BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Red Poppy Art House - ECPv6.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Red Poppy Art House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Red Poppy Art House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210605T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210605T220000 DTSTAMP:20210602T191335Z CREATED:20210602T165219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210602T191335Z UID:13556-1622919600-1622930400@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:June 5th MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts DESCRIPTION:June 5th @ 7:00 – 10:00 pm Free \nTune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection. \nThe event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page \n\n \n  \nClick here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming on Facebook. \nDuring the last year\, our goal has been to continue providing excellent and uplifting programs to you and we are pleased to announce our seventh online FREE MAPP program.  \nOur MAPP FESTIVAL program includes 5 music performances on June 5th\, live-streamed from artists’ homes to your homes. Live streaming on Facebook \nNow\, more than ever\, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community\, and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.  \nMake a gift to the Red Poppy Art House today!  \nRed Poppy Art House Needs You \n  \nMISSION ARTS & PERFORMACE PROJECT (MAPP) \nLaunched in 2003\, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly\, multidisciplinary\, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year\, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces\, such as private garages\, gardens\, living rooms\, studios\, street corners\, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities.  Due to COVID-19 we have temporarily changed this dynamic program from an onsite to an online series. Thanks to the mastery and innovation of the presenting artists and curatorial vision we are pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continues to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We look forward to the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.   \nThis program is funded by California Arts Council Local Impact Grant and  Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve. \nRED POPPY MAPP TEAM: \nCurator | Artistic Director | Interim managing director: Dina Zarif  \nTech support and moderator: Leeav Sofer \nPR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary \n  \nRPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) SATURDAY JUNE 5th \n\n\n\nSATURDAY  JUNE 5TH\n\n\nTime\nPerformance/Event\nDescription\nArtists\n\n\n7:00 -7:05 pm\nIntroduction\, Artists meet and greet \nMC Leeav Sofer and Curator Dina Zarif will greet the Artists\, and present the performance program. \n \n\n\n7:05 -7:30 pm\nInner Dialogue\nA collection of solo percussion compositions and improvisations\nJames Yoshizawa – Percussion\n\n\n7:30 – 8:00 pm\nCross the line \nFolk music\, jazz harmonies and Afro-Puerto Rican rhythms\nPedro Pastrana – Puerto Rican cuatro \n\n\n8:00 – 8:30 pm\nJourney To A Mystical Realm\nEthno-Electro World Music from Arabia to India \nNarayan Sijan – Vocalist\, Instrumentalist\, Electronics\n\n\n8:30 – 9:15 pm\nCuarenTango \nThe voice of the heart Argentine tango                                                                    \nSumi Lee – Piano \nTeresa Tam – Vocal \nDaniel Fabricant – Bass\n\n\n9:15 -10:00 pm \n“Pastimes” \nQuinn Johnson Trio\nAfro Cuban\, Brazilian\, funk\, and jazz\nQuinn Johnson – piano \nChris Wabich – drums & percussion \nKevin Axt – bass\n\n\n\n  \nPROGRAM (ONLINE) JUNE 5th\n  \n \nInner Dialogue \nA collection of solo percussion compositions and improvisations. \nDESCRIPTION:  \nPercussion often exists as part of a larger ensemble to create sonic texture and rhythmic energy\, but I enjoy the challenge of creating standalone musical statements as a percussion soloist. This is a collection of composed and improvised pieces for solo percussion.  \nFeaturing: \nJames Yoshizawa- drum and percussion \nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nJames Yoshizawa is a versatile drummer\, percussionist and educator based in Los Angeles\, CA. As a drum set player\, he is most often involved in progressive\, original jazz ensembles such as the Nick Mancini Collective\, the Kim Project\, and Saga. He served as the bodhrán soloist and percussionist in the Broadway musical\, Come From Away in its 2016 run at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC. in 2019\, he was invited to Ireland to compete in the All-Ireland International Bones Competition where he was awarded 2nd place. He has also been a guest artist at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival in Fairbanks\, AK since 2013.  \n  \n \n“Cross the line” \nFolk music\, jazz harmonies\, and Afro-Puerto Rican rhythms.  \nDESCRIPTION:  \n“Rough around the edges\, Pedro’s acoustic chugging and carefully-placed melodic intricacy invoke an earthy quality into his sound\, creating an (extra) ordinary future with an instrument from the past.”  \nThis solo act is a representation of hope and all we have to endure to reach our potential and find the things we want most in life. The music combines the melodic elements of folk music\, jazz harmonies\, and Afro-Puerto Rican rhythms.” \nFeaturing: \nPedro Pastrana –  Puerto Rican cuatro \nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nPedro José Pastrana grew up playing the national instrument “cuatro”. His passion for discovery got him to move out of his native Puerto Rico and travel to different countries allowing him to explore other musical cultures. After years as a sideman\, all of these collaborations have been the spark for this original project\, fusing all of his influences into one story. With a passion for genre-bending rooted in folk music\, Pedro brings his dynamism to the fore and shows the versatility of the instrument in popular and world music.”   \n  \n \nJourney To A Mystical Realm \nEthno-Electro World Music from Arabia to India \nFeaturing: \nNarayan Sijan- Composer\, Producer\, Vocalist\, Instrumentalist\, Electronics \nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nComposer\, producer\, multi-instrumentalist & vocalist Narayan Sijan lived on the Silk Road from 1994-2006\, learning & performing music with mystics\, masters & locals. He creates musical storytelling from original compositions & traditional melodies. Electronic music is created by two-time GRAMMY nominee producer & programmer Carmen Rizzo whose credits range from Seal\, Coldplay A.R. Rahman to co-founding the world/electronic act Niyaz. Karavan Sarai’s recent album ‘TORN IN LOVE’ was selected as #22 of the Best World Music Albums of 2020\, while spending over 12 weeks in the Top Ten world music charts (NACC). Debut album Woven Landscapes (2015) reached #6 on the world music charts (CMJ). Painted Sands (2018) peaked at #4\, with over 10 weeks in the top ten world music charts (NACC). This evocative visual and sonic journey carries listeners to a nighttime courtyard of a virtual Silk Road palace\, the Karavan Sarai that gave the project its name. \nPerforming at large festivals from Bali Spirit Festival in Indonesia\, Spirit of Tengri in Kazakhstan & Lighting in a Bottle (LIB) in California to cultural art centers such as Makan in Egypt & CoSM (Alex Grey) in New York. \n  \n \nCuarenTango \nThe voice of the heart – Argentine tango. \nDESCRIPTION:  \nCuarenTango presents traditional and contemporary vocal tango pieces written & arranged by world-renowned maestros from the mid 20th century to the current time. The program will include a variety of duo and trio pieces including a Piano-Bass tango piece and Voice-Bass jazz pieces to add North American flavor. \nFeaturing: \nSumi Lee- Piano  \nTeresa Tam- Vocal \nDaniel Fabricant- Bass \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nSumi Lee is a classically trained pianist who obtained a master’s degree in music\, piano performance\, from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has also been professionally trained as a tango pianist from La Orquesta Escuela de Tango Emilio Balcarce\, the most prestigious tango orchestra school in the world sponsored by the city government of Buenos Aires. Lee is a widely respected piano teacher and is on the Board of Directors for the San Francisco branch of the Music Teachers’ Association of California. While living in Buenos Aires\, she performed with living maestros and musical directors such as Víctor Lavallén\, Jose Pepe Colangelo\, Osvaldo Piro\, Roberto Alvarez\, Daniel Binelli\, Mauricio Marceli\, Nicolas Ledesma\, and many more. Her latest concert at Teatro General San Martin in Buenos Aires was sold out to a large audience and aired live via national radio 2*4 and TV. Since moving back to the Bay Area in 2018 after receiving her diploma\, she has performed Argentine tango music in the U.S. and Asia with her own group and produced her own contemporary tango music.  \nTeresa Tam grew up playing violin in orchestras and singing in choirs since her childhood in Taiwan. As an undergrad\, Teresa made her solo debut with the prestigious American Bach Soloists right here in the Bay Area performing the Magnificat in D Major BWV 243 by J.S. Bach. She has had the honor of performing as a soloist under the direction of conductors Jeffrey Thomas\, Joshua Rifkin\, and more. After receiving her M.M. in vocal performance from Boston University\, she then began collaborating in various duos with jazz guitarists and performed as a featured soloist with jazz bands around the Bay Area. She rediscovered Argentine Tango both as a dancer and vocalist in 2018 and was once again pulled into the mesmerizing world of Tango music. After attending the Tango for Musician program with Tango Sin Fin\, she continued to collaborate with Tango musicians and performed all over the SF Bay Area. In 2019\, the voice and guitar Duo Telar was born with Argentine tango guitarist\, arranger\, and musical director Maxi Larrea. Together\, they weave together different genres of music and breathe new life into beautiful familiar melodies with playful harmonies and arrangements. When she is not busy performing\, she is empowering others by working as a vocal coach and crafting custom modern portraitures as a photographer for clients worldwide. \nDaniel Fabricant may be the most versatile bassist in San Francisco—and the most in-demand. Playing upright or electric\, he adapts to a wide range of musical settings\, from intimate chamber groups to sprawling dance bands and Latin ensembles. Fabricant has performed internationally with Piaf! The Show\, Michael Feinstein\, Betty Buckley\, Joan Rivers\, Spencer Day\, Ann Hampton Callaway\, Petula Clark\, and Mary Wilson of the Supremes\, among others. In the Bay Area\, he regularly plays with Lavay Smith And Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers\, Rupa and the April Fishes\, and Redwood Tango Ensemble. He has appeared at A.C.T.\, SFJAZZ\, Yoshi’s\, The Freight and Salvage\, and Feinstein’s\, and New York City venues including Jazz at Lincoln Center\, Café Carlyle\, and Carnegie Hall. Fabricant is also an accomplished music instructor\, teaching orchestra\, guitar\, bass\, and ukulele to students of all ages in private and group settings. \n  \n \n“Pastimes (from times past)”  |  Quinn Johnson Trio \nAfro Cuban\, Brazilian\, funk\, and jazz. \nDESCRIPTION:  \nQuinn Johnson Trio will perform songs from the newly released album “Pastimes (from times past)”\, a collection of original music by Quinn Johnson which was recorded during the pandemic and released 3/1/2021. This album represents a cross-section of American and world music as filtered through the lens of the composer’s life.  \nFeaturing: \nQuinn Johnson – piano \nChris Wabich – drums and percussion \nKevin Axt – bass \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nPianist and composer Quinn Johnson has lived in four different countries on three different continents and has played music from around the world with Cuban\, Brasilian\, Persian\, African\, Middle Eastern\, and Chinese artists. Some of those he has had the pleasure of working with include Rod Stewart\, Diana Ross\, Rita Coolidge\, Martin Short\, Jack Sheldon\, Diane Schuur\, Tom Scott\, Richard Carpenter\, Judith Hill\, Poncho Sanchez\,  Flora Purim\, Wayne Brady\, John Densmore (of The Doors)\, Elba Ramalho\, Down to the Bone\, Jerry Seinfeld\,  Airto Moreira\, Francisco Aguabella\, Christopher Cross\, Alvaro Torres and Dancing with the Stars (US/Canada tour).  Quinn was the music director/pianist for American songbook singer Steve Tyrell for 16 years. He is currently the music director for pop singer Debby Boone\, as well as piano/keyboardist for the Clare Fischer Big Band\, which received the 2013 Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album. \nQuinn has performed at jazz festivals around the globe\, including places such as Montreux\, Bangkok\, Vienne\, Recife (Brasil)\, Detroit\, San Jose\, Capetown\, Vitoria (Spain)\, and Syracuse. \nHe has performed on many TV shows including The Tonight Show\, The David Letterman Show\, The Today Show\, The View\, the Emmys\, America’s Got Talent\, and his playing can be heard on many TV shows as well as feature films. One of his compositions can be heard on the Emmy award-winning show “Homeland”.  \nQuinn has released several CDs on different labels\, and currently composes\, arranges\, and produces music for artists in various genres. His last release “TRIO con CLAVE“\, an exciting blend of American standards and Cuban rhythms\, continues to get airplay 5 years after its release. The new release “Pastimes (from times past)”\, is a collection of original music that Quinn composed over the past couple of decades\, performed with a diverse group of old friends. \nFrom Los Angeles\, Chris Wabich is a well-known\, original voice on drumset\, steel drum\, and percussion. The variety of artists he works with reflects his versatility as both musician and producer. He is heard with Ludacris\, Sting\, Leonard Cohen\, Stanley Jordan\, Brian Johnson (AC/DC) Sheila E.\, Mark Murphy\, the Zappa Family\, Larry Koonse\, Billy Vera\, Turkish superstar Omar Faruk\, Boogsie Sharpe\, and Prog Rock legends Kevin Ayers (Soft Machine)\, and Richard Sinclair (Caravan). Soundtracks include “Malcolm in the Middle”\, “American Idol”\, “Better Homes and Gardens”\, “Wild California” IMAX\, and Lalo Shifrin’s “After The Sunset”. \nChris has been arranging and producing projects including 7 Billboard charting hits for Margo Rey/John Oats (of Hall and Oats) Jason Paige (of Pokemon fame)\, Katisse\, Allen Hinds\, and Omar Faruk Tekbilek.. Chris has 9 Grammy nominations and has been a featured artist at 27 PAS Day of Percussion events. Chris is sponsored by INNOVATIVE PERCUSSION sticks\, TYCOON percussion\, ROLAND electronics\, TURKISH cymbals\, CADESON drums\, and REMO drumheads \nKevin Axt was born in Burbank and has been a freelance musician in LA since 1982. He began studying classical guitar at the age of 13\, later adding tuba\, electric bass\, and finally string bass to his instrumental arsenal by his late teens. He attended USC on an orchestral scholarship studying string bass with LA Phil co-principal bassist\, Dennis Trembley. He has performed\, recorded and toured with artists as diverse as Natalie Cole\, Jack McDuff\, Jimmy Smith\, Hank Jones\, Phil Woods\, Lalo Schifrin\, Shelby Lynne\, Queen Latifah\, Placido Domingo\, Pat Williams\, Russell Watson\, Patti Austin\, Bobby Shew\, Chuck Mangione\, Bernadette Peters\, Cristian Castro\, Lea Salonga\, KD Lang\, Dave Koz\, The Tierney Sutton Band\, David Benoit\, Bob Florence\, Mitch Forman and Chuck Loeb\, Robben Ford\, Jack Sheldon\, Etta James\, James Moody\, Christopher Cross\, Cheryl Bentyne\, Alan and Marilyn Bergman\, Glenn Frey\, and Melissa Manchester to name just a few.  \nKevin has performed on over 150 albums and has performed bass in dozens of theater\, film and television productions including La La Land (2016)\,  Ford v Ferrari (2019)\, and Crazy Rich Asians (2018). Kevin has played on projects that have garnered a total of 12 Grammy nominations. \n  \nPREVIEW THE PERFORMANCE  \nJames Yoshizawa – Bodhrán Improvisation | Elevator Music \n \n  \nPedro Pastrana – Cuatro (Latin American string instrument)  \n \n  \nNarayan Sijan| Karavan Sarai live at Red Poppy Art House \n \n  \nTeresa Tam -Vocal | Corazón Tango at Red Poppy Art House \n \n  \nDaniel Fabricant- Bass | The Nice Guy Trio  \n \n  \nSumi Lee- Piano | Zamba de Usted \n \n  \nPastimes (from times past)| Promo for the new CD from Quinn Johnson \n \n  \nCURRENT WINDOW EXHIBITION\n  \n \n  \nPortrait of Place | Lauren Bartone \nThe current exhibition on view in the windows of The Red Poppy Art House \nARTIST STATEMENT \nMaking art is how I raise a question or explore a problem. This means my work is often driven by subject matter that I have personal experience with; subjects from my daily life that challenge me. Paper trash\, found objects\, and site-specific materials become important in my work because of the experiences they reference. In public works\, I produce images with the materials brought to the project by participants\, and the result is the product of some form of dialogue. In my paintings and sculptures\, the materials are borrowed from everyday life and are transformed\, or are represented as subject matter. In either case\, I enjoy finding meaning in the little bits of refuse that are leftover from my daily life. \n  \nONLINE EVENT DETAILS \nTime: June 5th\, 2021\, 7:00 pm -10:00 pm  \nAdmission: Free (donations are encouraged) \nTune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection. \nThe event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page \n\n \n  \nDONATE URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/mapp-20210605/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Events,June,MAPP,Performing Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/WEBSITE-MAPP-JUNE-5_21-poster-Template.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210529T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210529T200000 DTSTAMP:20211103T162303Z CREATED:20210528T183733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211103T162303Z UID:13534-1622314800-1622318400@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:Celebrating CARNAVAL SAN FRANCISCO 2021 with Raizes do Choro e Samba (Online Premiere) DESCRIPTION:Date: Saturday\, May 29\, 2021\nTime: 7 pm- 8pm (Online Video Premiere)\nAdmission: Suggested donation of $5\nPaypal: donations@redpoppyarthouse.org\nWebsite: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NjcwOQ== \nA Virtual presentation in celebration of CARNAVAL SAN FRANCISCO 2021! \nWith Raizes do Choro e Samba – a project between the Bay and Brasillllll!\n(Samba\, Choro\, Maxixe\, Samba de Raiz\, Brazilian Music) \nFEATURING: \nMusicians in Brazil:\n· Mayté Corrêa – Vocal (Niteroi/Rio)\n· Claudia Villela – Vocal (Santa Cruz\, CA)\n· Harvey Weinapel – Clarinet/Sax – (Berkeley\, CA)\n· Whatson Cardoso – Clarinet – Niteroi/Rio\n· Tiago Souza – (bandolim)\n· Ronaldo do Bandolim – (bandolim) Rio/Niteroi\n· Rogério Souza Violão 7 – cordas Rio/Niteroi – Production in Niteroi with Brazilian musicians in Brazil and arranger\n· Felipe Tauil engineer – Rio/Niteroi and afoxé on Pelo Telefone \nMusicians in EUA\n· Edinho Gerber – Violão 7-cordas Rio/Niteroi & Video edits\n· Claudia Villela – Vocal – (Santa Cruz\, CA)\n· Ami Molinelli – Percussion (pandeiro and percussion/producer – (San Francisco\, CA)\n· Vanessa Isaac – Dance – Santa Barbara (on Pandu-cada and Alfa-Zema\n· Dan Feiszli – Engineer\n· Celso Alberti – Engineer \nSPECIAL GUESTS\n· Jane Lenoir flute on De Mal a Pior – Berkeley\, CA\n· Brian Moran – Cavaco on Pelo Telefone – El Cerrito\, CA\n· Liza Wallace – Harp on “alfazema”\n· Clarice Cast – Percussino on “Alfazema” (Los Angeles\, CA)\n· Youth Ensemble led by Zack Pitt Smith: with Ananya Goenga and Zoe King \n  \nMusicians Ami Molinelli\, Rogerio Souza\, and Edinho Gerber\, (Duo Violão + 1) will expand the choro repertoire and further explore the roots and intersections of choro and samba featuring a virtual presentation of songs including musicians in Brazil and the US. The trio Duo Violão + 1 will expand to feature vocalist\, Claudia Villela\, and clarinetist\, Harvey Wainapel\, as well as a huge line-up of special guests like Ronaldo do Bandolim\, Whatson Cardoso (clarinet)\, Tiago Souza (mandolin)\, and Rio based vocalist Mayte Correira. Local guests include Jane Lenoir (flute) and Brian Moran (Cavaco). In addition\, a newly commissioned piece by Brazilian dancer Vanessa Isaac will premier with a 4-pandeiro composition by Ami Molinelli. This show will feature a blend of compositions to highlight the links between choro and urban samba as showcase a gender balance of choro and samba composers with compositions by Chiquinha Gonzaga and Dona Ivone Lara as well as original choro and 4 pandeiro piece for dance and feature “Pelo Telefone” the first official samba and showcase historical references that are lesser-known to Brazil’s musical history.\n_________________________\nThis event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House‘s main Facebook page at\nhttps://www.facebook.com/RedPoppyArtHouse \nTune in 10 minutes before the event starts to test your devices for connection. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nAmi Molinelli is a professional percussionist and educator specializing in Brazilian and Latin percussion. Ami received her Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts. Her performance and recording credits include theater\, television (NBC). She is a freelance performing artist as well. She is endorsed by Latin Percussion (LP) and Rhythm Tech. \nHer last album\, História do Choro with Duo Violão Brasl + 1 was released in 2019 and was celebrated as one of the best jazz albums from the Bay Area for 2019. (Andy Gilbert\, San Jose Mercury News) She is a two-time San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Recipient 2018 and 2020. \nSaxophonist/clarinetist Harvey Wainapel has his feet firmly planted in two musical worlds. His jazz experience has led to performances and/or recordings with the likes of McCoy Tyner\, Kenny Barron\, Joe Henderson\, and the Metropole Orchestra. He has toured internationally with Ray Charles\, Joe Lovano\, and Airto Moreira/Flora Purim. \nClaudia Villela’s voice gets all the attention\, and it’s easy to understand why. Her glorious five-octave instrument is one of the wonders of jazz\, lithe and startlingly beautiful in every register. Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro\, she sings mostly in Portuguese\, interpreting lyrics with keen emotional insight and supple rhythmic command. A supremely inventive scat singer\, she has honed a vivid vocabulary of sounds that can evoke the hollow thump of a tabla drum\, the muted trumpet of Miles Davis\, the insistent twang of a berimbau\, the ethereal call of a flute\, or the distortion-laden Stratocaster licks of Jimi Hendrix. In recent years\, Villela’s international reputation as a performer and composer has continued to grow through appearances at the world’s most prestigious jazz festivals and clubs. \nA master of both 6 and 7 string guitars\, Rogério Souza is one of the foremost representatives of the music of Rio de Janeiro. Rogério is constantly producing and performing in concerts and events that showcase traditional Brazilian music\, especially Samba and Choro. He has worked with a multitude of world class Brazilian Musicians as musical director and producer for concerts\, TV shows\, CDs\, and DVDs. Some of these artists include: Baden Powell\, Paulinho da Viola\, Sivuca\, Ney Matogrosso\, Altamiro Carrilho\, João Bosco\, Paulo Moura\, Ivan Lins\, Guinga\, Turíbio Santos\, Rafael Rabello\, Cristovão Bastos\, Nó em Pingo D’agua\, Época de Ouro\, Elizeth Cardoso\, Elza Soares\, João Nogueira\, Dona Ivone Lara\, Nelson Cavaquinho\, Guilherme de Brito\, Delcio Carvalho\, Martinho da Vila\, and Zeca Pagodinho. \nEdinho Gerber possesses a rich musical vocabulary developed in the two countries where he was raised: the United States and Brazil. Navigating effortlessly between the genres of choro\, jazz\, samba\, and blues\, he is always in search of the intersection points within his dual cultural identity. A staple in the Chicago music scene for many years\, he was a highly in-demand sideman having played with countless U.S.-based Brazilian groups\, including Som Brasil\, Renato Anesi Trio\, A Cor do Brasil\, and led the samba-jazz group Zona Sul. \nDancer: Vanessa Agle Isaac is a performer\, choreographer\, dance educator\, producer\, and writer. She is the artistic director and choreographer for the Vanessa Isaac Dance Company. Her choreography finds inspiration in her homeland\, Brazil. In her work\, she fuses Contemporary dance with Samba and diverse Brazilian dances and rhythms.\nVanessa co-directed and co-produced the show “From Africa To The Americas”. Choreographed and danced for the show of “Raoni\, Um Tango a Brasiliera” music by Brazilian composer Paris Psaros. She has been a guest choreographer and performer for the Los Angeles International Jazz Festival\, Anatomy Riot Contemporary Dance Project in Los Angeles\, Heal the Ocean Organization\, and for the Santa Barbara Choreographers Forum.\nOther illustrious guests: Ronaldo do Bandolim (Mandolin)\, Whatson Cardoso (Clarinet)\, Tiago Souza (mandolin) Mayte Correia (vocals) Felipe Tauil (percussion)\, Jane Lenoir\, (Flute) Brian Moran (Cavaco/guitar) \, Zack Pitt-Smith (Reeds) and the youth choro-stra\, Clarice Cast (Brazilian percussionist in LA) and harpist Liza Wallace (LA) ”\n_______________________________\nLEARN MORE:\nwww.amimo.com FB: @amimolinellihart \n \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 7 – 8 pm\nAdmission: (Online) FREE  \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/carnaval-san-francisco-20210529/ LOCATION:Online\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,May,Performing Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/redpoppy-art-house.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210403T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210403T220000 DTSTAMP:20211103T162159Z CREATED:20210330T060302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211103T162159Z UID:13466-1617447600-1617487200@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:April 3rd MAPP (Online): In solidarity with the Asian community DESCRIPTION:April 3rd @ 11am- 12:00 pm | Visual Art Workshop | Exhibition  \nApril 3rd @ 7:00- 10:00 pm |  Performances   \nClick here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming on Facebook. \n  \nRed Poppy Art House’s April MAPP is dedicated to the victims and families of the Atlanta spa shootings. \n“In solidarity with the Asian community”  \nIn response to the senseless atrocities that occurred recently toward people of Asian descent\, the Red Poppy Art House stands in solidarity with the Asian community and any person on this planet who experiences racial injustice. It is clear there is much progress to be made as a society to create a more just and equitable world\, but we take comfort in knowing that our staff\, board members\, artists\, and community stand with us in denouncing all acts of hate and mistreatment. The Red Poppy’s greatest strength and the beating heart of our programming itself is a melting pot of cultures that delivers self-expression and education in its truest form. Without diverse voices and cultural expression\, we simply would not exist. Please join us at this moment and here forward to support our fellow Asians and Asian-Americans and take every opportunity to stand up for equality and the rights we all deserve\, as one community. \nDuring these challenging times\, it is our goal to continue providing uplifting programs to you and we are pleased to announce our sixth online FREE MAPP program. Our MAPP FESTIVAL program includes a Multimedia presentation and music performance\, honoring Asian American history and culture\, 4 music performances\, a shadow Puppet project\, and a visual art workshop and will be live-streamed from the artist’s homes to your homes. Live streaming on Facebook \nNow\, more than ever\, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community window and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.  \nMake a gift to Red Poppy Art House today!  \nRed Poppy Art House Needs You \nLaunched in 2003\, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly\, multidisciplinary\, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year\, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces\, such as private garages\, gardens\, living rooms\, studios\, street corners\, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities.  Due to COVID-19\, we have temporarily changed this dynamic program from an onsite to an online series. Thanks to the mastery and innovation of the presenting artists and curatorial vision we are pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continues to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We look forward to the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.   \nThis program is funded by the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and California Arts Council Local Impact Grant and will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve. \n  \nRED POPPY MAPP TEAM: \nCurator: Dina Zarif / Artistic Director  \nTech support and moderator: Leeav Sofer \nPR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary \n  \nRPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) SATURDAY APRIL 3RD\n  \n\n\n\nTHE MORNING VISUAL ART WORKSHOP \n\n\nTime\nPerformance/Event\nDescription\nArtists\n\n\n11:00 -11:10 am\nIntroduction\, Artist meet and greet | RPAH window Exhibition\nCurator Dina Zarif will greet the Artist; Introduction about the current Window exhibition at RPAH: “Portrait of Place \nLauren Bartone –  Visual Artist \n\n\n11:10 am -12:00 pm\nCreative Map Making workshop \nUsing Found Materials to Create a Portrait of Place\nLauren Bartone –  Visual Artist \n\n\nTHE EVENING PROGRAM & PERFORMANCES \n\n\nTime\nPerformance/Event\nDescription\nArtists\n\n\n7:00- 7:05 pm\nIntroduction\, Artists meet and greet \nCurator Dina Zarif and MC Leeav Sofer will greet the Artists\, and present the \nperformance program \n \n\n\n7:05 – 7:35 pm\nHOME IN ASIAN AMERICA\nMultimedia + Live music honoring Asian American history\nKyoko Takenaka – Director\, musician\, filmmaker\, and actor\n\n\n7:35 – 8:00 pm\nA little bird\, a little light\nStories of spring sung with gayageum\, folky Korean tunes from China\nJoyce Kwon – voice & gayageum (traditional Korean instrument)\n\n\n8:00 – 8:30\nSongs from the Saint Joan Suite\nMusic and Shadow puppet performance\nAli Dineen – voice and piano and Shadow Puppet \n\n\n8:30 – 9:15 pm\nLouda y Los Bad Hombres\nMusic\, Art\, Activism\, Nuevo Latino Soul\nAlex Shapiro-romano – Drums \nDave Eagle – Percussion \nJeff Gomez – Percussion \nLeo Nava – Guitar \nMarley Edwards –  Bass \nLouda Laura Camacho – Vocals\n\n\n9:15 – 10 pm \nTRIO CAMINOS | Acoustic Rivers\nLatin\, Flamenco\, Jazz and Venezuelan Music (Joropo\, Vals\, Merengue)\nCarlos Caminos- Guitar \nSascha Jacobsen – Bass  \nMarlon Aldana- Percussion \n\n\n\n  \nWORKSHOP: SATURDAY  APRIL 3rd @ 11 am\nCreative Map Making | Lauren Bartone \nUsing Found Materials to Create a Portrait of Place \n \nWORKSHOP DESCRIPTION \nUsing paint and collage materials found from our homes or local neighborhood\, we will make a creative map of our space. These collages will function as a kind of interpretive portrait of a place\, one that reflects the way we see it and use it. \nMATERIALS \n     \n  \nA printed map of your house\, block\, neighborhood or city\, glue stick\, or elmer’s glue\, scissors\, cardboard and/or drawing paper\, drawing pencil\, pens\, watercolors\, brushes\, and paper scraps such as paper bags\, receipts\, junk mail\, flyers\, clean food packaging. Anything you can think of. \n                 \nNext Level Materials  \nReady to go pro? Use an exacto knife and cutting mat instead of scissors. Use an illustration board instead of cardboard. Use PVA glue and a brush instead of a glue stick. \n \nARTIST BIO: \nLauren Bartone is grounded in an interdisciplinary balance of painting\, community dialogue\, and \ncollective work. After initially studying painting in Florence\, she completed a BA in fine art at UCLA in 2002. This was followed by an MA in Education at UC Berkeley in 2005 and an MFA at VCFA in 2012. In 2015 she produced her project A City in Maps as artist in residence at the deYoung Museum of Art in San Francisco\, and later created other interactive projects with the deYoung\, including Paradise and A Map for the Centennial of the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Additional artist residencies include Kala and Art Works Downtown. In 2016 she partnered with the San Francisco Arts Council to make SF New City Atlas for the Art on Market Street poster series\, and more recently she produced a series of paintings and small sculptures exploring the value of domestic labor for her solo show 16 Tons\, at the College of Marin Gallery. Her work has been generously supported with grants by the Pirkle Jones Foundation\, the Marin Arts Council\, and the VCFA Levin/Lutz Award. She currently lives with her partner and three children in downtown San Rafael. \nFor You \n\n \n  \nCURRENT WINDOW EXHIBITION: APRIL – JUNE\nPortrait of Place | Lauren Bartone \nThe current exhibition on view in the windows of The Red Poppy Art House \n \nARTIST STATEMENT \nMaking art is how I raise a question or explore a problem. This means my work is often driven by subject matter that I have personal experience with; subjects from my daily life that challenge me. Paper trash\, found objects\, and site-specific materials become important in my work because of the experiences they reference. In public works\, I produce images with the materials brought to the project by participants\, and the result is the product of some form of dialogue. In my paintings and sculptures\, the materials are borrowed from everyday life and are transformed\, or are represented as subject matter. In either case\, I enjoy finding meaning in the little bits of refuse that are leftover from my daily life. \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPROGRAM (ONLINE) APRIL 3rd\n \nVideo: “ASIAN AMERICAN BLUES” by Kyoko Takenaka \n“HOME IN ASIAN AMERICA” \nMultimedia + Live music + q&a from artist Kyoko Takenaka \nDirector\, musician\, filmmaker\, and actor Kyoko Takenaka will perform “If We All Wait\,” a powerful song about Asian American history; and share segments from their multimedia piece\, “HOME\,” and “Kung Flu Virus: Come Fly Me Away” followed by a short Q&A. \nArtist Statement \nAs a first generation Japanese-American artist living in Tongva Land\, I have found myself yearning to explore just what it means to “go back to your country” during the time of COVID-19—when Anti-Asian hate crimes continue to rise in America. I have never lived in Japan and grew up in the states all of my life. But this land\, Tongva land\, was never ours to claim and it feels Asian- Americans are constantly and starkly reminded that no matter our journey\, no matter how many decades or generations of pursuing the American dream\, we can always belong\, but rarely feel a complete belonging. \n        I compare my yearning to my parents: \n       What myths do we each hold about the promise of faraway places? \nDedicated to Vicha Ratanapakdee\, Soon Chung Park\, Hyun Jung Grant\, Suncha Kim\, Yong Yue\, Delaina Ashley Yaun\, Xiaojie Tan\, Daoyou Feng\, and all of our Asian-American elders who moved to America\, with this promise and hope of faraway places. \nVideo: KUNG FLU VIRUS: COME FLY ME AWAY \nWhy are you keeping me here? You said I don’t belong here – Kung flu Virus\, come fly me away.” \n “I feel like I’m exploring three sides of me here in Japan – \none that feels distinctly American\, that feels like a lucky giddy visitor taking it all in for the first time; one that deeply and ancestrally remembers the familiarity of this land and can finally breathe easier and tread lightly; \nand the curious non-binary Asian-American artist that holds both dualities\, and explores a new creative space where their art is no longer driven entirely by diasporic anger. \nBut it’s that same curiosity that is often met with this deep isolation and knowing—that no matter where I physically go\, I will never be separated from this rooted anger and grief\, or be able to escape the never-ending longing for home.” \nVideo: “Home” by Kyoko Takenaka Video info: “These are real-life audio recordings from men who came up to me in bars. I made this film\, HOME\, encapsulating over 7 years of recorded micro-aggressions. It’s a visual + sonic collage of my experiences growing up in America as an Asian-American femme.” – Kyoko Takenaka  \nIn “Home\,” artist and filmmaker Kyoko Takenaka unveil a visual and sonic portrait of belonging and memory in four chapters. Calling upon the experiences that underline their otherness as an Asian-American\, the film chronicles their contemplations through original song and poetry\, as well as video clips\, audio recordings\, and digital conversations captured from real-life experiences over the span of seven years. Through references to pop culture\, racist imitations of Asians\, and a defining return to their childhood home\, “Home” is a multimedia statement on how the affirmation of culture\, resistance\, and resilience can disrupt enduring myths and redeem our histories. \nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nKyoko Takenaka (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary performance artist\, actor\, musician\, filmmaker\, and movement facilitator based between Tongva land (L.A.)\, Tokyo\, and London. Their name Kyoko means “vibrations of sound child” in Japanese. Kyoko believes in artistic expression as a conduit for personal and collective liberation and is constantly exploring un-binary ways of thinking\, moving\, and creating. \nTakenaka’s multimedia piece\, “Home\,” has garnered much attention in the media this past week\, and has been recognized by the Japan Film Festival\, L.A. Shorts International Film Festival\, the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival\, and performed at the Japanese American National Museum and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. \nThey are also the guitarist/singer-songwriter of the queer multi- continental band\, ‘Wastewomxn’\, channeling diasporic experience and Afro-Asian unity and liberation through their work. \n____________________________________________________________________________ \n \nA little bird\, a little light \nStories of spring sung with gayageum \nA folky Korean tune from China\, a yearning waltz from Brazil\, and a midcentury ballad from the States\, plus Joyce’s original songs on gayageum  \nFeaturing: \nJoyce Kwon – voice & gayageum (traditional Korean instrument) \nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nJoyce Kwon is a singer\, composer\, and gayageum player making folk music for folks of the diaspora. She released her album “Dream of Home” for those who reside in between\, marginalized in their homeland and out of place in the motherland. A graduate of UC Berkeley\, Joyce is the eldest of three sister bears (go bears!) and got her master’s degree in jazz voice at the Manhattan School of Music\, before continuing her gayageum studies in Seoul. She now resides in Los Angeles\, looking forward to a future of sitting in cramped restaurants with friends and wearing shoes without holes. \n____________________________________________________________________________ \nAli Dineen \nSongs from the Saint Joan Suite \nAli Dineen will perform songs from the work in progress\, the Saint Joan Suite\, based on the life and transgender identity of the historical figure and Saint Joan of Arc. Ali began this project while in a residency in the winter of 2020 and has been developing it ever since. Ali will also perform a shadow puppet “cranky” based on a song from the Georgia Sea Islands. \nFeaturing: \nAli Dineen – voice and piano and Shadow Puppet  \nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nHailing from Queens NY\, Ali Dineen is an artist & teacher who has performed her original music regularly in New York City and across the so-called United States. Ali’s lyrics highlight the intersections between personal experience\, larger histories\, and systems of power. Ali has performed at the Museum of Art and Design\, the Caramoor American Roots Music Festival\, the Savannah Music Festival\, the American Folk Art Museum\, and the Brooklyn Folk Festival. Ali was awarded the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency in Taos\, New Mexico in the winter of 2020. Ali teaches voice and harmony at the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music\, works with local Brooklyn puppet troupe extraordinaire The Boxcutter Collective\, and performs in a duet with Feral Foster. Ali released her third album\, “Hold On\,”  in February of 2020.  \n__________________________________________________________________________ \n \nLouda y Los Bad Hombres \nMusic\, Art\, Activism\, Nuevo Latino Soul \nLouda y Los Bad Hombres are a paella of art\, music and activism surging from San Francisco. Including acoustic bass\, Latin\, and other eccentric percussions\, Louda y Los Bad Hombres house a signature bilingual sound blending Latin and American rhythms with performance excellence led by charismatic powerhouse vocalist\, Louda. Tune into this Nuevo Latino Soul group with original compositions and reimagined classics\, streaming everywhere. They were featured in the Bay Area’s Longest running bilingual newspaper\, El Tecolote\, for performing at The Chapel pre-pandemic\, December 2019. \nInstagram\, Facebook\, Spotify \nFeaturing: \nAlex Shapiro-romano – Drums \nDave Eagle – Percussion \nJeff Gomez – Art And Percussion \nLeo Nava – Guitar \nMarley Edwards –  Bass \nLouda Laura Camacho – Vocals \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nAlex Shapiro- Romano grew up in the Bay Area and has been playing drums since he was a boy. During high school\, he was the drummer in the Berkeley High Jazz Ensemble and won multiple awards. Alex graduated from the California Jazz Conservatory in 2019 with a B.M. in jazz studies. While going to CJC he met the Bad Hombres and Louda. In addition to playing drums\, Alex composes and produces music.  \nMarley Edwards is from Redwood City. He started playing electric bass about 15 years ago and then moved to stand-up bass not long after. He has studied Jazz music for 8 years\, first at the College of San Mateo\, and then at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley where he received a B.M. in Jazz studies in May 2019. Marley is interested in playing different styles of music in an authentic way\, especially music from other countries. Hearing music from his mother’s home country of Nicaragua has no doubt led to this interest.  \nJeff Gomez is a graphic artist and musician living in San Francisco. He has been drawing since before he can walk. In high school\, he picked up guitar and drums to further his creative adventures. He left his Southern California home to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. His style in art\, music\, and life has always been influenced by the vibrant colors and melodies of his Mexican American upbringing\, and his curiosity and admiration of all cultures. \nLeo Nava‘s interest in music began at three years old in the backyard of Tia’s house warming party. A mariachi band had been hired to play\, and they found their biggest fan in little Leo\, who stood in front of them\, enamored\, through the whole party. Since then Leo has spent a lifetime studying\, composing\, teaching\, and playing music. He graduated from the California Jazz Conservatory in 2016 with a BM in Jazz Studies. Since then he has focused on teaching and composing and arranging music for Louda y Los Bad Hombres. His goal is to blend music from his Latinx heritage with modern jazz and hip-hop.  \nDave Eagle is a Berkeley native who has been playing percussion before he could walk. His musical abilities were greatly influenced by his father\, who is a conga drummer and a collector of world music\, and Capoeira Mestre who introduced him to Brazilian culture and music. Now you can find him in the community playing weekly at a church and at many senior centers throughout the Bay Area. He also plays most nights at local venues with different bands\, playing many styles and instruments; including New Orleans\, Boogie and Blues washboard\, Brazilian\, Latin\, Reggae\, and more. Dave lives his life trying to spread the love of music to make people happy and dance!  \nLaura Camacho\, a Chicago native\, has been creating in the Bay Area since 2017. Beginning her classical career at Jones College Prep\, she pursued a BA in Music at Northeastern Illinois University\, where she took part in classical\, theatrical\, and jazz ensembles. From 2011 to 2014\, she began her commercial assent into the music industry joining the Chicago ska band\, Run and Punch. Without haste\, she launched her solo career as LOUDA. Since 2017\, LOUDA y Los Bad Hombres has been a collaborative ensemble of Art\, Music\, and Activism. Switching stages\, Laura is also a music teacher and has been MC/host for local not-for-profit events. \n__________________________________________________________________________ \n \nTRIO CAMINOS \nAcoustic Rivers \nTRIO CAMINOS puts together a fun mix of rhythms\, grooves\, and musical styles including Latin\, Flamenco\, Jazz\, and Venezuelan Music (Joropo\, Vals\, Merengue). Lifelong performers are coming together on this occasion for some serious jamming to uplift our spirits. \nFeaturing: \nCarlos Caminos- Guitar \nSascha Jacobsen – Bass  \nMarlon Aldana- Percussion  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nMarlon Aldana\, Drummer and Percussionist born in Guadalajara\, Mexico. Aldana is a multi-genre accompanist and educator based in Berkeley California. As a young musician\, Aldana exposed himself to many styles\, and joined many groups\, from Cumbia and Salsa to Rock\, Funk\, and Metal.  Aldana has shared stage with renowned artists such as Flamenco guitarists and Grammy Award winner Antonio Rey\, Legendary Rumbero John Santos\, former Pedrito Martinez pianist Edgar Pantoja\, Jazz Mafia\, Jose Luis de La Paz\, Bay Area Bassist Jeff Chambers\, Flamenco Pianist Alex Conde\, Flamenco singers Mara Rey\, Jose Mendez\, Jesus Montoya\, Manuel Moreno Carrasco\, Flamenco Dancers Alfonso Losa\, Andres Peña\, Ivan Vargas\, Juan Ogalla\, Fanny Ara and may others. \nIn 2018 and 2019 Aldana collaborated and accompanied the Oakland Symphony led by Conductor Omid Zoufonoun. Thanks to his career trajectory Aldana was granted a scholarship at the California Jazz Conservatory where he currently studies. Aldana is now working on building an independent home studio and writing/composing some material of his own. \nSascha Jacobsen was born into a musical family\, going as far back as his great\, great\, great\, great-grandfather\, who was a bassist for the Moscow Opera. He completed a Master’s degree at the University of Southern California and has served on the faculty at The California Jazz Conservatory\, Humboldt State University\, Laney College\, Golden Gate Bass Camp\, and the Sequoia Chamber Music Festival. Sascha has performed with  Kronos Quartet\, Rita Moreno\, Hugh Jackman\, Martin Short\, Mandy Patinkin & Patti LuPone\, Marc Shaiman\, Bonnie Raitt\, Randy Newman\, Josh Groban\, Kristin Chenoweth\, Andrew Lippa\, and many others. He is the founder of the Musical Art Quintet which performs his original works. Strad Magazine says his music is “…Stylish and Vigorous…beautifully arranged”. SF Bay Guardian says “composer-bassist Sascha Jacobsen’s concoctions hop nimbly through a world of styles while impressing with ear-catching intricacy and handsome technique.”. East Bay Express says “Classical Music is sexy again”.  SF Weekly says: “Classical training and a taste for evocative melodies underpin this sound”. \nHe is in demand as a performer\, composer\, and arranger with commissions from the San Francisco Arts Council\, San Jose Chamber Orchestra\, San Jose Dance\, San Jose Youth Symphony\, Berkeley Youth Symphony\, and SF Friends of Chamber Music.   \nCarlos Caminos is a Venezuelan-American musician\, composer\, and performer with over 25 years of experience performing as a Guitarist. A long career has taken him on a journey of very diverse projects and collaborations. His project\, Caminos Music is the result of years developing a passion for learning: Flamenco (Bulerías\, Soleá por Bulería\, Alegrías\, Fandangos de Huelva\, among others)\, Latin Music (Salsa\, Bolero\, Son\, Tangos\, Cumbia\, and more)\, Venezuelan Music (Joropo\, Vals\, Merengue) and Latin Jazz. \nCarlos Caminos has co-founded several projects: Raíz de Agua\, a Live Music and Theatrical Dance group with choreographer Juliana Mendonca and music producer Jorge Espinoza; Latifonía\, a project of Latin American and European Music for Band and Symphonic Orchestra; A Tono Acústico\, contemporary Venezuelan Music; New Caminos Duo\, Piano – Guitar recitals with Classical Pianist Sebastian New; Trio Caminos\, Flamenco\, and Latin American Music acoustic music project. He has lived in different countries\, attaining musical experience from diverse sources. Growing up and performing in South America made Latin Music part of his musical heritage. Studying in Granada\, Spain\, with local Flamenco Guitar teachers allowed him to dive further into this unique guitar culture. Living in the U.S.A. has set the stage for interaction with great artists working for very diverse projects that include Physical Theater\, Contemporary Dance\, art shows\, Tango music\, Reggae\, Flamenco\, Electronic music\, and more. \n  \nPREVIEW THE PERFORMANCE  \nAsian American Blues by Kyoko Jinjabrew \n\n \n\nDream of home … but don’t go back there by Joyce Kwon \n\n \n\nlittle bird by Joyce Kwon \n\n \n\nI Know Moonlight\, I Know Starlight by Ali Dineen \n\n \n\n  \nLouda y Los Bad Hombres \n\n \n\nMARIA LAYA: New Caminos Duo \n\n \n\nTrio Caminos @RPAH \n\n \n\nACreative Map Making | Lauren Bartone \n\n \n\nONLINE EVENT DETAILS \nTime: June 5th\, 2021\, 7:00 pm -10:00 pm  \nAdmission: Free (donations are encouraged) \nTune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection. \nThe event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/mapp-20210403/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:April,Events,MAPP,Performing Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/pasted-image-0.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210207T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210207T160000 DTSTAMP:20210202T233159Z CREATED:20210202T094734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210202T233159Z UID:13365-1612710000-1612713600@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:February 7th MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts | Workshop | Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Feb 7th @ 3:00-4:00 pm | Visual Art Workshop  \nFeb 6th @ 7:00- 10:00 pm | Performance  \nClick here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming on Facebook. \nDuring these challenging times\, it is our goal to continue providing excellent and uplifting programs to you and we are pleased to announce our fifth online FREE MAPP program. Our TWO DAY MAPP FESTIVAL program includes 4 music performances on February 6th and a visual art workshop on February 7th and will be live-streamed from artists’ homes to your homes. Live streaming on Facebook \nPerformances on February 6th \nNow\, more than ever\, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community\, and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.  \nMake a gift to Red Poppy Art House today!  \nRed Poppy Art House Needs You \nLaunched in 2003\, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly\, multidisciplinary\, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year\, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces\, such as private garages\, gardens\, living rooms\, studios\, street corners\, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities.  Due to COVID-19\, we have temporarily changed this dynamic program from an onsite to an online series. Thanks to the mastery and innovation of the presenting artists and curatorial vision we are pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continues to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We look forward to the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.   \nThis program is funded by California Arts Council Local Impact Grant and  Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve. \nRED POPPY MAPP TEAM: \nCurator: Dina Zarif / Artistic Director  \nTech support: Leeav Sofer \nPR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary \n  \nFEBRUARY  7TH  WORKSHOP \n\n\n\n\nSUNDAY\, FEBRUARY 7 TH  \n\n\n\nTime\nPerformance/Event\nDescription\nArtists\n\n\n3:00- 3:10 pm \nIntroduction\, Artist meet and greet | RPAH window Exhibition\nCurator Dina Zarif will greet the Artist\, Introduction about the current Window exhibition at RPAH: “Hold me in the Palm of your Hand” \nAndrea Guskin -Visual Artist\n\n\n3:10 – 4:00 pm\nWorkshop: Between the Palm Lines\, Layers of Home\nRubbings\, Transfers\, Tape and String: Using Everyday Objects to Create Meaningful Artworks \nAndrea Guskin -Visual Artist\n\n\n\n  \nCURRENT WINDOW EXHIBITION:  FEBRUARY – APRIL\n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n [Show thumbnails]\n \n\nHold me in the Palm of your Hand | Andrea Guskin \nCurrent exhibition on view in the windows of The Red Poppy Art House \nARTIST STATEMENT \nUsing the everyday materials of mending\, my work explores the layers of social and emotional experience related to ancestry\, immigration\, and domestic life. Thread and cord are sewn\, tied and knotted: they speak of the tight ropes we all walk\, each step composed of mundane and extraordinary moments\, containing influences both known and unknown. The work is designed to move beyond the boundaries of the art object\, mapping paths that become routes of connection and experience.  \n \nHold me in the Palm of your Hand\, the current exhibition on view in the windows of The Red Poppy Art House\, began during the first two months of sheltering in place in 2020. Missing friends and family\,  I started asking them to send an image of their palm. Staring at the lines of their palm\, I began to sew them into the canvas: building the lines of my loved ones little by little\, piece by piece\, brought me closer to them in my mind. The paintings created alongside them speak of the water\, land\, and bridges that lie between the people represented as palm lines as well as the tangible absence and distance that exists between us.  For more info please visit www.andreaguskin.com \nARTIST BIO: \nAndrea Guskin is a San Francisco Bay Area artist who was raised amongst the woods and college campuses of Wisconsin and Ohio. She began drawing by pillaging her father’s office supplies for fine tip pens and yellow pads\, filling them with costumed figures while lounging on a 1970’s shag carpet. \nAfter studying painting at Antioch college\, Andrea moved to NYC and became a part of the art and songwriter community on the Lower East Side\, joining a group of artists working without heat in an 1897 former school building (now known as The Clemente). It was here that the figures in her paintings began to deconstruct into minimal skeletal portraits in black and white\, which formed the bridge to her architectural tape drawings and her abstract explorations related to the home. \nSince moving to the Bay Area in 2003\, Andrea has expanded the materials and themes she works with–incorporating small ordinary objects and domestic mending materials such as thread\, burnt matches\, cotton rounds\, tape\, and rubber bands. She uses these objects to explore ideas related to domesticity\, refuge\, and ancestry. \nAndrea has recently added a participatory community aspect to her work\, merging her years in museum education (The Oakland Museum/The Contemporary Jewish Museum) and her art practice. One example is the ongoing From Where to Here Project\, a series of events in which participants are invited to reflect on their own and their families’ journeys to the Bay Area.  \nIn 2020\, Andrea founded Virtual Cultural Connections\, a Bay Area program designed to promote cultural awareness in schools and support local artists. She currently lives and works in San Leandro with her husband and two sons. \n  \nWORKSHOP: SUNDAY\, FEBRUARY  7TH\n \nBetween the Palm Lines\, Layers of Home | Andrea Guskin \nRubbings\, Transfers\, Tape\, and String: Using Everyday Objects to Create Meaningful Artworks  \nWORKSHOP DESCRIPTION \nI often incorporate household fragments and objects in my work: using ubiquitous items such as used matches\, rubber bands\, and cotton rounds. In this workshop\, we will gather objects from home to create a texture and line board that can be used over and over\, transforming found everyday pieces into layered worlds on paper. This workshop is a chance to be playful and experiment with what’s around you–it’s meant for everyone and requires no previous art experience.  \nSince ancestry is an important part of my work\, I will show you how to use this process with a printed copy of a vintage family photograph and how to make a simple photo transfer using an inkjet printer and a piece of label paper.  Additionally\, I will demonstrate how I would integrate this drawing into the larger narrative of my work by finding a place for it in one of the wall installations currently unfolding in my studio.  \n Pencil rubbings have been used widely by artists to add additional layers of meaning and interest to drawings. Here is an example by Max Ernst\, who created many drawings using this technique\, also called frottage.  \nMax Ernst\, When Light Cartwheels 1925 \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMATERIALS \nFor Rubbings (Frottage) \n\nScissors\nGlue stick\nCopy Paper: with or without printed image\nA piece of cardboard\, wood or heavy paper: this will be the base for the objects\nPencil: 2B will work but a softer pencil is ideal (4B or 6B)\nString (preferably thicker than standard thread\, yarn or cord will work well)\n\nHousehold objects:  I used playing cards (to cut into shapes)\, cotton rounds\, a key\, an earring\, a feather and a game board. Look for things with interesting shapes and cut-outs\, that are fairly flat.  \nOptional  \n\nColored Masking Tape\nBlack paper for the background\nA printed copy of a photograph of a family member or friend\nA picture of a palm\nColored pencils\nwoodless pencils\n\nFor photo transfers:  \n\nAn inkjet printer\nA sheet of printable label paper (I use Avery)\nPaper (any thickness)\n\nWORKSHOP INSTRUCTIONS \nStep one: Gathering \nThe Essentials: scissors\, glue\, lightweight paper\, string\, pencil\, and some kind of board for backing.   \nHousehold Objects: I found cards\, a feather\, an old Trouble game board\, a key\, a cotton round\, an earring\, and a wooden toy remnant. I printed out a photograph of my grandfather working in a chemistry lab and the palm of my nephew Ricardo who lives in Trinidad.  \n \nString drawing with Palm Lines: Who’s palm lines will you create? You can use your own or a picture of someone else’s palm.  \nCut at least three pieces of string\, one for each line of the main lines in the palm. I cut four for his palm\, as the line across the middle line was so strong.  \nArrange string on your board\, echoing as closely as possible the lines of the hand.  \nRun the string over the glue stick\, or add glue to the board–then adhere the string to the board (you will  need to wait for the glue to dry before rubbing) \nStep two: Arranging your household objects and shapes on the board \nGlue or tape objects onto your board. I taped everything but the string\, so I can move the objects around freely. One of the advantages of this technique is being able to repeat a shape/texture easily\, so choose shapes that fit in with any concepts or ideas you have for your project.   \n \nStep Three: Rubbing  \nStart with a Warm-up. Holding your paper firmly on top of the board\, rub back and forth using the side of your pencil until the lines and shapes appear. Shift the paper around to gather more rubbings.  \nAfter you complete your warm-up\, you will have an idea of which objects you prefer to use on your final piece. Here are some ways to add to your piece:  \nUse a printed copy of a photograph instead of a blank sheet of paper. It works best if it’s a light-colored photograph. Cut it out if desired and place it on black paper.  \nUse colored masking tape to make a design on paper before you start rubbing. Use the rubbings to fill in the negative spaces of the design. Find your favorite area of the page and cut it out.  \nPhoto Transfer Technique for Inkjet printer \nTake all the labels and sticky parts of a sheet of white address labels for inkjet printers  (Avery labels work well) \n \n\nPlace in your printer (in mine I have to place it upside down)\nPrint the photograph (it will print in reverse). Transfer immediately after printing\, while the ink is still very wet. Make sure to use a board or larger paper to protect the surface you are working on. \n\n– Lay a piece of paper (or wood)  down on top of the image. For this\, I only wanted to print a selection of the image.  \nPat the back firmly all around with your whole palm.   \nLift and see the image!  \nIt will most likely not be “perfect” but contain some spots that didn’t transfer completely. Personally\, I like this effect.   \nIf you like\, remove the ink by transferring the rest of the ink onto scrap paper and re-use the same sheet to transfer once again. It will dry in about an hour.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nImages from Past Exhibitions:   \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n [Show thumbnails]\n \n\n\nTime: Feb 6th\, 7:00 pm -10:00 pm (Performances)\,  Feb 7th\, 3:00 PM – 4:00pm (Visual Art Workshop | Exhibition) \nAdmission: Free (donations are encouraged) \nTune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection. \nThe event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/mapp-20210207/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Events,February,MAPP,Performing Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MAPP-Feb-7th-Andrea-G-Website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T220000 DTSTAMP:20210202T095637Z CREATED:20210202T073833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210202T095637Z UID:13343-1612638000-1612648800@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:February 6th MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts | Performances DESCRIPTION:Feb 6th @ 7:00- 10:00 pm | Performances   \nFeb 7th @ 3:00- 4:00 pm | Visual Art Workshop | Exhibition  \nClick here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming on Facebook. \nDuring these challenging times\, it is our goal to continue providing excellent and uplifting programs to you and we are pleased to announce our fifth online FREE MAPP program. Our TWO DAY MAPP FESTIVAL program includes 4 music performances on February 6th and a visual art workshop on February 7th and will be live-streamed from artists’ homes to your homes. Live streaming on Facebook \nVisual Art workshops on February 7th  \nNow\, more than ever\, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community\, and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.  \nMake a gift to Red Poppy Art House today!  \nRed Poppy Art House Needs You \nLaunched in 2003\, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly\, multidisciplinary\, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year\, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces\, such as private garages\, gardens\, living rooms\, studios\, street corners\, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities.  Due to COVID-19\, we have temporarily changed this dynamic program from an onsite to an online series. Thanks to the mastery and innovation of the presenting artists and curatorial vision we are pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continues to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We look forward to the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.   \nThis program is funded by California Arts Council Local Impact Grant and  Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve. \nRED POPPY MAPP TEAM: \nCurator: Dina Zarif / Artistic Director  \nTech support: Leeav Sofer \nPR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary \n  \nRPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) FEBRUARY  6TH & 7TH\n\n\n\n\nSATURDAY\,  FEBRUARY 6TH \n\n\n\nTime\nPerformance/Event\nDescription\nArtists\n\n\n7:00 -7:05 pm\nIntroduction\, Artists meet and greet \nCurator Dina Zarif will greet the Artists\, and present the \nperformance program. \n \n\n\n7:05 -7:10 pm\nAnnouncement\n“Urban Prophets” Announcement by Arturo Moh Mendez \n \n\n\n7:10 – 8:00 pm\nThe Anthony Blea Yelapa Trio | LIVE from Mexico \nLatin\, Jazz\, and imagination \nAnthony Blea – Violin \nLincoln Andrews – Bass \nKyle Madrigal – Guitar\n\n\n8:00 – 8:40 pm\n“All come to look for America”\nMusic for voice and piano guides us as we search for America together.” \nSimon Barrad – Voice\, Baritone \nKseniia Polstiankina Barrad – Piano\n\n\n8:40 – 9:15 pm\nMi Corazón\, Mi Canto\nTraditional and contemporary sounds of Latin America.\nMonica Maria – Voca\, Guitar \n\n\n9:15 -10:00 pm \n“Live from the Desert”\nKlezmer/Balkan DJ Set with Live Horns\nMayvn – DJ/Clarinet \nJoey Jay – Sax\n\n\nSUNDAY\, FEBRUARY 7 TH \n\n\nTime\nPerformance/Event\nDescription\nArtists\n\n\n3:00- 3:10 pm \nIntroduction\, Artist meet and greet | RPAH window Exhibition\nCurator Dina Zarif will greet the Artist\, Introduction about the current Window exhibition at RPAH: “Hold me in the Palm of Your Hand” \nAndrea Guskin -Visual Artist\n\n\n3:10 – 4:00 pm\nWorkshop: Between the Palm Lines\, Layers of Home\nRubbings\, Transfers\, Tape\, and String: Using Everyday Objects to Create Meaningful Artworks \nAndrea Guskin -Visual Artist\n\n\n\n  \nCURRENT WINDOW EXHIBITION:  FEBRUARY – APRIL\nHold me in the Palm of your Hand | Andrea Guskin \nCurrent exhibition on view in the windows of The Red Poppy Art House. \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n [Show thumbnails]\n \n\n\nWORKSHOP: SUNDAY  FEBRUARY  7TH\n \nBetween the Palm Lines\, Layers of Home \nRubbings\, Transfers\, Tape and String: Using Everyday Objects to Create Meaningful Artworks  \nPERFORMANCES (ONLINE) FEB 6TH\n \nThe Anthony Blea Yelapa Trio \nLatin\, Jazz\,and imagination  \nThe Anthony Blea Yelapa Trio has taken this time to hunker down and rehearse in the isolated beach/jungle town of Yelapa in the State of Jalisco Mexico.  \nFeaturing: \nAnthony Blea – Violin \nLincoln Andrews – Bass \nKyle Madrigal – Guitar \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nAnthony Blea was born and raised in San Francisco. He started playing the violin at age eight in public schools and he was accepted to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music at age eleven as a full scholarship student. Anthony went on to receive a Bachelor’s Degree from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Raphael Bronstein and a Masters Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory where he majored in String Quartet performance. Having played with Afro-Cuban bands in San Francisco and New York City\, Anthony continues to play a wide variety of music in the Bay Area and internationally. He has played and recorded with artists such as Israel Lopez “Cachao”\, Ray Charles\, S.F. Opera Orchestra\, John Santos Ensemble\, Jazz Mafia\, Anthony Blea y su Charanga\, Charanga 76\, Orquesta Broadway and many more. \nAnthony is also a professor of Music at the San Francisco City College where he teaches Orchestra\, Violin and Community Choir. \nLincoln Andrews is a musician and sound engineer\, born and raised in the mountains of Northern California. Learning to play the bass and produce music at the age of 10\, Lincoln went on to study sound engineering and music theory at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts. After graduation\, Lincoln began touring in a jazz/rock fusion band with this older brother\, Blue Luke. Lincoln also became the head engineer at Russian River Records\, producing albums for local artists out of Mendocino County.  Eventually Lincoln moved back to the bay area where he became an instructor at the Academy of Art University\, a sound engineer at the SFJAZZ Center\, and a City College of San Francisco alumni from performing in Anthony Blea’s Charanga Orchestra for 3 years. Lincoln then moved to New York City where he focused on his bass performance while studying under the great John Benitez and performing in jazz jam sessions.  Now relocated back to Northern California\, Lincoln is in the process of building his own professional music studio\, and performing as much as possible during these pandemic times. \nKyle Madrigal is a California boy that’s always been fascinated by fluctuating frequencies in air. Tickling tympanic membranes with artists like Charley Crockett and Dirt Floor Band\, sharing the stage with Willy Nelson and George Clinton. Kyle is most at home in the murky depths of sludgy sound and finding a polished pearl to aurally impart to your ears. \n \n“All come to look for America” \nA musical journey through the possibilities and empty promises of what America is\, and what it hopes to be. Music for voice and piano guides us as we search for America together.”  \nFeaturing: \nSimon Barrad – Voice\, Baritone \nKseniia Polstiankina Barrad – Piano \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nThe versatility of Grammy-nominated baritone\, Simon Barrad\, has been heard across the United States and Europe in opera\, Lieder\, and oratorio concerts. Features in recent seasons in the United States include performances at Cincinnati Opera\, the Art of the Piano Festival\, the Ravinia Festival\, the Token Creek Festival\, and the Marlboro Music Festival. However\, the 2015/16 Fulbright scholar to Finland has also headlined concerts across the Atlantic at venues including Helsinki’s Musiikkitalo\, Finland’s National Opera House\, and the Berlin Philharmonie. Highlights of upcoming seasons include Mr. Barrad’s Wigmore Hall and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society debut recitals\, as well as Bay Area engagements including Inspector Kildare in Kevin Puts’ Elizabeth Cree with West Edge Opera\, and a virtual Passover celebration – Dayenu with Taste of Talent.     \nUkraine native Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad is an active pianist and collaborator on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Before graduating with honors from the Special Music School in Kyiv\, she won top prizes at various international piano and chamber music competitions\, including the Prokofiev International Competition for Young Pianists (Donetsk\, Ukraine)\, the International Competition for Young Pianists (Belgrade\, Serbia)\, and the International Chamber Ensemble Competition (St. Petersburg\, Russia). Barrad also enjoys a vibrant collaborative career spanning opera\, choral music\, vocal recitals\, and chamber music\, and she recently held the position of principal coach with Queen City Opera in Cincinnati. Recent summer festivals include Songfest and the prestigious Merola Opera Program in San Francisco. Kseniia currently resides in San Francisco\, where she is a pianist and vocal coach in the Adler Fellowship at San Francisco Opera. She graduated with her master’s degree in Collaborative Piano from the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati where she recently completed her DMA in Piano Performance. \n  \n \nMonica Maria – Mi Corazón\, Mi Canto \nMonica Maria will be playing original music and a few of her favorite covers in celebration of her mom’s birthday. \nA vocalist\, multi-instrumentalist and composer\, her music reflects her Californian roots mixed with traditional and contemporary sounds of Latin America. \nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nMonica Maria is a songwriter\, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. She has been a performing musician for over 18 years and recently released her debut album in 2020 called “Nuevos Caminos.”  Combining the sounds of her Californian roots with traditional instruments and rhythms of Latin America\, “Nuevos Caminos” is musically innovative while expressing themes of holding love\, compassion and appreciation for self\, others and the earth \nMonica has a BA in Vocal Jazz and World Music from San Francisco State University.  Along with her original music project\, she is the musical director\, vocalist and instrumentalist of La Mezcla’s “Pachuquismo.”  Monica has performed with many bands and artists such as La Gente\, Laura Rebolloso\, Rumbaché\, John Calloway\, Jesus Diaz y Su QBA and others.   \n \n“Live from the Desert” \nKlezmer/Balkan DJ Set with Live Horns \nFeaturing: \nMayvn – DJ/Clarinet \nJoey Jay – Sax \nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nUnder the name “Mayvn”\, Morgan Nilsen has been acquiring new skills during the pandemic while hunkering down in the ‘Land of Enchantment’\, New Mexico. MAPP is her favorite part of the San Francisco community\, and she can’t wait to share an experience of live horns (featuring Joey Jay Friedman on Sax) accompanied by electronic beats with the familia. Inspired daily by her surroundings of vast\, remote desert beauty\, this set is created specifically for MAPP to bring friends together on a journey during a time we can not travel. Instagram. \nJoey Jay Friedman has performed music his whole life\, following his passion for folk music from Klezmer to the Balkans\, Turkey\, the Arabic Peninsula and North Africa. He has accompanied Morgan in several Bay Area ensembles including MWE\, Istanbul Connection\, and Inspector Gadje. While enjoying a more solitary quarantine in New Mexico\, he still feels a strong desire to connect musically & virtually with the Bay Area arts environment.  \nPREVIEW THE MUSIC\n  \nAnthony Blea with LaTiDo at the Ramp \n \n  \nSimon & Kseniia\, “Francis Poulenc: Chansons villageoises – C’est le joli printemps” \n \n  \nSimon & Kseniia\, “Another reason why I don’t keep a gun in the house – Tom Cipullo” \n \n  \n“Mayvn”\, Morgan Nilsen\, “Desert DJ Series: White Sands” \n \n  \nMónica María Fimbrez\, “Nuevos Caminos” \n \n  \n  \nONLINE EVENT DETAILS\n  \nTime: Feb 6th\, 7:00 pm -10:00 pm (Performances)\,  Feb 7th\, 3:00 – 4:00pm (Visual Art Workshop | Exhibition) \nAdmission: Free (donations are encouraged) \nTune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection. \nThe event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/mapp-20210206/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Events,February,MAPP,Performing Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MAPP-FEB-6-Web-poster-Template-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201205T220000 DTSTAMP:20201201T090030Z CREATED:20201201T065518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201201T090030Z UID:13305-1607194800-1607205600@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:December 5th MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts DESCRIPTION:Click here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming Live on Facebook. \nDuring these challenging times\, it is our goal to continue providing excellent and uplifting programs to you and we are pleased to announce our fourth online FREE  MAPP program.  This program which includes a visual art workshop and music + dance performances will be streamed from artists homes to your homes on Saturday\, December 5\, 2020 \nNow\, more than ever\, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.  \nMake a gift to Red Poppy Art House today!  \nRed Poppy Art House Needs You \nLaunched in 2003\, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly\, multidisciplinary\, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year\, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces\, such as private garages\, gardens\, living rooms\, studios\, street corners\, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities.  Due to COVID-19\, we have temporarily changed this dynamic program from an onsite to an online series. Thanks to the mastery and innovation of the presenting artists and curatorial vision we are pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continues to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We look forward to the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.   \nThis program is funded by the California Arts Council Local Impact Grant.  \nWe are also excited and grateful to announce that we have received three amazing grants\, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and the Zellerbach family “Community Arts COVID Response Grant” and  Grants for the Arts and will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve. \n  \nRED POPPY MAPP TEAM: \nCurator: Dina Zarif / Artistic Director  \nTech support: Leeav Sofer \nPR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary \nRPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) DECEMBER  5TH\n\n\n\n\nSATURDAY  DECEMBER  5TH  \n\n\n\n\nVisual Art   \n\n\n\nTime\nPerformance/Event\nDescription\nArtists/ Presenter\n\n\n7:00- 7:05 pm \nIntroduction\, Artist meet and greet\nCurator Dina Zarif will greet the artist and presenter\n \n\n\n7:05-8:05 pm \nCollage Workshop in times of pandemic and social changes \nAdrian will be accompanied by guest artist Kristi Williamson for the demonstration\nAdrian Arias /  Visual Artist  \nKristi Williamson / poet\, dancer\, singer\, healer\n\n\n\nPerforming Art  \n\n\n\n8:10- 8:45 pm\nDarren Johnston &  Justin Dawson Duo\nOriginal Songs and Compositions\, Classic Jazz Standards\, and Beyond\nDarren Johnston /  trumpet\, voice \nJustin Dawson / upright bass\n\n\n8:50 – 9:25 pm\nSongs\, Tales and dance from Danistan \n \nOriginal music inspired and informed by the confluence of cultures and diasporic sounds of the Balkans\nDan Cantrell /  accordion and voice \nElizabeth Strong / dance\n\n\n9:25 – 10:00 pm\n“Musical Musings”\nMiddle eastern and Celtic inspired compositions for violin\nBriana Di Mara / violin \nFaisal Zedan /  percussion\n\n\n\n  \n7:05 pm – 8:05 PM\, SATURDAY  DECEMBER  5TH\nCollage in Times of Pandemic and Social Changes / Workshop by Adrian Arias \nAdrian will be accompanied by guest artist Kristi Williamson. A poet\, dancer\, singer\, healer \n \nAdrian Arian is a poet\, visual artist\, performer\, art teacher\, and South American cultural activist based in the Bay Area for two decades. His poetry and visual art have won awards and local and international recognition. His work has been presented at the Young Museum\, San Marcos Museum\, Poetic Nights of Struga\, Macedonia\, Benamil Residence in Spain\, Venice Biennale\, Latin American Biennial of Lima\, etc. Creator of the multidisciplinary event Illusion Show\, and the Poem of the Day. \n          \nARTIST STATEMENT: \nAdrián believes that poetry is in constant motion\, and that feeds on each discipline to continue among us. Sometimes it is a photograph of a feather lying on the shore\, sometimes a book-object that seems to tell us the future\, sometimes the body moving slowly between blue lights to go dancing with paper and umbrellas\, without rain. \nThe absurd\, the light\, the sensual\, the shadow\, the dreams\, are often elements in the daily life of Adrian\, who in addition to declaring himself a Poet in motion\, is an art teacher and a cultural organizer of events.  \nWORKSHOP: \nAdrian’s Collage workshop is open to a personal exploration of what we are experiencing in times of pandemic and social change. We will explore forms of composition\, cut\, a combination of images\, colors\, and texture. We will use magazines\, solid-colored papers\, acrylic paints or those that we have at home\, sharpies\, glue\, scissors\, and a hard surface that can be the cardboard of a box or thick cardboard. \n \n\n Adrian-Collage-1\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Image 1 of 5 \n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \nKristi Williamson is an interdisciplinary teacher\, artist\, and healer who explores consciousness in the body. Her work in yoga\, dance\, movement-based expressive arts\, transformational ritual theater\, and voice; promote a holistic ethic that is alive in her offerings. She is dedicated to bridging the disciplines of creative and healing arts. She has studied and worked extensively with healing movement pioneers Anna and Dari Halprin from Tamalpa Institute\, Kundalini Yoga Teacher and Artist\, Hari Kirin Kaur Khalsa\, and Brazilian Modern Dance Teacher\, Rosangela Silvestre. These women have deeply shaped Kristi’s journey interweaving spirituality\, embodiment\, creativity\, ritual\, and healing through the arts. Kristi is originally from the coast of Maine and dances between the east and west coast. She weaves her love of nature\, beauty making\, and devotion into all her creations.  \nPERFORMANCES (ONLINE) DEC 5TH\n  \n \nTrumpet and Bass Duos with Darren Johnston and Justin Dawson \nOriginal Songs and Compositions\, Classic Jazz Standards\, and Beyond \nFeaturing: \nDarren Johnston – trumpet\, voice \nJustin Dawson – upright bass \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nDarren has led groups such as Nice Guy Trio\, Broken Shadows Family Band\, Darren Johnston Quintet\, and many others. He’s played with local treasures such as Marcus Shelby\, Electric Squeezebox Orchestra\, Meklit\, ROVA Sax Quartet\, Fred Frith\, Brass Menazeri\, Lisa Mezzacappa\, and many more. After 22 years in San Francisco\, the winds of Covid have blown trumpeter\, composer\, and long-time Red Poppy/MAPP veteran Darren Johnston to Cincinnati Ohio for the next few months.  During his time in the Bay Area  \nHe’ll be teaming up in Dave’s garage\, just outside of Cincinnati\, with one of the Natti’s most in-demand young bassists\, Justin Dawson.  Among many others\, Justin is a current member of the JD Allen Trio. \n  \n \nSongs\,Tales and dance from Danistan \nOriginal music inspired and informed by the confluence of cultures and diasporic sounds of the Balkans. Dance performance by Elizabeth Strong.   \n  \nFeaturing: \nDan Cantrell – accordion and voice \nElizabeth Strong – dance \n  \nABOUT THE PROJECT: \nDan Cantrell’s music is influenced by deep study and respectful appreciation of traditions found in the Balkans\, Turkey and the Middle East.   His original music is rooted in classical compositional forms and modern songwriting\, but through respectful application of the scales\, rhythms and musical gestalts from folk and urban Balkan music he creates a unique fusion.   He aspires to find the meeting point where music is moving\, engaging\, and profoundly beautiful\, across geopolitical boundaries and cultural borders.   What happens when you create a goth-industrial Turkish Roman musical Fusion?  What about Delta Blues in Greek Miroloi vocal dirges?   You can find out when you listen to Danistani traditional folk music presented and performed by Dan Cantrell.    \nDan is joined for a song or two by his delightful wife Elizabeth Strong. Elizabeth’s vast range of study and breadth of international performances lead her to be aptly fit for presenting the folk dance traditions of Danistan with grace and accuracy.   She is\, in fact\, a royal ambassador to the nation of Danistan\, earning the accurate acronym of RAD\, which she embodies so well with her scintillating dancing.  \n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nAccordionist/pianist/saw player Dan Cantrell is an Emmy winning composer known for his innovative and energetic approach to documentary film and television scoring. He can be heard on albums from Tom Waits\, Joanna Newsom\, the Toids\, Beats Antique\, as well as numerous self-produced albums. He was recently a featured soloist with the San Francisco Symphony and has performed with the Oakland Symphony\, Mike Marshall\, members of the Klezmatics\, Brave Old World\, and Fishbone.  \nDan composed music for three seasons of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack on Cartoon Network and received an Emmy Award for his scoring work on the PBS documentary Home Front.   \nInfluenced by the music of Eastern Europe\, Early American Jazz and modern alternative rock\, His extensive scoring catalogue for film and television is described as “hauntingly beautiful…quirky and energetic” (SF Bay Guardian). Dan’s music spans a wide range of emotion and style\, rich with virtuosic performance\, lush acoustic orchestrations\, sonic textures resonant with sound design\, and strikingly innovative melodic themes.   \n  \nElizabeth Strong is a San Francisco Bay Area dancer\, choreographer\, and teacher whose work focuses on the integrity and spirit of traditional dance forms inside of a contemporary framework. Elizabeth was a touring member of Bellydance Superstars\, and was a founding member of Bellydance Evolution and of Beats Antique’s dance company with Zoe Jakes. A former principal member of Katarina Burda’s Aywah! Ethnic Dance Company\, Elizabeth has traveled to Egypt\, Turkey\, Tunisia\, Morocco\, Greece and Bulgaria to study closely at the source and is now considered one of the leading experts in the form. She performs with live music groups including Kugelplex\, Inspector Gadje\, and Fishtank Ensemble\, and renowned world musicians including Faisal Zeidan and Rumen Sali Shopov. \nElizabeth has had original choreographies commissioned by Jill Parker and Jillina Carlano\, and has received grants from Zellerbach Foundation and from Bill Graham Presents Foundation. Her Turkish Roman instructional DVD was released in 2011. Elizabeth currently teaches and performs internationally and she teaches weekly online from Berkeley\, CA.  \n \n“Musical Musings” \nMiddle eastern and Celtic inspired compositions for violin \n  \nFeaturing: \nBriana Di Mara – violin \nFaisal Zedan – percussion\, vocals \n  \nABOUT THE ARTIST: \nEclectic Bay Area violinist Briana Di Mara brings her love of the instrument and its soulful expression to every performance. She was trained in western classical music as a child and has since gone on to study and perform a wide variety of traditional styles including Celtic\, Balkan\, Turkish\, and Arabic. She harmoniously weaves these influences into her own unique sound and compositions. She is known for her evocative improvisations and skillful ability to play a broad range of genres from many different cultures. \nShe has performed and recorded with numerous artists\, some of whom include Stellamara\, the Ali Paris Project\, Beats Antique\, Darioush Sami\, Dan Cantrell\, Moh Alileche\, Sweet Moments of Confusion\, Lounès Kheloui\, La Ruya\, and many more! She has also collaborated with well-known dancers such as Zoe Jakes\, Rachel Brice\, Miriam Peretz\, and Jill Parker. These projects have led her to perform in a wide variety of venues\, theaters\, and festivals around the globe\, inspiring audiences with her expansive interpretation of world music and exciting interaction with dancers. \nHer award-winning debut album\, “Haven”\, has earned rave reviews and reflects the dynamic collaborations that she has built around her original compositions.  \n  \nPREVIEW THE MUSIC\nDarren Johnston  \n \n  \nDan Cantrell & Elizabeth Strong  \n \n  \nElizabeth Strong  \n \n  \nBriana Di Mara \n \n  \nFaisal Zedan \n \n  \nONGOING: “Red Poppy’s Window Exhibition”\nWorks by Jennifer Bloomer\, Megan Wilson & Ronni Goodman at the “Window Exhibition at RPAH”. \n Building Community Resilience Through the Arts | “Red Poppy’s Window Exhibition” October – December\n“The Stains and Misdirections of Manifest Destiny” \nMegan Wilson \nGrowing up as a fifth-generation Montanan\, Megan Wilson was surrounded by the mythology and iconography of the American West\, and specifically that of the cowboy. Images of rugged men with their code of stoic endurance\, self-reliance\, loyalty\, courage\, and camaraderie\, on horseback riding across the plains\, wrangling cattle and spitting chew were everywhere – from the paintings of Charles M. Russell\, Frederick Remington\, and Will James to the landscape itself. However\, the reality is the painful and violent history of manifest destiny that annihilated much of the indigenous peoples and wildlife of the West. The 19th century doctrine gave American settlers the rationale of a ‘God-given destiny’ to expand westward across North America and beyond. Framed in the context of morality\, divinity\, freedom\, and the presumed greatness of a white America\, the ideology was used to justify the forced removal of Native Americans from their land\, the subsequent genocide of their people\, and later\, claims to Pacific islands. The mass migration also served industrialists who benefited from the labor force that established in the west to build the railroads\, work the land\, build the cities\, and mine the natural resources.  \nWilson’s latest body of work\, The Stains and Misdirections of Manifest Destiny explores and calls attention to the painful history of manifest destiny and its lasting racist\, imperialist influence on American social and political ideology today.  \nThe Stains series uses the traditional craft of quilling (paper filigree) to create intricate drawings that evoke 19th century quilt patterns set against a stained foundation. The handicrafts of quilling and quilting spread from England to the American colonies and then to the American West. Wilson began quilling as a child when her grandmother passed on the fashionable craft of her childhood to her granddaughter.  \nThe Misdirections series counters the glorification of the west using revisions of existing historical texts branded into leather hides and stretched over wood placards to create new narratives and new directions for moving forward from a past rooted in the arrogance of manifest destiny.  \nKemp-Greene-Wilson-Metzner is a series of suede works with narratives and ornamentation from Wilson’s ancestral history of pioneer families who migrated from Wisconsin\, Illinois\, and Iowa to Utah\, Idaho\, and Montana in the 19th century as a protestant\, Mormon\, and Jewish settlers\, homesteaders\, miners\, and railway workers. \nMegan Wilson’s quilling drawings at Red Poppy Art House are part of the Stains series. \n \n\n Stain3\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Image 1 of 3 \n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n  \nRonnie Goodman was a self-taught homeless artist and former distance runner living in San Francisco. He was inspired by the beauty of this city and its diversity\, balanced with the struggles of human despair. With his brush\, Ronnie tried to capture these raw emotions in painted images. Rest in Power Ronnie. \n  \n  \n  \n \n\n hands-up-dont-shoot-goodman\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Image 1 of 2 \n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\nPosters for Change \nJennifer Bloomer \nJen is an artist\, facilitator and the founder of Radici Studios in San Francisco. For the past two decades\, she has painted and taught art in Guatemala\, India\, Italy\, Colorado\, Eritrea\, Thailand\, Kenya and California. Jen has a BA in Latin American Studies\, a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting\, and a Masters Degree in Expressive Arts Therapy. She has created art with people aged 1 to 81 giving space for them to find their unique creative voice in the world through the arts. Jen’s own activist art can be seen in local murals\, at marches for social justice across the country\, and across social media. Her work has been shown internationally by Amplifier Art\, and is included in the Library of Congress archive. Jen believes that the intersection of creativity\, connection and community holds the answer to our personal and collective healing. \n \n\n actionis-CAN\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Image 1 of 13 \n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\nONLINE EVENT DETAILS\nTime: Dec 5th\, 7:00 pm – 8:05 pm  (Visual Art)\,  8:10 pm- 10 pm (Performances)  \nAdmission: Free (donations are encouraged) \nTune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection. \nThe event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House Facebook page \nTune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.\nThe event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page\n \n  \n  \nDonate URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/mapp-20201205/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:December,Events,MAPP,Performing Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MAPP-DEC-poster-Template-FB-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201003T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201003T220000 DTSTAMP:20201002T214832Z CREATED:20200929T045545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201002T214832Z UID:13226-1601722800-1601762400@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:October 3rd MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts DESCRIPTION:Click here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming Live on Facebook. \nLaunched in 2003\, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly\, multidisciplinary\, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year\, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces\, such as private garages\, gardens\, living rooms\, studios\, street corners\, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities. This program is funded by the California Arts Council Local Impact Grant. We are excited and grateful to continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve. \nIn an effort to continue presenting this deeply important program\, Red Poppy Art House is presenting our third online MAPP. Visual Art workshop and performances live stream from artist’s homes to your homes on October 3rd\, 2020. \nNow\, more than ever\, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community\, and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community.\nMake a gift to Red Poppy Art House today! \nRed Poppy Art House Needs You \nTEAM: \nCurator and Moderator:  Dina Zarif / Artistic Director  \nSpecial guest and presenter: Jennifer Friedenbach / Executive Director of Coalition On Homelessness \nTech support: Leeav Sofer \nPR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary \n  \nRPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) October 3rd\n  \n\n\n\n\nSATURDAY\,  OCTOBER 3RD  \n\n\n\n\nVisual Art | The Window Exhibition at RPAH | COH Art Auction \n\n\n\nTime\nPerformance/Event\nDescription\nArtists/ Presenter\n\n\n11:00 -11:05 am \nIntroduction\, Artist meet and greet\nCurator Dina Zarif will greet the artists and presenters\n \n\n\n11:05- 11:25\n“Art Auction” by Coalition On Homelessness \n|  The window exhibition at RPAH\nPresentation about Coalition On Homelessness SF and the Art Auction\nJennifer Friedenbach  Executive Director of Coalition On Homelessness\n\n\n11:30 am-12:30 pm\n“Posters for Change”  Workshop by Jennifer Bloomer\nCreate our own posters with messages of change we wish to see in our communities and out in the world\nJennifer Bloomer /  Visual Artist \n\n\n\nPerforming Art  \n\n\n\n7:00 -7:10 pm\nIntroduction\, Artists meet and greet\nCurator Dina Zarif will greet the Artists and present the performance program\n \n\n\n\n7:10 – 7:50 pm\nNatalie Cressman and Ian Faquini duo\nMusic of Brazil\, Impressionism\, and the Great American Songbook\nNatalie Cressman/Trombone \nIan Faquini / guitar\n\n\n7:55 – 8:30 pm\nAya Safiya and Tano Brock\nTraditional music from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean\nAya / Vocals\, violin\, laouto Tano /Vocals\, clarinet\, laouto\n\n\n8:35 – 9:15 pm\nStrings of the Near East with Gari & Elana \nCompositions inspired by the traditional music of Greece and Turkey \nElana Brutman / Lyra with Sympathetic Strings \nGari Hagedus  / Oud\, Saz \n\n\n9:20 -10:00 pm\nPower Rumba | Dos BandOLEros \n“Struggle Makes Our Music Stronger”\nMixing Spanish covers and original compositions for a danceable fun show\nAlberto Gutierrez / Guitar\, Vocals \nRaúl Vargas / Cajón\, percussion\, Vocals\n\n\n\n  \n“ART INTO AUCTION” BY COH (ONLINE)\n11:00 – 11:30 am\, SATURDAY  OCTOBER  3rd\n  \n“Art into Auction” by the SF Coalition On Homelessness \nJennifer Friedenbach\, Executive Director of Coalition On Homelessness will present the Art Auction \nRed Poppy Art House is honored to join SF Coalition on Homelessness for their 20th annual Art Auction and Exhibition and Art walk to feature some of the auction artworks to preview in-person at the “Red Poppy’s Window Exhibition”. \nThe “Window Exhibition at RPAH” will preview works by Jennifer Bloomer\, Megan Wilson & Ronni Goodman. \nThe SF Coalition on Homelessness Art Auction and Exhibition will be a week-long online art auction event\, with all artwork available to preview online and featured artwork available to preview in-person in some local venues at the SF Mission District!  \nFor more information check the Art Auction website at here \n \n  \nCOALITION ON HOMELESSNESS \nThe Coalition on Homelessness organizes unhoused people and front line service providers to create permanent solutions to homelessness while protecting the human rights of those forced to remain on the streets.  The organization has a 30 year history of winning tangible change for our unhoused neighbors\, including thousands of units of housing\, jobs\, treatment\, and human rights utilizing a variety of tactics from protest\, legislation\, ballot initiatives\, creative media to legal action.  \n \nJennifer Friedenbach / Executive Director of Coalition On Homelessness \nCommitted to a struggle to end mass homelessness by addressing the structural causes and crafting permanent fixes. Her work is about developing consensus on solutions to the homeless crisis centered on the experience and expertise of those who have survived or are still living without housing. Excellent meeting facilitation\, policy development\, messaging expertise\, and unsticking ambivalence and entrenched mindsets. Jennifer is always learning from the brilliance around me and knows how to stay positive. Adept at moving controversy to collective problem-solving. Working in collaboration with many others has led to literally thousands of people in SF stabilizing in housing\, rising out of poverty\, averting homelessness\, and addressing the many side effects of homelessness in order to flourish. However\, due to rising rents\, alongside immoral inaction on the part of policymakers\, her work has a long way to go. Urgent meaningful action is what she works for. \n  \nONLINE AUCTION\n \nArt Auction 20\, Transforming Art into Action will feature over 100 pieces of art\, taking place online starting October 1st and ending October 8th.  Many of the art pieces will be displayed in storefronts in the Mission District\, and supporters can do their own art walks at any time convenient to them.  This is a major annual fundraiser for the Coalition on Homelessness and is deeply connected with our use of art to communicate complex social problems\, whether that be through printing posters with unique art or the production of our twice-monthly street newspaper Street Sheet.  The newspaper serves as a creative outlet for unhoused community members through artwork\, poetry\, creative writing\, and journalism.  The newspaper is sold by impoverished vendors who keep 100% of the proceeds and ensures San Franciscans can hear directly from those who are so personally standing at the intersection of the housing crisis\, racism\, and the deep structural inequities that drive homelessness.   \nView the Art Auction 20 Art Walk Venue Map here \nAll artwork will be available for preview online \n  \n“Red Poppy’s Window Exhibition” October thru December \nThe “Window Exhibition at RPAH” will preview works by Jennifer Bloomer\, Megan Wilson & Ronni Goodman. This exhibition is a part of the Art Auction by COH.\n \n  \n“The Stains and Misdirections of Manifest Destiny” \nMegan Wilson \nGrowing up as a fifth-generation Montanan\, Megan Wilson was surrounded by the mythology and iconography of the American West\, and specifically that of the cowboy. Images of rugged men with their code of stoic endurance\, self-reliance\, loyalty\, courage\, and camaraderie\, on horseback riding across the plains\, wrangling cattle and spitting chew were everywhere – from the paintings of Charles M. Russell\, Frederick Remington\, and Will James to the landscape itself. However\, the reality is the painful and violent history of manifest destiny that annihilated much of the indigenous peoples and wildlife of the West. The 19th-century doctrine gave American settlers the rationale of a ‘God-given destiny’ to expand westward across North America and beyond. Framed in the context of morality\, divinity\, freedom\, and the presumed greatness of a white America\, the ideology was used to justify the forced removal of Native Americans from their land\, the subsequent genocide of their people\, and later\, claims to Pacific islands. The mass migration also served industrialists who benefited from the labor force that established in the west to build the railroads\, work the land\, build the cities\, and mine the natural resources.  \nWilson’s latest body of work\, The Stains and Misdirections of Manifest Destiny explores and calls attention to the painful history of manifest destiny and its lasting racist\, imperialist influence on American social and political ideology today.  \nThe Stains series uses the traditional craft of quilling (paper filigree) to create intricate drawings that evoke 19th-century quilt patterns set against a stained foundation. The handicrafts of quilling and quilting spread from England to the American colonies and then to the American West. Wilson began quilling as a child when her grandmother passed on the fashionable craft of her childhood to her granddaughter.  \nThe Misdirections series counters the glorification of the west using revisions of existing historical texts branded into leather hides and stretched over wood placards to create new narratives and new directions for moving forward from a past rooted in the arrogance of manifest destiny.  \nKemp-Greene-Wilson-Metzner is a series of suede works with narratives and ornamentation from Wilson’s ancestral history of pioneer families who migrated from Wisconsin\, Illinois\, and Iowa to Utah\, Idaho\, and Montana in the 19th century as a protestant\, Mormon\, and Jewish settlers\, homesteaders\, miners\, and railway workers. \nMegan Wilson’s quilling drawings at Red Poppy Art House are part of the Stains series. \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n [Show thumbnails]\n \n\n\nRonnie Goodman was a self-taught homeless artist and former distance runner living in San Francisco. He was inspired by the beauty of this city and its diversity\, balanced with the struggles of human despair. With his brush\, Ronnie tried to capture these raw emotions in painted images. Rest in Power Ronnie. \n  \n  \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n [Show thumbnails]\n \n\n\nPosters for Change  \nJennifer Bloomer \nJen is an artist\, facilitator\, and founder of Radici Studios in San Francisco. For the past two decades\, she has painted and taught art in Guatemala\, India\, Italy\, Colorado\, Eritrea\, Thailand\, Kenya\, and California. Jen has a BA in Latin American Studies\, a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting\, and a Masters Degree in Expressive Arts Therapy. She has created art with people aged 1 to 81 giving space for them to find their unique creative voice in the world through the arts. Jen’s own activist art can be seen in local murals\, at marches for social justice across the country\, and across social media. Her work has been shown internationally by Amplifier Art and is included in the Library of Congress archive. Jen believes that the intersection of creativity\, connection\, and community holds the answer to our personal and collective healing. \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n [Show thumbnails]\n \n\n\n  \n11:00 am – 12:30 pm\, SATURDAY  OCTOBER  3rd\n\nPosters for Change / Workshop by Jennifer Bloomer \nCreate our own posters with simple materials with messages of change we wish to see in our communities and out in the world \nARTIST STATEMENT: \nI believe in the power of creativity to create tangible\, powerful\, change in the world. Art has the ability to go beyond words and move hearts and change minds. My art and workshops aim to energize individuals and communities to reflect\, listen deeply to one another and come together as a community to rally for justice\, respect\, and love. \nWORKSHOP: \nIn this art workshop\, we’ll be making posters with messages of change we wish to see in our communities and out in the world. I will share my own brainstorming process and walk you through how to come up with your own images and words to invigorate others about issues you care about. We’ll create our own posters with simple materials you might have around your house. No experience art-making- all are welcome! \nMaterials:  \n\nPiece of Cardboard (15″ x 20″ or bigger) \nAcrylic paint\nPaintbrushes\nSharpies or Markers\n\n  \nPERFORMANCES (ONLINE) OCT. 3RD\n  \nNatalie Cressman and Ian Faquini\nA uniquely intimate duo featuring original material in three languages\, drawing from the music of Brazil\, Impressionism\, and the Great American Songbook.\nFeaturing: \nNatalie Cressman – Trombone \nIan Faquini – guitar \nTrombonist and singer/songwriter Natalie Cressman and Brazilian composer\, guitarist\, and singer Ian Faquini have created a uniquely intimate collaboration\, drawing from impressionism\, jazz\, and the great Brazilian songwriting tradition. The duo’s global take on music is largely expressed through the distinct compositional voice of Faquini\, with occasional lyrics penned by Cressman. Their original material features songs in three different languages and encompasses a vast spectrum of musical ground. With the warm instrumentation of acoustic guitar and trombone and two-part vocal harmonies hugging the Brazilian-accented Portuguese\, Cressman & Faquini weave their musical voices together to create a fully orchestrated sound befitting a much larger ensemble. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nNatalie Cressman has spent the past ten years touring the jam band circuit as a horn player and vocalist with Phish’s Trey Anastasio\, while also collaborating with many illustrious figures on the New York City jazz scene. When she’s not performing her own music\, Cressman can be found collaborating with some of the most illustrious figures in rock\, funk\, jazz and beyond\, which have included Phish\, Big Gigantic\, Carlos Santana\, Escort\, Wycliffe Gordon\, Nicholas Payton\, Anat Cohen\, The Motet\, and Umphrey’s McGee. \nBorn in Brasília and raised in Berkeley\, Ian Faquini was a member of the renowned Berkeley High School Jazz program before going on to study at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley and\, immediately after graduating\, joined the faculty there. He has performed throughout Europe\, Japan\, Brazil and the United States and has shared the stage and recording studio with such names as Guinga\, Brad Mehldau\, Chris Potter\, Spok\, Lee Konitz\, Fleurine\, among many others. \n \nAya Safiya and Tano Brock\nTraditional music from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean\nFeaturing: \nAya Safiya – vocals\, violin\, laouto  \nTano Brock – vocals\, clarinet\, laouto \nABOUT THE PROJECT: \nAya Safiya and Tano Brock have been musical collaborators for over a decade. They met at a music camp in their teenage years\, and began playing Greek and Balkan music together. In 2014\, along with Cecilia Peña-Govea and Miguel León\, they formed Taraf de Locos\, a SF Bay Area group that created a unique blend of Balkan and Afro-Latin music styles. Following an album release and tour with Taraf de Locos\, Aya and Tano traveled to Eastern Europe together to discover and study music. They have since been collaborating on a regular basis; continuing to play Greek and Balkan traditional styles\, as well as contemporary original music. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic\, Aya and Tano have been frequently performing live-stream concerts from their home studio\, both independently and as a part of larger concerts/festivals.  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nWith strong messages and emotional vulnerability\, Bay Area raised artist Aya Safiya reveals her diverse and complex identity in her singing and songwriting. Her first EP “Aya Safiya\,” released in 2018\, was a transitional introduction to her electronic singer-songwriter career initiated after decades of working as a Greek/Mediterranean/Balkan-music singer and violinist. Aya was 15 when she first started performing and has since gone on to perform at Greek festivals in the US and in Greece\, as well as at venues such as The Great American Music Hall in SF\, the Grand Prospect Hall in NYC\, and the House of Blues in Boston. She has also taught classes in regional Greek violin and Greek/Balkan singing at community-based music schools such as The Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley\, the Sierra Music and Arts Institute in Central California\, and Apapachoa in Nicaragua. In July 2020 she released her 2nd EP\, “My Other Half.” While the new EP is a continuation of her singer-songwriter project\, through it she explores new grounds\, incorporating her Japanese-American roots and writing all lyrics in Japanese. Although Aya’s music “lives between the lines of genre and culture\,” (Jocelle Koh\, Asian Pop Weekly) and “defies standard categorization\,” (Mitch Mosk\, Atwood Magazine) her intimate\, nostalgia evoking songwriting\, ethereal singing\, and hazy production with help from producer Tano Brock\, distinctly conquers a vibe. \nTano Brock is a 24-year-old musician\, songwriter\, producer\, and engineer. Born and raised in San Francisco\, CA\, Tano began studying and performing music at a young age and had an almost supernatural knack for it ever since he began banging on a drum at only a few months old. Throughout his childhood\, Tano accompanied his family to various music camps in California where he was exposed to music from all over the world. At 6 years old\, he began studying darbuka\, a Middle Eastern drum. He then started studying piano at age 7\, and at 12 began teaching himself guitar. In his early teens\, he started playing saxophone/clarinet\, as well as exploring the world of digital recording and production. At age 18\, he released his self-produced debut solo album “Bandit” (2014) – which garnered significant success and launched his career as a composer for synch licensing. In 2019\, Tano graduated from Berklee College of Music with a degree focused on performance and music production & engineering. During his time at Berklee\, he explored his deep affinity with world music traditions\, traveling to Turkey to study with master musicians\, and to Cuba for recording sessions in Havana. He is currently producing and mixing for various artists of different styles such as: reggaetón artist La Doña\, Indie/J-Pop artist Aya Safiya\, pop artist Liv Young\, multi-percussionist/vocalist Miguelito Leon\, and Ecuadorian vocalist Gerson Eguiguren. \n  \nStrings of the Near East with Gari & Elana \nCompositions inspired by the traditional music of Greece and Turkey\nFeaturing: \nElana Brutman —Lyra with Sympathetic Strings \nGari Hagedus — Oud\, Saz & more…  \nABOUT THE PROJECT: \nGari and Elana will play original compositions inspired by the traditional music of Greece and Turkey and influenced by their own cultural understanding of music. Their repertoire is rooted in sentiment\, contemplation and a deep respect and love for distant parts of the world.   \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nGari Hegedus plays violin\, viola\, and a variety of lutes from Greece and Turkey\, including laouto\, oud\, and saz. Along with playing in Teslim\, he also performs with global music group Stellamara\, as well as Bay Area groups Janam and The Helladelics. Hegedus has studied with oud master Naseer Shamma and has studied\, recorded\, and performed with Ross Daly and Kelly Thoma. He has toured with the Mevlevi Dervish Order of America and continues to participate in Turkish ceremonial and devotional gatherings around the country. In addition to being a composer and performer\, Hegedus is a talented luthier\, repairing stringed instruments of every variety; coaxing sound from sazes\, violins\, and rebabs; restoring lutes and lyras; making bows; and finding ingenious ways to allow the true voice of an instrument to come forth. \nElana Brutman has dedicated the recent years of her life to the intensive study of the lyra with sympathetic strings\, an instrument whose design is based on the traditional Cretan lyra and incorporates elements of the Byzantine lyra and Indian sarangi. She has spent countless hours in deep study with her teacher\, Kelly Thoma\, in Crete\, and has spent many summers in Greece studying with master musicians from Greece\, Turkey and Iran. \n  \n \n  \nPower Rumba | Dos BandOLEros\nStruggle Makes Our Music Stronger \nFeaturing: \nAlberto Gutierrez – Guitar\, Vocals \nRaúl Vargas – Cajón\, percussion\, Vocals \nABOUT THE PROJECT: \nDos BandOLEros is a Spanish Rumba Duo founded by Raul Vargas (Makrú) and Muchacho Mandanga in the Bay Area. Mixing Spanish covers and original compositions\, Dos BandOLEros offers a really danceable fun show\, full of energy and positive messages. \n  \nPREVIEW THE MUSIC\n  \nNatalie Cressman and Ian Faquini \n \n  \nAya Safiya and Tano Brock \n \n  \nGari Hagedus  \n \n  \nPower Rumba | Dos BandOLEros  \nhttps://www.facebook.com/dosbandOLErossf/videos/3245185558868276 \n  \n  \nONLINE EVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Visual Art Workshop / 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm performances\nAdmission: Free (donations welcome) \nTune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.\nThe event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page\n \n  \n  \nDonate\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/mapp-20201003/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Events,MAPP,October,Performing Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/MAPP-oct-3-Web-poster-Template-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200802T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200802T140000 DTSTAMP:20200730T194720Z CREATED:20200725T034312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200730T194720Z UID:13103-1596366000-1596376800@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:August 1st & 2nd MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts | Workshops DESCRIPTION:Aug 1 @ 7:00 – 10:00 pm (Performances)\nAug 2 @ 11 am – 12:15 pm (Kitchen Printing\, Workshop by Ali Blum) |1:00 pm 2:00 pm (Possibilities\, Workshop by Elena Mencarelli) \nClick here on the day of the event to see the live performance streaming Live on our Facebook page. \nDonate \nLaunched in 2003\, Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly\, multidisciplinary\, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year\, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces\, such as private garages\, gardens\, living rooms\, studios\, street corners\, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities. This program is funded by the California Arts Council Local Impact Grant. We are excited and grateful to continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve. \nIn an effort to continue presenting this deeply important program\, Red Poppy Art House is presenting our second online MAPP. Workshops and performances live stream from artist’s homes to your homes on August 1st and 2nd. \nNow\, more than ever\, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community\, and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community. \nClick here to make Make a gift to Red Poppy Art House today! \nTEAM\nCurator and Moderator: Dina Zarif / Artistic Director\nWorkshop #1 Introduction: Renee Baldocchi / Visual Artist / Leadership team\nWorkshop #2 Introduction: Puja Kapur/ Visual Artist / Leadership team\nTech Support: Leeav Sofer / Musician\nPR and Digital Marketing: Sarika Dagar / Filmmaker & Designer \nAUGUST 2nd WORKSHOPS (ONLINE)\n\n\n\nTime\nPerformance/Event\nDescription\nArtist\n\n\n11:00 – 11:15 am\nIntroduction\, Artist meet and greet\nGuest presenter Renee Baldocchi will greet\nthe artist and present the workshop program\n \n\n\n11:15 am – 12:15 pm\nWorkshop: Kitchen Printing with Ali Blum\nMonoprinting and Stamping\, Styrofoam Prints\nAli Blum / Visual Artist\n\n\n1:00 – 1:10 pm\nIntroduction\, Artists meet and greet\nGuest presenter Puja Kapur will greet\nthe artist and present the workshop program\n \n\n\n1:10 – 1:50 pm\nWorkshop: Possibilities\,\nthe Art of Resilience\nCreate your own shadow box transforming\na challenge into an exciting possibility\nthrough the power of resilience\nElena Mencarelli / Visual Artist\n\n\n\n11:00 am – 12:30 pm\, SUNDAY\, AUGUST 2nd\n\nKitchen Printing / Workshop by Ali Blum \nCreate your own artwork using printmaking techniques including mono-printing\, food stamping\, and foam prints\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nAli Blum received her BFA from Cornell University in Painting and her MFA in Printmaking from Washington University in St Louis. She has had residencies at Curtiduria Printshop in Oaxaca\, Mexico\, and the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Ali actively exhibits and selected group and solo shows include De Young Museum\, Cornell University Hartell Gallery\, San Francisco Public Library\, Museo de la Filatelia de Oaxaca\, Ligne Roset\, Front Gallery\, Somarts\, Paxton Gate Curiosities for Kids\, The Mission Cultural Center\, and The San Francisco Jewish Library. \nAli teaches at Drew School and the students serve as a constant source of energy and inspiration. She has conducted workshops and Live art demonstrations at the SFMOMA\, De Young Friday Night Events\, The Academy of Sciences\, Asian Art Museum intern program\, and The Jewish Museum. She is a member of the California Printmaking Society.\nMore info: Facebook | Instagram | Website \n  \n \n  \nARTIST STATEMENT\nArt has been a constant in my life. I am interested in capturing the moment when something changes and the magic in the everyday. Hiraesh- a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return\, a home that maybe never was; the nostalgia\, the yearning\, the grief for the lost places of your past is essential to my work. My interior world is of memories of childhood\, books\, songs\, and nature all of which steers my work. \nI have always loved the versatility of printmaking and work mostly in mixed media including mono-printing\, screen printing\, transfers\, drawings\, and gouache. I arrive at my images through the process of mono-printing. \nFolktales and myths have also been integral to my understanding of the world. Over time\, hybrid creatures and genetic engineering have blended with mythological images of my childhood and I find myself drawing connections- the web of life to the environment\, politics\, climate change\, fires\, food production\, COVID19\, and our planet. \nThe last several months teaching my high school art classes virtually\, I found myself turning to options around the house and especially the kitchen to inspire new printing ideas and make it increasingly accessible. \n  \n \n  \nWORKSHOP DESCRIPTION\nIn this workshop\, we will learn a variety of printmaking techniques including mono-printing\, food stamping\, and foam prints. Emphasis is on experimentation and play. All ages are welcome to participate and enjoy! \nIn the first part of the workshop\, we will explore mono-printing and stamping. In the second half\, we will move into foam printing and mixed media. Each section has two materials lists. The first specialized and the second back to basics meaning that you can purchase specific materials or look around and use what you have in your home. Feel free to ask questions and share along the way. \n  \n \n  \nMATERIALS \nMonoprinting and Stamping \n \nA Back to Basics List: \n\nBucket with water\nPalette: Flat surface to roll out ink\nInk: Tempera or acrylic are fine though they dry more quickly\nPaper: Construction or copier\nPrinting Matrix: Flat surface perhaps a cookie tray or on styrofoam\nPrinting Tool: Wooden spoon Paint brushes\, sponges\nRemoval of color: Paper towel\, cotton swabs\, paperclip\nPrintmaking stencils: Paper to cut stencils and scissors\, onion\, baking potato\,\nfeathers\, apple\, leaves\, cut paper\, tinfoil\, lace\, glass\, or jar rim or lids.\n\n  \n \n  \nA Specialized List: \n\nSink\nPalette: Flat surface to roll out ink\nInk: Blick Water Soluble Block Printing Ink\nPaper: 10 pieces of printmaking 100% cotton cut to a little larger than the size of your plate\nWorks best including Stonehenge\, Arches\, and Strathmore 500 \nPrinting Tool: Plexiglass plate\nPrinting Tool: Barren\nBlow dryer\nRemoval of color: Kitchen towel or paper towel\, cotton swabs\, paperclip\, knife\nPrintmaking stencils: Pencil for drawing into styrofoam\, cotton swabs for removing ink\, onion\,\nbaking potato\, feathers\, apple\, leaves\, cut paper\, tinfoil\, lace\, glass\, or jar rim or lids.\nPaper to cut stencils and scissors\n\nDirections: \n\nSqueeze ink onto a palette and roll out with roller or spread with a brush\nInk up a printing matrix using a roller or brushes\nPlace stencils down on plate – paper cut out shapes\nPlace paper on top when you have completed design and print with barren or spoon\nBlow-dry and print the next object\nYou may start a new print and not use a matrix\nInk up leaves in another color and press print\nInk up the plate and use stencils again\nCarve potato and stamp onto new paper or the same print\nPlay\, experiment\, share out and ask questions\n\nStyrofoam Prints \n  \n \n \nA Back to Basics List: \n\nPencil\nSink\nPalette: Flat surface to roll out ink\nInk: Tempera or acrylic are fine though they dry more quickly\nPaper: Construction paper\, copier paper\, pages from an book\nPrinting Matrix: Styrofoam picnic plates\, styrofoam meat/vegetable container\, or take out containers\nPrinting Tool: spoon\nPaper towel and blow dryer\n\n  \n \n  \nA Specialized List for Styrofoam Prints: \n\nPencil\nBucket with water\nPalette: Flat surface to roll out ink\nInk: Blick Water Soluble Block Printing Ink\nPaper: Printmaking 100% Cotton works best including Stonehenge\, Arches\, and Strathmore 500\nPrinting Matrix: Styrofoam specialized plates\nPrinting Tool: Baren\nBlow dryer\n\nDirections: \n\nSqueeze ink onto a palette and roll out with roller or spread with a brush\nDraw into styrofoam with pencil\nInk up plate\nPlace paper on top of the plate and print using barren or spoon\nReInk plate and print again. Pull several prints\nAfter you have pulled four prints wash your plate and dry it\nNow add more details into your plate using a pencil.\nInk up the plate with added details and register first pull onto second inking and print (this will be shown during class)\nNow you have a two-color print\nYou may do another reduction or experiment with mixed media. I recommend oil pastels\n\n1:00 – 2:00 pm\, SUNDAY\, AUGUST 2nd\n \nPossibilities\, the Art of Resilience / Workshop by Elena Mencarelli \nCreate your own shadow box transforming a challenge into an exciting possibility through the power of resilience. \n \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nElena Mencarelli is a polyhedral visual artist. She started making art when she was little\, and throughout the years she used painting\, objects manipulation\, writing\, photography\, and botanical art to express herself. Her work has been exhibited in Milan (Ita)\, Melbourne (AUS)\, and San Francisco (USA). \nThe different cultural settings she encountered during her travels in different parts of the world\, and during her life experiences\, helped to develop an interest in multiple creative practices. Nonetheless\, her works are unified by an honest love for figurative art. Art Nouveau\, Surrealism\, and Narrative Art inspire her art practice\, while Symbolism and Mythology feed her conceptual research. \nIn 2016\, she accomplished a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts at the DAMS University (ITA). In 2018 she collaborated on the text of A Better Landscape exhibition’s catalog (Unimedia Modern\, Genoa\, Italy)\, and in 2019 she published a monographic essay with Silvana Editor (M. R. Ballestra\, A Phenomenology of Posthumanism). She worked for Red Poppy Art House as a performances host and art curator from 2016 to 2020. \n  \n \n \nARTIST STATEMENT\nI have always been fascinated by nature and found objects\, and through my art practice\, I manipulate these two elements with a poetic language. My artworks tell stories of reinvention\, of hope\, and of beautiful human fragilities. As a cultural worker with a career started in Italy and developed in international settings\, my aim is to unify and nourishing the several communities I encountered along the years through inspiring art projects that can foster values such as human connection and empathy. \nThrough my last work Possibilities\, linked to the “Manifesto of Uncertainty” that I wrote for the Italian art platform Resilience\, I hope to encourage anyone to use his/her own creativity to become a more resilient person. Resilience allows us to live life challenges in a constructive way\, and to cope with the uncertain historical moment positively. \n“Creating art and culture represents the prayer of those who don’t settle for mundane promises and dogmas\, of those who suffer\, of those who think\, of those who can’t express themselves with the limited vocabulary of the common language. Creating art saves us from the world collapsing. Any artwork realized in the midst of this ruins is a talisman preserving hope”. Elena Mencarelli\, Manifesto of Uncertainty. More info Website \n  \n \n  \nWORKSHOP DESCRIPTION\n“Possibilities\, the Art of Resilience” is a fun workshop where we will build together an art shadow box taking inspiration from a personal challenge. Possibilities is a project conceived during the lockdown for Covid-19. Between April and June 2020 I have created 5 shadow boxes representing different moments lived during the shelter-in-place; each one of them transfigures a challenge produced by the social isolation and by the fear of uncertainty into a possibility for personal growth. This is the power of resilience! Let’s use our creativity and our imagination to cope with these odd times. We’ll take what we think it’s for us unbearable today\, and change it into a treasure chest of wonders! \nIf you can’t build the shadow box with me\, you will still learn how to stimulate your resilience and your creativity\, and how to apply them through craft skills in the future. You don’t need to have any previous artistic background to enjoy the workshop. \nDuring the workshop\, we’ll create the shadow box “Carpe diem” — how to change the grief for an ended experience into a celebration for a new life phase. Using resilience\, we can elaborate “endings” as meaningful transitions towards changes. \n \n \nMATERIALS \n\nWooden box with a lid (see Blick or Amazon)\, about 6’’w x 9’’h. If not\, you can use cardboard boxes\, like a shoe box\nSuper strong liquid glue\nLong wheat stem. If not\, use anything that looks similar\nSmall candles\, about 2\,50’’h (the dimension that fits into the box’s border)\nBox of matches\nDried flower petals\nGold marker/gold paint\n\n \nWhat you can add to your list: \n\nGlitters (if so\, bring a glue stick to fix them onto the box)\n1 small picture representing one of your dreams (could be a place you want to visit\, an object you’d like to possess\,\na job you’d love to do\, a person you miss.) — I suggest glue stick or double-sided tape to bring along\n\n*You can paint the box of your favorite color ahead of time. \n \n  \nONLINE EVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 11am – 12:15 pm (Visual Art Workshop #1) | 1:00 pm – 2:00pm (Artist talk and Visual Art Workshop #2)\nAdmission: Free (donations are encouraged) \nTune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.\nThe event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House Facebook page \nTune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.\nThe event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House facebook page\nAli’s Facebook event page\n\n  \nElena’s Facebook event page\n\n  \n  \nDonate\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/mapp-20200802/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/MAPP-Aug-2-WEB-Main-Poster-Workshops-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200801T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200801T220000 DTSTAMP:20200726T155222Z CREATED:20200726T153157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200726T155222Z UID:13175-1596308400-1596319200@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:August 1st & 2nd MAPP (Online): Building Community Resilience Through the Arts | Performances DESCRIPTION:Aug 1 @ 7:00 – 10:00 pm (Performances)\nAug 2 @ 11 am – 12:15 pm (Kitchen Printing\, Workshop by Ali Blum) |1:00 pm 2:00 pm (Possibilities\, Workshop by Elena Mencarelli) \nClick here on the day of the event to see the live performance streaming Live on our Facebook page. \nDonate \nLaunched in 2003\, Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly\, multidisciplinary\, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year\, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces\, such as private garages\, gardens\, living rooms\, studios\, street corners\, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities. This program is funded by the California Arts Council Local Impact Grant. We are excited and grateful to continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve. \nIn an effort to continue presenting this deeply important program\, Red Poppy Art House is presenting our second online MAPP. Workshops and performances live stream from artist’s homes to your homes on August 1st and 2nd. \nNow\, more than ever\, we need your support to continue facilitating relationships between the artists and our community\, and building a sonic bridge between today’s challenging time and a brighter future. Please consider investing in the future of the artists and the important role of the live performing arts in our community. \nClick here to make Make a gift to Red Poppy Art House today! \nCheck the Visual Art workshops on August 2nd Here \nTEAM\nCurator and Moderator: Dina Zarif / Artistic Director\nWorkshop #1 Introduction: Renee Baldocchi / Visual Artist / Leadership team\nWorkshop #2 Introduction: Puja Kapur/ Visual Artist / Leadership team\nTech Support: Leeav Sofer / Musician\nPR and Digital Marketing: Sarika Dagar / Filmmaker & Designer \nRPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) AUGUST 1st & 2nd\nSATURDAY AUGUST 1ST \n\n\n\nTime\nPerformance/Event\nDescription\nArtist\n\n\n7:00 – 7:10 pm\nIntroduction\, Artist meet and greet\nCurator Dina Zarif will greet the Artists and\npresent the performance program\n \n\n\n7:10 – 7:45 pm\nBalkan and beyond on bellows and mallets\nSongs from Eastern Europe and beyond\nBalder ten Cate – Cimbalom\nDiana Strong – Accordion\n\n\n7:50 – 8:10 pm\nLive from Argentina: Claudio Santomé\nItalian and Argentinian arias and\nsongs by Claudio Santomé\nClaudio Santomé / Opera Singer /\nTenor\n \n\n\n8:15 – 8:45 pm\n“Luminance” Sounds from the Outside\nHarp and Trumpet Explorations\nAmelia Romano – Lever Harp\nMatt Ebisuzaki – Trumpet\n \n\n\n8:50 – 9:25 pm\n“Accordion + Circus = Rollercoaster of\nMusic and Magic”\nA silly\, magical circus experience from longtime\nCircus Bella collaborators Calvin Kai Ku\nand Rob Reich\nRob Reich – Accordion\nCalvin Kai Ku – Magician\n \n\n\n9:30 – 10:00 pm\nBianca Rodriguez and Gopal Slavonic\nFlamenco dancer accompanied by\nGopal Slavonic on guitar\nBianca Rodriguez – Flamenco dancer\nGopal Slavonic – Guitar\n\n\n\n \nSUNDAY AUGUST 2ND \n\n\n\nTime\nPerformance/Event\nDescription\nArtist\n\n\n11:00 – 11:15 am\nIntroduction\, Artist meet and greet\nGuest presenter Renee Baldocchi will greet\nthe artist and present the workshop program\n \n\n\n11:15 am – 12:15 pm\nWorkshop: Kitchen Printing with Ali Blum\nMonoprinting and Stamping\, Styrofoam Prints\nAli Blum / Visual Artist\n\n\n1:00 – 1:10 pm\nIntroduction\, Artists meet and greet\nGuest presenter Puja Kapur will greet the artist and\npresent the workshop program\n \n\n\n1:10 – 1:50 pm\nWorkshop: Possibilities\,\nthe Art of Resilience\nCreate your own shadow box transforming\na challenge into an exciting possibility\nthrough the power of resilience\nElena Mencarelli / Visual Artist\n\n\n\nAUGUST 2nd WORKSHOPS (ONLINE)\n11:00 am – 12:30 pm\, SUNDAY\, AUGUST 2nd\nKitchen Printing / Workshop by Ali Blum \nCreate your own artwork using printmaking techniques including mono-printing\, food stamping\, and foam prints\n  \nFor more information click here \n  \n1:00 – 2:00 pm\, SUNDAY\, AUGUST 2nd\nPossibilities\, the Art of Resilience / Workshop by Elena Mencarelli \nCreate your own shadow box transforming a challenge into an exciting possibility through the power of resilience.\n  \nFor more information click here \n  \nAUGUST 1st PERFORMANCES (ONLINE)\n \nBalkan and Beyond on Bellows and Mallets\nBay area locals Balder ten Cate (cimbalom) and Diana Strong (accordion) present a short set of songs from Eastern Europe and beyond \nFEATURING:\nBalder ten Cate – cimbalom\nDiana Strong – accordion \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nBorn into a musical family\, Balder ten Cate grew up in the Netherlands but was steeped in eastern European music from a young age. He studied Romanian music with cimbalom master Giani Lincan\, as well as\, after moving to California in 2008\, music from the Balkans with Rumen Sali Shopov. Currently\, Balder lives in the Bay Area and performs with the local group’s Orchestra Euphonos\, Yeraz Ensemble\, and Shasta Power Trio\, and the international Trio Dulce Amar and Trio Czinka Panna. Outside of music\, Balder is a software engineer and computer scientist working at Google. \nDiana Strong’s musical training is grounded in classical piano\, along with a lifetime of folk music camps and a wide variety of influences. She picked up the accordion in 2006 and plays an eclectic range of styles including Brazilian forró\, klezmer\, Balkan\, Scandinavian\, French musette\, swing\, and of course original tunes. Current and past projects include Dona Francisca (Brazilian forró)\, Wind Weavers (original and eclectic instrumental music)\, Sweet Moments of Confusion (original music for accordion and cello)\, The Patty Dukes (ukulele and vocal duo with cousin Juliet Strong)\, Dan Cantrell\, Justin Ancheta\, Zumpthing (swampy klezmer)\, Sabaya (Balkan and original)\, The Red Hot Chachkas (klezmer)\, the Accordion Babes Calendar (2009 and 2013 issues). Theatrical projects include Mother Courage (Ubuntu\, Feb 2019)\, Uksus (a chamber opera by Erling Wold\, 2016)\, The Red Virgin (Central Works\, 2013). Diana has also performed as a dancer/singer in MoToR (body music troupe led by Evie Ladin). She completed her level III Orff Shulwerk music education certification in 2017\, teaches private piano and accordion lessons in Oakland and elementary/Orff music in Walnut Creek and Oakland. \n  \n \nLive from Argentina: Claudio Santomé\, Tenor\nItalian and Argentinian arias and songs by Claudio Santomé \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nClaudio Santomé\, Tenor; completed training as a music teacher in Buenos Aires with masters from the Teatro Colón where he also sang Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida. After emigrating to the US in 1997\, he performed Ariel Ramirez’s Misa Criolla in California\, Michigan\, Switzerland\, Italy\, and Argentina. He specializes in Belcanto repertoire singing from Mozart\, Bellini\, Donizetti\, Verdi\, and Puccini. In the symphonic repertoire\, he sang Carmina Burana\, as tenor and baritone\, Gustav Mahler’s Ruckert\, and Des Knaben Wunderhorn. He is the music director\, stage director\, and choir conductor of Andanza Spanish Arts\, performing famous Zarzuela or Spanish Opera scenes in the US. Since 2009 he has performed Argentine Classical and Popular repertoire from A.Ginastera and C.Guastavino to folk and tango songs. In February 2015\, he presented the show “Marplatenses por el Mundo” at Teatro Colon in Mar del Plata with artists from the Buenos Aires Opera House and La Scala di Milano from Italy with a selection from Rigoletto\, Carmen\, La Traviata. \nRecently he has sung as soloist Beethoven 9th Symphony with Revolution Orchestra at Grace Cathedral and Il Trovatore as Manrico with Teatro Mistral. \n  \n \nSounds from the Outside\nHarp and Trumpet Explorations \nFEATURING:\nAmelia Romano – lever harp\nMatt Ebisuzaki – trumpet \nABOUT THE PROJECT:\nLuminance performs original works inspired by the Yuba River in Northern California and Cottonwood Trees of Aspen Colorado. Turning to nature to restore and remain resilient\, their sound features lush trumpet melodies and the rhythmic flair of classical and Latin American harp styles. This duo’s rich combination delights in sound and style. \nFormed in the San Francisco Mission district\, Luminance performs original works inspired by Latin American music styles and classical traditions. featuring amelia romano on acoustic and electric lever harp\, Matt Ebisuzaki on c-rotary-valve trumpet and saul Richmond-Rakerd on cello\, the trio bridges fiery rhythms\, lush chords and soaring melodies with classics – Chicago’s “color my world” and Vera Lynn’s “a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square\,” to create a subtle yet charismatic musical experience. \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nAn eclectic blend of austere serenity and kinetic vibrancy\, Amelia Romano takes what is known about the conventional harp and surpasses every time. Pulling from first-hand experiences in South Africa and from her roots in a cultural hotbed in San Francisco\, Amelia not only plays music from the repertoire but reprises them and creates originals. Latin\, gypsy\, jazz are all genres that she touches but her music defines its own path. \nA San Francisco native\, she began her lessons on a lever harp\, at the age of 9\, with Diana Stork\, who inspired early compositions\, improvisation\, and playing in a variety of youth ensembles\, including the Bay Area Youth Harp Ensemble. She graduated from the San Francisco School of the Arts High School\, performing Laura Zaerr’s “Celtic Concerto\,” and releasing her first solo album\, “Seeking Peace\,” in her senior year. Amelia earned a B.A. in interdisciplinary studies at U.C. Berkeley in 2010\, while continuing her music education. She spent the following year working in a township music school outside Cape Town\, South Africa\, sponsored by the “Playing for Change Foundation.” South Africa deeply shaped her musical creativity and desire to re-conceive her sound. With her return to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011\, she took up the electric harp and formed “StringQuake\,” in 2012 and Luminance Ensemble\, Fall 2016. Amelia has been performing in the S.F. Bay Area for over 15 years\, and toured in Mexico\, the states\, and Europe\, (June of 2016). In March 2017\, she will release her second full-length album\, “New Perspectives\,” featuring the electric harp and local talent. Moving from Latin rhythms to blues and nostalgic storytelling\, “New Perspectives” invites the listener to re-imagine the role of the harp in today’s musical landscape.\n  \n \nAccordion + Circus = Rollercoaster of Music and Magic\nA silly\, magical circus experience from longtime Circus Bella collaborators Calvin Kai Ku and Rob Reich\nRob Reich will perform a set of his original music for accordion and he will be joined by part of his set by Calvin Kai Ku. Together they will present an Eccentric Circus Experience \nFEATURING:\nRob Reich – accordion\nCalvin Kai Ku – magician \nPROGRAM:\nFunnyface Zoom-ba Class\nMagic Ring Act\nRide the Roller Coaster \nABOUT THE PROJECT:\nRob Reich has performed in concert halls\, circus tents\, dance clubs\, and chapels. This breadth of experience has made him a foremost performer and composer in the Bay Area. Reich’s music defies genre\, combining strong melodic ideas\, rhythmic drive\, and a spirit of irreverence and experimentation. His many musical projects include serving as a long-time musical director for Circus Bella. Reich recently released an album of original swing music\, “Swings Left”. He’s also known for his work with Tin Hat & Gaucho. \nCalvin Kai Ku is the Executive-Artistic Director of the Medical Clown Project and professional Magician & Variety Entertainer. With over 10+ years of experience providing joy and laughter into healthcare and professional theatrical productions\, he strives to build resilience and enhance human connections through humor and play. \n \nBianca Rodriguez and Gopal Slavonic\nFlamenco dancer accompanied by Gopal Slavonic on guitar \nFEATURING:\nBianca Rodriguez – flamenco dancer\nGopal Slavonic – guitar \nABOUT THE ARTISTS:\nBianca Rodriguez began dancing Spanish Classical/Ballet at the age of 3 in Laredo. Her first teachers were Mina Gutierrez\, Cristina Greco\, and Jose Greco II. She graduated with a degree in Dance with an emphasis in Flamenco from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Upon studying at UNM she was fortunate enough to perform with Juan Siddi\, Yjastros\, and Antonio Granjero. Bianca was featured as a soloist in the National Hispanic Center’s production of El Pintor. During her time studying in Sevilla\, Bianca’s Flamenco idol Juana Amaya told her during class that she had “peso” a characteristic in Flamenco which is innate and seen in many great dancers. Bianca toured with Flamenco Vivo in their North Carolina residency where she discovered her passion for teaching children. She has choreographed for all ages\, recently at St. John’s Catholic School in San Francisco with Katy Alaniz of World Dance Fusion. Under the direction of Carola Zertuche/Theatre Flamenco\, she worked with legendary singer Juana la del Pipa\, Adela Campallo\, Pastora Galván\, and Carmen Ledezma. Bianca’s biggest moments in Flamenco have been dancing in Antonio Rey’s Dos Partes de Mi along with Mara Rey\, and José del Tomates álbum debut Plaza Vieja produced by Eddie and Catherine Diaz of SJFS. She has performed at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles\, Brava Theatre\, and Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. Rodriguez performed in Madrid at a tablao called La Cueva de Lola\, where she worked with up and coming artists. She currently teaches in Berkeley and performs regularly through the Bay Area. \nGopal Slavonic trained at the prestigious ‘Fundacion de Arte Flamenco Cristina Heeren’ in Sevilla\, Spain where he studied intensively with leading flamenco guitarists. In his 27 years of dedication to flamenco guitar\, Gopal Slavonic has returned to Spain to further his studies several times\, most frequently to Jerez de la Frontera. In 2008\, Gopal released his CD ‘Dos Orillas’. He has been a resident performer at Copper Spoon in Oakland\, Thirsty Bear Brewing Company in San Francisco\, Peña Pachamama in San Francisco\, Sausalito Seahorse in Sausalito for the last 10 years. He currently lives in Oakland\, California regularly performing as an accompanist to song and dance\, soloist\, and teaching flamenco guitar. \nPREVIEW THE MUSIC\n \nBalder ten Cate \n \n  \nDiana Strong \n \n  \nClaudio Santomé \n \n  \nAmelia Romano \n \n  \nRob Reich \n \n  \nBianca Rodriguez \n \n  \nONLINE EVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: Aug 1st\, 7:00 pm -10:00 pm (Performances) | Aug 2nd\, 11am- 2pm (Visual Art Workshops)\nAdmission: Free (donations are encouraged) \nTune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.\nThe event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House Facebook page\n\n  \n  \nDonate\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/mapp-20200801/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/MAPP-Aug-1-WEB-Main-poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200612T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200612T220000 DTSTAMP:20200422T013257Z CREATED:20200209T202742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200422T013257Z UID:12783-1591990200-1591999200@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:Canceled: Redwood Tango Ensemble: contemporary tango & new visions DESCRIPTION:Redwood Tango Ensemble (Oakland CA) present a new set of cutting-edge tango compositions by bandoneonist and bandleader Charles Gorczynski\, as well as music from some of the most innovative composers in tango today.\n \nFEATURING:\nCharles Gorczynski – bandoneon\nElyse Weakley – piano\nIshtar Hernandez – violin\nClare Armenante – violin\nElyse Ader – viola\nAnton Estaniel – vello\nSascha Jacobsen – contrabass\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nCelebrating their new album for 2020 “We Become The Night Sky\, Vol. 1” Redwood Tango Ensemble is a leading North American sextet dedicated to contemporary tango music.\nKnown for their visceral and powerful stage performances and innovative original music\, Redwood Tango Ensemble is a singular voice within the new generation of cutting edge tango composition and future-driven chamber music in North America. \n“Bandoneonist and composer Charles Gorczynski\, along with Redwood Tango Ensemble\, are forging a distinctly new idiom of American tango music.”
 – Morgan Luker\, Program Director\, Tango For Musicians\, Author of The Tango Machine \nLearn more: Website | Facebook | Bandcamp \n \n \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general\, $20 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door. \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\nNote: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee seats. Seating is first come\, first served.\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/redwood-tango-ensemble-20200612/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RedwoodTangoEnsemble_June2020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200606 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200607 DTSTAMP:20200603T050737Z CREATED:20200531T031228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200603T050737Z UID:12985-1591401600-1591434000@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:June 6 MAPP(Online): We are Present DESCRIPTION:June 6th (Online Program) @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm (Visual Art Workshop) | 7:00pm-10:00 pm (Performances) | Free \nThis event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House facebook page. Click here to see MAPP performances online on June 6\, 2020. Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection. \nDonate \nLaunched in 2003\, Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly\, multidisciplinary\, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year\, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces\, such as private garages\, gardens\, living rooms\, studios\, street corners\, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities. \nRed Poppy Art House is deeply grateful for the generous grants we recently received from California Arts Council Local Impact Grant and CCI – San Francisco Arts and Artist Relief Fund. We are excited and grateful to continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve. \nIn an effort to continue presenting this deeply important program\, Red Poppy Art House is hosting our first virtual MAPP. We are excited to welcome you to join us with this first experiment of presenting our live workshop and performances online \nCurator: Dina Zarif / Artists Director\nWorkshop Introduction: Renee Baldocchi / Managing Director\nTech support: Sarika Dagar / PR and Digital Marketing Manager \n  \nRPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE)\n  \n\n\n\nTime\nPerformance/Event\nDescription\nArtist\n\n\n11:00-11:15 am\nIntroduction\, Artist meet and greet\nRenee Baldocchi will greet\nthe artist and present the\nworkshop program\n \n\n\n11:15 am-12:15 pm\nThe Art of Japanese Book Making\nBook Making Workshop\,\nA field guide for these times\nAdele Shaw/ Visual Artist\n\n\n7:00-7:15 pm\nIntroduction\, Artists meet and greet\nCurator Dina Zarif will greet\nthe Artists and present the\nperformance program\n \n\n\n7:15-7:50 pm\nSergiu Popa\nA musical journey from Moldova\,\nRomania\, through the Balkans\nand beyond\nSergiu Popa / Accordion\n\n\n7:55-8:30 pm\nSongs of Light and Movement\nMexican songstress performs\na musical set on guitar\, accompanied\nby dancer Stephanie Sherman on a\nfew pieces\nDiana Gameros/ Vocal & Guitar\,\nStephanie Sherman / Dance\n\n\n8:35-9:10 pm\nLevoná Ensemble\nFlamenco\, Arabic &\nJewish Music & Stories\nAsaf Ophir / woodwinds & vocals\nFaisal Zedan / percussion & vocals\nJosh Mellinger / percussion\nDavid McLean /flamenco guitar\n\n\n9:15-9:50 pm\nJavi Jiménez & Ross Howe\nGypsy Jazz Night\nJavi Jiméne/ guitar\nRoss Howe/guitar\n\n\n\n  \nABOUT THE PROJECTS & ARTISTS\n  \nWORKSHOP (ONLINE)\n \n\nThe Art of Japanese Book Making / Workshop by Adele Shaw \nCreate your own personal journal to draw\, sketch and write in. A field guide for these times\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nAdele Louise Shaw was inspired by her grandmother’s oil paints when she was six years old. She knew since then that art would allow her to best express herself. In 1989 she received a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute\, College of Art\, and went further with artistic studies in Italy\, Thailand\, Japan\, New York\, Vermont\, California\, most recently in Mexico. \nFollowing her formal and informal education in the arts\, Adele has made her life and livelihood in California. She has found kinship with likeminded people with whom to work and collaborate. Her career has been punctuated with wildly diverse artistic explorations. She lived\, worked and exhibited in San Francisco for twenty years. In the 1990’s she owned and maintained a thirty-two machine laundromat to support herself. After learning digital art skills\, her creative design work has been hired by Warner Brothers\, Neil Young and other creative luminaries. As part of the Hearts in San Francisco project\, Adele was commissioned to maintain a public art installation over a five year period which included twenty-one different projects in total. She recently received her second Arts and Cultural Affairs Grant from the City of Davis for her work with Second Bite: the Wisdom of the Apple\, a large-scale\, immersive\, multimedia art installation. \nAdele’s work is influenced by her spiritual practices\, music and the powers of nature. Her work fuses contemporary art\, impressionism and action painting. Since 1998\, she has been working with encaustic painting and has been leading encaustic workshops since 2001. She leads a variety of classes and workshops from book binding to geometric designs to painting. \nAdele’s artwork has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and can be found in numerous private and public collections. For more information visit Adele’s Website \nWORKSHOP DESCRIPTION\nMaking hand bound books: build community\, chronicle these unprecedented times to create durable historical records. These days/weeks/months are so very different from ever before. Binding books is a great way to chronicle the experience and meaning of these times. Books facilitate journaling\, drawing\, sketching\, haikus or poems and the recording of events. Uniquely personal; handmade books are a great way to maintain our roots during these extraordinary times and to share and document our experience. \nHandmade books facilitate nearly any type of expression. Whether you’re a writer\, reader\, visual artist\, collage artists or just like to feel the spark of putting pen to paper\, hand-bound books embrace countless uses\, needs and mediums. \nIn this Zoom workshop you will learn how to bind your own book. The patterns are reusable countless times and can lead to binding paper\, or other matter\, into unique collections that are an enduring legacy for yourself\, or a gift. \nARTIST STATEMENT\nI am a painter and a book artist. I grew up surrounded by my grandmother’s oil paints and my great-grandparents’ hand-bound books. Both of my great grandparents were part of the Roycroft movement in western New York. Both of these elements fascinated me. \nMy formal bookbinding studies started with classes in Japan and Thailand where I traveled and worked in different studios to learn their methods. My current book work is focused on a different\, newish\, book form referred to as “Artist Books”. As an avid experimenter\, I continually try new methods and materials\, seeking to put my vision into people’s hands. \nMost of my hand-bound books are derived from my work as a painter. Many contain original art works\, hand painted or printed. My books include recycled materials from everyday life. These artist books become both objects and containers and invite viewer’s participation. \nMy artist books combine elements of art and found objects that are bound together to create unique works of art. As one book naturally gives way to another\, I find endless sources of inspiration to translate into an intimate book form. I see these books as a lasting catalog of passing time. \nI believe in building community through the arts. I teach classes out of my studio in Davis\, California. I will be co-juror and host of a show of artist books titled: “C O N T E N T : an Artist Book Exhibition” in January\, 2021. You can view more of my work on my Website. \n \nMATERIALS \nThe list of materials to have ahead of time: \nA very good list:\n\n1 piece of cardboard for practice – approx 5” x 7”\nAn awl to poke holes with\nWaxed linen thread (4 ply)\nLarge eyed needles for tapestry or leather stitching\n20 sheets of paper folded in half – either direction. This could be computer paper\, a pad of paper without lines or specialty paper pencil\n2 sheets card stock/thicker paper for front and back covers\n\nGet by with list:\n\n1 piece of cardboard for practice – approx 5” x 7”\nAn awl – or nail – something to poke holes with\nSewing needle  – the larger the eye the better – does not have to be sharp\nThick\, strong thread – whatever will fit into the eye of your needle\n\nTHE BOOKMAKING INSTRUCTION \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n  \nPERFORMANCES (ONLINE)\n \n\nSergiu Popa\nA musical journey from Moldova\, Romania\, through the Balkans and beyond.\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nSergiu Popa\, originally from Moldova\, has become an important part of Montreal’s active world music scene since his arrival in 2002. A Conservatory-trained virtuoso accordionist from a Roma family dynasty of musicians\, he is a specialist in traditional music from across the region of Eastern Europe\, including folk\, Roma (gypsy) and Klezmer styles. Sergiu also\, however\, has an exceptional capability to absorb a wide variety of influences from the worlds of jazz\, Latin and Middle-eastern music\, bringing a fresh perspective and inspired improvisations to every performance. Sergiu is also a sought-after teacher of accordion\, having taught privately to pupils of all ages and levels\, as part-time faculty at Concordia University\, Cégep de Drummondville\, and offering workshops at camps such as CAMMAC Music Centre\, KlezKanada (both in Quebec)\, Django in June (Massachusetts) Cotati Accordion Festival (California) and the EEFC’s Balkan Camp (New York). \nWinner of the Radio Canada Étoiles Galaxie prize (2007)\, the first Prix Diversité (2008) and finalist at the national Roland V-accordion competition (2009\, 2013)\, Sergiu has performed and recorded as a soloist\, and toured Quebec’s major festivals and Maisons de la culture as leader of the multicultural Sergiu Popa Ensemble. He is also a frequent guest artist and collaborator with other local artists such as SoCalled\, Kaba Horo\, Yves Lambert\, Paul Audy and OktoEcho. Sergiu has independently released two solo albums\, Obsession Accordéon (2006) and Tous en accord (2014)\, as well as an instructional DVD\, Gypsy & East European Accordion with Sergiu Popa (2010). \nPhoto credit: David Afriat\n \n\nDiana Gameros \, Songs of Light and Movement\nMexican songstress performs a musical set on guitar\, accompanied by dancer Stephanie Sherman on a few pieces.\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nIf difficult times call for extraordinary voices\, Berkeley singer-songwriter Diana Gameros is the woman for the hour. The Mexican-born songstress draws on her long experience without papers to explore the plight of border crossers of all stripes\, bringing luminous humanity to a topic defined by searing heat rather than light. Her albums\, Eterno Retorno\, and Arrullo\, are an artistic triumph for these dark times. Gameros has shared the stage with the San Francisco Symphony\, Taylor Mac\, Bebel Gilberto\, Natalia Lafourcade\, and her songs and story have been featured on Billboard\, Mother Jones\, NPR\, and PBS\, to name a few. \nStephanie Sherman is a dancer\, choreographer\, scholar\, teacher and bilingual poet with a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts\, NYU. From 2018-2019\, she received a Fulbright Postdoctoral fellowship to explore the intersections of gender\, blindness\, and embodied movement at the Centro Universitario de Teatro of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma Mexicana and with Teatro Ciego in Mexico City. In 2006\, she received a Fulbright scholarship to choreograph dance-theater in Ecuador\, and in 2007\, she won the National Performance Network’s Red Latinoamericana’s choreographic residency in Ecuador. She has been faculty at Mexico’s prestigious Academia de la Danza Mexicana of its National Institute of Fine Arts as well as visiting professor at the renowned Universidad de las Américas Puebla.\n \n\nLevoná Ensemble\nFlamenco\, Arabic & Jewish Music & Stories \nCombining flamenco guitar\, ethnic percussion\, klezmer clarinet\, and folk songs from the Middle East\, Levoná Ensemble follows melodies and styles that traveled from one side of the ancient world to the other\, bringing them together to explore new possibilities. This celebration of sounds is intermingled with storytelling\, drawing from folk traditions as well as original stories.\n \n FEATURING\nAsaf Ophir – woodwinds\, vocals\nFaisal Zedan – percussion\, vocals\nJosh Mellinger – percussion\nDavid McLean – flamenco guitar\n \nABOUT THE PROJECT\nLevoná began as the band for the highly acclaimed Bay Area musical Love Sick \, winning the Theatre Bay Area Award for Best Ensemble in 2017 along with the cast. Love Sick went on to receive the prestigious Glickman Award for Best New Play in 2018\, and audiences and critics alike praised its vibrant music as the heart of the play’s energy and wide appeal. Levoná have since continued to perform as an independent group\, keeping that same energy alive in both dance and concert halls.\n \n\nJavi Jiménez & Ross Howe\nGypsy Jazz\nJavi Jiménez\, a spanish guitarist based in San Francisco Bay Area presents a night of gypsy jazz along with Ross Howe celebrating the music of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli and the Hot Club of Paris. Javi and Ross have been playing gypsy jazz together for over 5 years. Their style is very open and often incorporates latin or flamenco style influences while always maintaining the jazz concept of the improvisation.\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nBorn in Madrid Spain\, Javi Jiménez has been playing and studying guitar for over 25 years. In 2007\, after graduating from the Conservatory of Jazz Music in Barcelona\, Spain\, Javi performed all over Europe. During this time\, he discovered the music of Django Reinhardt\, falls in love with it\, and starts studying it. In 2010 Javi arrived in California and has been performing & working as a studio musician and teaching music. He composes\, arranges and performs in his own band Barrio Manouche – A Blend of flamenco\, gypsy jazz and latin rhythms. The band recently played at the Monterey Jazz Festival and Stern Grove Festival. Learn more: Website \nRoss Howe grew up in the Bay Area and was heavily influenced by the vibrant local music scene. In his early 20’s he discovered the music of Django Reinhardt and fell in love with it. Ross started playing Piano at the age of 8 and then turned to cello at 11. By the time he turned 12 has started playing guitar and has been in love with it ever since. His style of playing incorporates elements of classical tradition with the vocabulary of contemporary jazz\, and gypsy jazz Manouche music\, while always maintaining respect of the jazz guitar traditions and it’s forefathers\, particularly the immortal Django Reinhardt. When not composing\, playing or teaching guitar\, Ross spends as much time as possible surfing and racing sailboats. Ross tries to breathe a bit of fresh air into the art of improvised music through contemporary aesthetics that he hopes his audience will find refreshing. Learn More: Website\n  \nPREVIEW THE MUSIC\n \nSergiu Popa \n \n \nDiana Gameros \n \n \nLevoná Ensemble \n \n  \nJavi Jiménez & Ross Howe \n \n  \nONLINE EVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 11:00 am – 12:15 pm visual Art Workshop / 7:00pm-10:00 pm performances\nAdmission: Free (donations welcome) \nTune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.\nThe event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House facebook page\n \n  \n  \nDonate\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/mapp-20200606/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/MAPP-June-6th-2020-poster-e1590894956862.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200524T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200524T170000 DTSTAMP:20200422T011942Z CREATED:20200309T034844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200422T011942Z UID:12839-1590328800-1590339600@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:CANCELED:: Rumberos de Radio Habana: Monthly Community Rumba DESCRIPTION:Rumba music originated in the Afro-Cuban neighborhoods of Havana and Matanzas as the soundtrack to community\, partnered dancing and get-togethers as a means of cultural expression. Its global diaspora means rumba rhythms have found their way into other genres of music such as country\, rock\, and blues\, and continue to impact the genres of today. Rumberos de Radio Habana bring their own contribution to the Red Poppy on the fourth Sunday of each month for a free afternoon of beat-making\, hip-shaking\, and good company. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 2:00pm event\nAdmission: Free; donations accepted for musicians ($5-10) \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/rumberos-20200524/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:May,Performing Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/RumberosdeRadioHabana-e1475529430647.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200426T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200426T170000 DTSTAMP:20200422T011910Z CREATED:20200302T023611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200422T011910Z UID:12831-1587909600-1587920400@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:CANCELED: Rumberos de Radio Habana: Monthly Community Rumba DESCRIPTION:Rumba music originated in the Afro-Cuban neighborhoods of Havana and Matanzas as the soundtrack to community\, partnered dancing and get-togethers as a means of cultural expression. Its global diaspora means rumba rhythms have found their way into other genres of music such as country\, rock\, and blues\, and continue to impact the genres of today. Rumberos de Radio Habana bring their own contribution to the Red Poppy on the fourth Sunday of each month for a free afternoon of beat-making\, hip-shaking\, and good company. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 2:00pm event\nAdmission: Free; donations accepted for musicians ($5-10) \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/rumberos-20200426/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/RumberosdeRadioHabana-e1475529430647.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200404 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200405 DTSTAMP:20200315T044820Z CREATED:20200212T090030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200315T044820Z UID:12799-1585958400-1585958400@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:CANCELED: April 4 MAPP DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE\nOut of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health\nrecommendations regarding COVID-19\, we’ve made the difficult decision to\ncancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through\nApril 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will\nrefund you. \nThis is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share\nkindness and a smile and take good care of each other. \nThis link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.\nFeel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.\nCoronavirus: Why You Must Act Now \nWarmest regards\,\nRed Poppy Art House \nMission Arts & Performance Project\n  \n\nLaunched in 2003\, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly\, multidisciplinary\, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year\, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces\, such as private garages\, gardens\, living rooms\, studios\, street corners\, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities. \n  \nRPAH PROGRAM:\nTBA  \n \nTo get involved as a host venue\, artist\, or street-level curator (and curate a space of your own!)\, come out to the next MAPP meeting. For more information\, visit mappsf.com\, contact info@redpoppyarthouse.org\, or find us on Facebook. URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/mapp-20200404/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/MAPP-Collage.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T220000 DTSTAMP:20200314T233648Z CREATED:20200130T063640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T233648Z UID:12738-1585423800-1585432800@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:CANCELED: Jessica Fichot: French Chanson & Shanghai Jazz DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE\nOut of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health\nrecommendations regarding COVID-19\, we’ve made the difficult decision to\ncancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through\nApril 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will\nrefund you. \nThis is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share\nkindness and a smile and take good care of each other. \nThis link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.\nFeel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.\nCoronavirus: Why You Must Act Now \nWarmest regards\,\nRed Poppy Art House \nAccompanied by her accordion\, toy piano\, and fiery band\, Los Angeles-based chanteuse and songwriter Jessica Fichot draws from her multi-ethnic French/Chinese/American heritage to create an intoxicating multilingual blend of original French chanson\, 1940s Shanghai jazz\, gypsy swing and international folk. (Photo by Nicolas Kaviani)\n \nFEATURING:\nTBA\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nBLos Angeles-based chanteuse/songwriter Jessica Fichot is a lot like her hometown of Paris; French at heart\, but with a soul that’s truly international. Drawing from her multi-ethnic French/Chinese/American upbringing\, her music takes the listener on a twisting journey out of the French chanson tradition\, into the land of 1940’s Shanghai jazz\, gypsy swing\, international folk\, and into the wilderness of her imagination. \nWith 3 acclaimed albums under her belt\, Jessica has charmed audiences around the world – performing her lively songs at concert halls\, festivals and clubs in China\, Mexico\, Canada and across the US and western Europe. Featuring scorching performances from her bandmates on clarinet/sax\, upright bass and guitar\, as well as her own beautiful\, clear vocals in French\, Mandarin Chinese\, Spanish and English\, Fichot’s music is truly a dazzling trans-world journey. \nFichot is also an active composer\, who has written hundreds of children’s songs for various educational programs\, as well as music for many independent video games. \n“Brings an art-song sensibility to delightfully catchy tunes.” – LA Times \n“Enchantingly original.” – LA Weekly \n“A delicious blend of acoustic styles” – San Francisco Chronicle \n“A mélange of multicultural inspiration as rich and nuanced as her gorgeous expressive singing voice.” – Seven Days Vermont \nLearn more: Website | Facebook | Instagram\n  \nEVENT DETAILS\nTime: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general\, $20 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door.\n \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/jessica-fichot-20200328/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:March,Performing Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/JessicaFichot_PC-NicolasKaviani_March2020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200327T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200327T220000 DTSTAMP:20200314T233624Z CREATED:20200203T033641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T233624Z UID:12748-1585337400-1585346400@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:CANCELED: Steven Lugerner: SLUGish Ensemble DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE\nOut of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health\nrecommendations regarding COVID-19\, we’ve made the difficult decision to\ncancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through\nApril 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will\nrefund you. \nThis is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share\nkindness and a smile and take good care of each other. \nThis link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.\nFeel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.\nCoronavirus: Why You Must Act Now \nWarmest regards\,\nRed Poppy Art House \nSteven Lugerner performs the music from SLUGish Ensemble’s debut album “An Eight Out of Nine\,” plus new selections from an upcoming 2020 release on Slow & Steady Records. Named one of “The Best Jazz Albums of 2018” by Bandcamp and Jazziz Magazine describes the album & ensemble as “Northern California’s less extravagant answer to LA’s thriving crossover jazz-scene… original\, earnest and immediate.”\n \nFEATURING:\nSteven Lugerner – bass clarinet & baritone saxophone\nKeith Ganz – guitar\nJavier Santiago – piano\nSteve Blum – prophet synthesizer\nGiulio Xavier Cetto – bass\nMichael Mitchell – drums\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nSLUGish Ensemble is an amoeba-like band under the direction of composer & multi-instrumentalist Steven Lugerner. Their music utilizes traditional acoustic instruments to create layers of pocketed-grooves and melodies that blur the lines between pop\, rhythm & blues\, jazz improvisation and minimalism. As a band leader\, Lugerner has released multiple albums to critical acclaim. His compositions have been described as “A textured\, nearly seamless blend of composition and improvisation” – The Village Voice\n“Lugerner’s approach to making music is very much his own; and he seems to be pursuing it to impressive advantage.” – The San Francisco Examiner \nIn a relatively short period of time\, the 31-year-old Bay Area native has collaborated with a heavyweight roster of jazz masters including\, Grammy nominated pianist Fred Hersch\, pioneering pianist Myra Melford\, drum legends Albert “Tootie” Heath\, Matt Wilson\, John Hollenbeck and Allison Miller\, saxophonists Jane Ira Bloom\, Dayna Stephens and Anat Cohen\, trumpeter Ralph Alessi\, flutist Jamie Baum and bassist Todd Sickafoose. \nLugerner works full-time at the Stanford Jazz Workshop as Faculty Director / Camp Director\, and he is also the director of Slow & Steady Records\, a non-profit record label dedicated to showcasing west coast’s creative music. \nLearn more: Website | Bandcamp\n  \nEVENT DETAILS\nTime: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general\, $20 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door.\n \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/stevenlugerners-20200327/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/StevenLugerner_March2020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200322T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200322T170000 DTSTAMP:20200314T233558Z CREATED:20191220T042948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T233558Z UID:12609-1584885600-1584896400@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:CANCELED: Rumberos de Radio Habana: Monthly Community Rumba DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE\nOut of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health\nrecommendations regarding COVID-19\, we’ve made the difficult decision to\ncancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through\nApril 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will\nrefund you. \nThis is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share\nkindness and a smile and take good care of each other. \nThis link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.\nFeel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.\nCoronavirus: Why You Must Act Now \nWarmest regards\,\nRed Poppy Art House \nRumba music originated in the Afro-Cuban neighborhoods of Havana and Matanzas as the soundtrack to community\, partnered dancing and get-togethers as a means of cultural expression. Its global diaspora means rumba rhythms have found their way into other genres of music such as country\, rock\, and blues\, and continue to impact the genres of today. Rumberos de Radio Habana bring their own contribution to the Red Poppy on the fourth Sunday of each month for a free afternoon of beat-making\, hip-shaking\, and good company. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 2:00pm event\nAdmission: Free; donations accepted for musicians ($5-10) \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/rumberos-20200322/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/RumberosdeRadioHabana-e1475529430647.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200321T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200321T220000 DTSTAMP:20200314T233528Z CREATED:20200209T194352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T233528Z UID:12776-1584819000-1584828000@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:CANCELED: Pedro Pastrana & Miguelito Martinez: musical dialogue between Puerto Rico and Mexico DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE\nOut of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health\nrecommendations regarding COVID-19\, we’ve made the difficult decision to\ncancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through\nApril 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will\nrefund you. \nThis is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share\nkindness and a smile and take good care of each other. \nThis link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.\nFeel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.\nCoronavirus: Why You Must Act Now \nWarmest regards\,\nRed Poppy Art House \nThis show will present Pedro and Miguelito’s collaboration just how it started at Miguelito’s kitchen – organic\, highly improvised and gluten free. It will feature original compositions from both artists as well as familiar tunes that will show how their sound blends together.\n \nFEATURING:\nTBA\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nPedro Pastrana grew up playing Puerto Rico’s national instrument cuatro. His passion to explore led him to move out of Puerto Rico and travel to different countries allowing him to discover other musical cultures. After years as a sideman\, all of these collaborations helped him find his own voice. Rooted in folk music\, Pedro brings his dynamism and shows the versatility of the instrument in contemporary music. \nBorn in Chiapas\, Mexico\, Miguelito Martinez studied music and transversal flute at the University of Science and Art in Chiapas and La Universidad Veracruzana\, with training in Kodály and Orff. He is the founding director of the Mexican-Caribbean ensemble Corazon Sur and the co-director of Balamcoatl – a collaborative project focused on promoting the rich music and dance traditions of the indigenous people of Mexico. \nLearn more: Website | Website \n \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general\, $20 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door. \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\nNote: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee seats. Seating is first come\, first served.\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/pedropastrana-miguelitomartinez-20200321/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/PedroPastrana_MiguelMartiniz_March2020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200320T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200320T220000 DTSTAMP:20200314T233505Z CREATED:20200127T032424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T233505Z UID:12717-1584732600-1584741600@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:CANCELED: Javi Jiménez & Ross Howe: Gypsy Jazz Night DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE\nOut of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health\nrecommendations regarding COVID-19\, we’ve made the difficult decision to\ncancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through\nApril 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will\nrefund you. \nThis is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share\nkindness and a smile and take good care of each other. \nThis link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.\nFeel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.\nCoronavirus: Why You Must Act Now \nWarmest regards\,\nRed Poppy Art House \nJavi Jiménez\, a spanish guitarist based in San Francisco Bay Area presents a night of gypsy jazz along with Ross Howe celebrating the music of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli and the Hot Club of Paris. Javi and Ross have been playing gypsy jazz together for over 5 years. Their style is very open and often incorporate latin or flamenco style of influences while always maintaining the jazz concept of the improvisation.\n \nFEATURING:\nJavi Jiménez – guitar\nRoss Howe – guitar\nSascha Jacobsen – upright bass\nEric Rodgers – violin\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nBorn in Madrid Spain\, Javi Jiménez has been playing and studying guitar for over 25 years. In 2007\, after graduating from the Conservatory of Jazz Music in Barcelona\, Spain\, Javi performed all over Europe. During this time\, he discovered the music of Django Reinhardt\, falls in love with it\, and starts studying it. In 2010 Javi arrived in California and has been performing & working as a studio musician and teaching music. He composes\, arranges and performs in his own band Barrio Manouche – A Blend of flamenco\, gypsy jazz and latin rhythms. The band recently played at the Monterey Jazz Festival and Stern Grove Festival. Learn more: Website\n \nRoss Howe grew up in the Bay Area and was heavily influenced by the vibrant local music scene. In his early 20’s he discovered the music of Django Reinhardt and fell in love with it. Ross started playing Piano at the age of 8 and then turned to cello at 11. By the time he turned 12 has started playing guitar and has been in love with it ever since. His style of playing incorporates elements of classical tradition with the vocabulary of contemporary jazz\, and gypsy jazz Manouche music\, while always maintaining respect of the jazz guitar traditions and it’s forefathers\, particularly the immortal Django Reinhardt. When not composing\, playing or teaching guitar\, Ross spends as much time as possible surfing and racing sailboats. Ross tries to breathe a bit of fresh air into the art of improvised music through contemporary aesthetics that he hopes his audience will find refreshing. Learn More: Website\n  \n \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\nTime: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general\, $20 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door.\n \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/gypsyjazz-20200320/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/JaviJiménez_March2020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200319T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200319T220000 DTSTAMP:20200314T233439Z CREATED:20200126T043104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T233439Z UID:12704-1584646200-1584655200@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:CANCELED: Levoná Ensemble: Flamenco\, Arabic & Jewish Music & Stories DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE\nOut of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health\nrecommendations regarding COVID-19\, we’ve made the difficult decision to\ncancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through\nApril 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will\nrefund you. \nThis is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share\nkindness and a smile and take good care of each other. \nThis link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.\nFeel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.\nCoronavirus: Why You Must Act Now \nWarmest regards\,\nRed Poppy Art House \nCombining flamenco guitar\, ethnic percussion\, klezmer clarinet\, and folk songs from the Middle East\, Levoná Ensemble follows melodies and styles that traveled from one side of the ancient world to the other\, bringing them together to explore new possibilities. This celebration of sounds is intermingled with storytelling\, drawing from folk traditions as well as original stories.\n \nFEATURING:\nFaisal Zedan – percussion\, vocals\nJosh Mellinger – percussion\nDavid McLean – flamenco guitar\nAsaf Ophir – woodwinds\, vocals\nTravis Hendrix – bass\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nLevoná began as the band for the highly acclaimed Bay Area musical Love Sick \, winning the Theatre Bay Area Award for Best Ensemble in 2017 along with the cast. Love Sick  went on to receive the prestigious Glickman Award for Best New Play in 2018\, and audiences and critics alike praised its vibrant music as the heart of the play’s energy and wide appeal. Levoná have since continued to perform as an independent group\, keeping that same energy alive in both dance and concert halls. \nLearn more: Website | Facebook | YouTube \n \n \n \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\nTime: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general\, $20 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door.\n \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/levona-20200319/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:March,Performing Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/LevonaEnsemble_June2019-e1557209808555.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T220000 DTSTAMP:20200314T044433Z CREATED:20200131T130408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T044433Z UID:12743-1584214200-1584223200@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:CANCELED: Huarango: Afro-Peruvian Music DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE\nOut of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health\nrecommendations regarding COVID-19\, we’ve made the difficult decision to\ncancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through\nApril 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will\nrefund you. \nThis is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share\nkindness and a smile and take good care of each other. \nThis link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.\nFeel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.\nCoronavirus: Why You Must Act Now \nWarmest regards\,\nRed Poppy Art House \nHuarango is a contemporary proposal of Afro-Peruvian music\, with influences of classical music\, jazz and funk\, anchored in the strong presence of Afro-Peruvian percussion such as cajón\, cajita and quijada de burro (donkey’s jawbone).\n \nFEATURING:\nPierr Padilla ​(Peru) – performer\nJavier Trujillo ​(Peru) – guitar\nKyla Danysh ​(USA) – violin\nPedro Rosales ​(Peru) – percussion\nAlex Farrell (USA) – bass guitar\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nHuarango is a new musical project born in the city of Oakland\, California\, based in Afro-Peruvian musical roots and the cultural heritage of its people. Huarango has the purpose of being an agent of diffusion of Afro-Peruvian culture in the San Francisco Bay Area.\nLearn more: YouTube\n  \nEVENT DETAILS\nTime: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general\, $20 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door.\n \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/huarango-20200314/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Hurango_March2020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T220000 DTSTAMP:20200312T021024Z CREATED:20200204T060236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T021024Z UID:12754-1584127800-1584136800@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:Canceled: Northern Harmony: singing styles from across the world DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE\nOut of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health\nrecommendations regarding COVID-19\, we’ve made the difficult decision to\ncancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through\nApril 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will\nrefund you. \nThis is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share\nkindness and a smile and take good care of each other. \nThis link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.\nFeel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.\nCoronavirus: Why You Must Act Now \nWarmest regards\,\nRed Poppy Art House \nNine brilliant young singers present a program of harmony singing styles from across the globe. South African songs and dances\, traditional music from Corsica\, Georgia & the Balkans\, American shape-note singing\, and renaissance works.\n \nFEATURING:\nLarry Gordon\nAvery Martin\nHowe Pearson\nStuart Wheeler\nHannah Levy\nSora Harris-Vincent\,\nSarina Partridge\,\nLinnea Sablosky\,\nMaisie Dolan.\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nLed by Larry Gordon\, Northern Harmony is the highest level performing group under the umbrella of the Vermont based world music organization Village Harmony. Since 1993 they have toured and performed widely throughout America and Europe to great critical acclaim.\nMost of the members have sung with Village Harmony since their teenage years\, have studied traditional singing styles first hand with native teachers in South Africa\, Bulgaria\, Corsica and Caucasus Georgia\, and many are singing leaders in their own right. Northern Harmony director Larry Gordon founded Village Harmony in 1989 and has led regular Village Harmony singing camps in South Africa\, Bulgaria\, Georgia\, Macedonia\, Italy\, Germany and England. With Northern Harmony he has led 18 extended European tours.\nLearn more: Website\n  \nEVENT DETAILS\nTime: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general\, $20 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door.\n \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/northern-harmony-20200313/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/NorthernHarmony_March2020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200312T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200312T220000 DTSTAMP:20200312T020909Z CREATED:20200208T063437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T020909Z UID:12765-1584041400-1584050400@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:Canceled: Sergiu Popa: a musical journey from Moldova and beyond DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE\nOut of an abundance of caution and to align with current public health\nrecommendations regarding COVID-19\, we’ve made the difficult decision to\ncancel all programs and performances at Red Poppy Art House through\nApril 15. We will be in touch with anyone who has purchased tickets and we will\nrefund you. \nThis is a very difficult time for many so let us all make sure to share\nkindness and a smile and take good care of each other. \nThis link is insightful and shares much needed information about the virus.\nFeel free to share with others as the author has given permission to do so.\nCoronavirus: Why You Must Act Now \nWarmest regards\,\nRed Poppy Art House \nMoldovan accordion virtuoso Sergiu Popa will take the audience on an enchanting musical journey from Eastern Europe\, the Balkans and through the Middle East. The passionate\, inventive\, and versatile performance artist will be joined by friends for an enchanting and nourishing evening of soul-wrenching ballads\, village-style tunes and high-energy wedding dances.\n \nFEATURING:\nNoémy Braun – cellist\nKhatchadour Khatchadourian – vocalist\nRumen Shopov – singer\nValy Lautar – violinist\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nSergiu Popa was born in Chisinau\, Moldova. From a young age\, he studied traditional folk and Roma (Gypsy) music with his father\, Ion Popa (a well-recognized Gypsy accordionist in Moldova\, Turkish\, Serbian\, Bulgarian and Russian music). After moving to Montreal in 2002\, Sergiu immersed himself into Middle Eastern and North African repertoire. He is widely celebrated for his ability to seamlessly bend these different styles of music. He has collaborated with many of the great names in Eastern European and Balkan music\, such as Dan Armeanca\, Carmen Piculeata\, Fanfara Ciocarlia\, Vadim Kolpakov\, and Petar Ralchev.\nIn this exceptional show\, Sergiu will be joined by several guest artists for different parts of the performance\, including: Noémy Braun — a cellist since the age of five\, Noémy Braun has collaborated on numerous projects in classical\, contemporary\, jazz and various regions of the world. A great improviser\, she is active on the musical stages of Canada and Europe.\nKhatchadour Khatchadourian – vocalist grounded in the musical traditions of the Middle East and Armenia\, and a Duduk woodwind player based in the San Francisco Bay Area.\nRumen Shopov – singer\, multi-instrumentalist\, and music teacher Rumen Sali Shopov born and raised in the Turkish/Muslim Romani (Gypsy) mahala (neighborhood) of Gotse Delchev\, a crossroads in Southwestern Bulgaria’s Pirin Mountain region.\nValy Lautar – violinist graduated from the Conservatory of Moldova\, worked for five years as a musician on transatlantic cruise lines\, before permanently settling in the new world. Valy specialized in a wide array of styles of music\, including traditional music from Moldova and other parts of Eastern Europe. \nLearn more: Website | Spotify \n \n \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $30 general\, $25 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door. \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\nNote: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee seats. Seating is first come\, first served.\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/sergiu-popa-20200312/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SergiuPopa_March2020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200307T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200307T220000 DTSTAMP:20200302T032014Z CREATED:20200130T050848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200302T032014Z UID:12731-1583609400-1583618400@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:Lior Ben-Hur & Sol Tevél: bringing it back to the roots DESCRIPTION:Lior Ben-Hur & Sol Tevél\, with their positive message\, uplifting melodies and a distinctive approach this San Francisco-based band represents a new generation of reggae music.\n \nFEATURING:\nLior Ben-Hur – lead vocal\, guitar\nYoel Bibas – drums\nBrett Cavanaugh – percussion\nJenevieve Francisco – vocals\nRebecca Nobel – vocals\nLuis Mayorga – bass\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nBorn in Jerusalem\, Israel with Greek and Iraqi roots\, Lior Ben-Hur has traveled to over a dozen countries where he spent time learning\, performing and sharing experiences with musicians and artists around the globe. Since 2004\, Lior has made his home in San Francisco\, CA. He formed his band in 2011\, which in 2012 released an eclectic music album under the name Sol Tevél. The album sheds new light with contemporary interpretations of old jewish texts\, ideals and mysticism. \nAlong with his 8-piece band\, Lior Ben-Hur continues to focus on his passion for reggae music\, which has been a key inspiration on his music\, creativity and spirituality. In June 2015\, the band released their self-titled reggae EP\, and have since shared the stage with legendary roots reggae artists such as Stephen Marley\, Black Uhuru\, Tarrus Riley\, Groundation\, Richie Spice\, Israel Vibration and Don Carlos. In February 2017\, Lior Ben-Hur and his San Francisco-based band\, Sol Tevél\, released a full-length album titled\, So I Wander. The album debuted at #14 on billboard charts for top reggae albums. \nProduced by Marcus Urani (of Groundation)\, So I Wander features leading artists such as; Kumar Bent (of Raging Fyah)\, Jah Levi\, Yossi Fine\, Iraqi-Israeli world music expert Yair Dalal\, and Palestinian rapper\, Saz. The album reveals Lior Ben-Hur deep passion for reggae\, and demonstrates the band’s ability to perform high-energy roots music. \nLearn more: Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube \n \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\nTime: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general\, $20 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door.\n \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/liorben-hur-20200307/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:March,Performing Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/LiorBenHurt_March2020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200306T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200306T220000 DTSTAMP:20200213T080631Z CREATED:20200212T084050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200213T080631Z UID:12792-1583523000-1583532000@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:Bass Winds with B'kongofonic Spirit: bass clarinet\, bass flute & tenor saxophone DESCRIPTION:Bass clarinetist Paul Austerlitz joins bass flutist John Calloway and tenor saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh for a program of highly original work influenced by the spiritual traditions of Cuba\, Iran\, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This\, along with the music of Yusef Lateef\, raises global jazz consciousness through what Modirzadeh calls the B’kongofonic ear – hearing from below their instruments’ surface engraving\, the heartbeat of a resistance continuum.\n \nFEATURING:\nPaul Austerlitz – bass clarinet\nJohn Calloway – bass and alto flutes\nHafez Modirzadeh – tenor saxophone\nKeshav Batish – drums\nAlex Farrell – bass\nSimon Lace – guitar\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nPaul Austerlitz\, John Calloway\, and Hafez Modirzadeh are multi-reed Instrumentalists\, composers\, and creative jazz musicians\, whose combined forces include Paul’s artistic scholarship as an ethnomusicologist specializing in Afro-Caribbean music\, John’s prolific Afro-Cuban and Latin American musical credits\, and Hafez’s visionary cross-cultural concepts. \nLearn more: Paul Website | John Website | Hafez Website\n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $30 general\, $25 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door. \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\nNote: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee seats. Seating is first come\, first served.\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/bass-winds-with-bkongofonic-20200306/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HafezModirzadeh_photoAndyNozaka_March2020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T201500 DTSTAMP:20200208T053021Z CREATED:20200208T052854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200208T053021Z UID:12759-1583089200-1583093700@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:Halie Loren: award-winning jazz & pop vocalist DESCRIPTION:Halie Loren returns to San Francisco\, after a run of February Jazz Festivals in the Pacific Northwest.\n \nFEATURING:\nHalie Loren – vocalist\, piano\nLee Kohler – piano\, backup vocals\nRob Kohler – bass\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nWith a career spanning ten albums and several continents\, Halie Loren is known for her heartfelt and multilingual set lists. Among many distinctions\, her albums have reached number one on the Billboard Japan Top 20 Jazz Albums charts\, and her music video for “NOAH” recently won a Southern EMMY for “Best Music Video”. She is currently touring in support of her new original music album\, From the Wild Sky\, produced by UK tour-de-force Troy Miller and beginning work on several new recording projects and collaborations. \nLearn more: Website | Spotify | YouTube \n \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 6:30pm doors / 7:00pm – 8:15 pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $30 general\, $25 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door. \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\nNote: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee seats. Seating is first come\, first served.\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/halieloren_20200301/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/halieloren_bobWilliams_March2020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T220000 DTSTAMP:20200126T030402Z CREATED:20200126T024955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T030402Z UID:12695-1583004600-1583013600@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:Proteus Trio: Classical Piano Trio Playing Electric Originals DESCRIPTION:“A string-centric power trio that brings together three of the most versatile and adventurous musicians in the Bay Area. Proteus Trio doesn’t so much ignore genre conventions as embrace every musical practice. Steeped in clave and capable of swinging with authority\, this triumvirate has honed a repertoire that includes delicate chamber pieces and shredding rockers.”— Andrew Gilbert\, East Bay Express \nFEATURING:\nJonathan Alford – piano\nEvan Price – violin\nLewis Patzner – cello\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nViolinist Evan Price earned two Grammy Awards during his decade-long run with Turtle Island Quartet and continues his two-decade-plus tenure in the pioneering Hot Club of San Francisco. Peabody Institute-trained cellist Lewis Patzner is best known as a prolific studio musician sought out by rock and pop acts\, and for leading his instrumental metal band Judgment Day. Pianist Jonathan Alford has earned a sterling reputation as an accompanist for some of the region’s finest jazz vocalists and Latin bands. \nLearn more: Website\n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general\, $20 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door. \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\nNote: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee seats. Seating is first come\, first served.\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/proteus-20200229/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:February,Performing Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ProteusTrio_Feb2020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T220000 DTSTAMP:20200125T221135Z CREATED:20200124T211113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200125T221135Z UID:12662-1582918200-1582927200@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:Ramana Vieira & Ensemble Presents: A Night in Portugal DESCRIPTION:Take a journey to the world of fado\, often described as the Portuguese version of the blues. Following her recent performance of the TAP Airlines inaugural flight out of SFO\, Ramana Vieira’s performance will reflect her original compositions along with beautiful Fado pieces by Amalia Rodrigues the legendary fado singer from Portugal.\n \nFEATURING:\nRamana Vieira – vocals\nStephen La Porta – percussion\nDan Keller – bass\nJeff Furtado – guitar\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nRamana Vieira\, a Northern California native of Portuguese descent\, has been described by The New York Times as an American at the forefront of the fado resurgence. The San Francisco Examiner calls her “the Rising Star in World Music.” Her authentic and individual style\, brilliant musicality\, and colorful heritage appeals to a wide audience. \nLearn more: Website\n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $30 general\, $25 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door. \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\nNote: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee seats. Seating is first come\, first served.\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/ramana-vieira-20200228/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:February,Performing Arts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/RamanaVieira_Feb2020.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200223T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200223T170000 DTSTAMP:20191231T051817Z CREATED:20191231T051817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191231T051817Z UID:12637-1582466400-1582477200@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:Rumberos de Radio Habana: Monthly Community Rumba DESCRIPTION:Rumba music originated in the Afro-Cuban neighborhoods of Havana and Matanzas as the soundtrack to community\, partnered dancing and get-togethers as a means of cultural expression. Its global diaspora means rumba rhythms have found their way into other genres of music such as country\, rock\, and blues\, and continue to impact the genres of today. Rumberos de Radio Habana bring their own contribution to the Red Poppy on the fourth Sunday of each month for a free afternoon of beat-making\, hip-shaking\, and good company. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 2:00pm event\nAdmission: Free; donations accepted for musicians ($5-10) \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/rumberos-20200223/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/RumberosdeRadioHabana-e1475529430647.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T220000 DTSTAMP:20200130T051456Z CREATED:20200125T223744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T051456Z UID:12685-1582399800-1582408800@redpoppyarthouse.org SUMMARY:The Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble: San Francisco Septet DESCRIPTION:The Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble students will be performing classic Latin jazz music as well as their own originals. \nFEATURING:\nTBA\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST:\nThe Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco is a performing group of talented musicians ages 10 to 18. They play Latin jazz classics and original compositions at a level that has landed them gigs at the San Jose Jazz Festival\, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival\, and the world-renowned jazz club Yoshi’s. Their mission is to preserve the traditions of Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban music by teaching it to youth and to create role models for aspiring student musicians. \nLearn more: Website\n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n \nTime: 7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show\nAdmission: (Online) $20-25 / (Door) $25 general\, $20 student & senior with valid ID\nNote: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door. \nPurchase advance tickets for this event:\nNote: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee seats. Seating is first come\, first served.\n \nRSVP to the Facebook event:\n \n \n  \nVolunteer for this event!\n\n  URL:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/ljye-20200222/ LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://redpoppyarthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/LatinJazzYouthEnsemble_Feb2020.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR