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MAPP – June 3rd: Inner Strength
June 3, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
SATURDAY, JUNE 3rd, 2023
MAPP – June 3rd: Inner Strength
MAPP – June 3rd: Inner Strength @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm | FREE!
Please join us this Saturday at 7pm for a FREE evening of music and visual art, exploring the theme: Inner Strength
Curated by Adrian Arias, Artist-in-Residence at the Red Poppy Art House.
MAPP JUNE 3RD| INNER STRENGTH
ABOUT THE PROGRAM:
Adrian words – Intro of artists participating
7:11 pm Anais Azul
8:08 pm The Genie
9:09 pm Barrio Mundial (members of Barrio Manouche):
– Ivan Rondon – Bongo & Vocals
– Ross Howe – Guitar
– Javi Jiménez – Guitar & Vocals
Tarot Reader:
Jenna Frisch
Special Guest:
Jose Antonio Galloso, visual art-poetry
Live painting by:
Pancho Peskador
Adrián Arias
Jenna Frisch
ABOUT THE CURATOR | RESIDENT ARTIST: ADRIAN ARIAS
Adrian Arias (American born in Mochica Land in Peru)
Adrian Arias is an international multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of visual arts, poetry, performance, and social justice. A descendant of the Mochica culture of ancient Peru, he embraces his culture’s use of dreams as a transformative catalyst between reality and imagination. This ancestral knowledge is used to connect artists and communities in collaborations that speak to equality, liberation, peace and beauty. He believes that creation goes beyond the result: that the fantastic is always written in the creative act. Arias has created large-scale murals for public and private businesses such as Google and the Luggage Store. As co-founder of Mission Arts Performance Project MAPP, he conceptualizes and creates multi-sensory art experiences such as, VideoFest, Luna Negra, and ILLUSION. His most ambitious project to date is Tarot in Pandemic & Revolution, a multifaceted collaboration conceived and orchestrated by Arias where he engaged sixty two visual artists and poets in the creation of a community tarot deck that speaks to historic events that transpired over the pandemic. Published by Nomadic Press and released at CAST in San Francisco where Arias serves as the inaugural artist-in-residence. More info at http://adrianarias.com/
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
ANAIS AZUL
Peruvian first generation immigrant, Anaís Azul (they/them), is a California-based singer-songwriter, composer, and teaching artist. Described as “stunningly honest and vulnerable,” their artistry engages with music as a tool for community building, cross-genre collaboration, and collective healing. When the March 2020 lockdown began, Anaís started getting their tarot cards read nearly weekly by professional readers as well as students of tarot. This inspired them to connect to their intuition and study tarot, so they could have another tool to accomplish their mission of engaging in collective healing. Website: www.anaisazul.com
THE GENIE
BARRIO MUNDIAL (members of Barrio Manouche)
Founded by the Spanish guitarist and composer Javi Jiménez, the group consists of a singular musical body that combines the instrumentation and signature of Jazz Manouche, Modern Jazz, Flamenco and Latin-American rhythms.
Based in San Francisco, CA the acoustic ensemble performs a repertoire of original compositions with an emotionally charged sound that is difficult to classify but instantly recognizable.
Barrio’s international roots shine brightly in their music with members from Spain, Quebec, Colombia, France, Brazil and the United States. They are deeply influenced by a wide range of musical traditions, and this is how the group’s unique sound is born.
Barrio Manouche provides a tremendous live experience and transports its audience on a magical journey, with a unique fusion of cultures and musical landscapes… an auditory and visual feast like no other.
JENNA FRISCH
PANCHO PESKADOR
Peskador 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.
IN PERSON EVENT DETAILS
Time: June 3rd, 2023, 7pm- 10pm (IN PERSON)
Admission: Free