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Mini-ILLUSION show 10.02 | A white canvas to Paint, Perform & Dream!
June 18, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
$25 – $35
Please join us for the second 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 MINI-ILLUSION 10.2 includes music performances by Anais Azul, and Kenya Moses Trio, poetry reading by Virginia Barrett, and Live painting by Ytaelena López and Adrian Arias during songs, poems and music.
This is a part of Adrian Arias’s “3 MINI-ILLUSIONS shows”, an artist residency at Red Poppy Art House! Other dates: June 4th, June 18th and October 8th.
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.
- We have missed our packed events, but due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic and with respect to the safety of our staff, volunteers & artists, we must operate at a limited capacity.
- We can only accommodate 25 guests per event. Please purchase your tickets soon.
- Please be advised that no concessions will be served during the event.
ARTIST STATEMENT | THE ILLUSION PROJECT
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! Other dates: June 4th, June 18th and October 8th.
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/
JUNE 18TH | MINI-ILLUSION 10.02
SATURDAY JUNE 18TH, 2022 MINI-ILLUSION 10.02 | ||
| Time | Performance Description | Artists |
| 7:30 pm- 8:15 pm (First part) | Adrian Arias (The curator) presentation Anais Azul Virginia Barret Live painting by Ytaelena López” and “Adrian Arias” | Anais Azul- Vocalist & multi instrumentalist Virginia Barret – Poet, tarot Reader Ytaelena López- Visual Artist |
| 8:15 pm- 8:30 pm (Audience participation) | Audience are welcome to participate, Paint, dance and dream | All the audience in BLACK! |
| 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm (Second part) | Kenya Moses Trio Live painting by Ytaelena López” and “Adrian Arias” | Kenya Moses – Vocals |
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Anaís 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. More info here.
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.”
Virginia Barrett
Is a poet, writer, artist, editor, and educator. Her six books of poetry include Between Looking (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and Crossing Haight—San Francisco poems (Jambu Press, 2018).
Virginia Barrett’s six books of poetry include Between Looking (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and Crossing Haight—San Francisco Poems (Jambu Press, 2018). She has twice received a writer’s residency grant from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of Taos, New Mexico, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Barrett is the editor of two anthologies of contemporary San Francisco poets, including OCCUPY SF—Poems from the Movement. She has taught poetry workshops throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, most recently in the MFA in Writing program at the University of San Francisco. Website: www.virginiabarrett.com
Ytaelena Lopez
“As a visual storyteller, I want to build a collective narrative to allow the public to add their own interpretation. Sometimes I am straightforward when I deliver the message, but usually a second gaze is needed to understand the intention of the piece.
I plot an imaginary cartography of our human condition. To achieve that, I twist the lines of the subjects into topographic landscapes. This style, which I call Wildlines”.
Ytaelena comes from a very diverse background, covering journalism, art history, literature, linguistics and technology. This allows her to use a sheaf of theories and disciplines to assemble deux-ex-machina installations and mixed media art that connects with the public in a visceral way.
She has been a featured artist during stARTup Art Fair SF, in 2015, an Artspan Artist in Residence (2011), a finalist in the SECA SFMoma in 2012 and exhibited at the DeYoung Museum in 2020. Visit her website here.
CURRENT WINDOW EXHIBITION:
Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution, inspired by Adrian Arias’ lucid dream of a fortune teller and cards embellished with images of viruses, masks, Black Lives Matter, marches, and protests, is a unique 81-card Tarot deck. It is accompanied by an exquisite book of poetry, created by 67 internationally-recognized artists and poets (24 visual artists, 43 poets) with deep ties to the San Francisco Bay Area, who span three generations. These award-winning poet laureates, novelists, authors, muralists, painters, graphic artists, performance artists, composers, musicians, and dancers are each committed to social, environmental, food, public health, and climate justice, and have used their powerful talents to create tarot images and poems in response to the critical times we are living in. This deck is a bold expression of hope, resilience, resistance, and the courage to continue forging a path to justice and love.
Presented in partnership with Red Poppy Art House, Nomadic Press, and Baldocchi Projects & Collaborations. Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution (81-CARD DECK) is available here for purchase.
PREVIEW THE EVENT
Anaís Azul
Kenya Moses trio
Adrian Arias- Live Painting
Adrian Arias Mural “River to the Sky” in 69 seconds
IN PERSON EVENT DETAILS
Time: 7:00 pm Door / 7:30 pm- 9:30 pm Show (IN PERSON)
Admission: (Online) $25-30 / (Door) $35 general, $30 student & senior with valid ID
Note: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door unless otherwise noted on the Facebook event page that the show is SOLD OUT.
Advance tickets are available online for this show. It is advised to purchase advance tickets for this event. If tickets sell out online, tickets will not be available at the door.