Online Pre-Release Showcase Celebration

October 30th @ 1:00 – 3:00 pm Free

 

Check the facebook event page for more information about the live streaming.

Presented in partnership with Red Poppy Art House, Nomadic Press, and Baldocchi Projects & Collaborations.  

Please join us for this free event celebrating the exquisite Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution deck curated by Adrian Arias who will take us on a beautiful multi-disciplinary journey with  poets, visual artists, musicians, and dancers whose works are featured in the deck. 

This event will also feature an auction of one-of-a kind Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution prints and box sets created by Adrian Arias.

This is a fundraiser for Red Poppy Art House and Nomadic Press.

DONATE to Red Poppy Art House and Nomadic Press today.

 

ABOUT THE PROJECT

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.

Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution is available for purchase soon at www.nomadicpress.org. 

We want to thank all of the artists for their gracious generosity in contributing their passions and talents to Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution:

Adrian Arias, Agneta Falk, Alejandro Murguía, Allison Snopek, Anaís Azul, Anna Lisa Escobedo, Arisa White, Ayodele Nzinga, Bobby Coleman, Brett Cook, CeCe Carpio, Chun Yu, Ph.D., Danica Conneely, Daria Halprin, devorah major Dr. Rupa Marya, Emma Brown, Guillermo Galindo, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Hugh D’Andrade, Jack Hirschman, Jahan Khalighi, Janice Mirikitani, Jenna Frisch, Jennifer Barone, Jodie Kleeman, John Curl, José Galloso, Justin Hoover, KaliMa Amilak, Karen Melander Magoon, karin turner , kata miletich, Keith Hennessy, Kim Shuck, Kristi Williamson, Lisbit Bailey, Mahnaz Badihian, Malik Seneferu, Mara Lea Brown, Marissa Arterberry, Mark Eisner, Maw Shein Win, Michael Warr, Mimi Cézanne Stoll, MK Chavez, Naomi Quiñonez, Nancy Hom, Nina Serrano, Pancho Peskador, Paul S. Flores, Rafael Jesús González, Robert Wyald, Susan Matthews, Susana Aragon, Tania Esmeralda Padilla,Tureeda Mikel, Virginia Barrett, Wanda Sabir, William Brown, Yolanda M. López, Ytaelena Lopez.

 

 

ABOUT THE CREATOR AND CURATOR

Adrian Arias, Is a visual artist, poet, performer, curator, activist, 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.

He has participated in international poetry performances: The poetic Nights of Struga, Macedonia, winning the prize for the best poem of the festival, and 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 show.

In Pandemic 2020-2021, Adrian has been commissioned to create a series of pieces related to both BLM movement and his personal vision of freedom, like BLM on the pavement of the Petaluma Regional Library, the altar dedicated to George Floyd in Somarts, among others. Adrian uses his dreams as creative initiatives, which he makes come true in performances and community projects, such as his multimedia shows called DREAMS, or most recently Tarot in Pandemic & Revolution, where 24 visual artists and 43 poets from the SF Bay Area have participated. “Adrian Arias, the ever brilliantly inventive poet of the gesturing Word”. Jack Hirschman, Emeritus Poet Laureate of San Francisco.

Learn more at www.adrianarias.com

PROGRAM TEAM:
Creator & Curator: Adrian Arias
Collaborators: Nomadic Press, Baldocchi Projects & Collaborations, Red Poppy Art House
Emcee/Announcer: Nazelah Jamison
Tech support: Tula Biederman
RPAH’s Artistic & Managing Director: Dina Zarif
Digital Marketing: Jennie D. Legary

 

SATURDAY OCTOBER 30th
Time	Title	Artists
1:00-1:10 pm	Introductions	J. K. Fowler; Reneé Baldocchi, Adrian Arias, and Dina Zarif  Emcee/Announcer: Nazelah Jamison
1:15-35 pm	X Espadas/X Swords;  La Madre/The Mother; El Corazon/The Heart	Rupa Marya  Adrian Arias Tarot Reading by Tania Esmeralda Padilla
1:40-2:00 pm	El Ermitaño/The Hermit; VII Copas/VII Cups;  IX Bastos/IX Wands; As de Oros/Ace of Pentacles	Pancho Peskador  Jodie Kleeman  Robert Wyald Mara Lee Brown
2:05 – 2:25 pm	As de Bastos/Ace of Wands; El Mundo/The World; As de Espadas/Ace of Swords	Paul Flores  Mark Eisner  Kim Shuck
2:30 – 2:45 pm	II Copas/II Cups; El Juicio/The Judgement, X Oros/X Pentacles	Guillermo Galindo Susana Aragon Tania Esmeralda Padilla
2:45 – 3:00 pm	Auction Results,  Altar Installation. Announcements	Emcee/Announcer: Nazelah Jamison Adrian Arias

TAROT IN PANDEMIC & REVOLUTION

Emcee/Announcer 

Nazelah Jamison is a Bay Area-based performance poet, author, actor, vocalist and emcee. Her first book of poetry, Evolutionary Heart, was released on Nomadic Press in 2016. Her work can also be found in Culture Counts Magazine (2021), The Racket Journal : Issue Fifteen (2020) and others. In her spare time, Nazelah enjoys writing horror screenplays and saving the day. She hosts the Nomadic Press Virtual Open Mic every Friday on zoom, and gives the best hugs in the Bay Area.

 

 

 

 

Featuring: Rupa Marya and Ramaytush Ohlone Land Acknowledgement and performance, Adrian Arias, and a card reading by Tania Esmeralda Padilla 

 

Dr. Rupa Marya is a physician, an activist, a mother, and a composer. She is an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she practices and teaches internal medicine. She is a cofounder of the Do No Harm Coalition, a collective of health workers committed to addressing disease through structural change. At the invitation of Lakhóta health leaders, she is helping to set up the Mni Wiconi Clinic and Farm at Standing Rock to decolonize medicine and food. She is a cofounder of the Deep Medicine Circle, an organization committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, and learning. Working with her husband, the agroecological farmer Benjamin Fahrer, and the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone, she is a part of the Farming Is Medicine project, where farmers are recast as ecological stewards of rematriated land and food is liberated from the market economy. She has toured twenty-nine countries with her band, Rupa and the April Fishes, whose music was described by the legend Gil Scott-Heron as “Liberation Music.” www.rupamarya.org

 

Featuring: Pancho Peskador, Jodie Kleeman, Robert Wyald, and Mara Lea Brown

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

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 found the 9-11 Squared Collective, a group dedicated to raising awareness about the complex relationships between. @panchopescador

 

Jodie Kleeman (also known as Jójø Wildeflèür) channels Lady Dosis, and is the co-writer of Poetry Nap. Jodie has been participating in performance art since she was 8 years old. She loves the funny, queer, fabulous, grounded, real and surreal, and is a self-taught, self-identified curious and hilarious woman. www.poetrynap.com

 

 

 

 

Robert Wyald—like you, every moment a coordination of many efforts throughout time, including trees, algae, sunlight, plants, and humans—has moments as a producer, director, actor, artist, writer, guide and multicellular organism symbiotic with plants and microorganisms. His most recent work includes the podcast and live show, Poetry Nap, La décadanse, and Knights of Revery. www.wyald.com

 

 

 

Mara Lea Brown explores human singularity and relationships through charcoal drawing, painting and mixed media with elements from nature. In her portraiture Mara enjoys the process of learning from the individual as well as from a phenomenological exploration of the human form. The search for connection and belonging are often subtly present in her work. Website: www.maraleabrown.com

 

 

 

 

Featuring: Paul Flores, Mark Eisner, and Kim Shuck

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Paul S. Flores creates plays, oral narratives, and spoken word works about transnationality and citizenship that spur and support societal movements that lead to change. As a San Francisco artist of Mexican and Cuban-American heritage, Paul S. Flores has built a national reputation for interview-based theater. He integrates Latino and indigenous healing practices to tell the stories of real people impacted by immigration and systemic inequalities. From “Along the Border Lies,” “Brown Dreams,” to “Representa!,” “YOU’RE GONNA CRY,” “PLACAS,” “ON THE HILL: I AM ALEX NIETO,” to “We Have Iré,” his most recent play, Flores dives deep into his themes. Website: www.paulsfloresart.com

 

 

Mark Eisner is the author of Neruda: The Biography of a Poet (Ecco), a finalist for the 2019 PEN/ Bograd Weld Prize in Biography. It caps off a series project on the poet that began with City Lights’ 2004 Essential Neruda: Selected Poems, which he edited and was a contributing translator. Most recently, Mark co-edited the anthology Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution, published by Tin House in 2020. Website: www.markeisner.net

 

 

 

Kim Shuck is a complex protein. Both a bead artist and a poet, Shuck served as San Francisco’s 7th Poet Laureate and her work is danced in ceremony across the Northern parts of the Western Hemisphere. www.kimshuck.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Featuring: Guillermo Galindo, Susana Aragon, and Tania Padilla

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Guillermo Galindo | Post-Mexican composer/artist/ Jungian Tarotist
The extent of the work of experimental composer, sonic architect, performance artist and visual media artist Guillermo Galindo, redefines the conventional limits between music, the art of music composition and the intersections between art disciplines, politics, humanitarian issues, spirituality and social awareness. www.galindog.com

 

 

 

Susana Aragon is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. She works with paint, print, video poetry,poetry, video installation,costume design and education. Aragon has shown her work internationally. Currently the pandemic has shown how interconnected we are as human beings and how art can help to connect, process and imagine our spiritual world. Website: www.susanaaragon.art

 

 

 

Tania Esmeralda Padilla is a visual artist working in watercolor, ink, graphite, and digital media. Her work explores themes of introspective awareness, nature, mythology and the impacts of technology. Currently, she is based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico creating new bodies of work in illustration, animation, and interactive code based art. She received her B.F.A. at California Institute of the Arts in Experimental Animation and 2 Single Subject Teaching Credentials in Art and Computer Science from SF State University. www.Taniapadilla.com

 

 

 

ABOUT THE COLLABORATORS  

 

 

Nomadic Press 

Through publications, events, and active community participation, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word. Through its limited means, we are simply attempting to help right the centuries’ old violence and silencing that should never have occurred in the first place and build alliances and community partnerships with others who share a collective vision for a future far better than today.

 

 

 

 

Baldocchi Projects and Collaborations 

Baldocchi Projects and Collaborations partners with San Francisco Bay Area artists and organizations focused on social justice, public health, sustainable living practices,and hope-inspired visions by providing curatorial, exhibition/performance programming, art consultation, and grant-writing expertise. Baldocchi Projects and Collaborations is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts 

 

 

Red Poppy Art House 

The Red Poppy Art House is a neighborhood center for the intersection of cultural and inter-generational artistic engagement located in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. The Poppy is an artist-driven organization that seeks to empower and transform society by addressing current social issues that impact our community and society at large through creative processes.

 

 

ONLINE EVENT DETAILS 

Time: October 30th, 2021, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm 

Admission: Free (donations are encouraged)

The event will be streamed live through https://www.facebook.com/NomadicPress/

 

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