The MAPP is a homegrown, intercultural, multidisciplinary neighborhood event that takes place the first Saturday every two months in the Mission District. This months's MAPP features more than 15 venues—garages, cafés,  studios, gardens, street corners—which artists transform into makeshift venues for the intimate experience of people and culture. Endeavoring to bridge the cultural divides of our […]

  Red Reels presents: Montaje: Caso Bombas, a Spanish-language documentary about the political environment in Chile.   "Montaje: Caso Bombas"   Muchos estados y gobiernos, amparados en la impunidad que les otorga el ejercicio del poder, han recurrido a los montajes como arma política para desacreditar, invalidar y encarcelar a sus detractores. Pero, ¿qué es un montaje […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

  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.  

  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. […]

  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, […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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.

  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, […]

    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, […]

  '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 […]

    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 […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

    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 […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

  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 […]