February 1st MAPP
Saturday, February 1st, 2025 | 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom @23rd
Curator: Dina ZarifDoors open at 7:00 pm7:15 – 8:00 pm: The Shadow Band (Funky Arabi Jazz)
8:15 – 9:00 pm: Louda y Los Bad Hombres (Latin and Jazz Rhythmics)
9:15 -10:00 pm: Diaspora Ensemble (Music of the Mediterranean)Exhibit: CORAZONES / HEARTS by Adrian AriasTHIS IS A FREE EVENT
MAPP (Mission Arts & Performance Project)
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Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 kal...
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Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 kal...
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As part of the Mission Arts & Performance Project, join us at Red Poppy Art House for an afternoon and evening of focused resistance as we sing and write our demands for freedom of the migrant children held in captivity at the U.S./Mexico Border.It is also our goal to spread hope that when people are united we can move mountains. We will continue applying pressure to get ICE out of our communities and to release the thousands of innocent children held captive in inhumane conditions by the US...
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Join us for a night of art and interactivity celebrating the life and legacy of René Yañez. The program will feature a drawing performance, mural art, drawing circle, film screening, live music, dance tunes, and a few more surprises. Materials for the drawing circle will be provided, but please feel free to bring your own.It was a year ago on May 29, 2018, that "El Padrino de la Misión" René Yañez left this world. While we, his community, miss him deeply, he left us with much inspiration to ...
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This concert will explore the seminal, traditional, and folk musical traditions of Muslim-majority countries on the travel ban. Audiences will be introduced to the little-known traditional sacred music of Islam, featuring artists such as Sudanese musician Khalid El Awad who will present the Islamic call to worship (“azaan/salah”) and mystical songs of Sufi music (“madeeh"). The concert will also feature traditional secular music that predates the influence of Islam, such as Syrian music performe...
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Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 kal...
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Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 kal...
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Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 kal...
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Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 kal...
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For her first solo exhibition at the Red Poppy Art House, Fernanda Martínez presents Suspended, a story of contemplation and revelation. Inspired by nature, the artist reveals patterns and colors belonging to a slow dimension, visible only through contemplation. Suspended is a celebration of life, of authenticity, of the present moment; it shows the beauty of process.In conjunction with the June 2nd MAPP, the Red Poppy invites you to join the artist and curator for the opening reception from...
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Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 kal...
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Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 kal...
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Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 kal...
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Art can be used to bring awareness. Through art and culture, we can learn to identify with each other and explore what we all have in common. In a journey of peace and understanding, we can explore the six countries on Donald Trump's travel ban, which are a source of rich music and art. We are inviting the artistic ambassadors of these Muslim countries to lay down the drawbridge to their countries’ soundscape and beauty, and invite us all in.In today’s America, there is a lack of awareness o...
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Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening that takes place in the Mission District of San Francisco. On the first Saturday of every even-numbered month, 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 of artistic and cultural exchange.RED POPPY SCHEDULE
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The next edition of MAPP, on April 1, highlights the work of an international collective of producing artists who will be featured in the New Experimental Works Festival at CounterPulse on May 4-7th, 2017. The N.E.W. Festival, dedicated to radical theater-making and performance, is part of a collaborative effort between the California Institute of Integral Studies and the University of Chichester in West Sussex, England. The mission of the festival is to break traditional norms for both audience...
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Launched in 2003, the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP) is a homegrown bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural happening 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 kal...
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An interdisciplinary residency program supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and San Francisco Arts Commission, Crossover Collaborative Residencies provides a framework to support the exploration of collaborative processes between artists in dance and music disciplines. Pairing six choreographer/dancers and six composer/musicians, the program follows a four-stage development from preliminary artists gatherings and orientation workshops, to early-stage “raw” presentations of works-in-progres...
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Byb Kongo Bibene presents Nkisi Nkondi: A Divine Sculpture from Central Africa, a public talk which reveals the not so told functions of the nkisi nkondi, the sacred statues found in the great kingdom of Kongo in the 19th century. The Nkisis were power figures used by individuals, families, or whole communities to destroy or weaken evil spirits, prevent or cure illnesses, repel bad deeds, solemnize contracts or oath taking, and resolve disputes. A diviner or holy person would activate the statue...
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The exhibit Surface: Rodney Ewing & Joyce Nojima brings together works on paper by the two Bay Area artists. Ewing and Nojima have created work offering a transmutation of tactile and visual experience across the surface of the paper. This pairing allows for exploration of the various ways in which this familiar material is treated and how the marks made upon the surface may evoke diverse readings and interpretations. The curators, Modesto Covarrubias and Monica Lundy, present these works in the...
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Here at the Red Poppy Art House, we are inspired by the budding artist community that’s right in our neighborhood, our home, the Mission. An area vibrant and filled with art of all shapes and sizes.I’ve been combing through some old memories recently, and came across this article about my dear friend, Meklit Hadero, a former Red Poppy Director, TED Global Fellow and one of our many beloved performers who also calls the Red Poppy her artistic home. I think this article really serves as a bea...
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The Red Poppy Art House presents Stories of Revolt, a trans-Bay, interdisciplinary exploration in narratives of belonging and displacement, culturally generative creative practices, and restorative justice. In collaboration with Dance Mission's annual festival, D.I.R.T. - Dance in Revolt(ing) Times, the Red Poppy will feature original works from music, dance, film and storytelling artists that investigate how image, body and language become tools for transformation in a sacred space.
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December 5th MAPP Schedule:
5:00pm - 7:00pm: Classical Revolution
Chamber Music for the People7:00pm - 7:10pm: Byb Bibene & Chris Babingui
Afri-Contemporary Dance - Presented by Flying Under the Radar7:15pm - 7:35pm: Ben Baker
Experimental Butoh7:45pm - 8:00pm: Anna Seva & Jessica Brown
Postmodern Dance8:00pm - 8:20pm: Camille Mai
Alternative Jazz8:30pm - 9:00pm: Dina Zarif
Persian/Classical9:00pm - 10:00pm: Makrú
Rumba Flamenca, Cumbia, Ska & Reggae
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The Red Poppy Art House is pleased to participate in the Mission Arts & Performance Project on Saturday, October 3, 2015. Curated by Zéna Allen and Schuyler Karr, the Poppy's program will feature artists Zoe Page, Zéna Allen, Camille Mai, Jackie Ramos, Naima Shalhoub, Los Rumberos de Cali, and more.Schedule:
3:00pm – 5:30pm: Rumba with Miguelito
Cuban rumba demonstration3:00pm – 9:00pm: Sankara Sky
The Fingerprint Pigmented Hand art installation6:00pm – 7:00pm: Jackie Ramos &a...
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