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Mindball Presents: Research & Development and
the R & D Free Jazz Gospel Supreme 80
Fri. May 9, 8pm (Doors at 7:30) $10 (Members $5)
This is the second in Mindball’s new concert series “Music for Interested People”. The horn-heavy avant-funk of Research & Development and the spacey, mind-bendingly catchy songs of the R & B Free Jazz Gospel Supreme 80 will be accompanied by arresting live video processing and projections by Philip Cole.
More Info: www.researchanddevelopment.us. Buy Tickets Now!
2nd Sundays
A Monthly Salon with Dancers’ Group and CounterPULSE
Sun. May 11, 2pm Free
This monthly salon offers emerging and established choreographers the opportunity to show their work and receive feedback from the artists, audience, and presenters. Featuring Cynthia Adams/Fellow Travelers, Jesse Hewit, and Sheena Johnson.
No Reservations Necessary.
CANCELLED! Mother’s Day Tribute
Sun. May 11, 7pm $20 (Students Seniors, and Members $15) CANCELLED!
Erick Lyle Book Release
On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of The City
Wed. May 14, Dinner at 6pm, Music at 9pm Free
Erick Lyle looks back at the past ten years of activism and guerilla art in San Francisco. Come join Lyle and collaborators in a night of free food, art, readings, and music, featuring Zara Thustra, Sy Loady, Shotwell, Black Rainbow, and many more!
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paige starling sorvillo/blindsight • SF International Arts Festival
Thu-Sat. May 22-24 & 29-31, 8pm $20 (Members $15, Thursdays: pay-what-you-can)
Integrating contemporary butoh dance with stunning live video and an original sound score, blingsight creates a sense-saturated exploration of intimacy and violence. At 37˚celcius we have unprecedented potential to connect, to risk, to make contact inside the noise. Featuring sorvillo (SF), media-artist Lucy HG (LA), composers Hawkins (AUS/UK), Allbee (OAK), and dancers Willey, Robertson, Bonansea, and Jarrett. More Info: www.blindsightperformance.org Buy Tickets Now!
Talks! SF’s Endangered Treasures
Wed. May 28, 7:30pm Free
Federally listed endangered species are legally protected but still fragile and fighting for survival! This Wednesday’s discussion will revolve around the sensitive Mission Blue, our own beloved Snowy Plover, and the Jumping Frog of San Francisco County. Featuring Stuart Weiss, Liam O’Brien, and Chris Giorni. No Reservations Necessary
Words First A Monthly Solo Performance Series
Wed. June 4, 7:30pm Free $7-10 (Members $3-5)
This ongoing series continues with an evening of five solo performers and five distinct voices... all together on one evening of words, movement, comedy, and a brief and biased history of Utah. Featuring Jenny Overman, Leslie Beam, Dakota Brown, Coke Nakamoto, and Ron Jones. No Reservations Necessary
The Mapping Project
San Francisco Internat'l Arts Festival / Navarrete x Kajiyama, Element Dance Theater, and visual artists Chris Lanier and Ilya Noe
Fri.-Sun. June 6-8, 8pm $14-20
The Mapping Project explores the ways in which mapmaking can drive our perceptions of the world, and the ways in which we can create our own maps to change our realities. Using visual installation, narrative, and contemporary movement, the artists will construct ancestral and present-day maps that examine the fallout of history through family stories and political dynamics. Buy Tickets Now!
Speak Love Theatre Anomaly
Fri.-Sat. June 13-14, 8pm $15 (Members $10)
An evening length dance theatre performance exploring the landscape and lexicon of a lover. Scenes of love inspired by Roland Barthes great work, A Lover’s Discourse come to life on the stage. Accompanied by live music, performers reveal the epic stories and interstitial moments of amorous love. Direction and Choreography by Ali El-Gasseir and Ana Hyatt. Buy Tickets Now!
Amanda Bassilino (photo by Karen Reuel)
The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac &
Dynasty Handbag: Tales from the Purse
Two shows in one night
Thurs.-Sun. June 19-22, 8pm & 10pm, $20 ($30 for both shows)
After two sold-out presentations of “Weimar New York” at SF MOMA in Feburary, independent curator and producer Earl Dax returns to the San Francisco to present “New York’s” Dynasty Handbag, the one- woman music/comedy/performance/meltdown/portable electro-ballad vehicle of Jibz Cameron and Taylor Mac, a flamboyant chameleon of words, music, humor and sociopolitical tirades, employing gender-bending surrealism. Reservations/Info: www.directfromnyc.com
Taylor Mac (photo by Drew Gerac)
Artist + Nude = Marrvelous Films
Fri. June 27, 7pm $15-20 (Members $10-15)
A silent art auction fundraiser featuring original nude fine art and photography made exclusively for funding “Faerie,” a documentary chronicling the history and contributions of queer people—and the injustices they face today. Plus music, drinks, and “Faerie” t-shirts available. Artists will be on hand to represent their work. Tickets available at: www.faeriefilm.com, 408.316.0294.
We Players Dinner Shakesperience
A benefit for “Macbeth 2008”, Fort Point, SF
Sun. June 29, 7pm $20-$100 donation (Members $15+)
Transforming public spaces into realms of participatory theater, We Players tackles the unique history of this Civil War era fort, amidst the current political climate in our production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, to take place at Fort Point this September. Join us for a prophetic evening of witches, words, and fine food. More Info: www.weplayers.org
Fort Point, photo by Mike Bissell
Words First A Monthly Solo Performance Series
Wed. July 2, 7:30pm $7-10 (Members $3-5)
The summer season of Words First concludes with an evening of solo performers spanning a variety of styles and topics such as New Jersey in the 80’s, The Spaghetti Factory, irrational fear, and more. Featuring Benjamin Bossi, Elana Issacs, Morgan Ludlow, and Wayne Harris. No Reservations Necessary
Bike Tours: Labor History
Sat. July 5, 12-4 pm $15-50 (to benefit Shaping San Francisco)
Chris Carlsson conducts a provocative and informative tour through the dramatic saga of San Francisco’s class wars, going back to the original movement for the 8-hour day through the various efforts to start political parties for workers, major strikes, the ebb and flow of business profits and worker opposition, a careful look at the Big Strike of 1934, and much more... Info/Reservations: 415.608.9035.
peck peck dance ensemble’s 6th Season
Fri.-Sat., July 11-12, 8pm $20 (Members $15)
peck peck dance ensemble presents its 6th annual season with choreography by Sean McMahon and Sarah Sass. Known for their quirky, humorous, and physically lush work, expect to see new work from both choreographers, including work that uses video, as well as citrus fruit. Buy Tickets Now!
peck peck dance ensemble (photo by Liz Payne)
From Source to Sea: Wild & Scenic Film Festival
Fri.-Sat. July 18-19, 7:30 pm $5-10
Featuring films from the largest environmental film festival in the U.S., join us as we explore trans-species communication in Edge of Eden and Living with Grizzlies, underwater metamorphosis in the waters of the Yuba River in Bugs of the Underworld, the 35 year evolution of Greenpeace in Making a Stand, and much more. Co-sponsored by South Yuba River Citizens’ League (SYRCL). No Reservations Necessary
Rock 4 Art A benefit show for CounterPULSE
Fri. July 25, 8pm (doors at 7:30), $8-20 (Members $3-15)
This third annual Rock 4 Art gathers performance mavericks united to benefit their favorite arts organization-- CounterPULSE! Pushing the envelope of music and performance-come witness excerpts from Carrie Baum’s “Exit Sign: A Rock Opera” and Jessica Fudim’s rock theater piece “Cave In Cave Out,” The 50 Guitar Orchestra, Dyspecific, The Judea Eden Band, and more. Buy Tickets Now!
Exit Sign (photo by Lydia Danieller)
Perverts Put Out!
Sat. July 26, 7:30pm $10-20 (Members $5-15)
San Francisco’s long-running spoken word smut salon returns on the eve of Dore Alley with some of the dirtiest, sexiest, most thought-provoking writing and performance around. Featuring emcees Simon Sheppard and Carol Queen More Info: selk@io.com Buy Tickets Now!
photo by Guy Gayle
Soft Return RAWdance
Thurs.-Sat. July 31- Aug. 2, 8pm $15-20 (Members $10-15)
RAWdance rips into the patterns and discoveries in our intimate relationships through a series of works – new and revisited. With visceral movement, the company dives into lust and love, beauty and repugnance, and the convoluted messes we encounter in between. More Info: www.rawdance.org Buy Tickets Now!
RAWdance (photo by RJ Muna)
West Central Valley Community Prom
Sat. Aug.9, 8pm $20 ($15 for members)
Do you remember your prom? Was it all you thought it would be? Was
there infighting, clicks, outcasts, the unwanted, jocks, geeks, freaks
and the other 90% of un-catagorized classmates standing around out of
focus dancing, having a good time getting along and seeing it for what
is was--high school? Well, let us revisit that magical time but with a view from
the future. Be anybody you want to be, just as long as you dress for
the occasion. Taffeta, powder blue tux, dresses made out of curtains
and sofa covers are all welcome as are costumes. Info and tickets, contact: psstudiosf@gmail.com
Jo Kreiter/Flyaway Productions, with Oasis for Girls Truth Tellers: The Arts and Activism Project
Wed.-Thurs. Aug. 13-14, 7pm $5-10 (Members $3)
Jo Kreiter/Flyaway Productions and Oasis for Girls present dances by young women, ages 14-20. Inspired by whistle blowers, truth seekers, and outrage about political lying, performances include Flyaway’s repertory work, “Lies You Can Dance To,” as well as original work created by the performers.
Flyaway Productions (photo by Austin Forbord)
Volunteer Day
Sun. Aug. 17, 11am-6pm Free
Wear some old clothes and comfortable shoes, and come on down to CounterPULSE to help us get ready for the fall season. Please RSVP to info@counterpulse.org.
Violeta Luna & Joti Singh
CounterPULSE 2008 Artists in Residence
Thurs.-Sun. Sept. 11-14, 8pm $12-20 (Members $7-15)
Joti Singh’s Duniya Dance Company combines Bhangra and Guinean dance to explore places where cultural forms collide. Violeta Luna collaborates with composer David Molina, visual artist Victor Cartagena and director Roberto Varea to examine border crossings through hybrid “performative theater.” Buy Tickets Now!
Violeta Luna (photo by Victor Cartagena)
Joti Singh (photo by Sean Burgess)
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