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MAPP April 1st, Mini-ILLUSION Show | A white canvas to Paint, Perform & Dream!

Name: MAPP April 1st, Mini-ILLUSION Show | A white canvas to Paint, Perform & Dream!
Start: 2023-04-01T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2023-04-01T22:00:00-07:00
Location: Red Poppy Art House

April 1, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

SATURDAY, APRIL 1st, 2023

MAPP “Mini-ILLUSION” show

Saturday, April 1st, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm | FREE

Please join us for the third MINI-ILLUSION show 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!

To preserve the paper on the floor for the artistic process, we will try to have a “Shoe off” event! Wear your artsy socks!!!

The MAPP MINI-ILLUSION includes music performances by:

Musicians:

Kenya Moses Trio

Paula Dreyer

LA.MIMI

And Special Guest, Kimberly Newton

Poet, tarot Reader:

MK Chavez

Live painting by:

Maria Fernanda Valecillos aka “Mafi”

Adrian Arias

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

OUR COVID PROTOCOLS

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

ARTIST STATEMENT | THE ILLUSION PROJECT

Past MAPP Mini-Illusion Show on June 4th, 2022

My artistic residency as a co-curator for the MAPP series at the Red Poppy Art House is focused on embracing the community in areas of collaboration and participation, as well as honoring the memory of those who taught us, inspired us, paved the way for art, creativity, and social justice.

My love for the community and the RPAH is based on the connections that are created when the artists, creators, and population of the community come together to share a creative moment, a moment of freedom and inspiration, that invites us to live better, to feel better, inspires us to live without fear and to continue creating and inspiring.

Mini ILLUSION show is a multidisciplinary event which is a space for the participation of artists from a wide range of ethnicities and races in the community for mixing disciplines and combining styles to respond artistically to the theme.

Over the years, more than 300 artists participated in the ILLUSION shows during 2003-2017. Six times at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, and two times at the de Young Museum and one time at SOMArts.

ILLUSION is an amazing experience, sharing the art, the momentum, the projects and ideas around us, the creative process of individuals and groups. More information about ILLUSION project can be found here

The MINI-ILLUSION events marks the “10th ILLUSION show” after 5 years!

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

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/

APRIL 1ST | 3rd MINI-ILLUSION @ RPAH

PERFORMANCES:
7:07 Dina & Adrian words – Intro of artists participating
7:15 Kenya Moses Trio
8:00 Poem and Tarot by MK
8:15 Song with Special guest
8:20 Piano by Paula Dreyer
9:00 Poem and Tarot by MK
9:20 LA.MIMI
9:50 Closing words by Dina and Adrian

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

MUSICIANS

Kenya Moses trio

“Kenya Moses embodies the essence of Brazil’s bossa nova in her warm and heartfelt sound. Born in the United States, yet connected to her Afro-Brazilian roots, Kenya fell in love with the sounds of Brazil after 15 years performing as a classical vocalist, flutist and professional dancer. Kenya’s vocal resonance has allowed her the opportunity to perform throughout the Western and Eastern United States, in addition to Italy and France. With acclaimed musicians by her side, Kenya will release her first album of bossa nova duets in late 2022.”

Featuring:
Kenya Moses – Voice
Adam Shulman – Piano
Fred Randolph – Bass

Paula Dreyer

Paula Dreyer is a classically-trained pianist and composer, making music in a unique style that draws upon influences of classical, Spanish, film, and improvisational music. Known for her transporting and mesmerizing performances, Paula has graced world-class stages from Carnegie Hall to the Green Music Center, performing in the US, Canada, Nicaragua, Prague, Portugal, and Spain.

As an Artist-in-Residence at Obras in Portugal, she composed much of the music for her globally successful Little Gems for Piano educational series. She is also a well-respected educator and presents nationally to music teachers. She is preparing for a tour of China.

Paula has collaborated with world-renowned choreographer Kevin Jenkins and San Francisco-based visual artist Adrian Arias, as well as with genre-defying groups “Potaje” and “Matt Small’s Chamber Ensemble”. She was a band member for the legendary show Beach Blanket Babylon, which the New York Times calls “a treasured San Francisco staple.” She was the winner of the Montréal Classical Music Festival and was a chamber music semi-finalist in the Concert Artist Guild Competition at New York’s Merkin Hall.

In her debut original solo album Central Star, Paula tells a personal, yet universal story about the therapeutic powers of imagination, intuition, and creative expression during challenging times of transition.

Paula lives in Bend, Oregon where she spearheads her innovative Piano Flow Live concert series, teaches an improvisation program called Piano Flow, and spends time with her husband and their two daughters. https://pauladreyer.com/

POETRY

MK Chavez (Poet and Tarot Reader)

MK Chavez is an Afro-Latinx writer, educator, and curator. Chavez is the co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival, co-curator of Lyrics & Dirges, and teaches and supports writers at Ouroboros Writing Lab.

Chavez writes about identity, human injustices, environmental degradation, horror films, magic, and ritual.

Chavez has received the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles award, the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award, and is at 2023 YBCA 100. Their books are Dear Animal, Mothermorphosis, the lyric essay chapbook A Brief History of the Selfie, and Virgin Eyes.

You can find her work among the trees in Golden Gate Park through the Voices of the Trees Project and many other places in print and in the virtual realm.

LIVE PAINTING

Live painting during songs, poems, and music by:

Maria Fernanda Valecillos aka “Mafi” (Expressive Calligraphy + Painting) and Adrian Arias

Venezuelan artist Maria Fernanda uses expressive calligraphy to give life to symbols and sound shapes to phraseology. Her mostly black and white work explores the process of harmonizing images with letterforms that allows her to compositionally use space in a unique manner. Influenced by her training as a percussionist, sound healing and dhrupad, her work embodies rhythm and movement through a repetition of pen strokes and conveys a pleasing interaction between the legible, asemic, and the abstract.