Saturday June 4th, 2022

MAPP “Mini-ILLUSION show 10.01”

Saturday, June 4th, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm | FREE

Please join us for this free event celebrating the “The 10th ILLUSION show” after 5 years, curated by Adrian Arias who will take us on a beautiful multi-disciplinary journey with poets, visual artists, and musicians, transforming our Red Poppy Art House from a WHITE CANVAS to a DREAM!

We invite the audience to come dressed in BLACK!

This is a part of Adrian Arias’s “3 MINI-ILLUSION shows”, an artist residency at Red Poppy Art House!

Other dates: June 18th and October 8th.

The first MINI-ILLUSION will be a part of our free bi-monthly Mission Arts Performance Project (MAPP) program and includes 3 music performances, 2 poetry readings, and Live painting by Mara lea Brown, Pancho Peskador and Adrian Arias during songs, poems and music.

MAPP (Mission Arts Performance Project)

Date: Saturday June 4th, 2022

7 pm- 10 pm (In person) 

Program in 3 parts , RSVP required for each act separately

Red Poppy Art House: 2698 Folsom St, San Francisco

RSVP REQUIRED:

Please reserve your indoor seat using the RSVP link below for your favorite act with any amount of donation. 

RSVP LINK 

Due to COVID, and our artists safety, we need to keep a 20 capacity for each act inside. 

Based on the capacity, we will allow walk-ins as a first come first served basis for FREE.

The guests with RSVP have entry priority. 

Please reserve a seat inside ONLY for one act

Since our indoor capacity is limited, we appreciate it if you reserve an indoor seat ONLY for your favorite act, and enjoy the other acts from our beautiful storefront seats outside, so everyone gets a chance to reserve an indoor seat to enjoy their favorite artists!

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OUR COVID PROTOCOLS

We missed our packed events, but for our staff, volunteers & artists safety, we need to keep a Limited capacity and follow safety guidelines. 

We are requiring proof of full vaccination and a photo ID at the door. Face coverings are required inside AT ALL TIMES.

Please be advised that no concessions will be served during the event.

ARTIST STATEMENT | THE ILLUSION PROJECT

ABOUT THE CURATOR | RESIDENT ARTIST: ADRIAN ARIAS

Adrian Arias (American born in Mochica Land in Peru)

Is a visual artist, poet, performer, curator, activist, art teacher and cultural promoter, who brings together multidisciplinary artists to engage in community projects with messages of social justice, racial equality, climate change, peace, beauty, health, and hope in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Arias is one of the founders and creators of MAPP (Mission Arts Performance Project) and creator of festivals in the San Francisco Bay Area such as VideoFest, Luna Negra, and ILLUSION shows.

Adrian uses his dreams as creative initiatives, which he makes come true in performances and community projects. He has participated in international group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, The Ibero-American Biennial, The Contemporary Museum of Barcelona, and art residencies at the de Young Museum, Benamil Spain, Google new Mountain View building and at the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco.

Adrian has been commissioned to do murals in SF Chinatown and Oakland Lakeshore, in addition to the Black Lives Matter on the asphalt of the Petaluma Library, and the giant altar for George Floyd at SOMArts. Recently he has been commissioned by Luggage Store Gallery and Someland Foundation to paint a mural on two three-story buildings in the tenderloin of San Francisco, exalting art and music as a means of medicine, and combining his Mochica culture with the Ohlone culture, which is the territory where currently we are living. More info at http://adrianarias.com/

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

RPAH PROGRAM JUNE 4TH | MINI-ILLUSION

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Mónica María’s Fimbrez

music reflects her Californian roots mixed with traditional, earthly and contemporary sounds of Latin America. A vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, her songs are innovative and expressive of a world where cultures coexist, where fear is transformed by compassion, where we learn to truly love ourselves, and where we view the world from an empathetic and holistic state of mind. She holds a BA in Music from SFSU, is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, recording artist, and has been performing and teaching for over 20 years. While mostly focusing on her original music and son jarocho (traditional music from Veracruz, Mx), she also has extensive experience in various other genres such as salsa, jazz and folk. She grew up in the Central Valley of California, has been living in the Bay Area since 2002, and has been studying and collaborating with musicians from Mexico since 2012.

You can listen to her most recent album “Nuevos Caminos” and find out more at MonicaMariaMusic.com LISTEN on Spotify, FOLLOW on Instagram

​​The Genie

is an avant-garde guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and live-looping innovator from San Francisco. A full-time performer for twenty years, he combines a variety of genres, ranging from hip hop, rock, reggae, and electronic, with traditional sounds including flamenco, jazz, traditional Middle Eastern and Asian concepts. One of the most original and unique performers in the world today, he is the inventor of “g-mixing”, a looping style that emulates traditional DJ remixing techniques using hardware in place of software. His shows combine performance art with musical innovation in highly complex but universally enjoyable experience.

Lucia Lilikoi

will be playing songs from her fourth album, “LUZ.” Across ten songs, Lucia reveals her interpretation of the element of light, offering a soothing balm, through the theme of alliance with nature. LUZ was produced, engineered and mixed by Lucia, in her debut as producer/engineer. She is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and sound-healer born in Sevilla, Spain, living in the Bay Area. “Lucia’s music is pure heart nectar. She sings from the depths of her ancient soul and her voice transmits a rare beauty and refinement. Her music is not only crafted from decades of focused training and cultivation, but is most distinctly soul medicine.”

Tongo Eisen-Martin

Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He is the author of “Someone’s Dead Already”, “Heaven Is All Goodbyes”, “Waiting Behind Tornados for Food”, and “Blood on the Fog”. In 2020, he co-founded Black Freighter Press to publish revolutionary works. He is San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate.

Josiah Luis Alderete

is a full blooded Pocho, Spanglish speaking poeta who has been an active part of la Area Bahia’s spoken word scene for over twenty years. He was a founding member of outspoken word group “The Molotov Mouths” and is the curator and host of the long running monthly Chicano/Latinx reading series Speaking Axolotl which happens the 3rd Thursday of every month in el Zoom mundo. Josiah’s book of poems, Baby Axolotls y Old Pochos is being released this year from Black Freighter Press

Mara Lea Brown

is a Bay Area Artist. Her work explores human singularity and relationships through charcoal drawing, painting and mixed media with elements from nature. Mara was born in California, grew up in Southern Spain and moved back to the USA as an adult. Incommensurability and a search for connection are always subtly present in her work. In her portraiture, Mara enjoys the process of learning from the individual as well as from a phenomenological exploration of the human form. Recently Mara has been working on a series of drawings reflecting on the effects of the pandemic on her community. www.maraleabrown.com

Pancho Pescador 

is a visual artist and muralist from Chile. He attended Escuela de Bellas Artes in Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, where he was introduced to printmaking and other mediums. Due to his interest in printmaking, in 1995, he joined a cooperative of printmakers, Taller de Artes Visuales (TAV), in Santiago, Chile. He was quickly identified by senior artists, Carlos Donaire and Guillermo Frommer, who invited him to participate in shows in Chile and abroad. In 1995, Pescador immigrated to the Bay Area, and it is here where he developed a passion for street art. Soon after, he began to work on public art projects, primarily through murals. In 2003, Pescador and other Chilean artists and intellectuals from the Bay Area founded the 9-11 Squared Collective, a group dedicated to raising awareness about the complex relationships between the United States, Chile, and other Latin American countries. Through the collective, Pescador curated several shows in the Bay Area. In 2007, he co-authored a visual poetry book published in Lima, Peru, “Libro de las Sombras o Recortes de la Memoria,” with writer Jose Antonio Galloso. In 2009, Peskador became an active member of the Community Rejuvenation Project (CRP). Together, they have painted more than 200 murals in the Bay Area, Chicago, Seattle, Germany, Chile, Thailand, and New Mexico. He is also part of “Los Pobres Artistas,” a collective of painters, mostly from Chile, that founded and organized the first “Bay Area Mural Festival.” Peskador also has a prolific career as a studio artist and community painter. He has worked for over a decade with children and youth all over the Bay Area. More info here

CURRENT WINDOW EXHIBITION:

IN PERSON EVENT DETAILS

Time: June 4th, 2022, 7pm- 10pm (IN PERSON)

Admission: Free (Program in 3 parts , RSVP required for each act separately)

RSVP LINK 

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