Feb 6th @ 7:00- 10:00 pm | Performances  

Feb 7th @ 3:00- 4:00 pm | Visual Art Workshop | Exhibition 

Click here on the date of the event to see the live performance streaming on Facebook.

During 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

Visual Art workshops on February 7th 

Now, 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. 

Make a gift to Red Poppy Art House today! 

Red Poppy Art House Needs You

Launched 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.  

This 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.

RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:

Curator: Dina Zarif / Artistic Director 

Tech support: Leeav Sofer

PR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary

RPAH PROGRAM (ONLINE) FEBRUARY  6TH & 7TH

Hold me in the Palm of your Hand | Andrea Guskin

Current exhibition on view in the windows of The Red Poppy Art House.

Between the Palm Lines, Layers of Home

Rubbings, Transfers, Tape and String: Using Everyday Objects to Create Meaningful Artworks 

PERFORMANCES (ONLINE) FEB 6TH

The Anthony Blea Yelapa Trio

Latin, Jazz,and imagination 

The 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. 

Featuring:

Anthony Blea – Violin

Lincoln Andrews – Bass

Kyle Madrigal – Guitar

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Anthony 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.

Anthony is also a professor of Music at the San Francisco City College where he teaches Orchestra, Violin and Community Choir.

Lincoln 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.

Kyle 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.

“All come to look for America”

A 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.” 

Featuring:

Simon Barrad – Voice, Baritone

Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad – Piano

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

The 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.    

Ukraine 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.

Monica Maria – Mi Corazón, Mi Canto

Monica Maria will be playing original music and a few of her favorite covers in celebration of her mom’s birthday.

A vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, her music reflects her Californian roots mixed with traditional and contemporary sounds of Latin America.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Monica 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

Monica 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.  

“Live from the Desert”

Klezmer/Balkan DJ Set with Live Horns

Featuring:

Mayvn – DJ/Clarinet

Joey Jay – Sax

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Under 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.

Joey 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. 

PREVIEW THE MUSIC

Anthony Blea with LaTiDo at the Ramp

Simon & Kseniia, “Francis Poulenc: Chansons villageoises – C’est le joli printemps”

Simon & Kseniia, “Another reason why I don’t keep a gun in the house – Tom Cipullo”

“Mayvn”, Morgan Nilsen, “Desert DJ Series: White Sands”

Mónica María Fimbrez, “Nuevos Caminos”

Time: Feb 6th, 7:00 pm -10:00 pm (Performances),  Feb 7th, 3:00 – 4:00pm (Visual Art Workshop | Exhibition)

Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)

Tune in 10 minutes before each event starts to test your devices for connection.

The event will be streamed live through the Red Poppy Art House Facebook page