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August 5th MAPP
August 5, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Saturday, August 5th, 2023
August 5th MAPP
The Summer of Solidarity
Re-building our Joy together
MAPP – August 5th @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm | FREE!
Please join us this Saturday at 6:30 pm for a FREE evening of music, dance, and visual art, curated by Indira Urrutia, Chilean-born interdisciplinary artist, educator, community organizer, curator, and co-founder of several arts education initiatives.
RPAH PROGRAM AUGUST 5TH | MINI-ILLUSION
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SATURDAY AUGUST, 5TH, 2023 (IN PERSON) |
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Artwork by Marc Hors Installation “Soul Tears” |
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| Time | Performance Description | Artists |
| 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm | Art Exhibition | Open for viewing |
| 7:00 pm– 7:30 pm | Artist presentation Installation & Photography | Indira Urrutia & Marc Hors |
| 7:40 pm – 8:20 pm | Duo Guitar and Cajon | Rafa Sarria Bustamante (la Gente) and Javier Navarrette |
| 8:30 pm – 8:40 pm | Solo dance performance | My-Linh Le |
| 9 pm – 10 pm | Reggae and World music | Sol Tevél |
MAPP (Mission Arts & Performance Project)
Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural event that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even month of the year, the MAPP transforms ordinary spaces, such as private garages, gardens, living rooms, studios, street corners, and small businesses into pop-up performance and exhibition sites for a day/night of intimate-scale artistic and cultural exchange among a kaleidoscope of individuals and communities. Due to COVID-19 we 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 Impact Project Grant and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Relief Fund and SF Art Reopening Fund.
We will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.
RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:
Curator | Artistic Director | Managing director: Dina Zarif
PR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary
“SOUL TEARS” INSTALLATION | INDIRA URRUTIA
Indira Urrutia
Installation “Soul Tears”
Indira Urrutia is a Chilean-born interdisciplinary artist of international projection with a very personal style defined by organic elements combined in a perfect harmony that prints beautiful emotions in her work, allowing the audience to experience different sensations and movements while watching.
The Pandemia has kept her stock in Barcelona for three years, where her work inhabits time, silence, and memory, where weaving interacts to create a surface, skin, and little by little, a presence manifest.
Weaving is an organic and metaphorical expression and a meditation on the nature of life. We are all bound together, interwoven and interconnected, in ways that we overlook in our modern lives.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in group and individual presentations, including The de Young Museum, Root Division, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco USA; National Council of Culture and the Arts, Pablo Neruda House Museum, Chile; Invited to the VII Biennial of Art and Design, Valencia, Spain, Real Cercle Artistic de Barcelona, El Borsí, Barcelona, Spain, Fontecchio International Airport Gallery, Italy.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Marc Hors
“Nazavzhdy” Para Siempre / Forever
The escalation of the international armed conflict in Ukraine has caused civilian casualties and destruction of civilian infrastructure, forcing people to flee their homes seeking safety, protection, and assistance. Millions of refugees from Ukraine have crossed borders into neighboring countries, and many more have been forced to move inside the country.
“The situation is disconcerting, this is what several Ukrainian women I talk to are telling me. They agree in shrinking the importance of material belongings, including the roof under which they raised the children who accompany them, and which, as they can learn from the news, has now turned into ruins. The real heartbreaker has been to leave their husbands fighting with rudimentary resources against a Goliath armed outright. The two typical words in any farewell “see you soon” have been replaced by “love you forever”. The chances of surviving are swinging at the rhythm of the bombs and the decisions taken by political leaders coerced by economic interests.”
This series of photographs were taken at the Polish border of Medyka and the town of Przemyšl during the month of March 2022. Photographs that bring us closer to a reality that, however distant it may seem to us geographically, puts into perspective the fragility of the social fabric that led us to develop as a civilized species.
Format: Fine art prints on cotton paper Size: 13 x 19” – 17 x 22”
My-Linh Le
Solo dance performance
My-Linh Le is a second-generation Vietnamese American dancer, award-winning choreographer, multidisciplinary storyteller, and former environmental attorney. She is the founding director of Mud Water Theatre, a street dance performance collective featuring turfers. As a strutter/popper, she is the first woman to represent Playboyz Inc. since its formation in 1981, making it one of the Bay Area’s oldest dance crews. She has danced for artists including Sanford Biggers and Grammy-winning Kendrick Lamar.Acoustic Set.
Rafa Sarria Bustamante (la Gente) and Javier Navarrette
Guitar and Cajon Duo
Javier Navarrette is a professional percussionist, musician, composer, arranger, and educator living in Oakland, California, specializing in Afro-Caribbean music. Javier’s performance and recording career spans over three decades. He has played and studied with many of the greats in the Afro-Latin music tradition and has recorded on three Grammy-nominated albums with John Santos and the Machete Ensemble/ Folklorico Kindembo.
Rafael Sarria Bustamante is a Colombian-Nicaraguan singer-songwriter, activist, band leader of LA GENTE SF, and voting member of the Recording Academy/Grammy’s. With his group, he has created his own unique blend of Cumbia, Reggae, Salsa, Champeta, and Reggaeton. His original composition and live shows fuse together rhythms, dances and cultural influences from all over Latino America and the Caribbean with a distinct San Francisco flavor, to create an infectious, high-energy dance party. From his new home base of Madrid Spain Rafa & LA GENTE SF has just released “Lotus Hotel” their first single and music video from their fifth studio album “Entre 2 Mundos”. The album and series of music videos were recorded and filmed in San Francisco, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, and Morocco. Produced by Rafael Sarria Bustamante, Maya Finlay & Jordan Feinstein. He is currently on his 2023 world tour with dates in the US, Spain, Mexico & more.
Sol Tevél
Reggae and World music
San Francisco-based band Sol Tevél, led by Jerusalem-born artist Lior Ben-Hur, is redefining Reggae and World music with its uplifting melodies and unique approach.
Lior Ben-Hur & Sol Tevél released an eclectic World music album in 2012, infusing contemporary interpretations of Jewish texts, ideals, and mysticism. The band’s passion for Reggae, a key inspiration for their creativity is evident in their self-titled 2015 Reggae EP.
Their full-length album, So I Wander, was released in 2017, debuting at #14 on Billboard’s Top Reggae Albums chart. This band, having shared the stage with Roots Reggae legends like Stephen Marley and Black Uhuru, represents a new generation of World and Reggae music.
IN PERSON EVENT DETAILS
Time: August 5th, 2023, 6:30pm- 10pm (IN PERSON)
Admission: Free
