Red Poppy Art House

New Threads: The Return
2024-08-09 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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New Threads: The Return
New Threads Reading Series 2024
Two people meet in an auto-body shop in the mid-sized city of Herzliya. They might or might not have known each other in the past. One of them is Palestinian, and one of them is Israeli-Jewish. By the end of the play, both of their lives will be changed forever by the realities that surround them.
The authors have stated “The Return is not a documentary. There are no checkpoints or tanks onstage. The play is a personal closeup of what happens underneath the headlines, every day for decade after decade, even when bombs are not falling to catch the world’s attention.” (Duration: 75-minute, no intermission)
The reading includes a post-show conversation with the audience and the artists.
FREE admission. Pre-registration is highly encouraged as space is limited.
Written by Hanna Eady and Edward Mast
Directed by Hanna Eady
Performed by Wiley Naman Strasser* and Elissa Beth Stebbins*

Friday, August 9, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm show
Admission: FREE
*Member, Actors Equity

ABOUT THE NEW THREADS READING SERIES:
New Threads is Golden Thread’s annual staged reading series that engages its audience in the process of playmaking and allows writers of Middle Eastern and non-Middle Eastern descent an authentic and supportive space to develop work about the Middle East. Since its launch in 2011, many New Threads plays and playwrights have continued to receive mainstage productions. The 2024 New Threads Staged Reading Series will feature the work of international Palestinian playwrights.

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Friday, August 9, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm show
Admission: FREE
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(FREE) The Family Art Program (Arte entre familia)
2024-08-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
The Family Art Program
Arte entre familia

The Family Art Program at The Red Poppy Art House brings free access to quality art activities to neighboring families in the Mission district of San Francisco.

It is a safe and creative space for children, youth, and parents to explore art.

All ages are welcome and the program is bilingual.
This event is free to the public.

Please join us!

Saturday, August 10th, 2024
Time: 12:00-1:30 pm

Admission: FREE

MEET THE INSTRUCTOR:

Sofia Elias (she/her/ella)

Sofia is a passionate educator and holistic community builder. She has been working with families in the Mission community since 2013. She is a Psychology graduate from SFSU, an artist/musician, and a holistic community organizer. She has always been an advocate for using art as a healing and transformative tool to support communities. She has worked as a bilingual early childhood/youth educator for over 5 years using play-based and child-guided teaching as a way to promote social-emotional learning and development. In her free time, she plays music, spends time at the Jardin Secreto tending to plantitas, and supports birthers in postpartum care ceremonies. Sofia is a bilingual radical musician, ready to share art with all of the community!

The Family Art Program
(Arte entre familia)
The Family Art program or Arte entre Familia has been bringing free quality art programming to families in the Mission district for over 10 years. The program engages the Red Poppy Art House’s surrounding neighborhood, contributing to its vibrancy by offering free programming to the public one Saturday of the month from 12:00-1:30 p.m. at 2698 Folsom.

An outdoor open forum, Family Art uses the exterior south wall of the Poppy and its wide adjacent sidewalk, where volunteers bring out an array of art supplies and organize a different activity for participants each week.

The art and community facilitator creates a safe and creative space for families of all backgrounds to participate in open-ended art projects. Art projects happen either indoors or outside on the sidewalk as a way to engage with neighborhood families. Family Art invites all families with children 0-5, youth, and adults to participate in community art exploration.

https://redpoppyarthouse.org/programs/family-art/

EVENT DETAILS

Saturday, August 10th, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Admission: FREE
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Scott Amendola, Michael Manring, and Karl Evangelista Trio
2024-08-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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Scott Amendola, Michael Manring, and Karl Evangelista Trio
A night of compositions, improvisations, and sonic explorations.
Featuring songs by each of the artists, along with some free improvisation.
Featuring:
Scott Amendola – drums/percussion/electronics
Michael Manring – electric bass
Karl Evangelista – electric guitar

Saturday, August 10, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $20 – $25 (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Michael Manring has probably the most unique approach to the electric bass in history. Known more for his work as a solo artist, Manring has pushed the electric bass way beyond and is hailed around the globe for his masterful playing. He is also known for genre-bending, and the scope of his musical abilities is vast and wide.
Karl Evangelista ranks among a new wave of musicians pushing the traditions of jazz and experimental rock into the 21st century. Hailed by Signal to Noise magazine as “one of the most original instrumentalists and composers of his generation,” Evangelista’s music explores multicultural concepts with sonic intensity and political fervor.
Jazz is an art form defined by surprise and uncertainty, but one safe bet is that Scott Amendola’s presence on the bandstand means that something interesting is about to go down. The Berkeley drummer has provided a turbo-charged flow of creativity for the Bay Area music scene since the mid-1990s both as a ubiquitous sideman (Nels Cline, Charlie Hunter, Laurie Anderson, etc. ), and a bandleader with a knack for composing thrilling anthems.
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EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $20 – $25 (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior
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Alejandro Brittes
2024-08-16 19:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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Alejandro Brittes
Music from the borderlands of southern South America
Hailed by The Boston Globe as a “premier exponent of Chamamé”, Brazil-based Argentine composer, accordionist, and researcher Alejandro Brittes explores his chamamé heritage, an ancestral rhythm connecting us with the Earth and the Universe through music and dance, which was born of the encounter between the ritual musicality and cosmovision of the Indigenous Guaraní and Baroque music within the context of the Jesuit missions in a cultural microregion encompassing Argentina, central and southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay which extends through the watersheds and fresh water sources in these nations, as described in Brittes´ book A Origem do Chamamé. Chamamé is declared as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
Featuring:
Alejandro Brittes – González System Accordion
André Ely – Seven-Stringed Brazilian Guitar
Carlos de Césaro – Bass

Friday, August 16th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25 – $30 (Door) $30 general, $25 student & senior

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Following the success of his 2023. East Coast tour – being featured at Library of Congress – Alejandro Brittes returns in 2024, this time to the West. Alejandro Brittes trio is composed of André Ely on the 7-stringed guitar, Carlos de Césaro on bass, and Brittes on accordion.
Alejandro Brittes will be featured at venues such as: San José Jazz Festival (CA), Music In Corrales (NM), Tucson Meet Yourself (AZ), Stanford Live (CA), Cotati Accordion Festival (CA), etc. This tour is a bridge and exchange between the rich multicultural heritage of California and the Southwest and that of southern South America.

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EVENT DETAILS
Friday, August 16th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25 – $30 (Door) $30 general, $25 student & senior
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Avalos Solera Duo
2024-09-14 19:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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Avalos Solera Duo
Tango Meets Classical
The Avalos Solera duo will present the album, Bach en Bandoneón, which consists of selected works from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. They will also perform their own arrangements of classic tangos to show the intersections between baroque music and tango.
Featuring:
Heyni Solera – bandoneon
Rodrigo Avalos – bandoneon

Saturday, September 14th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $20 – $25 / (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
The Avalos Solera duo is an ensemble that is always looking for new sounds and musical propositions. The duo emerged virtually over the pandemic, where they began to develop and conceive their first album, Bach en Bandoneón. This concept became a reality in December 2021, when it was recorded over a weekend in the Iglesia de la Congregación Evangélica Alemana de Buenos Aires in Argentina. They have performed in Buenos Aires and throughout the United States, playing in important venues such as the Auditorium of the National University of the Arts, Cafe Vinilo, and Columbia University.
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EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, September 14th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $20 – $25 / (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior
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Women's Work in Troubled Times
2024-09-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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Women’s Work in Troubled Times
A Celebration of SWANA Artists New Work
A co-production with Red Poppy Art House and Aviva Arts.
Join us on September 15th for an inspiring lineup of live music, songs, poetry rants, and reflections of works in progress performance by Southwest Asian North African (SWANA) theater-makers emceed by Mama Ganuush, Palestinian Drag Artist and Social Justice Activist.
This eclectic evening features nationally recognized artists including Amal Bisharat, Golden Thread’s artist-in-residence, Manaar Azreik of Holistic Solutions, Andrea Assaf of Art2Action, Debórah Eliezer of Aviva Arts, Zina Pozen, and surprise guests.
This event is also offered in conjunction with Art2Action’s 11 Reflections: San Francisco project. Come for a special Sneak Peak at 11 Reflections in development!
Women’s Work in Troubled Times offers soul-inspiring songs, an excerpt from a new Palestinian musical, Arab Jewish spoken word and so much more!
Featuring:
Andrea Assaf
Manaar Azreik
Amal Bisharat
Sophia Alawi
Debórah Eliezer
Lena Sibony
Zina Pozen

Sunday, September 15th, 2024
Time: 2:45 pm doors, 3:00 pm show
Admission: Free

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
The Aviva Arts mission is to promote growth and transformation through liberatory arts modalities. We center intersectional narratives that champion our relationship to ourselves, each other and the natural world.
https://www.avivaarts.org/womens-work
Andrea Assaf

Andrea Assaf is a poet, essayist, and widely-produced playwright, director, performer, and cultural organizer. She’s the founding Artistic and Executive Director of Art2Action Inc., and the National Coordinator of the National Institute for Directing & Ensemble Creation (an Art2Action collaboration with Pangea World Theater). She is currently an Artist-in-Residence and guest faculty at the School of Theatre & Dance, University of South Florida (Tampa). Andrea has served as a consultant with Equity Quotient (EQ), Alternate ROOTS, the Arts & Democracy Project, and more. She is a former Artistic Director of New WORLD Theater (2004-09), and former Program Associate for Animating Democracy (2001-04). Andrea has a Masters degree in Performance Studies and a BFA in acting, both from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She currently serves on the Board of CAATA (Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists), and is a voting board member of Alternate ROOTS. She served on the International Management Committee of WPI (Women Playwrights International, 2012-15), and is a member of RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers).

Manaar Azreik

Manaar Azreik is a non-binary person who was born in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva to Palestinian, Christian Arab parents. Manaar grew up bilingual in Arabic and Hebrew and first learned English in a Bedouin elementary school. She became the seven-time national Israeli Judo champion and has had a lifelong journey to reconcile her identities and heritage as a modern Israeli and accept herself as a transgender person. She is a soul-centered transformation mentor, leading humanity to a true realization of the divine self through expressive arts including movement, sacred music, and soul dancing. Her recent invention is named Transformation by Fire, an organization that offers Healing and Recovery services in natural disaster areas. She is the CEO of Wholistic Solutions and the author of The Practice Of Trust Book.

Amal Bisharat (she/her)

Amal Bisharat (she/her) is a Palestinian American multidisciplinary artist: a theatre director, theatre maker, producer, actor, musician, and photographer. Bisharat holds a BA in Music and Theater from Minnesota State University-Moorhead and for 12 years worked as a director and music director in partnership with San Francisco Unified School District. Bisharat is a grateful recipient of the Theater Bay Area Arts Leadership Residency Grant (2022-2023), Theater Bay Area CA$H Creates Grant (2022), and San Francisco Arts Commission Artist Grant (2023). Currently, she works with Golden Thread Productions, recently co-producing and directing for their signature program ReOrient Festival of Short Plays (2023), and directing an online reading of The Gaza Monologues by Ashtar Theater (2023). Bisharat is also in the process of creating her first musical, “Mornings in Jenin Musical”, a Palestinian refugee story adapted from the internationally best-selling novel by the same name by Susan Abulhawa. After many years of hiatus from acting, Bisharat is thrilled to be returning to her roots this year to play the role of Safiyya in Golden Thread’s production of Returning to Haifa (2024) by Ghassan Kanafani, adapted for the stage by Naomi Wallace and Ismail Khalidi. She is a board member of MENATMA (Middle East North African Theater Makers Alliance) and also serves on the Community Council for Golden Thread’s 2024 Season for Palestine. Bisharat is also a photographer with her own arts-focused photography company, capturing the magic of professional dance, theater, and music performances for groups like Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Sarah Bush Dance Project, and Alonzo King Lines Ballet. Bisharat believes in the transformative power of art and storytelling whether on a stage, in a photograph, or in the stories we tell ourselves.

Sophia Alawi

Sophia Alawi is a first-generation Muslim Moroccan/Italian American actress, singer, songwriter & writer. She has a BFA in Musical Theater from Rider University. She also studied at T’Schreiber, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and The Barrow Group in New York. She’s so excited to be a part of this new musical that uplifts unrepresented Palestinian voices. She won the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award for Best Featured Actress – Musical in 2019 for Groundhog Day The Musical and was named one of “Five Standout Performances” in 2019 by the Houston Chronicle for the role of Wendla in Spring Awakening. Regional credits include Sound of Music(Hillbarn Theater) She Loves Me, Merrily We Roll Along & Fun Home (42nd St Moon), As You Like It, Twelfth Night and Groundhog Day The Musical (San Francisco Playhouse), Spring Awakening (Theater Under the Stars), and In the Heights (Playhouse on Park). New York credits include Fat Kid Rules the World, and Emerson Loses Her Mind. TV credits include Law & OrderSVU.

Debórah Eliezer (she/her)

Debórah Eliezer (she/her) is a mixed-identity Arab-Jewish artist, activist, coach, and California fire survivor. Passionate about the power of human transformation, her work focuses on disrupting assumptions about art, human values, the environment, and society. She is the Artistic Director of Aviva Arts, an Associate Artist with Golden Thread, a Mitsui Collective Somatic Jewish Leader Fellow, (Kollel3,) artEquity arts facilitator alumna, and proudly serves on the inaugural MENATMA board. Eliezer has devised numerous world premieres and toured internationally, including writing and performing (dis)Place[d], about Iraqi Jews. As the former foolsFURY Co-Artistic Director, she produced the FURY Factory Festival of Ensemble Theater in SF for 13 years and BUILD digital convenings. Eliezer holds a B.A. Cum Laude in Drama Cum Laude from SFSU, and is a certified Sound, Voice Music Healing practitioner from CIIS, and a certified Kaula Tantra Yoga instructor.
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Zina Pozen

Originally from Ukraine, Zina Pozen grew up in a family of classical musicians, playing piano from a young age. In her house, salty Yiddish sayings, contraband Barry Sisters, Stravinsky and Poulenc, traditional Ukrainian and Moldovan tunes, Utyosov and Dunaevsky weaved their sounds together. After moving to the U.S., Zina fell under the spell of the Eastern European Folklife Center Balkan Music Camps and picked up the accordion to play traditional music. Zina plays klezmer, Moldovan, Ukrainian, Turkish, Armenian, Greek rebetiko, and other styles.
She was a founding member of Seattle’s infamous (and famously fun) Bucharest Drinking Team. In the Bay Area, she plays with Saul Goodman Klezmer Band, Orchestra Euphonos, Metanastys, Yeraz Ensemble, Cabin 19, Moonshine Jelly, Jonnie Pekelny, and friends, and sits in with Balkan Sunday jams.
Outside of music, Zina is a language technologist, training robots to help humans learn human languages.

EVENT DETAILS
Sunday, September 15th, 2024
Time: 2:45 pm doors, 3:00 pm show
Admission: Free
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SKY + : Will Bernard/Beth Custer with Ellen Gronningen
2024-09-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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SKY + : Will Bernard/Beth Custer with Ellen Gronningen
Original Chamber Jazz Trio
Guitarist Will Bernard, clarinetist/singer Beth Custer and violinist Ellen Gronningen perform music from their release ‘SKY’. Original compositions by Bernard & Custer and a few choice cover tunes.
Featuring:
Will Bernard – Guitar
Beth Custer – Clarinets/Voice
Ellen Gronningen – Violin

Friday, September 20th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25 – $30 / (Door) $30 general, $25 student & senior

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Guitarist Will Bernard and clarinetist/singer Beth Custer have forged a remarkable musical partnership that spans decades and is reflected in their release ‘SKY’. From the wistful ‘Bear in Shamanic Transformation’ to the deep and doleful ‘The Curve’, from the Chopin-esque ‘Sweeping Staircase’ to the raunchy ‘Not Necessarily Stoned, ‘SKY’ features diverse compositional styles and a mastery of instruments. Oakland Symphony’s Ellen Gronningen joins.
https://bethcuster.com/ensembles/will-bernard-beth-custer
https://willbernard.bandcamp.com/album/sky

EVENT DETAILS
Friday, September 20th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25 – $30 / (Door) $30 general, $25 student & senior
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Opening of Exhibition: Corazones / Hearts by Adrian Arias
2024-10-03 18:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
CORAZONES/Hearts
by Adrian Arias
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
(Donation is encouraged)
Join us in celebrating the opening of “CORAZONES/Hearts” by Adrian Arias and music by Lalin St Juste.
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
Time: 6:30 pm
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom @23rd

6:30 pm – Opening
7:00 pm – Ceviche by Adrian Arias
7:30 pm – Music by Lalin St Juste
8:00 pm – Adrian’s performance and audience participation

Opening of Exhibition: Corazones / Hearts by Adrian Arias

This exhibition by Adrian Arias explores the symbolic meaning and form of the Heart, navigating themes of passion and heartbreak, both socially and personally. The heart is depicted as a dream, a labyrinth, and a space for connection and separation, delving into the pain and hope tied to the organ that continuously beats like music within us.
As part of his emotional exploration of the heart, Adrian will prepare ceviche, a dish tied to his childhood and now a signature performance in his art. Additionally, we’ll feature music by Lalin St. Juste, a Haitian-American singer, songwriter, and producer whose work delves into themes of identity, cultural heritage, and the transformative power of rewriting stories.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Adrian Arias (American born in Mochica Land in Peru)
Curator/Live Painting/visual poetry
Adrian Arias is an international multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of visual arts, poetry, performance, and social justice. A descendant of the Mochica culture of ancient Peru, he embraces his culture’s use of dreams as a transformative catalyst between reality and imagination. Arias has created large-scale murals for public and private businesses such as Google and a three-story mural at the corner of Turk and Hyde in San Francisco, commissioned by the Luggage Store. He has recently created murals for Magic Theater, Freight & Salvage and Red Poppy Art House. Is the co-founder of Mission Arts Performance Project MAPP.

Lalin St Juste
Healing music
Lalin St Juste has been a staple in the Bay Area music scene for a decade with her genre-bending band The Seshen. In 2021 Lalin officially launched her solo career with the release of her debut EP entitled ‘behind my eyes’ via 7000COILS, a label and art house she co-founded with Dan X (KKINGBOO) that is committed to elevating the queer voices of the African and Caribbean diaspora through the creation of digital and live portals and sacred play through a wellness lens.
Lalin returns in 2022 with the first of a two-part EP series, the first entitled Vertulie; a powerful homage to her ancestors and Haitian spirituality. Thanks to funding from the Gerbode Foundation, Lalin St Juste collaborated with Women’s Audio Mission, an organization established to support women and nonbinary creatives in the music industry, to record, engineer, mix and master Vertulie.
Named after Lalin’s maternal grandmother, Vertulie is both a love letter and sonic healing balm. The EP starts with Psalms 91, a prayer about protection recited in French by Lalin’s devout Christian mother, Louise St Juste. It is then followed by a swell of Haitian drums and a Vodou song dedicated to the lwa of initiation – Ayizan Vele Kete. In creating this juxtaposition, Lalin is healing the ways in which white supremacist religion has impacted her family; the blatant denouncement of Vodou for the sake of Christianity and the internalized assimilation and xenophobia around the Haitian language. The EP then moves to Roll Call, a calling forth of the ancestors on Lalin’s maternal side, the first being Dame Vertulie Valbrun, Lalin’s maternal grandmother. Wild Winds speaks to ancestral guidance and the inherent trust on the path of what is unknown

EVENT DETAILS
Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
Time: 6:30 pm
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October 5th MAPP
2024-10-05 19:00 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
October 5th MAPP: ART to the power of LOVE
Curated by multidisciplinary artist Adrian Arias

October 5th MAPP: ART to the power of LOVE
ART to the power of LOVE
“ART to the Power of LOVE” suggests a deep connection between art and love, where art acts as a vehicle to convey emotions and love enriches the artistic experience. Through various forms of art—painting, music, dance, or literature—the essence of love can be captured, from passion to pain. Furthermore, love inspires artists to explore universal themes that connect people, transforming both the creator and the viewer. In short, it invites us to reflect on how love empowers creativity and how art deepens our understanding of love in all its manifestations.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom @23rd
Curator: Adrian Arias, Multidisciplinary Artist
7:07 pm – Introductory words by Dina Zarif & Adrian Arias
7:17 – 7:47 pm – Astrid Kusic & Mat Muntz, Intimate-immersive South/Eastern European soundscapes
7:50 – 8:20 pm – Bryan Dyer, Multi-instrumentalist vocalist
8:25 – 8:35 pm – Chun Yu, Spiritual multimedia poetry
8:41 – 9:11 pm – Monica Maria Fimbrez, California music roots mixed with traditional
9:17 – 9:55 pm – LoCura trio, gathering sounds & stories with cajón, guitar & voice
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
MAPP (Mission Arts & Performance Project)
Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural event that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces, such as private garages, gardens, living rooms, studios, street corners, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities. Due to COVID-19, we had 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 were pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continued to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We are glad that the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue have finally arrived 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 Impact Project Grant.
We will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.
RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:
Artistic Director | Managing Director: Dina Zarif
PR and Digital Marketing: Anjali Varma
MAPP OCTOBER 5TH, 2024 PROGRAM

Time

Performance/Event
Description
Artists

Visual Art: Adrian Arias live painting

7:07 pm
Introductory Remarks
Introductory Remarks

Dina Zarif
Adrian Arias

7:17 – 7:47 pm
Astrid Kusic & Mat Muntz
Intimate-immersive South/Eastern European soundscapes
Astrid Kusic
Mat Muntz

7:50 – 8:20 pm
Bryan Dyer
Multi-instrumentalist singer
Bryan Dyer

8:25 – 8:35 pm
Chun Yu
Spiritual multimedia poetry
Chun Yu

8:41 – 9:11 pm
Monica Maria Fimbrez
California music roots mixed with traditional
Monica Maria Fimbrez

9:17 – 9:55 pm
LoCura trio
Gathering sounds & stories with cajón, guitar & voice
Kata Miletich – voice
Melissa Cruz – cajón
Bob Sanders – guitar

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Adrian Arias
Curator/Live Painting
Adrian Arias is an international multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of visual arts, poetry, performance, and social justice. A descendant of the Mochica culture of ancient Peru, he embraces his culture’s use of dreams as a transformative catalyst between reality and imagination. Arias has created large-scale murals for public and private businesses such as Google and a three-story mural at the corner of Turk and Hyde in San Francisco, commissioned by the Luggage Store. He has recently created murals for Magic Theater, Freight & Salvage, and Red Poppy Art House. Is the co-founder of Mission Arts Performance Project MAPP.

Astrid Kusic & Mat Muntz

Intimate-immersive South/Eastern European soundscapes

Vocalist Astrid Kuljanic and bassist Mat Muntz are a collaborative duo specializing in intimate and immersive soundscapes. Their sets trace uncanny constellations through jazz, South/Eastern European folk, original compositions, and improvisations. Most recently, the duo was awarded a Performance Plus grant from Chamber Music America to produce an electro-acoustic ballad album.

Bryan Dyer
Multi-instrumentalist vocalist
Bryan S. Dyer is a versatile musician who sings, plays, and teaches instruments like bass guitar, percussion, and piano. He writes, arranges, conducts, and works in TV, radio, and film. A veteran of top Bay Area vocal groups, he also performs with various ensembles including The Funk Revival Orchestra and Crosspulse. His music career has taken him globally, with performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center. Dyer has collaborated with artists like Al Green, Carlos Santana, and Michael McDonald, and is a voting member of The Recording Academy.

Chun Yu
Spiritual multimedia poetry
Chun Yu, Ph.D., is an award-winning bilingual poet, multimedia artist, graphic novelist, and scientist. Born in China, she holds degrees from Peking University and Rutgers, and began writing poetry during her postdoctoral work at Harvard-MIT. A 2023 San Francisco Library Laureate and YBCA 100 honoree, she blends science, art, and spirituality in her work. Her poetry has be published by Orion, Arion Press, Poetry Northwest, Xinhua Daily, and more.

Monica Maria
California music roots mixed with traditional
Mónica María’s music reflects her Californian roots mixed with traditional, earthly, and contemporary sounds of Latin America. A vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, her songs are innovative and expressive of a world where cultures coexist, where fear is transformed by compassion, where we learn to truly love ourselves, and where we view the world from an empathetic and holistic state of mind.

LoCura
Gathering sounds & stories with cajón, guitar & voice
LoCura trio with Kata Miletich, Melissa Cruz, and Bob Sanders, is an acoustic reflection of their 7-piece band which has been gathering sounds & stories for over 17 years. Music to inspire, heal & connect. In the belly of the beast, we will feed from our hearts.

EXHIBITION: Corazones / Hearts by Adrian Arias

This exhibition by Adrian Arias explores the symbolic meaning and form of the Heart, navigating themes of passion and heartbreak, both socially and personally. The heart is depicted as a dream, a labyrinth, and a space for connection and separation, delving into the pain and hope tied to the organ that continuously beats like music within us.

OPENING ON OCTOBER 3RD:

As part of his emotional exploration of the heart, Adrian will prepare ceviche, a dish tied to his childhood and now a signature performance in his art. Additionally, we’ll feature music by Lalin St. Juste, a Haitian-American singer, songwriter, and producer whose work delves into themes of identity, cultural heritage, and the transformative power of rewriting stories.

MAPP GENERAL PROGRAM

IN PERSON EVENT DETAILS
Time: October 5th, 2024, 7:00pm- 10pm (IN-PERSON)
Admission: Free!

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11Reflections: San Francisco | Wrap Party & Tea Salon
2024-10-06 12:00 - 15:00 | CA
Advance registrations are available online. It is advised to register for this event.

11Reflections: San Francisco | Wrap Party & Tea Salon
Join us for this FREE event to socialize, celebrate and tell your own stories in a fun, low-key atmosphere.
Looking for more connection and small-group interaction after the show?
Join us for this FREE event to socialize, celebrate and tell your own stories in a fun, low-key atmosphere. Complementary food and tea will be served.
Open to the public and space is limited. Registration is strongly suggested.
Produced by Aviva Arts and Red Poppy Art House in collaboration with Golden Thread, Art2Action, and Brava Center for Women.
Sunday, October 6th, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 3:00 pm
Admission: FREE with registration

Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110
More info:
https://goldenthread.org/productions/11-reflections-san-francisco/

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Andrea Assaf

Andrea Assaf is a poet, essayist, and widely-produced playwright, director, performer, and cultural organizer. She’s the founding Artistic and Executive Director of Art2Action Inc., and the National Coordinator of the National Institute for Directing & Ensemble Creation (an Art2Action collaboration with Pangea World Theater). She is currently an Artist-in-Residence and guest faculty at the School of Theatre & Dance, University of South Florida (Tampa). Andrea has served as a consultant with Equity Quotient (EQ), Alternate ROOTS, the Arts & Democracy Project, and more. She is a former Artistic Director of New WORLD Theater (2004-09), and former Program Associate for Animating Democracy (2001-04). Andrea has a Masters degree in Performance Studies and a BFA in acting, both from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She currently serves on the Board of CAATA (Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists), and is a voting board member of Alternate ROOTS. She served on the International Management Committee of WPI (Women Playwrights International, 2012-15), and is a member of RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers).

Amal Bisharat (she/her)

Amal Bisharat (she/her) is a Palestinian American multidisciplinary artist: a theatre director, theatre maker, producer, actor, musician, and photographer. Bisharat holds a BA in Music and Theater from Minnesota State University-Moorhead and for 12 years worked as a director and music director in partnership with San Francisco Unified School District. Bisharat is a grateful recipient of the Theater Bay Area Arts Leadership Residency Grant (2022-2023), Theater Bay Area CA$H Creates Grant (2022), and San Francisco Arts Commission Artist Grant (2023). Currently, she works with Golden Thread Productions, recently co-producing and directing for their signature program ReOrient Festival of Short Plays (2023), and directing an online reading of The Gaza Monologues by Ashtar Theater (2023). Bisharat is also in the process of creating her first musical, “Mornings in Jenin Musical”, a Palestinian refugee story adapted from the internationally best-selling novel by the same name by Susan Abulhawa. After many years of hiatus from acting, Bisharat is thrilled to be returning to her roots this year to play the role of Safiyya in Golden Thread’s production of Returning to Haifa (2024) by Ghassan Kanafani, adapted for the stage by Naomi Wallace and Ismail Khalidi. She is a board member of MENATMA (Middle East North African Theater Makers Alliance) and also serves on the Community Council for Golden Thread’s 2024 Season for Palestine. Bisharat is also a photographer with her own arts-focused photography company, capturing the magic of professional dance, theater, and music performances for groups like Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Sarah Bush Dance Project, and Alonzo King Lines Ballet. Bisharat believes in the transformative power of art and storytelling whether on a stage, in a photograph, or in the stories we tell ourselves.

Sophia Alawi

Sophia Alawi is a first-generation Muslim Moroccan/Italian American actress, singer, songwriter & writer. She has a BFA in Musical Theater from Rider University. She also studied at T’Schreiber, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and The Barrow Group in New York. She’s so excited to be a part of this new musical that uplifts unrepresented Palestinian voices. She won the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award for Best Featured Actress – Musical in 2019 for Groundhog Day The Musical and was named one of “Five Standout Performances” in 2019 by the Houston Chronicle for the role of Wendla in Spring Awakening. Regional credits include Sound of Music(Hillbarn Theater) She Loves Me, Merrily We Roll Along & Fun Home (42nd St Moon), As You Like It, Twelfth Night and Groundhog Day The Musical (San Francisco Playhouse), Spring Awakening (Theater Under the Stars), and In the Heights (Playhouse on Park). New York credits include Fat Kid Rules the World, and Emerson Loses Her Mind. TV credits include Law & Order SVU.

Debórah Eliezer (she/her)

Debórah Eliezer (she/her) is a mixed-identity Arab-Jewish artist, activist, coach, and California fire survivor. Passionate about the power of human transformation, her work focuses on disrupting assumptions about art, human values, the environment, and society. She is the Artistic Director of Aviva Arts, an Associate Artist with Golden Thread, a Mitsui Collective Somatic Jewish Leader Fellow, (Kollel3,) artEquity arts facilitator alumna, and proudly serves on the inaugural MENATMA board. Eliezer has devised numerous world premieres and toured internationally, including writing and performing (dis)Place[d], about Iraqi Jews. As the former foolsFURY Co-Artistic Director, she produced the FURY Factory Festival of Ensemble Theater in SF for 13 years and BUILD digital convenings. Eliezer holds a B.A. Cum Laude in Drama Cum Laude from SFSU, and is a certified Sound, Voice Music Healing practitioner from CIIS, and a certified Kaula Tantra Yoga instructor.
www.avivaarts.org

EVENT DETAILS
Sunday, October 6th, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 3:00 pm
Admission: FREE with registration
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.
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Lit Crawl: Veins & Tributaries | What’s the Buzz? | S'mores & Stories
2024-10-26 17:00 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Lit Crawl: Veins & Tributaries | What’s the Buzz? | S’mores & Stories
Saturday, October 26th, 2024
Time: 4:45 doors, 5:00 show
Admission: FREE
Donation is encouraged
Red Poppy Art House is hosting three LitCrawl events:
– 5 pm – 6 pm – Veins & Tributaries: A Reading with Diasporic Burmese American Writers
– 6:30 pm -7:30 pm – What’s the Buzz? The Hive Poetry Collective Chats Up the Audience
– 8 pm – 9 pm – S’mores & Stories: Tales from the Edges of California

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

5 pm – 6 pm
Veins & Tributaries: A Reading with Diasporic Burmese American Writers
Explore literary tributaries branching from the Burmese diaspora with poetry, fiction, and memoir. Five intergenerational authors, each drawing from their deep ancestral roots in Myanmar, explore the intricate geo-political themes of identity, displacement, and legacy. Join us for a vivid dialogue on how the shadows of post-independence Burma shape notions of time, space, and self.
Curator: Maw Shein Win
Featuring:
Michelle Dunn Marsh
Audrey T. Williams
Maw Shein Win
Kenneth Wong

6:30 pm -7:30 pm
What’s the Buzz? The Hive Poetry Collective Chats Up the Audience
The Hive Poetry Collective, a national podcast and radio series produced by women poets from Santa Cruz, will speed-interview audience members whose names we’ll draw from a hat. Like speed dating—with literary rather than romantic intentions—our experienced interviewers will quickly draw the poetic nectar from our volunteer “blooms.”
Curator: Roxi Power
Featuring:
Julia Chiapella
Farnaz Fatemi
Julie Murphy
Roxi Power
The Hive Poetry Collective is a group of Santa Cruz poets creating a weekly radio show and live poetry events featuring a diverse roster of poets. The Hive radio show is broadcast on KSQD, 90.7 FM Community Radio in Santa Cruz on Sunday nights from 8pm-9pm. All episodes are available to stream through anchor.fm, and wherever you get your podcasts.
Website: https://hivepoetry.org/about-uzz/

8 pm – 9 pm
S’mores & Stories: Tales from the Edges of California.
Gather around the “campfire” for S’mores & Stories, hosted by the Desert Salon writing retreat. Enjoy free s’mores courtesy of Mojave Mallows and readings inspired by the strangeness and beauty of California. You’ll laugh, feel inspired, and get a chill down your spine—because no campfire is complete without a spooky story!”
Curator: Lexi Pandel
Featuring:
Lexi Pandell (host)
Tanya Zilinskas
Jessica Powell
Katie Wheeler-Dubin
Billy Song
S’mores & Stories is a collaboration between the Desert Salon writing retreat and Mojave Mallows, an organic marshmallow company based in Joshua Tree and Los Angeles.
Social media: @desertsalon @mojavemallows
Website: desertsalon.com and mojavemallows.com

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Veins & Tributaries
Michelle Dunn Marsh is a first-generation American of Indo-Burmese and Irish descent. She completed her BA in literature and art history at Bard College, and holds an MS in Publishing from Pace University. She conceived, and with Steve McIntyre co-founded Minor Matters in 2013. Minor Matters has published over thirty contemporary art books with the participation of an international audience. Dunn Marsh has had a bi-coastal and multi-faceted career in publishing and as an educator; she was the subject of an exhibition at the Highline Heritage Museum in Burien, Washington in 2019. That led to the publication of her memoir, Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography, released in 2022. She is in development on her next book, Partially True Memories of Lives I’ve Never Lived. Minor Matters website
Audrey T. Williams is a speculative literary artist who writes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Her writing is published in Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook, Space & Time magazine, and Lightspeed. Raised in coastal North Carolina, Audrey’s work is rooted in the culture of place and her heritage at the intersection of Southern Black America and Indo-Burmese diaspora. Audrey T. Williams’s website
Maw Shein Win’s new full-length poetry collection is Percussing the Thinking Jar (Omnidawn). Her previous collection Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn) was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN America Open Book Award, and shortlisted for CALIBA’s Golden Poppy Award for Poetry. She is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito, CA and teaches in the MFA Program at USF. Maw Shein Win’s website
Kenneth Wong is a Burmese American author and a language instructor. His short stories, essays, and poetry translations have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle magazine, AGNI (Boston University), Eleven Eleven(California College of the Arts), The Irrawaddy, Myanmar Times, and more. He teaches beginning and intermediate Burmese at UC Berkeley. Kenneth Wong on Instagram

What’s the Buzz?
Julia Chiapella’s poetry has appeared in Pirene’s Fountain, The Round, The Wax Paper, and West Branch among others. She is the retired director of the Young Writers Program and received the Gail Rich Award for creative contributions to Santa Cruz County. She is a member of the Hive Poetry Collective where she organizes readings and hosts podcasts.
Farnaz Fatemi is Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate, an Academy of American Poetry Laureate Fellow, and author of the poetry collection, Sister Tongue زبان خواهر. Her poems and essays appear in Alaska Quarterly, Catamaran Literary Reader, Kenyon Review, No Tokens Journal, Poets.org, Tahoma Literary Review, Tab Journal, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. More at farnazfatemi.com
Julie Murphy’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Salt, River Heron, Chicago Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, Massachusetts Review, CALYX, and SWWIM, among other journals. A member of Community of Writers, she taught poetry at Salinas Valley State Prison and with the Hive Poetry Collective, she hosts a weekly poetry show and podcast as well as live poetry readings.
Roxi Power’s book, The Songs That Objects Would Sing was published in 2023; her next book will be published by Carbonation Press in 2025. She’s received an AWP Intro Award and has been published in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Puerto del Sol, etc. She founded the trans-genre anthology series, Viz. Inter-Arts, at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she teaches. She podcasts for The Hive Poetry Collective.

S’mores & Stories
Lexi Pandell (host): Lexi Pandell is a writer from Oakland, CA. Her non-fiction has been published by The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The New Republic. Her short stories have been published by Wired, The Pinch, Salt Hill, and New Ohio Review. She is the founder of the Desert Salon writing retreat.
Tanya Žilinskas: Tanya Žilinskas’ fiction has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Shenandoah, Puerto del Sol, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. She is working on a novel about early internet hoaxes and documentary ethics, and a linked story collection set in a surreal version of Marin County. Find her at tanyazilinskas.com.
Jessica Powell: Jessica Powell is the author of the novel, The Big Disruption. Her short stories have been published in The New York Times, WIRED, VICE, Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco and builds audio software.
Katie Wheeler-Dubin: Katie Wheeler-Dubin is a San Francisco native, well-known for both her relaxed parenting style and systematically eating so many oysters she discovered a pearl. She published I Went to Sleep Drunk and Woke up Hungry in 2016, and made a documentary with Mila Puccini about San Francisco called Water Under the Bridge. She has performed at Kerouac Alley, the Bywater Wonderland of New Orleans, Cynic Cave, the Jewish Contemporary Museum of San Francisco, Viracocha, The Santa Cruz Art Bar, the Moth, Quiet Lightning, The Portuguese Artist Colony, UC Santa Cruz, the basement of Lost Weekend Video and Splendor all Around.
Billy Song: Billy Suiren Song is a film-maker and poet based in San Francisco. He hosts a weekly open mic at the Center SF and leads a writing group at the Page street writers co-working space. He and his creative partner Liz Cahill founded an arts non-profit, Decentered Arts, in 2023. He graduated with an MFA in creative writing from USFCA in 2023.

ABOUT LIT CRAWL SAN FRANSISCO
One of the most anticipated literary nights of the year, San Francisco’s Lit Crawl is a massive, one-night literary pub crawl through San Francisco’s Mission District that caps off our annual Litquake Festival. Lit Crawl SF brings together 250+ authors and nearly 5,000 fans for the world’s largest free pop-up literary event. Started in 2004, Lit Crawl cultivates a unique, resonant brand: smart and silly, worldly and wacky, with events presented in venues usual (bars, cafes, galleries, and bookstores) and unusual (police stations, tattoo parlors, barbershops, and laundromats).

LIT CRAWL MAP

EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, October 26th, 2024
Time: 4:45 doors, 5:00 show
Admission: FREE
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December 7th MAPP
2024-12-07 19:00 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
December 7th MAPP

Saturday, December 7th, 2024 | 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom @23rd
Curator: Dina Zarif
Interactive art installation: Soft Blueprints by Andrea Guskin
A Space for Community Weaving and Connection
7:00 – 7:15 pm : Soft Blueprints (Installation introduction)
7:20 – 8:00 pm : Words, Winds and Strings (Harp, Saxophone & Spoken Word)
8:15 – 9:00 pm : R A G A M E N C O (Indian melodies meet flamenco jazz)
9:15 -10:00 pm : Sambamba (Rio samba, Bossa Nova, & Pagode)
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
MAPP (Mission Arts & Performance Project)
Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural event that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces, such as private garages, gardens, living rooms, studios, street corners, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities.
We will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.
RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:
Artistic Director | Managing Director: Dina Zarif
PR and Digital Marketing: Anjali Varma
MAPP DECEMBER 7TH, 2024 PROGRAM

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artists

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

7:00 – 7:15 pm
Soft Blueprints
Interactive art installation
A Space for Community Weaving and Connection
Visual artist: Andrea Guskin

7:20 – 8:00 pm
Words, Winds, and Strings
Music & Spoken Word
Amelia Romano – Harp, Vocals
Asaf Ophir – Poetry, Spoken word, Saxophone, Flute, Vocals

8:15 – 9:00 pm
R A G A M E N C O
Indian melodies meet flamenco jazz
Mallar Bhattacharya – Sarode
Satish Pillai – Piano
Nilan Chaudhuri – Tabla
Luis Jiménez – Cajón
Devi SenGupta – Vocals
Javier Jiménez – Guitar

9:15 -10:00 pm
Sambamba
Rio samba, Bossa Nova, & Pagode
Lau Paiva – Guitar, Vocals, Percussion
Rodrigo Lemes – Cavaquinho, Vocals, Pandeiro
Andrew Scott – Pandeiro, Tantan, Reco-reco, Cajón, Tamborim

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

Soft Blueprints is a space and an invitation to gather, weave, and reflect in this particularly stressful time. The installation features a blue space constructed with printed fabrics that originated from cyanotypes. The fabric design was created by placing shredded paper—from documents too personal to share whole—on paper and fabric treated with photosensitive chemicals and exposed to the sun.
Guests will be invited to sit inside the space and contribute to collaborative community looms: branch looms and a tapestry frame loom. Materials for weaving include artist-designed fabrics, wool roving, and a selection of upcycled fabrics.
Next to the cozy window seat installation, a small table will offer an opportunity to write or draw your own blueprint for taking care of each other and the world, with the chance to weave your creation into one of the looms.

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

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Andrea Guskin is a San Francisco Bay Area artist raised amongst the woods and college campuses of Wisconsin and Ohio. She began drawing by pillaging her father’s office supplies for fine-tipped pens and yellow legal pads, filling them with costumed figures while lounging on a 1970s shag carpet.
After studying painting at Antioch College, Andrea moved to NYC and became a part of the visual and songwriting community on the Lower East Side. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2003, Andrea has exhibited her work in galleries and alternative spaces throughout the state, including the Richmond Art Center, the Berkeley Art Center, Swarm Gallery, and Mercury 20 Gallery.
Beginning in 2019, Andrea added a participatory aspect to her work, merging her many years in museum education and her art practice to create community art events across the Bay Area. She graduated with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Mills College at Northeastern University in April of 2023.
Andrea currently lives in San Leandro with her husband and two sons.

ABOUT THE PERFORMING ARTISTS

Words, Winds, and Strings
Music and Spoken Word
Performing some of their favorite classical works, from the Baroque era to the present day, both accomplished musicians, Amelia Romano and Asaf Ophir, present a unique program. Their selections are interwoven with poetry and short stories, as well as Amelia’s original compositions inspired by Latin American rhythms and folk traditions.
Featuring:
Amelia Romano – Harp, vocals
Asaf Ophir – poetry, spoken word, Saxophone, flute, vocals
Asaf Ophir began his professional career in musical theater in Israel, on some of Israel’s most distinguished stages. Having moved to the United States in 2014, Ophir can be seen playing Jewish, Arabic, and Balkan music. Throughout his career he has shared the stage with artists such as Miri Mesika, Avi Kushnir, Galit Giat, David De’or, Rana Farhan, and Barbara Streisand. The San Francisco Chronicle writes: “Asaf Ophir gives the clarinet the timbre of a trumpet, then a violin, then a raspy scream… the instrument’s wail almost becomes too plaintive and beautiful to bear.”
A composer, arranger, and trailblazer in the lever harp world, Amelia Romano (harp, voice) is a concertizing lever harpist. The lever harp is often played by folk musicians and designed to play folk music from countries including Ireland and Scotland. In this context, oftentimes the lever mechanisms at the top of the instrument are set in the key of the song and left that way throughout the folk song. Conversely, on the classical pedal harp, one can easily change notes by stepping on the pedals. Amelia’s vision has taken on both harp worlds and tackles complex classical passages on the lever harp by shifting the mechanisms mid-song, which is fascinating to watch. While pedal harps weigh 80 pounds, lever harps weigh 25 making them very portable. Romano lived in South Africa for a year and has toured in Europe, the southern United States, and Pacific Northwest, bringing her enthusiasm for lever harps to classical music, wherever she goes.
Romano received her Master’s Degree in Classical Lever Harp Performance at San Francisco State University under the tutelage of Karen Gottlieb, retired harpist of the San Francisco Symphony.

R A G A M E N C O
Indian melodies meet flamenco jazz
R A G A M E N C O music represents the synthesis of ancient traditions that have been linked by human and cultural migration through the centuries⁠.
Featuring:
Mallar Bhattacharya – Sarode
Satish Pillai – Piano
Nilan Chaudhuri – Tabla
Luis Jiménez – Cajón
Devi SenGupta – Vocals
Javier Jiménez – Guitar
A collaboration of Spanish and Indian musicians from the Bay Area, RagaMenco explores exciting new territories by combining haunting Indian melodies with the concept of jazz improvisation and musical traditions from Spain. Come hear ancient traditions from the Old World finding a new voice in California.

Sambamba
Joyful Rio samba, Bossa Nova, and Pagode
Sambamba brings the joyful spirit of Rio de Janeiro’s samba, from the mellow Bossa Nova of Jobim to the Samba Canção and Samba de Raiz of Paulinho da Viola and Martinho da Vila, to the Samba-Pagode of Zeca Pagodinho, Almir Guineto, Jorge Aragão, Revelação, and beyond — getting everyone in the mood for a true Carioca Saturday!
Featuring:
Lau Paiva – Guitar, Vocals, Percussion
Rodrigo Lemes – Cavaquinho, Vocals, Pandeiro
Andrew Scott – Pandeiro, Tantan, Reco-reco, cajon, tamborim
+ Surprise Special Guests!
Brazil is home to an extraordinary diversity of music, ranging from the Samba and Bossa Nova of Rio de Janeiro, to the Forró, Maracatu, Baião, and Samba Reggae of the Northeast, to the Sertanejo country music of Central Brazil (Brasília, Goiânia), and the urban Hip-hop, funk, and metal scenes of São Paulo.
Sambamba is a Bay Area group that specializes in the authentic joy of samba and bossa nova, performing in the traditional pagode de mesa party style. This style encourages guest musicians to join around the table and sing the songs that every Brazilian seems to know. The core of Sambamba is a trio, which can expand to a quartet or quintet depending on the situation. The band members have been playing together in various Bay Area groups for the last 20 years, and their diverse backgrounds bring an eclectic mix of influences to their music.
Lau Paiva is from Piracicaba, São Paulo. A talented guitarist (violão) and singer, Lau performs a wide range of Brazilian music styles and knows hundreds of songs. He loves collaborating with different musicians and has been performing for many years, both as a soloist and as part of various small groups in the Bay Area.
Rodrigo Lemes is from Goiânia and Rio de Janeiro. He grew up with Sertanejo country music from Goiás and later became captivated by the samba and samba funk of Rio. Rodrigo has played with numerous top Bay Area musicians in groups like Grupo da Sete, Grupo Borogodo, and alongside Maestro Jorge Alabé. Known for his joyful energy, Rodrigo brings dynamic vocals and rhythmic grooves on cavaquinho and pandeiro.
Andrew Scott moved to San Francisco from London and has lived in the Mission and Bernal Heights for 40 years, returning to London annually. He runs Studio 401, which has been recording and producing a diverse array of artists from the Bay Area, London, Brazil, South Africa, and Argentina for over 25 years. In addition to drum-set, Andrew plays a wide range of percussion instruments. He has performed throughout the Bay Area, notably with his groups The Rhyth-o-matics, Kombokwela, and Grupo da Sete. He has also lived in Brazil and participated in Carnaval with Paraiso Samba in London and Samba Rio in San Francisco. Andrew has studied with Maestro Jorge Alabé, Maestro Chuck Brown, and Maestro Marcos Suzano. A specialist in South African jazz, he recently produced the acclaimed Duduvudu CD. Andrew also served as Executive Director of the Mission YMCA for 13 years. His two grown children, Chloë and Jody Scott, are both professional musicians based in the Bay Area.

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R A G A M E N C O

Words, Winds and Strings

PREVIEW THE PERFORMANCE
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IN PERSON EVENT DETAILS
Time: December 7th, 2024, 7pm- 10pm (IN-PERSON)
Admission: Free!

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Party of Hearts: Exhibition Closing Reception
2025-01-18 18:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Party of Hearts
Exhibition Closing Reception: CORAZONES / HEARTS by Adrian Arias
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
(Donation is encouraged)
Party of Hearts is a time to gather as a community and reflect on the power of art as a means of change in our society, in these difficult times of political transition. A renewed collection of CORAZONES / HEARTS by Adrian Arias, some of these works have been exhibited at the California Museum in Sacramento.
Saturday, January 18th, 2024
Time: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

CORAZONES / HEARTS by Adrian Arias

This exhibition by Adrian Arias explores the symbolic meaning and form of the Heart, navigating themes of passion and heartbreak, both socially and personally. The heart is depicted as a dream, a labyrinth, and a space for connection and separation, delving into the pain and hope tied to the organ that continuously beats like music within us.
ABOUT THE ARTIST

Adrian Arias (American born in Mochica Land in Peru)
Curator/Live Painting/visual poetry
Adrian Arias is an international multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of visual arts, poetry, performance, and social justice. A descendant of the Mochica culture of ancient Peru, he embraces his culture’s use of dreams as a transformative catalyst between reality and imagination. Arias has created large-scale murals for public and private businesses such as Google and a three-story mural at the corner of Turk and Hyde in San Francisco, commissioned by the Luggage Store. He has recently created murals for Magic Theater, Freight & Salvage and Red Poppy Art House. Is the co-founder of Mission Arts Performance Project MAPP.

EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, January 18th, 2024
Time: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Note: Seating is first come, first served.
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LIONESS: A Short Film Fundraiser
2025-01-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
LIONESS: A Short Film Fundraiser
A Fundraising Event for a compelling film about courage and resilience
Join Us for the LIONESS Film Fundraiser Event sponsored by Aviva Arts! Set in 1977 Morocco, LIONESS tells the story of a young woman who coaches the town’s first girls’ soccer team, challenging tradition and inspiring her players to dream beyond their limits. This film is a powerful exploration of resilience, courage, and the transformative power of representation.
This fundraiser is dedicated to empowering young girls, reflecting the core theme of LIONESS. The event will feature live musical performances by my talented students—young girls whose energy, creativity, and spirit mirror the courageous characters in the film.
Enjoy an afternoon filled with food, drinks, and heartfelt performances, all while contributing to the creation of this impactful film.
Join us in bringing this story to life and celebrating the spirit of empowerment and ambition.
RSVP Now to secure your spot or donate on our website to support!
Featuring:
Presenters:
Sophia Alawi
Victorya Cintra
Nora Elkind
Performers:
Christian Eck
Kirk Duplantis
Victoria Abbott
Clara Goetzke
Maura Goetzke
Savannah Hughes
Scarlett Hughes

Sunday, January 19th 2025
Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Admission: $40 general

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Presenters:

Sophia Alawi (Writer/Producer) Sophia Alawi will be hosting and presenting at the fundraiser. She is a recent Bay Area Transplant, originally from Hudson County, New Jersey. Sophia is a proud first-generation Moroccan-Italian-American Actor, Writer, & singer-songwriter. She won the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award for Featured Actress – Musical in 2019 for Groundhog Day The Musical and was named one of the “Five Standout Performances” in 2019 by the Houston Chronicle for the role of Wendla in Spring Awakening. As an actor, she has credits on television, Off-Broadway, and at regional theaters across the country. In 2020 she launched her first online series ‘Meet Amal’.You can watch it on YouTube and give the series a follow at @hayawanseries. You can listen to her music on all streaming platforms. Please give @Lionessshortfilm a follow!

Victorya Cintra (Director) Victorya Cintra will be presenting at the fundraiser. She is a Brazilian-American filmmaker and actress born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. After getting her B.A. in Media Studies at the University of Virginia, she moved to Los Angeles to work as the executive assistant to the President of Phantom Four Pictures. Victorya’s first short film, Grieving the Girl, played at the Oxford Film Festival along with festivals in Sweden, Brazil, and England and won her the spotlight award at the Tu Cuentas Cine Youth Fest. She just wrapped her second short film and will be starting the festival circuit. Victorya’s love for storytelling centers on the need to highlight those who have been marginalized, including stories with female main characters and people of color.

Nora Elkind (Assoc. Producer). Nora Elkind will be presenting at the fundraiser. She is an artist inspired by projects that challenge convention. With a background in performing arts, she is excited to combine her passion for storytelling and collaboration through production work for Lioness. Currently, she is working for a public interest legal aid organization in Los Angeles.

Performers:

Christian Eck has been playing music professionally since his early days on the Chicago Blues R&B and Gospel scene in 2005. A multi-instrumentalist vocalist and wearer of many hats Christian relocated to the Bay Area in 2018 and quickly found a home in our vibrant local music scene. www.swampcake.com

Kirk Duplantis is a percussionist, composer, and educator from Houma, Louisiana. In 2011 he earned his BA in Jazz studies at the University of New Orleans. During that time, he became immersed in the vibrant and diverse music scene of that city. In 2017, Kirk recorded a double album with indie-rock band Mighty Brother. Two years later, he made a move to the West Coast to take a full-time music teaching position. Since that time, he has been very active in both the jazz and musical theater scenes of San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. His debut album Fragile Limbs was released in 2023. kirkduplantis.com swampcake.com

Victoria Abbott is five years old and is trained in singing and gymnastics. Recent theatre credits include her role as Molly in Annie at Coastal Repertory Theatre. She has been inspired and mentored by her vocal coach, and other performers. Her current interests include singing along to Taylor Swift, The Descendants Disney movies, and playing the video game Just Dance. In 2024, Victoria received her Junior Kindergarten class award for Creativity.

Clara Goetzke is a sixth grader at Pacific Bay Christian School. Her favorite role has been Young Anna in Frozen at Coastal Repertory Theater in Half Moon Bay. When she is not acting, you can find her singing, dancing, or directing plays at home with her friends. She would like to thank her mom, dad, sister, and cats for all of their love and support.

Maura Goetzke is an 8th grader at Seacrest School in Half Moon Bay. Her favorite performance credits have been Annie (Coastal Repertory Theatre) Christmas in Oz & Frozen (Coastal Repertory Kids Theater), The Little Mermaid, The Wizard of Oz & Peter Pan(Seacrest School). Maura also loves to play guitar and write songs. She would like to thank her family for always being there, her friends for supporting her no matter what, and her vocal coach Sophia Alawi for always lending a helping hand.

Savannah Hughes is a student at Pacific Bay Christian School. Her following theater credits include Annie(Coastal Repertory Theatre), Cinderella Jr, and Frozen Jr(Coastal Repertory Kids Theater), where she shined as Middle Anna on stage. Driven by a powerful stage presence Savannah’s passion for tap, jazz, guitar, and theatre truly lights up the stage. Outside of her roles, she enjoys putting on shows with friends and playing tennis. A big thank you to her family, friends, and teachers for their unwavering support and encouraging her artistic growth.

Scarlett Hughes is a student at Pacific Bay Christian School. Her following theater credits include Annie(Coastal Repertory Theatre), Cinderella Jr, and Frozen Jr(Coastal Repertory Kids Theater). She would like to thank her family for supporting her!

EVENT DETAILS
Sunday, January 19th 2025
Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Admission: $40 general
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Ana Vieira: Contemporary Fado artist
2025-01-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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Ana Vieira: Contemporary Fado artist
Exploring the music of the legendary Fado artist out of Portugal, Amalia Rodrigues, and beyond.
This music is sometimes called “Portuguese Blues.” Ana’s work captures the essence of Fado from her parents’ homeland and well beyond. She performs and records music that ranges from the soulful, haunting ballads and catchy, playful songs of Fado to her own original compositions, for which she has been nominated for three international Portuguese Music Awards.
Featuring:
Ana Vieira – Voice and Piano
Jeff Furtado – guitar
David Parker – bass
Vincent Tolliver – violin/viola/Portuguese Mandolin

Friday, January 24th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $30 general, $25 student & senior

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Fado is a performance genre incorporating music and poetry. In 2011, It became a part of UNESCO World Heritage. The artist formerly known as Ramana, Ana Vieiera is an internationally acclaimed recording artist and a northern California native of Portuguese descent. She is also a stunning vocalist, a proficient pianist, and a gifted songwriter who has composed, performed, and recorded many of her own original Fados, which have been nominated for best Fado performance at the International Portuguese Music Awards.

Ana is an internationally acclaimed recording artist and a northern California native of Portuguese descent. She also is a stunning vocalist, a proficient pianist, and a gifted songwriter who has composed, performed, and recorded many of her own original Fados. Several of these have been nominated at the largest Portuguese music awards organization: the International Portuguese Music Awards (IPMA). She has performed throughout California, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Central Valley, SLO, Portugal, Macau, China, East Coast including New York, Hawaii, Florida the Pacific Northwest, and Mexico. Ramana just returned this summer of 2023 headlining in her parents’ homeland of Madeira, Portugal at the Art’Camacha festival. She was also featured on the RTP international network while in Madeira. Over the course of her 20-plus-year musical career and five album releases, she has opened for Mariza and headlined at several World Music festivals. Performed for the President of the Azores, Portugal at the invitation of Congressman Jim Costa. Her original composition, “Unido Para Amar,” was played at the awards ceremony for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. Her music has been chosen to be featured on TAP Airlines, the flag carrier of Portugal with over 2500 nights per week to 34 countries. Her new album, Tudo De Mim will be out in early spring of 2023. Most recently her new single, Fado La La La, ranked #4 for song and her latest new video ranked 3# in North America on the Ethnocloud music platform. The critics have heaped praise upon Ana. The San Francisco Chronicle said “Ramana is the rising star in World Music” and “No one in the United States is doing more to breathe new life into Fado than Ramana Vieira, a sultry dramatic singer.” Andrew Gilbert of The Boston Globe said “Raman Vieira deserves a prominent place in the front rank of today’s Fado singers”
Vieira was born in San Leandro, California with the beat of Portuguese rhythms coursing through her veins. Her parents had immigrated to the United States from Portugal, where her grandfather was a well-known musician and composer from Madeira Island. She grew up listening to American pop, alongside traditional Portuguese music. “During my childhood, I sang with my mother to Amália Rodrigues and other fabulous fadistas that were part of her special record collection,” said Vieira. Early in life, it was apparent that Vieira possessed exceptional musical talent and went on to study at The American Conservatory Theatre. However, a spontaneous trip to Portugal shifted her professional vision and catalyzed an exploration deep into the world of fado. In Portugal, Vieira connected with her roots and found that fado ignited her spirit and set her soul aflame. She began to study intensively with local fado musicians and had the opportunity to perform. She was loved by her fans in Portugal; her authentic and individual style was refreshing and well-received. Vieira’s brilliant musicality and colorful heritage appeal to a global audience. In addition to the traditional fados, and her masterful original compositions, Vieira has now compiled a synergetic repertoire that reflects the full scope of her identity by incorporating her background of American theater, blues, and soulful classics into her sets. Through this multifaceted fusion, Vieira has finally fulfilled her fado, fate.
In her own words, “I love being Portuguese and singing my roots. I just feel now is the time for Ramana to embrace “all of me”–my American and Portuguese heritage.”
https://www.youtube.com/@RamanaVieira/videos
https://www.facebook.com/ArtistRamanaVieira/

EVENT DETAILS
Friday, January 24th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $30 general, $25 student & seniors
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February 1st MAPP
2025-02-01 19:00 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
February 1st MAPP

Saturday, February 1st, 2025 | 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom @23rd
Curator: Dina Zarif
Doors open at 7:00 pm
7:15 – 8:00 pm: The Shadow Band (Funky Arabi Jazz)
8:15 – 9:00 pm: Louda y Los Bad Hombres (Latin and Jazz Rhythmics)
9:15 -10:00 pm: Diaspora Ensemble (Music of the Mediterranean)
Exhibit: CORAZONES / HEARTS by Adrian Arias
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
MAPP (Mission Arts & Performance Project)
Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural event that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces, such as private garages, gardens, living rooms, studios, street corners, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities.
We will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.
RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:
Artistic Director | Managing Director: Dina Zarif
PR and Digital Marketing: Anjali Varma
MAPP FEBRUARY 1st, 2025 PROGRAM

Time
Performance/Event
Description
Artists

Exhibit: CORAZONES / HEARTS by Adrian Arias

7:15 – 8:00 pm:
The Shadow Band
Funky Arabi Jazz
Tarik “Excentrik” Kazaleh – oud, guitars, and his handcrafted instruments
Naima Shalhoub – keys, vocals, and acoustic guitar
Chris Trinidad – bass guitar and synth
Aaron Kierbel – drums and percussion.

8:15 – 9:00 pm
Louda y Los Bad Hombres
Latin and Jazz Rhythmics
Leo Nava – Guitar and Tres
Marley Edwards – Upright
Dave Eagle – Percussion
Laura Camacho – Vocals and Percussion

9:15 -10:00 pm
Diaspora Ensemble
Music of the Mediterranean
Leah Sirkin – violin, vocals
Tano Brock – clarinet, guitar, vocals
Steven Brock – tabla, kanjira, frame drum
Joe Rosato – stand-up bass.

ABOUT THE PERFORMING ARTISTS

The Shadow Band
Funky Arabi Jazz
Funky Arabi Jazz quartet featuring Tarik “Excentrik” Kazaleh, Naima Shalhoub, Chris Trinidad and Aaron Kierbel. The Shadowband is fueled by the spirit of improvisation as an ode to liberation.
Featuring:
Tarik “Excentrik” Kazaleh – oud, guitars, and his handcrafted instruments
Naima Shalhoub – keys, vocals, and acoustic guitar
Chris Trinidad – bass guitar and synth
Aaron Kierbel – drums and percussion.
IG- @shadowbandsfbay

Louda y Los Bad Hombres
Latin and Jazz Rhythmics Bilingual Spanish Vocals
Featuring original music and reimagined Pop and Afro-Latin covers, LBH seamlessly blends their jazz studies, international influence, and open hearts through their instruments to your seat, to your moving feet.
Featuring:
Leo Nava – Guitar and Tres
Marley Edwards – Upright
Dave Eagle – Percussion
Laura Camacho – Vocals and Percussion
Louda y Los Bad Hombres came to life during the Revolution Cafe days of the Mission District. Since 2018, this group has played large, small, new, and retired venues throughout the Bay Area.

Diaspora Ensemble
Music of the Mediterranean
Diaspora plays music of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean. The soulful and lively Sefardic songs in varied meters are sung in Ladino. Diaspora also plays music from Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, and Afghanistan.
Leah Sirkin (violin, vocals) Tano Brock (clarinet, laouto, guitar, vocals), and Steven Brock (tabla, kanjira, frame drum) are the core members of this family band from Bernal Heights. Diaspora has been performing at venues and events in the Bay Area and beyond since 2010. They are pleased to play at the Red Poppy for the first MAPP of 2025.
Featuring:
Leah Sirkin – violin, vocals
Tano Brock – clarinet, guitar, vocals
Steven Brock – tabla, kanjira, frame drum
Joe Rosato – stand-up bass.
Leah Sirkin was raised in a singing, music-loving family and started playing violin at age eleven. She became more passionate about playing music as an adult and owes her inspiration to music camps she has been attending since 2000, notably the Middle East & Balkan Camps in Mendocino. Leah has performed with the Aswat Arabic Ensemble, Helm, and the Silk Road Caravan.
Leah is also a playwright and songwriter and has recently written a musical based on the life of Mirabai.
Tano Brock is a multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, and producer. Born with a sixth sense for rhythm, he grew up attending music camps and began playing darbuka and piano at age seven. Tano’s current main instruments are clarinet and sax. He founded the Sarma Brass Band on the east coast. A Berklee College of Music graduate, Tano is based in LA, where he produces music for a wide range of artists. He performs regularly with Inspector Gadje, La Doña, and directs the kids’ band at the Mendocino Balkan Camp.
Steve Brock has been playing tabla for over 30 years, studying with the master Swapan Chaudhury at the Ali Akbar College of Music. He has been playing and studying kanjira with two South Indian master musicians for over a decade. Steve is also a professional photographer and bookmaker.
Joe Rosato Jr. is a Bay Area upright bassist and songwriter who has played with numerous musical luminaries including Lowell Fulson, Ron Thompson, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Tim Weed, and the Turkish band Lars and In Charge. In a career spanning four decades he’s proven himself a versatile sideman adeptly playing everything from bluegrass to jazz to Balkan. Rosato has also released two albums; The Downtown Church and Compass and Sparrow featuring his solo compositions.

CORAZONES / HEARTS by Adrian Arias

This exhibition by Adrian Arias explores the symbolic meaning and form of the Heart, navigating themes of passion and heartbreak, both socially and personally. The heart is depicted as a dream, a labyrinth, and a space for connection and separation, delving into the pain and hope tied to the organ that continuously beats like music within us.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Adrian Arias (American born in Mochica Land in Peru)
Adrian Arias is an international multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of visual arts, poetry, performance, and social justice. A descendant of the Mochica culture of ancient Peru, he embraces his culture’s use of dreams as a transformative catalyst between reality and imagination. Arias has created large-scale murals for public and private businesses such as Google and a three-story mural at the corner of Turk and Hyde in San Francisco, commissioned by the Luggage Store. He has recently created murals for Magic Theater, Freight & Salvage and Red Poppy Art House. Is the co-founder of Mission Arts Performance Project MAPP.

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IN PERSON EVENT DETAILS
Time: February 1st, 2025, 7pm- 10pm (IN-PERSON)
Admission: Free!

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Love Songs for the Soul: Amelia Romano & Asaf Ophir
2025-02-08 19:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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Love Songs for the Soul: Amelia Romano & Asaf Ophir
A Take on Popular Love Songs
Looking for something fun to do around Valentine’s Day? Love Songs for the Soul presents an evening of popular love songs, poems, and stories, arranged for harp, voice, woodwinds, and guitar. From Norah Jones to Bob Marley and everything in between, there is room for everybody. If you are looking for a lovely night out, or if you just like to enjoy some love songs through a different lens, please join us.
Featuring:
Amelia Romano – voice and harp
Asaf Ophir – guitar, woodwinds, voice

Saturday, February 8th 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $30-$35 (Door) $35 general, $30 students and seniors

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Amelia Romano (harp, voice) is a concertizing lever harpist, programming classical re-imaginations alongside original works. She received her master’s in classical lever harp performance at San Francisco State University under the tutelage of Karen Gottlieb, retired second harpist of the San Francisco Symphony. Her latest album, “Levers Engaged: Classical Works Re-imaged for Harp, ” and sheet music collection, “Classical Re-imaginations,” present the instrument as a valid voice in classical music. A composer, arranger, and trailblazer in the lever harp world, she is equally at home writing Latin America-inspired works for solo harp as she is adapting classical pieces for chamber collaborations.
Asaf Ophir (woodwinds, voice, guitar) began his professional career in musical theaters in Israel, while studying at the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, and later at the Jerusalem Academy. Arriving in the United States in 2014, he began to perform in musicals around the Bay Area, such as the award-winning “Love Sick” in 2017, and “The People in the Picture” in 2018. Finding a home away from home, he can most often be seen in world music projects on Jewish, Arabic, and Balkan stages. Asaf has performed on such distinguished stages as Habima, HaCameri, and Jerusalem Theaters in Israel, as well as the Paramount Theater, the Palace of Fine Arts, the Great American Music Hall, Freight & Salvage, Brava Theater, and others in the San Francisco Bay Area. Throughout his career, he has shared the stage with artists such as Miri Mesika, Avi Kushnir, Galit Giat, Rana Farhan, Ustad Mahwash, and Barbra Streisand.

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EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, February 8th 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $30-$35 (Door) $35 general, $30 students and seniors
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Lunar New Year: Shadow Play Workshop
2025-02-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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Lunar New Year: Shadow Play Workshop
ShadowLight Productions
Celebrate the Lunar New Year with an enchanting and interactive Shadow Play Workshop, hosted at the cozy and creative Red Poppy Art House. This free event invites children, families, and community members to dive into the magical world of shadow puppetry. Together, we will explore the art of storytelling and puppet-making, culminating in a collaborative shadow theater performance.
Featuring:
Jessica Nguyen – Puppeteer
Ya Wen Chien – Puppeteer
Sharon Shao- Puppeteer

Sunday, February 9th 2025
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
THIS IS A FREE EVENT!

ABOUT:
ShadowLight Productions was founded in 1972 by filmmaker/theatre director/shadow artist Larry Reed. We have served San Francisco as a nonprofit theater company for nearly 30 years.
The mission of ShadowLight Productions is to expose the general public to the art of Shadow Theater. The means of providing such exposure includes but is not limited to live theater, film, and other media. We strive to preserve indigenous shadow theater traditions and to explore and expand the possibilities of the shadow theater medium by creating innovative interdisciplinary, multicultural works.
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Jessica Nguyen (shadow puppeteer/puppet fabricator/storyboard artist) is a science illustrator, educator, dancer, and circus artist turned to the dark side. Her favorite medium is mischief and punnery but she confesses that a bit of paper and ink will always lift the spirits. She currently works and lurks in Alameda, and loves waxing poetic about flora and fauna and bones and stones over a warm cup of tea.

Ya Wen Chien (co-lead designer-scenery and shadow performer) is an illustrator, painter- trained in Chinese painting and watercolor, a digital designer, puppet maker, and shadow-play artist born in Taiwan and currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sharon Shao (she/her) is a Bay Area native actor and teaching artist. She holds a double B.A. in Theatre Arts and Psychology from UC Santa Cruz. Recent local credits include Sleeping Beauty (Presidio Theatre), Man of God (Shotgun Players), The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin (SF Playhouse), The Winter’s Tale, Good Person of Szechwan (CalShakes), Vinegar Tom, Iron Shoes (Shotgun Players), and UTOPIA (CuttingBall Theater). Aside from acting, Sharon is passionate about teaching voice and drama to young students. www.sharonshao.biz

EVENT DETAILS
Sunday, February 9th 2025
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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Sudamericanto
2025-02-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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Sudamericanto
Latin American folk-jazz fusion
Our unique brand of Latin-American music takes audiences along a journey through South America and the Caribbean traditions with a Brazilian jazz twist. Featuring multi-faceted Puerto Rican vocalist/interpreter Madeleine Zayas and high caliber Bay Area musicians/educators natives from Peru, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and the US coming together to play original compositions and fresh arrangements of carefully selected Latin American classics from Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Our very eclectic repertoire is influenced by Afro-Peruvian rhythms such as Lando and Festejo, Chilean cueca, Brazilian samba and maracatu, Argentinian chamames, stylized plena, bomba and guaracha Puertorriquena, son Cubano and boleros, all tied together with rhythmic precision and intertwined with jazzy flavors.
Featuring:
Madeleine Zayas – lead vocals, guiro, maracas, bombo
Marcos Silva – keyboard, arrangements
David Pinto – bass, arrangements
Michaelle Goerlitz – percussion

Saturday, February 15th 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-$30 (Door) $30 general, $15 students with ID and low income

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Madeleine Zayas is a Latin American singer/interpreter and choreographer based in Oakland. At age 15 she performed as a singer with internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter Wilkins in her native Puerto Rico. She has performed as a dancer in theaters and television in Puerto Rico, California, and Nevada since 1985. She was co-founder of Buena Trova Social Club with Brandon Vance in 2012 and co-artistic director of Madelina y Los Carpinteros and Duo Made y Feña since 2014. Madeleine has shared the stage with Cheo Feliciano, Inti Illimani, John Santos, and Holly Near. Her eclectic repertoire is rooted in the Nueva Canción/Nueva Trova tradition of entertaining and educating about culture and pressing social issues.
Marcos Silva is a Brazilian-native multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and educator who performs worldwide. Nominated for a Grammy, he has toured with many world-renowned artists, including Paquito D’Rivera, Bud Shank, Dori Caymmi, and many others. He was musical director for Flora Purim and Airto Moreira for 23 years. Marcos has written arrangements for Dizzy Gillespie’s band and replaced Gil Evans as arranger-composer of Airto’s Spiritual Mass. He is the founder and director of the Brazilian Jazz Department at California Jazz School in Berkeley.
David Pinto is a Peruvian native best-known for his work as music director, arranger, and bassist for Grammy-winner Susana Baca, Diva of Afro-Peruvian song. He was a member of Peru Jazz, a group highly praised for its innovation and fusion of Peruvian roots and jazz.
Michaelle Goerlitz has been playing drums and percussion since she was eight years old. After attending college in the Midwest, she moved to San Francisco in 1980 to continue her studies, which led to her exploration of Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, Venezuelan, Peruvian, and Middle Eastern rhythms (plus American idioms of jazz, R&B, and funk). She was a founding member of two renowned and long-term projects, the Blazing Redheads and Wild Mango. Both groups blended many different styles, which showcased Michaelle’s versatile percussive skills.

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EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, February 15th 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-$30 (Door) $30 general, $15 students with ID and low income
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Sibarg Ensemble
2025-02-21 19:30 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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UPDATE: Second Show added!

Sibarg Ensemble
Persian/Jazz Improvisation
The Sibarg Ensemble explores creative intercultural music-making by combining the sounds of Persian music, jazz, and free improvisation. Through original compositions, arrangements of classical melodies and folksongs, and improvisations, ensemble members draw on their distinct musical backgrounds while creating a unique dialogue with one another. With each performance, Sibarg sets out to create a sense of becoming, as opposed to fixed identities.
Featuring:
Sara Saberi – oud & vocals
Hesam Abedini – vocals
Josh Charney – keyboard
Jordan Glenn – drums

Friday, February 21st, 2025
Time:
First show: 6:45 pm door, 7:00 pm -8:15 pm show
Second show: 8:30 pm door, 8:45 pm -10:00 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $30 general, $25 student & senior

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
As San Diego Troubadour noted, Sibarg Ensemble embodies “an organic authenticity that reflects strong ties to both traditional Persian music and improvisational aspects of jazz.” Founded in 2008 by vocalist Hesam Abedini at Tehran Music Conservatory, Sibarg broke new ground as both the conservatory’s first intercultural ensemble and the first to bring together students from both the women’s and men’s music schools. Since relocating to the US in 2010, the ensemble has performed at UCLA’s Royce Hall, USC’s Bovard Auditorium, and the Carlsbad Music Festival. Their debut album “Cipher” (2018) exemplifies their dynamic approach to intercultural music-making, where traditional Iranian music and jazz improvisation interweave in an ever-evolving creative dialogue.
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Instagram: @Sibargensemble

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EVENT DETAILS
Friday, February 21st, 2025
Time:
First show: 6:45 pm door, 7:00 pm -8:15 pm show
Second show: 8:30 pm door, 8:45 pm -10:00 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $30 general, $25 student & senior
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Emilio Teubal & Tristana Ferreyra-Rantalaiho
2025-02-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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Emilio Teubal & Tristana Ferreyra-Rantalaiho
New sounds from Latin America
NY-based Argentine Pianist and Composer Emilio Teubal presents music from his recent Piano solo record Seven Etudes. On the second set, Emilio is joined by Argentine singer Tristana Ferreyra-Rantalaiho. Together they will perform their own arrangements of classic songs from Latin America, from Tango to Bossa Novas.
Featuring:
Emilio Teubal: Piano
Tristana Ferreyra-Rantalaiho: Voice

Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $20 – $25 (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Emilio Teubal is a pianist/ composer/arranger from Argentina based in New York. He has recorded over thirty albums, both as a sideman and as a composer/bandleader, including the 2018 Latin Grammy Winner album “Vigor Tanguero” by the Pedro Giraudo Group. Futuro, his latest release (his sixth album as a bandleader/composer) has been included on the list of 2023 Best Jazz albums in Bandcamp. His new solo piano album “Seven Etudes” is scheduled to be released in February 2025
www.emilioteubal.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3GQZI3EylIfe723AlvQmay
Tristana Ferreyra-Rantalaiho is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She often premieres vocal works by new composers as a soloist and with choirs. Her repertoire has a wide range, encompassing early and classical music, Argentinian tango, bossa nova, and the music of Kurt Weill. She has worked as a professional singer and choral conductor in Argentina and Finland. In 2016 she relocated to the Bay Area with her family. She sang in the vocal ensemble, Convivium in California and is now in the 21V ensemble. Tristana’s private studio is in the Bay Area and she teaches voice at Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, Community Music Center of San Francisco, Spindrift School of Music and Arts, and New Mozart School of Music.
https://on.soundcloud.com/ZGKabKf6MFGY9nVu7

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EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $20 – $25 (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior
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Grupo Falso Baiano (trio) ft. Catiá Lund
2025-03-07 19:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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Grupo Falso Baiano (trio) ft. Catiá Lund
Roots Samba, Bossa Nova, and Brazilian Choro
Grupo Falso Baiano will feature Brazilian vocalist, Catiá Lund to present wonderful instrumental Brazilan samba classics, Samba-Choros, and Bossa Nova in an evening of intimate music featuring percussion, guitar, and clarinet. From the nightclub district in Lapa of Rio de Janeiro to our own cultural heartbeat in the mission come listen to Roots Samba featuring the music of Cartola, Paulinho da Viola, Jacob do Bandolim, and muito, muito mais!
Featuring:
Brian Moran – 7-string guitar
Zack Pitt-Smith – reeds and samba drum
Ami Molinelli – percussion
Catia Lund – vocals

Friday, March 7th 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Grupo Falso Baiano plays Brazilian choro and samba music and plays over 100 years of amazing music. They have been featured on NPR’s The California Report, Pandora Live, and with the Pasadena Pops Orchestra. They showcase the intersection of instrumental choro with roots samba. Follow them on Facebook and Instagram!
Cátia Lund, a vocalist and musician originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, began her formal music education at the age of 10. Driven by a deep fascination with the transformative power of music, she embarked on a lifelong journey of artistic and professional development. While pursuing a degree in Music Therapy at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music, Cátia recognized that music transcends mere entertainment and artistic expression—it possesses profound healing qualities. Currently based in Oakland, California, Cátia continues to explore the intersections of music, wellness, and creative expression, sharing her passion and artistry with diverse audiences.

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EVENT DETAILS
Friday, March 7th 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior
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Taraf de Akácfa
2025-03-14 19:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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Taraf de Akácfa
Romanian Folk Music

Taraf de Akácfa performs the rich repertoire of Romanian folk music with distinctive interpretations and dynamic arrangements. They focus on the complex, southern Romanian style, Lăutarească, and incorporate a variety of traditional music from Moldova, Transylvania, and the Balkans.
Featuring:
Lulu Starr- violin
Ion Curteanu -cimbalom
Dmitri Gaskin – accordion
Ari Munkres – double bass

Friday, March 14th 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $35-40 / (Door) $40 general, $30 student & senior

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Taraf de Akácfa was created in 2014 by traveling street musicians who serendipitously met in Budapest, Hungary in an international collective house on Akácfa Street. The founding members of the group came from the United States, Sweden, Hungary, and France, and eventually chose to stay in Budapest, where they experienced constant musical inspiration and could share their common passion for Eastern European and Balkan folk music. Their current musical repertoire is predominantly centered around Romanian lăutarească, Moldovan and Transylvanian folk music, and they also perform a variety of folk music from the Balkans. While the formation of the band has changed and now the majority of the current members are native Hungarians, one thing has always remained; the shared curiosity and enthusiasm for this complex and dynamically rich traditional music. Taraf de Akácfa mixes the different musical and cultural backgrounds of its members, while tastefully blending different styles of folk music with innovative ideas and arrangements. They honor the sources and traditions which they draw upon, all while adding their own unique interpretation and style. Over the years, the members traveled throughout Romania, Moldova, and Hungary, researching the origins of the songs that they play. They have had the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest folk musicians, most notably those of Taraf de Haidouks as well as Marcel Râmba, who heavily influenced their current repertoire. In 2016 the band recorded their first self-titled album in Budapest. In 2018, their second full-length album “Trei Focuri” was recorded at Pheonix Studio in Diósd, Hungary.
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EVENT DETAILS
Friday, March 14th 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $35-40 / (Door) $40 general, $30 student & senior
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Nato Green
2025-03-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Update: Tickets for this event are now SOLD OUT.

Nato Green
In the Darkest Hour: The Most Political Comedy
San Francisco-based political comedian Nato Green brings a residency to the Red Poppy for one night only, with a work-in-progress show of the most political comedy to get us through this, the hour of darkness.
Featuring:
Nato Green with special guest Jackie Keliiaa

Saturday, March 15th, 2025
Time:
First show: 6:30 pm doors / 7:00–8:15 pm show
Second show: 8:30 pm doors / 8:45–10:00 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25 student & senior -$30 Early Bird – $35 General / (Door) $35

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Nato Green is the country’s only semifunctional hybrid of political comedian and union organizer.
Nato starred along with W. Kamau Bell and Janine Brito in the streaming series Laughter Against the Machine on Means.tv, the first worker-owned post-capitalist streaming platform. He also appears regularly doing political comedy chats on the podcasts The Bugle and The Bitchuation Room. Nato Green released his second comedy album The Whiteness Album on Blonde Medicine Records and appeared in the film Sorry to Bother You. The Whiteness Album was named by the NPR show Bullseye with Jesse Thorn one of the best comedy albums of 2018.
Nato’s writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books, the San Francisco Examiner, In These Times, VICE, Truthdig, Huffington Post, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Rumpus, and The Bold Italic.
Nato has been named San Francisco’s Best Comedian by the SF Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, Huffington Post, SFist, and CBS. His comedy has been featured in Audible Comedy Originals including the Comedy Show Show, the Guest List, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Sounds Like America. He’s appeared on numerous podcasts including RISK!, the Dork Forest, Pod Damn America, WTF with Marc Maron, Put Your Hands Together, WBUR’s You’re the Expert, KQED’s Truth Be Told, KALW’s Kamau Right Now, Porchlight, Muni Diaries, and Fake the Nation with Negin Farsad.
Nato wrote for Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on FX, the show that the New York Times called “five years ahead of its time.” One time the Episcopal Archbishop called him the antichrist
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Jackie Keliiaa is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor based in Oakland, California with tribal affiliations to Yerington Paiute and Washoe. You can find her in the book, We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy. Jackie has been featured on Comedy Central, Team Coco, Netflix, and IllumiNative’s 25 Native American Comedians to Follow. She wrote for the web series You’re Welcome America and has been featured in a variety of publications including Vulture, Uproxx, LA Times and KQED among others.
Jackie has opened for Judah Friedlander, Nikki Glaser, and was featured on the First Nations Comedy Experience streaming on Amazon Prime. Jackie produces Good Medicine Comedy, an all-Native comedy show which has sold out venues in the Bay Area and beyond. Jackie is a regular at Bay Area venues and has performed at San Francisco SketchFest, Punch Line San Francisco and Cobb’s Comedy Club.
Jackie attended undergrad at UC Berkeley, majoring in both Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies and minoring in City and Regional Planning. She has a Masters in Urban Planning from Columbia University and spent a decade working in community and economic development prior to pursuing comedy full time.

EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, March 15th, 2025
Time:
First show: 6:30 pm doors / 7:00–8:15 pm show
Second show: 8:30 pm doors / 8:45–10:00 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25 student & senior -$30 Early Bird – $35 General / (Door) $35
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Anaís Azul presents "Simp'ashani: Canciones Trenzadas"
2025-03-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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Anaís Azul presents “Simp’ashani: Canciones Trenzadas”
Experimental Andean Musical Storytelling of Migration
The album “Simp’ashani: Canciones Trenzadas” is the result of the research Anaís Azul conducted while on their Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship, which gave them the opportunity to travel to Perú to study Charango (from Ayacucho and Cusco) and Quechua (Chanka and Collao) for 9 months. “Simp’ashani” began as a project compiling Andean music to create an album of multilingual (Quechua, Spanish, and English) reinterpretations of said songs using experimental production. Now, the album also includes field recordings, interviews, and original compositions about the journey Anaís has been on re-connecting to their Indigenous ancestry. In this project, Anaís braids their Andean heritage and music with their diasporic longing in a heartfelt way.
Featuring:
Anaís Azul
Opener: Lxs Perrxs del Cerro

Saturday, March 22nd 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Anais Azul (they/them) is a Peruvian-born, California-grown, composer, vocalist, and charango player. Since immigrating to the U.S. at age 4, they have longed to connect to their Andean roots. Having produced 3 EPs, in September 2024 they released their debut album “Simp’ashani: Canciones Trenzadas” with tracks ranging from sound bath-like experimental versions of Andean songs to original singer-songwriter style compositions. Whether they are writing, performing, or teaching music, Anaís is committed to decolonization and honoring Indigenous practices. Described as “stunningly honest and vulnerable,” Anaís’ artistry engages music as a tool for community building and collective healing.

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Opening act:
Lxs Perrxs del Cerro
Touring all the way from Perú for the first time in the US, this is a musical project of experimental folk music that seeks to give a new identity to diverse stories through music. Lucho Ramirez & RENVOLUCIÓN compose and sing stories of love, struggle, and hope, so we don’t forget who we are.
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EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, March 22nd 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general, $20 student & senior
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Katchapuri Trio
2025-03-29 19:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
UPDATE: Show Postponed to March 29
Due to flu season taking its toll, our Feb 7 show is now postponed to Saturday, March 29. Stay healthy, and thanks for your support! ❤️

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Katchapuri Trio
Chamber Jazz Trio: Originals & Homage to Legends
David James, Jess Ivry, and Beth Custer perform original songs, instrumentals, and arrangements of the music of Chick Corea, Julius Hemphill, Kurt Weill, and others. A transparent, dynamic, ensemble that will titillate your senses in everyone’s favorite San Francisco micro venue Red Poppy Art House, not to be missed!
Featuring:
Jess Ivry – cello/voice
Beth Custer – clarinets/voice
David James – guitar/voice

Saturday, March 29th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $30 general, $25 student & senior

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
David James is a San Francisco-born composer, guitarist, vocalist, and bandleader who draws from his years of experience in hip-hop, film and theater scores, afrobeat, and more, bringing these influences to bear in his “ … thoughtfully composed, boundary-blurring new music.” (All About Jazz).
Beth Custer is an Emmy Award-winning, San Francisco-based composer, performer, recording artist, bandleader, and the proprietor of BC Records and All Hands on Deck Publishing. She has recordings out with ensembles The Beth Custer Ensemble, Eighty Mile Beach, Clarinet Thing, Trance Mission, Club Foot Orchestra, and her latest ensemble Russian Telegraph.
Jess Ivry is a San Francisco Conservatory of Music-trained cellist and singer who studied with Bonnie Hampton and plays various genres, including Balkan, Klezmer, Bluegrass, Jazz, and Pop. From 2004-2015, she played, sang, co-managed, and promoted Real Vocal String Quartet, a world music string and vocal ensemble that pushed the string quartet boundaries.

EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, March 29th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $30 general, $25 student & senior
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April 5th MAPP
2025-04-05 08:00 - 17:00 | CA
April 5th MAPP

Saturday, April 5th, 2025 | 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom @23rd
Curator: Dina Zarif
Doors open at 7:00 pm
7:10 – 8:00 pm: Diana Gameros (Latin American Music and Beyond)
8:10 – 9:00 pm: String and Skin (Klezmer Jazz Improvizations)
9:10 – 10:00 pm: Dos Bandoleros (Spanish Rumba)
Exhibit: CORAZONES / HEARTS by Adrian Arias
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
MAPP (Mission Arts & Performance Project)
Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural event that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces, such as private garages, gardens, living rooms, studios, street corners, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities.
We will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.
RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:
Artistic Director | Managing Director: Dina Zarif
PR and Digital Marketing: Anjali Varma
MAPP APRIL 5TH, 2025 PROGRAM

Time

Performance/Event
Description

Artists

Exhibit: CORAZONES / HEARTS by Adrian Arias

7:10 – 8:00 pm
Diana Gameros
Original tunes and songs from Latin America and beyond.
Diana Gameros – piano, guitar, voice

8:10 – 9:00 pm
String and Skin
North African-infused klezmer jazz improvisations
Misha Khalikulov – Cello
Aaron Kierbel – Percussion
Arslen Metouii – Kanun

9:10 – 10:00 pm
Dos Bandoleros
Spanish Rumba with a Latin Twist
Alberto Gutierrez – guitarist and singer
Raúl Vargas – percussion, vocals

ABOUT THE PERFORMING ARTISTS

Diana Gameros
Original tunes and songs from Latin America and beyond
Diana will perform – on piano, guitar, and voice – original music written in Spanish and English and songs that uplift her Mexican and Latin American heritage.
Diana Gameros is a singer, songwriter, and composer. She was born and raised in Juárez, México, and immigrated to the United States as a teenager. Over the last decade in the Bay Area, she has released two albums of original songs written in Spanish and English and has been highlighted often by NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series. A documentary film about her was released by KQED in 2020. Her music tells stories of family, migration, and home, and has led her to perform with other prominent performers such as Joan Baez, Natalia Lafourcade, and the San Francisco Symphony. Diana received the 2023 Music Award Grant from the Gerbode Foundation to record a new album at Women’s Audio Mission studio in San Francisco to be released in 2025.
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String and Skin
North African-infused klezmer jazz improvisations
String and Skin will take you on an improvised journey, weaving melodies and rhythms from around the world. Together, they create a dynamic, spontaneous dialogue—sometimes tender and meditative, other times fiery and exuberant—inviting the audience into a world without borders, where music speaks beyond words.
Featuring:
Misha Khalikulov – Cello
Aaron Kierbel – Percussion
Arslen Metouii – Kanun
Misha Khalikulov is a San Francisco-based cellist and music educator. He has toured internationally and recorded four albums with Rupa and the April Fishes. He is also a member of StringQuake, Vadalma, and Baymele.
Aaron Kierbel has performed with acts like The Jazz Mafia, Orchestra Gold, and the SF Mime Troupe. He is also a founding member of Rupa and the April Fishes, a globally touring band that played in over 30 countries during its 13-year journey.
Arslen Metouii is an SF-based kanun player, music producer, and composer originally from Tunisia.

Dos BandOLEros
Spanish Rumba with a Latin Twist
Imagine a late-night jam session where Rumba Flamenca legends like Peret and the Gipsy Kings gather after dinner. Suddenly, the Buena Vista Social Club band joins in. With only Spanish guitars, a cajón, a kazoo, and the rhythm of their hands, they create an unforgettable fusion, jamming and blending their unique styles into a night of music and fun that lasts until dawn.
Dos Bandoleros – Flamenco Rumba/Latin with a Rebel Spirit
Straight from the heart of Madrid, Dos Bandoleros is a fiery flamenco rumba duo that blends raw passion, undeniable chemistry, and a hint of outlaw charm. The duo is made up of Raúl Vargas, the soulful percussionist and vocalist, and Alberto Gutierrez, the enigmatic guitarist and singer. Follow their work on Facebook and Instagram!
Featuring:
Alberto Gutierrez – guitarist and singer
Raúl Vargas – percussion, vocals
Raúl Vargas, the biggest bandit, crafts songs as effortlessly as he breathes—his creativity only rivaled by his ideals, his talent only matched by the vastness of his soul. His heart is too big for this world, yet somehow, it finds its place in every rhythm he plays.
Alberto Gutierrez, a.k.a Muchacho Mandanga, the minor bandit, wields his guitar like a weapon of emotion, effortlessly dancing on the edge of genius—always unintentionally, of course. A songwriter immune to expectations, he lets the music flow, indifferent to the waves it may create in the world around him.
Together, they are pure energy—a duo that wastes no effort yet overflows with talent. Unbreakable, untamed, and unapologetically real, Dos Bandoleros moves hearts with melodies that arrive fashionably late yet always on time.
Their music isn’t just played—it’s felt, lived, and set free.

CORAZONES / HEARTS by Adrian Arias

This exhibition by Adrian Arias explores the symbolic meaning and form of the Heart, navigating themes of passion and heartbreak, both socially and personally. The heart is depicted as a dream, a labyrinth, and a space for connection and separation, delving into the pain and hope tied to the organ that continuously beats like music within us.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Adrian Arias (American born in Mochica Land in Peru)
Adrian Arias is an international multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of visual arts, poetry, performance, and social justice. A descendant of the Mochica culture of ancient Peru, he embraces his culture’s use of dreams as a transformative catalyst between reality and imagination. Arias has created large-scale murals for public and private businesses such as Google and a three-story mural at the corner of Turk and Hyde in San Francisco, commissioned by the Luggage Store. He has recently created murals for Magic Theater, Freight & Salvage and Red Poppy Art House. Is the co-founder of Mission Arts Performance Project MAPP.

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IN PERSON EVENT DETAILS
Time: April 5th, 2025, 7pm- 10pm (IN-PERSON)
Admission: Free!

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Diaspora Ensemble
2025-04-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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Diaspora Ensemble
Music of the Mediterranean
Diaspora Ensemble will play music from Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, and songs from the Sefardic repertoire. The band is excited to return to the Red Poppy with talented friends Joe Rosato on bass and Zina Pozen on accordion, along with the delightful dancer Nicole Maria.
Featuring:
Leah Sirkin – violin, vocals
Tano Brock – clarinet, laouto, vocals
Zina Pozen – accordion, vocals
Joe Rosato – Double Bass
Steven Brock – tabla, kanjira, frame drum
Nicole Maria – dance, Middle Eastern percussion

Saturday, April 26th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-30 (Students/low income: $20) / (Door) $30-$35 general

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Diaspora Ensemble plays music from Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, and Afghanistan, and songs in Ladino from the Sefardic repertoire. The soulful and lively melodies in varied meters transport the listener to exotic lands and are often vehicles for improvisation. Leah Sirkin, Tano Brock, and Steven Brock are the core members of this family band from San Francisco.
Leah Sirkin has studied with master musicians and singers from Greece, the Balkans, and the Middle East for over two decades. She has performed with the Aswat Arabic Orchestra, the Silk Road Caravan, and Helm, in addition to her family band, Diaspora.
Tano Brock is a multi-instrumentalist who has studied and performed with master musicians from the Balkans, Turkey, and the Middle East. He leads the Sarma Brass Band in NYC, among other projects, performs regularly with Inspector Gadje and La Doña, and is on staff teaching and leading the brass band and kids’ band at the Mendocino Balkan Camp.
Steven Brock has been playing tabla for over thirty years, studying with the master Swapan Chaudhury at the Ali Akbar College of Music. He has been playing and studying kanjira with two South Indian master musicians for the last decade.
Originally from Ukraine, Zina Pozen grew up in a family of classical musicians, playing piano from a young age. Zina plays klezmer, Moldovan, Ukrainian, Turkish, Armenian, and Greek rebetiko with many Bay Area bands, including the Saul Goodman Klezmer Band, Orchestra Euphonos, and Metanastys.
Joe Rosato Jr. is a Bay Area upright bassist who has played with numerous musical luminaries, including Lowell Fulson, Ron Thompson, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Tim Weed, and the Turkish band Lars and In Charge. In a career spanning four decades, he’s proven himself a versatile sideman adeptly playing everything from bluegrass to jazz to Balkan.
Nicole Maria has been studying, teaching, and performing contemporary and traditional forms of Arabic dance for over a decade. A multiple award-winning dancer, Nicole is known for being an engaging and charismatic entertainer, for elevating the level of the art form, and for her elegance and grace. Instagram: @nicolemariadance

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EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, April 26th, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $20-30 (Students/low income: $20) / (Door) $30-$35 general
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Will Marsh & The Integration Ensemble
2025-05-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
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Will Marsh & The Integration Ensemble
Raga-inspired world music ensemble
The Integration Ensemble seamlessly integrates the richness of jazz, jam, Hindustani, and classical sounds for a sum much greater than its parts.
“Like Ravi Shankar jamming with the Buena Vista Social Club” – renowned producer Ben Leinbach.
Featuring:
Will Marsh – sitar, guitar
Josh Mellinger – percussion
Misha Khalikulov – cello
Yoon Lee – sax

Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $30 general, $25 student & senior

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Will Marsh brings refined melody, imagination, and devotion to all facets of his music. He has been performing worldwide on sitar and guitar for over two decades. Will has worked with Grammy-winning musicians and producers and has been featured on national T.V. His deep commitment to the tradition of Hindustani classical music on sitar has profoundly shaped his artistry and he has been blessed to study with the legendary musicians Ustad Aashish Khan, Roshan Jamal Bhartiya and Tushar Bhatia.
His latest release “The Integration” expresses a fresh approach to bringing a world of sounds and influences together. Currently, Will is a sought-after teacher, performer, and recording artist in the California Bay Area.
Follow his work on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Spotify!

EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $30 general, $25 student & senior
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SFIAF - Karma Roulette Quartet
2025-05-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Karma Roulette Quartet
Slinky Proverb
Slinky Proverb is the title of one of two new works by Michael Smolens that will be performed for the first time in California as part of this evening-long concert. Slinky Proverb combines West-African groove with bluesy, contemporary jazz, and 20th-century classical-influenced melodies. The second new composition is titled Abakim. It is a chamber work that features the kalimba and progresses into a jazz waltz.
Featuring:
Composer/Arranger/Flute: Michael Smolens
Violins/Strings: Michèle Walther
Percussion: Michaelle Goerlitz, Brian Rice

Sunday, May 4th, 2025
Time: 6:30 pm doors, 7:00 pm show
Admission: Early Bird: $20 / Advance: $25 / Door: $28
Purchase tickets for this event here. For the best deals, see multiple shows with a discount Festival Pass.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Karma Roulette Quartet
The Karma Roulette Quartet is made up of four veteran multi-instrumentalists, composers, and bandleaders. The group features compositions by award-winning composer/arranger Michael Smolens, work by renowned Brazilian composer Egberto Gismonti, musically-related poetry, and soundscapes created on the spot. Their sound includes nearly 30 different instruments and draws from the worlds of West Africa, Afro-Cuba, North India, Turkey, and Brazil — as well as jazz, funk, and classical styles. The violinist’s solo looping piece with voice and the two-percussion duet are audience favorites.
Michael Smolens
Michael has been composing, arranging, and performing for six decades. He has been commissioned by Meet The Composer, Fleishhacker & Bernard Osher Foundations, National Public Radio, Occidental Community Choir, UCSC Dance Department, and many vocalists, contemporary churches, and festivals. Michael has six CDs of original work and has performed or recorded instrumentally with Stefon Harris (vibes), Paul McCandless, Paul Hanson, Sheldon Brown (reeds), David Balakrishnan & Evan Price (jazz violin/viola), Steve Erquiaga (guitar), Zakir Hussain (tabla), Akira Tana & Alan Hall (drums), and Claudia Schmidt, Raz Kennedy & Rhiannon (voice); and as a vocalist with Pollyanna Bush, David Worm & Bryan Dyer (Bobby McFerrin collaborators). Follow his work on Facebook!
Michèle Walther
Violinist Michèle Walther is a performer, composer, arranger, and educator from Switzerland and San Francisco. Michèle has performed in venues throughout Europe and North America with Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull, Gloria Estefan, Joe Lovano, Oscar Stagnaro (Paquito D’Rivera), John Cage, Basel Sinfonietta, Mark Feldman, LaMuseMent, and more. Recent performances include Resonance at SFJazz and Yoshi’s, and “A Living Tribute to Carla Bley” at SFJazz, where she was featured in “Birds of Paradise”. Ms. Walther earned her M.M. at the Conservatory of Music in Basel, Switzerland, and later graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, majoring in jazz violin performance.
Michaelle Goerlitz
Michaelle has been performing, touring, recording, and studying drums & percussion since 1970, exploring Brazilian, Afro Cuban, Venezuelan, Peruvian, and Middle Eastern rhythms (plus American idioms jazz, R&B, and funk). She was a founding member of two renowned & long-term projects, the Blazing Redheads and Wild Mango. Both groups blended many different styles, which showcased Michaelle’s versatile percussive skills. She has collaborated with artists that encompass a huge range of styles: Latin jazz, Brazilian, Middle Eastern, Afro-Peruvian, Broadway, singer-songwriter, and New Music. They include Mark Levine, Wayne Wallace, Houston Pearson, Denise Perrier, and Joan Jeanrenaud, to name but a few.
Brian Rice
Brian is a freelance percussionist. He currently performs with Tres Baia (which he founded), Cascada de Flores, Danilo Brito, Mike Marshall and Choro Famoso, Wake the Dead, The Berkeley Choro Ensemble, Samba Rio, Mariah Parker Indo-Latin Ensemble, and Orchestrating Excellence. Brian’s classical music background and expertise on a vast array of hand drums came into play when he performed in over seventy shows of “The Lion King”, the Santa Rosa Symphony’s rendition of the silent film “Metropolis”, and John Luther Adams’ “Inuksuit”. Brian has a B.M. in Percussion Performance and Ethnomusicology from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

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SAN FRANSISCO INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL (SFIAF):

SFIAF celebrates the arts by bringing together a global community of artists and audiences. SFIAF presents innovative projects that focus on increasing awareness and understanding within and across cultures. Their core values are based on principles of cultural and economic equity and coordinating the shared resources of multiple organizations in order to reach mutually beneficial goals.
SFIAF presents the work of innovative artists from the Bay Area and around the world; many of the international artists make their US debut at the Festival. From 2003-23, SFIAF and more than 100 presenting partners have coordinated, presented, and/or produced performances by over 600 arts ensembles from California and 60 other countries, and presented hundreds of educational and community engagement activities with diverse communities.
In addition to working with larger institutions, SFIAF places a high priority on the participation of culturally diverse and smaller entities—in particular, communities whose histories have been marginalized or left out of the prevailing American narrative. Activating and supporting relationships between such organizations and artists is a key component of SFIAF.

EVENT DETAILS
Sunday, May 4th, 2025
Time: 6:30 pm doors, 7:00 pm show
Admission: Early Bird: $20 / Advance: $25 / Door: $28
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 tickets for this event here. For the best deals, see multiple shows with a discount Festival Pass.
Note: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee a seat. Seating is first come, first served.
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