Events

  Join us for a community gathering. Bring some food, poems, music to share. In addition, we will have a opening for the "Dia De Los Muertos" visual exhibition.

  Classical Meets Contemporary: A Cross-Century Performance   Hailing from across North America and Europe, The Chamber Players met on the idyllic coast of Thisted, Denmark through a shared passion for chamber music. Mike Kaufman, Etienne Gara, Tatiana Trono, and Cassandra Bequary have collaborated in the United States and abroad on a range of projects, […]

    Genre-bending Jazz and World Music   Radically multicultural and poly-stylistic to the marrow, TriBeCaStan are one of contemporary music’s most musically diverse and exciting bands.   The New York Times describes TriBeCaStan's sound as "genre-bending jazz and world-music" and The Washington Post hails them as "an international jazz and folk festival unto itself, […]

  'Tarimba' is believed to be the African root word of 'tarima', which is the most important instrument and symbol of the Son Jarocho tradition of Veracruz Mexico.   TARIMBA is a band comprised of local Bay Area musicians who have embraced the traditional genre of Son Jarocho music from southern Veracruz, Mexico. The members […]

    SEEDS OF GOLD: A Community Premiere of the New Documentary Film   Join us for the Community Premiere of the yet-to-be released film SEEDS OF GOLD (40 min), followed by an audience discussion with the filmmakers. Seeds of Gold takes us to the Andes of Colombia to share the true story of a […]

  An Evening of Soulful Folk: Originals, Covers, Conversation Exploring Americana   Singer/songwriter, Amy LaCour, has recently made the Bay Area her home. She has brought along a suitcase full of songs that chronicle her years as a performing musician in New York, LA, and abroad. Described by Urban Network as “a thinking woman's cross between […]

  Healing music for a hurting Mission   Landing in San Francisco from different parts of the world, Makrú fuses Rumba Flamenca, Reggae, Cuban Son, Cumbia, Ska, and other global beats to create a unifying, positive vibe in the Bay Area through its music. Lyrics in Spanish and English bring reality, fiction, hope and joy together, in hopes of […]

  An Evening of Poetry and Music     An evening of poetry and sound by Thomas Sayers Ellis and saxophonist James Brandon Lewis. This eclectic duo has been performing together for nearly two years and was recently given the thumbs up by poet Amiri Baraka (for their mixture of free Jazz, GoGo, Be Hip […]

  Storytelling, Workshop, and Ancestral Tradiciones   Local healers and spoken word artists come together to share their "brujerias."The suggested donation will include medicinal herbs to take home.   Admission: $5-10. Event 7:00 pm -9:00 pm.     Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors […]

    If you love the Red Poppy Art House, then be there for this special evening occasion and make your support known. Hosted by Ethiopian-born songstress and TED Fellow Meklit Hadero, this unique musical program features an interweave of performances by jazz vocalist Tiffany Austin with Grant Levin on piano, songcraftsman Tom Sway, and […]

  An informal pena-art-style salon, by Marc Hors   Slide show presentation from an itinerant photographic project which moves on bicycles across the American Continent (From Alaska to the Chilean Antarctic) in search of natural, social and cultural values that characterize the countries of the American Continent. A project promoting solidarity, equity, participation and respect among […]

  All Proceeds benefit the Red Poppy!        Latin Dance Party Benefit for the Poppy Feat DJ Boludo, El Profe, and DJ Guruila, El Estudiante   For those of you that know DJ Boludo, then you know what's in store for this dance party. Some of you may recall the epic 2007 dance […]

  Hip-Hop Orchestra   Taoist composer-pianist JooWan Kim performs with his hip-hop orchestra, Ensemble Mik Nawooj (EMN), a chamber orchestra with a rotating personnel of MCs and an opera singer.   Ensemble Mik Nawooj "defies such categories as jazz, classical, and hip-hop" (Oakland Tribune), is "ambitious” (The New Yorker), and is “a cosmic melding of […]