June 6th (Online Program) @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm (Visual Art Workshop) | 7:00pm-10:00 pm (Performances) | Free

This event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House facebook page. Click here to see MAPP performances online on June 6, 2020. Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.

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Launched in 2003, Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces, such as private garages, gardens, living rooms, studios, street corners, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities.

Red Poppy Art House is deeply grateful for the generous grants we recently received from California Arts Council Local Impact Grant and CCI – San Francisco Arts and Artist Relief Fund. We are excited and grateful to continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.

In an effort to continue presenting this deeply important program, Red Poppy Art House is hosting our first virtual MAPP. We are excited to welcome you to join us with this first experiment of presenting our live workshop and performances online

Curator: Dina Zarif / Artists Director
Workshop Introduction: Renee Baldocchi / Managing Director
Tech support: Sarika Dagar / PR and Digital Marketing Manager

WORKSHOP (ONLINE)

 

The Art of Japanese Book Making / Workshop by Adele Shaw
Create your own personal journal to draw, sketch and write in. A field guide for these times
 
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adele Louise Shaw was inspired by her grandmother’s oil paints when she was six years old. She knew since then that art would allow her to best express herself. In 1989 she received a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, and went further with artistic studies in Italy, Thailand, Japan, New York, Vermont, California, most recently in Mexico.

Following her formal and informal education in the arts, Adele has made her life and livelihood in California. She has found kinship with likeminded people with whom to work and collaborate. Her career has been punctuated with wildly diverse artistic explorations. She lived, worked and exhibited in San Francisco for twenty years. In the 1990’s she owned and maintained a thirty-two machine laundromat to support herself. After learning digital art skills, her creative design work has been hired by Warner Brothers, Neil Young and other creative luminaries. As part of the Hearts in San Francisco project, Adele was commissioned to maintain a public art installation over a five year period which included twenty-one different projects in total. She recently received her second Arts and Cultural Affairs Grant from the City of Davis for her work with Second Bite: the Wisdom of the Apple, a large-scale, immersive, multimedia art installation.

Adele’s work is influenced by her spiritual practices, music and the powers of nature. Her work fuses contemporary art, impressionism and action painting. Since 1998, she has been working with encaustic painting and has been leading encaustic workshops since 2001. She leads a variety of classes and workshops from book binding to geometric designs to painting.

Adele’s artwork has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and can be found in numerous private and public collections. For more information visit Adele’s Website

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Making hand bound books: build community, chronicle these unprecedented times to create durable historical records. These days/weeks/months are so very different from ever before. Binding books is a great way to chronicle the experience and meaning of these times. Books facilitate journaling, drawing, sketching, haikus or poems and the recording of events. Uniquely personal; handmade books are a great way to maintain our roots during these extraordinary times and to share and document our experience.

Handmade books facilitate nearly any type of expression. Whether you’re a writer, reader, visual artist, collage artists or just like to feel the spark of putting pen to paper, hand-bound books embrace countless uses, needs and mediums.

In this Zoom workshop you will learn how to bind your own book. The patterns are reusable countless times and can lead to binding paper, or other matter, into unique collections that are an enduring legacy for yourself, or a gift.

ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a painter and a book artist. I grew up surrounded by my grandmother’s oil paints and my great-grandparents’ hand-bound books. Both of my great grandparents were part of the Roycroft movement in western New York. Both of these elements fascinated me.

My formal bookbinding studies started with classes in Japan and Thailand where I traveled and worked in different studios to learn their methods. My current book work is focused on a different, newish, book form referred to as “Artist Books”. As an avid experimenter, I continually try new methods and materials, seeking to put my vision into people’s hands.

Most of my hand-bound books are derived from my work as a painter. Many contain original art works, hand painted or printed. My books include recycled materials from everyday life. These artist books become both objects and containers and invite viewer’s participation.

My artist books combine elements of art and found objects that are bound together to create unique works of art. As one book naturally gives way to another, I find endless sources of inspiration to translate into an intimate book form. I see these books as a lasting catalog of passing time.

I believe in building community through the arts. I teach classes out of my studio in Davis, California. I will be co-juror and host of a show of artist books titled: “C O N T E N T : an Artist Book Exhibition” in January, 2021. You can view more of my work on my Website.

MATERIALS

The list of materials to have ahead of time:

A very good list:

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

Get by with list:

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

THE BOOKMAKING INSTRUCTION

PERFORMANCES (ONLINE)

 

Sergiu Popa
A musical journey from Moldova, Romania, through the Balkans and beyond.
 
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sergiu Popa, originally from Moldova, has become an important part of Montreal’s active world music scene since his arrival in 2002. A Conservatory-trained virtuoso accordionist from a Roma family dynasty of musicians, he is a specialist in traditional music from across the region of Eastern Europe, including folk, Roma (gypsy) and Klezmer styles. Sergiu also, however, has an exceptional capability to absorb a wide variety of influences from the worlds of jazz, Latin and Middle-eastern music, bringing a fresh perspective and inspired improvisations to every performance. Sergiu is also a sought-after teacher of accordion, having taught privately to pupils of all ages and levels, as part-time faculty at Concordia University, Cégep de Drummondville, and offering workshops at camps such as CAMMAC Music Centre, KlezKanada (both in Quebec), Django in June (Massachusetts) Cotati Accordion Festival (California) and the EEFC’s Balkan Camp (New York).

Winner of the Radio Canada Étoiles Galaxie prize (2007), the first Prix Diversité (2008) and finalist at the national Roland V-accordion competition (2009, 2013), Sergiu has performed and recorded as a soloist, and toured Quebec’s major festivals and Maisons de la culture as leader of the multicultural Sergiu Popa Ensemble. He is also a frequent guest artist and collaborator with other local artists such as SoCalled, Kaba Horo, Yves Lambert, Paul Audy and OktoEcho. Sergiu has independently released two solo albums, Obsession Accordéon (2006) and Tous en accord (2014), as well as an instructional DVD, Gypsy & East European Accordion with Sergiu Popa (2010).

Photo credit: David Afriat
 

Diana Gameros , Songs of Light and Movement
Mexican songstress performs a musical set on guitar, accompanied by dancer Stephanie Sherman on a few pieces.
 
ABOUT THE ARTIST
If difficult times call for extraordinary voices, Berkeley singer-songwriter Diana Gameros is the woman for the hour. The Mexican-born songstress draws on her long experience without papers to explore the plight of border crossers of all stripes, bringing luminous humanity to a topic defined by searing heat rather than light. Her albums, Eterno Retorno, and Arrullo, are an artistic triumph for these dark times. Gameros has shared the stage with the San Francisco Symphony, Taylor Mac, Bebel Gilberto, Natalia Lafourcade, and her songs and story have been featured on Billboard, Mother Jones, NPR, and PBS, to name a few.

Stephanie Sherman is a dancer, choreographer, scholar, teacher and bilingual poet with a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. From 2018-2019, she received a Fulbright Postdoctoral fellowship to explore the intersections of gender, blindness, and embodied movement at the Centro Universitario de Teatro of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma Mexicana and with Teatro Ciego in Mexico City. In 2006, she received a Fulbright scholarship to choreograph dance-theater in Ecuador, and in 2007, she won the National Performance Network’s Red Latinoamericana’s choreographic residency in Ecuador. She has been faculty at Mexico’s prestigious Academia de la Danza Mexicana of its National Institute of Fine Arts as well as visiting professor at the renowned Universidad de las Américas Puebla.
 

Levoná Ensemble
Flamenco, Arabic & Jewish Music & Stories

Combining flamenco guitar, ethnic percussion, klezmer clarinet, and folk songs from the Middle East, Levoná Ensemble follows melodies and styles that traveled from one side of the ancient world to the other, bringing them together to explore new possibilities. This celebration of sounds is intermingled with storytelling, drawing from folk traditions as well as original stories.
 
 FEATURING
Asaf Ophir – woodwinds, vocals
Faisal Zedan – percussion, vocals
Josh Mellinger – percussion
David McLean – flamenco guitar
 
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Levoná began as the band for the highly acclaimed Bay Area musical Love Sick , winning the Theatre Bay Area Award for Best Ensemble in 2017 along with the cast. Love Sick went on to receive the prestigious Glickman Award for Best New Play in 2018, and audiences and critics alike praised its vibrant music as the heart of the play’s energy and wide appeal. Levoná have since continued to perform as an independent group, keeping that same energy alive in both dance and concert halls.
 

Javi Jiménez & Ross Howe
Gypsy Jazz
Javi Jiménez, a spanish guitarist based in San Francisco Bay Area presents a night of gypsy jazz along with Ross Howe celebrating the music of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli and the Hot Club of Paris. Javi and Ross have been playing gypsy jazz together for over 5 years. Their style is very open and often incorporates latin or flamenco style influences while always maintaining the jazz concept of the improvisation.
 
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Madrid Spain, Javi Jiménez has been playing and studying guitar for over 25 years. In 2007, after graduating from the Conservatory of Jazz Music in Barcelona, Spain, Javi performed all over Europe. During this time, he discovered the music of Django Reinhardt, falls in love with it, and starts studying it. In 2010 Javi arrived in California and has been performing & working as a studio musician and teaching music. He composes, arranges and performs in his own band Barrio Manouche – A Blend of flamenco, gypsy jazz and latin rhythms. The band recently played at the Monterey Jazz Festival and Stern Grove Festival. Learn more: Website

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

PREVIEW THE MUSIC

 
Sergiu Popa

 
Diana Gameros

 
Levoná Ensemble

Javi Jiménez & Ross Howe

 
Time: 11:00 am – 12:15 pm visual Art Workshop / 7:00pm-10:00 pm performances
Admission: Free (donations welcome)

Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.
The event will be streamed live through Red Poppy Art House facebook page

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