October 7th MAPP | Indigenous Woman Is Not Invisible

Celebrating the Red Poppy Art House’s New Mural
“Indigenous Woman Is Not Invisible” by Peruvian-born Artist, Adrián Arias

Saturday, October 7th, 2023 | 4:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Mural Presentation 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Join us in celebrating the new mural with a land acknowledgment, introductions, poetry readings, and light refreshments. The introduction will be made by Reneé Baldocchi, an arts advocate and long-time supporter of the Red Poppy Art House.

The program is as follows:

5:00 p.m. – Welcome and Introduction by Renee Baldocchi, Adrian Arias, and Dina Zarif
5:15 p.m. – Poetry by Kim Shuck
5:30 p.m. – Live music performed by violinist Charith Premawardhana of Classical Revolution

6:00 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. – INTERMISSION

MAPP: 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Mission Art Performance Project
We’ll continue the celebration inside and outside of Red Poppy with performances including:

7:03 p.m. – 7:07 p.m. – Welcome by Adrian Arias
7:07 p.m. – 7:47 p.m. – Classical Revolution Piano Quartet
7:50 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. – Monica Maria & Jackie Rago
8:40 p.m. – 9:05 p.m. – Poetry and Tarot reading by Jenna & Adrian
9:10 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. – Esoterica Tropical

This celebratory MAPP event is curated by Adrian Arias.
THIS IS A FREE EVENTPP (Mission Arts & Performance Project)

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 had 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 were pleased that the kaleidoscope of cultural exchange continued to be an incredibly enriching experience for the presenter and the viewer. We are glad that the days that we can safely present at our neighborhood venue have finally arrived and we are grateful for everyone’s ingenuity in making the online presentations meaningful and unique experiences.  

This program is funded by the California Arts Council Impact Project Grant.

We will continue our work in presenting unique artistry to the communities that we serve.

 RED POPPY MAPP TEAM:

Artistic Director | Managing Director: Dina Zarif 

PR and Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary  and Anjali Varma.

MAPP OCTOBER 7TH, 2023 PROGRAM

INDIGENOUS WOMAN IS NOT INVISIBLE | A Mural by Adrián Arias

It is with great pleasure that we announce that our dear friend, one of the founding members of MAPP, and a valued artist in the Red Poppy community—social justice artist, incredible visionary, and current Artist-in-Residence, Adrián Arias—has created a new mural for Red Poppy Art House.

This is a bittersweet announcement because we hold dear the mural that has adorned our building since 2015, honoring the youths who were shot and killed by the police. Our current mural, referred to as “Yeska: A Visual Encounter of the Socio-Political & Artistic Languages Rising from the Streets of Oaxaca, Mexico,” has been of immense importance to our neighborhood. It serves as a reminder of their tragic deaths and that the struggle for social justice continues.

Amilcar Perez-Lopez with his hands up on the Red Poppy Art House mural, which also includes Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Photograph: Oliver Laughland/The Guardian

We are grateful to Caleb Duarte, an extraordinary social justice activist and former director of Red Poppy, who initiated the process of getting the mural painted and installed, and to the creators, both street artists, YESCKA and Jhovani de Ala. To learn more about the origins of the mural click here.

Adrián’s work is filled with inspiration, hope, beauty, and compassion—qualities that we can never have too much of. We hope that as people pass by Red Poppy, they will reflect on the beauty of indigenous cultures worldwide and pay deep tribute to women everywhere.

The mural painting is currently in progress inside Red Poppy Art House by Adrián and will be officially shared with our community on Saturday, October 7, 2023, at 4:30 p.m. during our Bi-monthly Free MAPP (Mission Arts Performance Project) event.

Mural Statement:

English: The image of this indigenous woman is based on four native women from the territory that we now call America. It represents a woman of Mochica ancestry in Peru, (my culture,) mixed with a Nukak Woman native to the Colombian Amazon, an Ohlone woman, and a Yuma and Pápago woman from the border area between what we now call Arizona and Mexico.

Spanish: La imagen de esta mujer indígena está basada en cuatro mujeres nativas del territorio que hoy llamamos América. Mujeres de ascendencia Mochica en Perú, mi cultura, mezcladas con una Mujer Nukak originaria de la Amazonia colombiana, una mujer Ohlone y una Mujer Yuma y Pápago de la zona fronteriza entre lo que hoy llamamos Arizona y México.

Mural Assistant: Lindsey Crawford

Mural installation: Persepolis Construction INC

KPOO INTERVIEW | October 5, 2023 at 7:15 p.m

We invite you to join KPOO radio host Chelis Lopez (89.5 FM) who will interview Adrián about the “The Indigenous Woman Is Not Invisible” mural on October 5, 2023, at 7:15 p.m. Chelis is a long-time supporter of Red Poppy and we appreciate her dedicated work in the community of bringing social justice news and art to the people.

ABOUT THE MURALIST

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 a three-story mural at the corner of Turk and Hyde in San Francisco, commissioned by the Luggage Store. He has recently created murals for Magic Theater & Freight & Salvage. As co-founder of Mission Arts Performance Project MAPP, he conceptualizes and creates multi-sensory art experiences such as VideoFest, Luna Negra, and the ILLUSION show. 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.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Kim Shuck | Poetry
The 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco Emerita

Kim Shuck is the 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco Emerita. As laureate Shuck featured from 4 to 7 local poets every month at her Poem Jam reading series, which she has continued to host. During the covid lockdown, she curated a poem a day for a year through the San Francisco Public Library, again, featuring local poets both famous and published for the first time. Shuck was part of the inaugural cohort of the National Laureate Fellowship Program, which she used to further celebrate local poets. Shuck has won many literary awards nationally and internationally, has written ten solo books, and has been involved in editing a further ten anthologies. Kim created a card for Adrian Arias’ tarot deck. She currently has a show of her visual art on the 6th floor of the San Francisco Main Library and is working on another anthology, this time online, with Aunt Lute books and Emma Rosenbaum called Home in the Bay.

Charith Premawardhana
Classical viola

Classical Revolution
A Tasting Menu of Piano Quartets

Music by Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, and Faure

Featuring:
Jon Lee – piano
Daniel Dastoor – violin
Charith Premawardhana – viola
Sung Choi – cello

Classical Revolution was founded in the fall of 2006 with the goal of making classical music more relevant in our neighborhoods and communities.
After a successful first year of weekly shows at Revolution Cafe in San Francisco’s Mission District, the organization began to receive invitations to perform at other local venues including the Red Poppy Art House, the Legion of Honor, and Yoshi’s SF.
In its 10th anniversary year, Classical Revolution undertook a cycle of Beethoven’s 9 Symphonies, performed at venues around San Francisco including the de Young Museum, Fort Mason’s Cowell Theater, and a performance of the 9th Symphony at Grace Cathedral in front of a 1000 person audience.
Press articles from the New York Times, Strings Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist brought wider attention to Classical Revolution’s efforts.
As interest grew outside of San Francisco, the network of chapters began to develop, with over 40 cities hosting regular Classical Revolution around the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, as well as Indonesia, Argentina, South Korea, and Japan.
Over 1200 musicians have performed at more than 1,500 Classical Revolution events in over 150 different venues in the Bay Area alone. Audiences enjoy the accessibility of the venues and the fun laid-back approach, as well as the diversity and quality in programming. In San Francisco, Classical Revolution hosts regular events at Mission District venues as well as guest appearances around the Bay Area.

 

El Corazón Canta
Latin America with Mónica María & Jackeline Rago

Featuring:
Mónica María – Guitar & Vocal
Jackeline Rago – Cuatro & Vocal

Mónica María’s 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.

Jackeline Rago (Venezuela-USA) is a multi-instrumentalist, educator, composer, arranger, producer, performer, and recording artist. She has performed and recorded a broad repertoire of music ranging from the folk music of her native Venezuela and other Latin American and Caribbean countries to original compositions mixed with jazz and pop elements. Jackeline holds a BA in music and she is an Orff certified music teacher from the San Francisco School and the Dominican College, Marin CA. Currently, She is in charge of the Lower School music program at Park Day School in Oakland CA, and worked as a faculty member at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley California for 15 years. Jackeline is the musical director of two Bay Area bands, the “Venezuelan Music Project” (Folk-Venezuelan Music) and the “VNote Ensemble” (Fusion of Venezuelan music and Jazz). In addition, Jackeline has performed and led Venezuelan music and Orff workshops nationally and internationally, including USA, Canada, Costa Rica, Japan, Spain, Finland, Thailand, Venezuela, Brazil, Panama, St Croix, Barbados, and Ghana. Social media @jackelinerago.

 

Esotérica Tropical
A love letter to Puerto Rico

María José Montio – Harp

Esotérica Tropical draws inspiration from over 20 years of experience as a healer –including tai-chi and qi-gong practice, Taoist cosmology, meditation, traditional medicine practitioner, and acupuncturist. Her music is rooted in a continuous process of discovery and care, where trauma is transformed into art.
A self-described “weird, cosmic, and queer islander” from Puerto Rico, Esotérica Tropical’s musical journey began as a student of classical vocal performance at Puerto Rico’s prestigious Conservatory of Music. After a series of health issues derailed her music studies, she began treatment for Hashimoto’s disease in 2009, including daily swims at San Juan’s El Escambrón beach. It was there on one serendipitous day that she was approached by the lifeguard on duty ––to her surprise, her friend Constanza, a violinist she’d met during her conservatory days. While catching up, María José confessed to her friend she had begun making up songs in the shower, and the very next day Constanza had gifted her her first harp which previously belonged to Puerto Rican composer Angélica Negrón! That chance encounter led to Esotérica Tropical’s first collection of songs, the self-released Estrellas EP (2014). Currently moving between Puerto Rico and Oakland, California, Esotérica Tropical’s forthcoming album Esotérica Tropical is due out in 2024.

PREVIEW THE PERFORMANCE

Charith Premawardhana
Classical viola

 

El Corazón Canta | Latin America

Mónica María

Jackeline Rago

 

Esotérica Tropical
A Tasting Menu of Piano Quartets

IN PERSON EVENT DETAILS

Time: October 7th, 2023, 4:30pm- 10pm (IN-PERSON)

Admission: Free!

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