vibe in the Bay Area through its music. Lyrics in Spanish and English bring reality, fiction, hope and joy together, in hopes of spreading a message of respect and love.

Raúl Vargas – cajón & Vocals
Martina Castro – Vocals
Vinicio Peñate – Bass
Bob Sanders – Guitar
Anthony Sierra – Percussion
Paul Bertin – Sax

MakruMusic.com
Facebook.com/makrumusica
Makru at the Great American Music Hall

Admission: $10-15. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

Amy LaCour
2013-11-15 19:30 - 22:00
An Evening of Soulful Folk: Originals, Covers, Conversation Exploring Americana

Singer/songwriter, Amy LaCour, has recently made the Bay Area her home. She has brought along a suitcase full of songs that chronicle her years as a performing musician in New York, LA, and abroad. Described by Urban Network as “a thinking woman’s cross between Bill Withers and Norah Jones,” Amy is a lover of the songwriting tradition and seeks to explore the full definition of “Americana.”

Amy is fortunate to be joined by Sacramento-based jazz guitarist, Ross Hammond, who Critical Jazz.com calls “The best kept secret in Sacramento… or perhaps the entire West Coast.”

Amy LaCour – vocals
Ross Hammon – guitar

“This striking acoustic debut EP from singer/songwriter LaCour arrived out of the blue one afternoon and rendered me spellbound….” – Scott Galloway, Urban Network

Admission: $10-15. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

Seeds of Gold
2013-11-14 19:30 - 22:00
SEEDS OF GOLD: A Community Premiere of the New Documentary Film

Join us for the Community Premiere of the yet-to-be released film SEEDS OF GOLD (40 min), followed by an audience discussion with the filmmakers. Seeds of Gold takes us to the Andes of Colombia to share the true story of a community’s journey to awaken the memory of their ancestors and restore a future for their children. Working to reclaim damaged farmland, establish nature preserves, revive the unspoken language and reengage the ancient ceremonies, this film shares one example of how a group of inspired individuals can work against incredible odds to restore a balanced relationship with their surroundings and plant seeds for the future generations.

A Recordar Productions & 4Direcciones Film
Directed by Sophie Cooper
Produced by Esteban Duarte & Sophie Cooper

Original Music Composition: Teto Ocampo
Camera: Sophie Cooper, Esteban Duarte & Carlos Candil Chauta
Editing: Sophie Cooper & Craig Wenaweser
Filmed with the “Hijos de Maiz” Mhuysqa Commiunity in Sesquile, Cundimarca, Colombia.

BIO:
Film Director Sophie Cooper is a Bay Area film artist whose work is both a celebration of cultural diversity and a wake up call to address the destruction threatening our communities and our earth. She began filmmaking while working as an activist in post-war Kosovo from 1999-2003. She then attended the world-renowned FAMU Film Academy in Prague, Czech Republic. Here in the U.S., Sophie has partnered with numerous artists and non-profit organizations to develop meaningful film content. In 2011 she completed the documentary UNDIVIDED on immigration and racial justice in alliance with the organization Center for New Community.

Watch the Trailer

Admission: $10-15. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

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Tarimba
2013-11-09 19:30 - 22:00
‘Tarimba’ is believed to be the African root word of ‘tarima’, which is the most important instrument and symbol of the Son Jarocho tradition of Veracruz Mexico.

TARIMBA is a band comprised of local Bay Area musicians who have embraced the traditional genre of Son Jarocho music from southern Veracruz, Mexico. The members of TARIMBA have all been active performers and teachers in the Bay Area music community for over ten years, and they are excited to have the opportunity to embrace, learn, and preserve such a rich musical and communal tradition.

Dolores “Lolis” Garcia – Jarana and Percussion
Kyla Danysh– Violin
Raul Perales – Guitarra Bumburona
Monica Fimbrez– Jarana and Percussion

Admission: $10-15. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

TriBeCaStan
2013-11-08 19:30 - 22:00
Genre-bending Jazz and World Music

Radically multicultural and poly-stylistic to the marrow, TriBeCaStan are one of contemporary music’s most musically diverse and exciting bands.

The New York Times describes TriBeCaStan’s sound as “genre-bending jazz and world-music” and The Washington Post hails them as “an international jazz and folk festival unto itself, fusing Balkan, Middle Eastern, Indian, Latin American, and African musical elements to bold and dazzling effect.” According to The Village Voice they embody “New York cool, explorer energy, and outer space vibes”.

TriBeCaStan’s members have played with everyone from James Brown, Ornette Coleman, and Patti Smith, to Ween, Violent Femmes, and Taj Mahal—and it shows in their exceptional musicianship. Together, the band has found a way to combine an almost unprecedented diversity of styles into a singularly fun & adventurous music that is as much “Downtown New York cool”, as it is legitimately global.

John Kruth – mandolin, banjo, flutes and penny whistles, harmonica, royal benju, and more
Jeff Greene – yalyi tambor, nyckelharpa, mandolin, marimba, ukulele, jawharps, and more
Kenny Margolis – accordion and keyboards
Matt Darriau – clarinet, kaval, sax ,gaida and other assorted folk flutes and winds
Chris Morrow – Trombone and nefar
Ray Peterson – bass
Boris Kinberg – percussion, timbales, congas and such
Roy Blumenfeld – drums

Tribecastan.tv
Facebook.com/Tribecastan

Admission: $15-20. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

The Chamber Players
2013-11-02 19:30 - 22:00
Classical Meets Contemporary: A Cross-Century Performance

Hailing from across North America and Europe, The Chamber Players met on the idyllic coast of Thisted, Denmark through a shared passion for chamber music. Mike Kaufman, Etienne Gara, Tatiana Trono, and Cassandra Bequary have collaborated in the United States and abroad on a range of projects, from solo to orchestral, bringing together both masterworks of the classical music repertoire, and brand new compositions from notable local and international composers.

This program is no exception, highlighting genius late 18thcentury string quartet writing, as well as the innovative sounds of several new solo works.

Cassandra Bequary – violin
Etienne Gara – violin
Tatiana Trono – viola
Mike Kaufman – cello

KaufmanCello.com
EtienneGara.com
TatianaTrono.com
CassandraBequary.com

Admission: $15-20. Doors at 7:00. Show at 7:30.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

Poppy Day
2013-10-31 19:30 - 22:30
Join us for a community gathering. Bring some food, poems, music to share. In addition, we will have a opening for the “Dia De Los Muertos” visual exhibition.

Our Mission: No Eviction!
2013-10-26 20:00 - 23:00
Brava! For Women in the Arts announces:

~Our Mission: No Eviction! A community action to benefit Rene Yañez & Yolanda López~

In solidarity with this important event held at Brava Theater, The Red Poppy Art House has canceled it’s evening programming to support the efforts of this fundraiser and tribute to longtime Mission district residents and artists: Rene Yañez & Yolanda López.

Featuring: Culture Clash, Marga Gomez, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Las Bomberas de la Bahia, Alejandro Murgia, Dr. Loco, Cherrie Moraga, Celia Rodriguez, Maya Chinchilla, Loco Bloco y mas

Art Auction with work by Enrique Chagoya, Ester Hernandez, Dignidad Rebelde, Faviana Rodriguez, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Juan Fuentes, Rio Yañez, Rene Yañez, Yolanda López, Jean Melesaine, Xuxo Perez and special donation from singer songwriter Meklit Hadero.

TICKETS: $10-$35 reserved seating available at www.brava.org, or by phone 415-641-7657

INFORMATION: 415-641-7657 x5; www.brava.org

Join us for an evening of performance, art and tributes to long time San Francisco Mission artists and residents Yolanda López and Rene Yañez. Yolanda and Rene have both been issued Ellis Act Evictions from their home of more than 35 years and are facing serious health issues. This fundraiser will be to raise funds to help cover some of the lawyer expenses, medical expenses and moving expenses. Yolanda and Rene have made huge contributions to the Chicano art world and the uniqueness and beauty that so many of us love about the Mission and San Francisco. Please come out to celebrate these two amazing humans and help them fight this eviction and raise some funds to help them.

Performers include Culture Clash, Marga Gomez, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Las Bomberas de la Bahia, Alejandro Murgia, Dr. Loco, Cherrie Moraga, Celia Rodriguez, Loco Bloco, Maya Chinchilla y mas. In addition, a Silent Art Auction will be held with works by Enrique Chagoya, Ester Hernandez, Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Rio Yañez, Rene Yañez, Yolanda López, Xuxo Perez, Jos Sances, Jean Melesaine, Alexa Treviño, Art Hazelwood, Patrick Piazza, Robbin Henderson and many more! There will also be a raffle of items donated by local businesses and friends including a private set donated by Bay Area singing sensation, Meklit Hadero.

ABOUT RENÉ YAÑEZ

René Yañez is a widely recognized artist, curator and producer who has been a strong role model and vital cultural force in the San Francisco arts community. As a curator and mentor, Yañez has galvanized a large community of Latino and Chicano artists and their allies from all communities. The list of artists he supported at early stages of their careers reads like a who’s who of internationally-recognized Latino artists, including Rupert García, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Ester Hernández, Yolanda López, Carmen Lomas-Garza, Enrique Chagoya, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Gronk, and ASCO. Active as both a visual and performance arts curator and artist, Yáñez co-founded the successful Chicano performance trio Culture Clash. He has curated numerous exhibitions including Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge, an art exhibit featuring works by Chicano artists from around the United States that toured the US for five years. A founder and former Artistic Director of Galeria de la Raza, Yañez was one of the first curators to introduce the contemporary concept of Mexico’s Day of the Dead to the United States with Rooms for the Dead and Labyrinth for the Dead at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Since the early 1970s, René Yañez’s Day of the Dead celebrations, with co-director Ralph Maradiaga, were marked by increasingly large exhibitions, ceremonies, processions, and school-based activities and quickly spread beyond the Mission District, encompassing various communities in the Bay Area, California, the American Southwest and Mexico. Throughout his decades of work in the arts, René has remained a stalwart supporter of grass-roots organizations and community artists, collaborating with organizations such as SomArts, Oakland Museum of California, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Kearny Street Workshop, Mission Cultural Center and the San Francisco Arts Commission. In 1998, he received the “Special Trustees Award in Cultural Leadership” from the San Francisco Foundation for his long-standing contribution to the cultural life of the Bay Area. He is currently Director of Special Projects for SOMArts Cultural Center.

ABOUT YOLANDA LÓPEZ

Yolanda M. López is a celebrated painter, printmaker, educator and film producer. López obtained international celebrity for her ground-breaking Virgen de Guadalupe series of drawings, prints, collage, assemblage, and paintings. The series, which depicted “ordinary” Mexican women (including her grandmother and López herself) with Guadalupan attributes (usually the mandorla). The works attracted praise for “sanctifying” average Mexican women, who were depicted performing domestic and other labor. She continued her artistic investigation of women’s labor issues with a series of prints called Woman’s Work is Never Done, one of which, “The Nanny”, attempted to study some problems faced by immigrant women of Hispanic descent in the United States. Her famous political poster titled Who’s the Illegal Alien, Pilgrim? features an angry young man in an Aztec headdress and traditional jewelry holding a crumpled-up paper titled “Immigration Plans.” López has also curated exhibitions, including “Cactus Hearts/Barb Wired Dreams”, which featured works of art concerning immigration to the United States. The exhibition debuted at the Galería de la Raza and subsequently toured nationwide as part of an exhibition called “La Frontera/The Border: Art About the Mexico/United States Border Experience”. López has produced two films, Images of Mexicans in the Media and When you Think of Mexico, which challenge the way the mass media depicts Mexicans and other Latin Americans.

She has taught art in studios and universities, including UCSD and the University of California, Berkeley. The Yolanda M. López papers, housed in the library at UC Santa Barbara, is a collection of her personal and professional writings from 1961-1998.

BRAVA! FOR WOMEN IN THE ARTS

Brava! For Women in the Arts celebrates its 27th year as a professional arts organization dedicated to cultivating the artistic expression of women, youth, LGBT, people of color and other unheard voices through the ownership and operation of Brava Theater Center. BRAVA’s producing history includes award-winning premieres by Diana Son, Eve Ensler, Debbie Swisher, Reno, Cherylene Lee, Suzan-Lori Parks, Culture Clash, Joan Holden, Anne Galjour, Elizabeth Summers, Kate Rigg, Dan Guerrero, and Mabou Mines, as well as works by internationally known playwrights like Jesusa Rodriguez and Liliana Felipe of Mexico, Jorge Drexler of Uruguay, and Ojos de Brujo and Ismael Serrano of Spain. BRAVA’s current artistic programming includes traditional and contemporary music festivals, a variety of film festivals, contemporary and experimental theatrical productions, international comedy shows, lectures and professional dance productions – making BRAVA one of the most eclectic and multi-faceted arts venues in the Bay Area. BRAVA’s resident youth programs include the long standing SF Running crew which pairs youth with professional mentors and hands on opportunities for technical theatre training; Cuicacalli Escuela de Danza, traditional and contemporary dance training for youth, Famooly Productions Salsa Band workshops and Loco Bloco dance and drum ensemble. Brava is committed to providing affordable space for artistic development and presentation and quality professional arts training for underserved youth in the San Francisco community.

Friends of Buena Trova Social Club
2013-10-25 20:00 - 22:00
Noche de Trova y Música Folklórica Latinoamerica with Special Guest: José Roberto Hernández

Friends of Buena Trova Social Club is a multi-cultural Bay Area band whose share a passion for world art and culture through music. Friends of BTSC sing unique interpretations of covers and original compositions with Latin, Caribbean and contemporary sabor! Well crafted harmonies, wind, percussive and acoustic instrumentation propel their songs which are inspired by traditional latin folk music and music for social justice.

José Roberto Hernández – guitar, lead voice
Madeleine Zayas – lead voice, maracas, güiro
Feña Andrés – quatro, tiple, congas, coro
Ruthie Dineen – piano, flute, coro
Lali Mejía – percussion, coco

Facebook.com/buenatrovasocialclub
m.joserobertomusic.com

http://ruthiedineen.com/
Admission: $15-20. Door at 7:30 Show at 8:00.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

LOVE is a short poem
2013-10-20 18:00 - 21:00
Come and enjoy a night of short LOVE poems and performances with specialists and experienced artists in the matter of love and other crisis.

Poets: Jack Hirschman, Nina Serrano, Jennifer Barone, Adrian Arias, and direct from Argentina Teresa Palazzo Conti & Salomé Audisio releasing their new book “A Woman’s Plea”, under the local new publishing house “Mariposa Blanca” SF-Oakland.

Performers: Mamacoatl & La Tania

With the admission you will get a taste of Peruvian Ceviche.

Admission: $5-10. Door at 6:00 Show at 6:33.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

Litcrawl
2013-10-19 20:30 - 21:30
Litquake 2013 will present more than 800 authors and journalists in more than 160 events over 9 days, culminating with with the closing event, Lit Crawl on Saturday, October 19th. Spread over three hours, the LitCrawl hosts live readings of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and more in bookstores, bars, art galleries, restaurants, stores, cafés, laundromats, community spaces… even a police station and beekeeping supply store. More at: litcrawl.org

The Red Poppy will celebrate the literary and visual arts magazine the, Catamaran Literary Reader, in its first year in print with readings by Bay Area contributors in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Featuring Chana Bloch, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Wallace J. Nichols, Judith Serin, and Alfredo Vea. All Lit Crawl readings are free and open to the public (although some venues are 21 and over). Please consider donating (yes, even $1 helps) to Litquake to help support our festival for years to come.

Tito Gonzales y su Quinteto
2013-10-18 19:30 - 22:00
Tito will be playing all of the famous rhythms that has made Cuban music popular…Rumba, Guaracha, Son and of cause romantic boleros. Tito’s plays high energy authentic Cuban music.

Tito Gonzalez – Lead singer, tres guitar and minor percussion
David Frazier – Congas
Tony Garcia – Bass
Rubin Hurtado – Piano
Miguel Martinez – Flute

Admission: $15-20. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

Experimental Thursday: Reclaiming Bruj@s
2013-10-17 19:00 - 21:00
Storytelling, Workshop, and Ancestral Tradiciones

Local healers and spoken word artists come together to share their “brujerias.” The suggested donation will include medicinal herbs to take home.

Persian Starr aka Shirzad Sharif
2013-10-12 19:30 - 22:00
An evening of Classical Royal Court Music with Persian Starr

Shirzad Sharif (Persian Starr) is the inventor of a custom built Persian-Electric Acoustic instrument & creator of many Middle Eastern cross genre musical projects ranging from World Music collaborations, Avant Garde Persian Music, Persian Electronica, Persian Gothik & other forms of Persian Music.

Shirzad Sharif will be performing on his custom built lute which is a hybrid combination of four Persian instruments, The Tar (Chief Persian Stringed Instrument), The Setar (4 stringed lute), The Oud (Barbat) & The Tanbur. PersianStarr.com

Admission: $15-20. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.

Colm Ó Riain
2013-10-11 19:30 - 22:00
Irish Fission
Irish-born violinist and former Red Poppy Resident Artist, Colm Ó Riain and some highly select friends mix the music of Ireland with rhythms and melodies from all over the musical world – jazz, blues, Roma (gipsy), India, Cuba, Brazil and many more.

An accomplished and fiery improviser in many genres, Colm has performed in festivals and venues throughout the world—from Argentina and Brazil to Sweden and Vietnam — while also thrilling audiences at festivals and venues across the United States. His CD “Bridge Across the Blue”, produced with partner-in-crime, poet Pireeni Sundaralingam, features a dazzling array of musicians and poets and was cited by About.com as “one of the Top 7 recordings of poetry and music of all time.

Colm Ó Riain – violin
Geoff van Lienden – guitar
Joe Kyle – Jnr bass
Wade Peterson – djembe, cajon, congas

“Genius fiddler” – Mike Scott, The Waterboys

Admission: $15-20. Doors at 7:00 Show at 7:30.

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.
