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Low Lives 3: Global Performance Festival Apr 30
What: Low Lives 3 – Performance festival featuring Juan Luna Avin and Julio Cesar Morales
When: Saturday April 30, 12 noon – 3:00 pm, doors open at 11:30 am
Where: SOMArts Cultural Center (934 Brannan St. @8th)
Cost: Recommended $5 donation, but no one turned away for lack of funds
Now entering its third year, Low Lives, an international exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the world will be coming live to SOMArts Cultural Center. Produced and curated by Jorge Rojas, Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. This year Low Lives promises to be the farthest reaching to date with twenty two presenting partners in the United States, Mexico, Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, Germany, India, Tanzania, and Japan.
The live performance by Avin and Morales will begin at 12:36 PM. (more…)
SOMArts All Access, April 8–10
IF YOU’VE NEVER BEEN TO SOMARTS, NOW’S YOUR CHANCE! All Access weekend is a FREE intro to the classes, exhibitions, performances and events happening at one of the nation’s premier alternative arts centers.
What: SOMArts All Access
When: Friday, April 8—Sunday April 10
Where: SOMArts Cultural Center (934 Brannan @8th) and the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japantown
Cost: FREE!
Modulations Returns, April 2
What: CCRMA Modulations
When: Saturday, April 2, 2011
4-8pm – installations open (reception at 6pm), free admission
8pm – concert and dance music – $10 or free with Stanford ID
More info: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/modulations/
Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) presents its annual Modulations festival in San Francisco—an 8-hour marathon of sound art installations and live electronic music. The event begins with interactive and kinetic sound installations by Trimpin and his students; evolves into a sit-down concert of electronic music; and ends with a dance party, with performances by CCRMA artists and guest performers Wobbly and Sutekh.
Part I (sit-down concert):
Tweet Dreams
Adam Sheppard
Katharine Hawthorne
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
Wobbly (Jon Leidecker)
Part II (beat-oriented music):
JxB (Jakes Bejoy)
Cloud Veins (Chris Carlson)
Luke Dahl
Sutekh (Seth Horvitz)
Locky (Lauchlan Casey)
Visuals: Chris Platz (digital artist)
Lipstick & Kisses 2010–A Flaming Lotus Girls Extravaganza
What: Fire art sculpture mavens, the Flaming Lotus Girls, present an evening of art, music and fun to celebrate a decade of crafting metal and making flames!
When: Friday, December 3, from 7:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m.
Where: SOMArts Main Gallery, 934 Brannan Street. San Francisco, CA
What else: The event is FREE and will feature a silent auction and calender release. (Donations are encouraged)
Come bid on gorgeous framed prints of the Lotus Girls’ art portfolio, treat yourself to a cocktail or two, and dance the night away to some of the Bay Area’s preeminent DJs.
Featuring a gallery show, signing of our brand new 2011-2012 calendar, and the excellent DJ entertainment; this promises to be a night of unparalleled entertainment! Best of all: the evening is open to one and all, with no cover charge! Yes, that’s right. It’s absolutely FREE, and we want YOU to come.
DJ Line-Up:
Ambient Mafia
7-11 pm
*Redstickman
*Zac Kyoti
*Olde Nasty
*The Captain
Space Cowboys
11 pm – 2 am
*Deckard
*Zach Moore
*Erik_hz
For more info: http://www.flaminglotus.com/
To buy a calendar visit: http://flaminglotus.com/schwag/buy-our-calendar
Save the Dates: 1010 Collective at SOMArts
What: An Art Show experience of sight, sound and taste.
When: Friday, November 19th, 6:00pm-Midnight
Saturday, November 20th, 12:00pm-5:00pm
and 7:00pm-12:30am
Sunday, November 21st, 2:00pm-7:00pm
Where: SOMArts Bay Gallery
Cost: $10 at the door
Experience the multi-sensory talents of visual, culinary and musical artists with a whole weekend of 1010 collective events:
Friday 11/19: 6-midnight- The kick off! Unveiling of the latest visual artwork from feature artist, culinary artist’s food demonstration and appetizer taste, sounds of musicians in alternating performances.
Saturday 11/20: 12-5pm- Open gallery with DJ playing featured music from the 1010 Collective. Enjoy the Art and music with the full bar serving. 7-12:30am- Starting with music, food and art all alternating throughout the evening.
Sunday 11/21: 2-7pm- Spend time with the artists in closing out the 3 day event, share the afternoon with the featured artists and enjoy our full bar service.
Visual Artists
Abigail Stockinger- Surrealist
Mark Watrous-Heyliger- Surrealist
Brian Stockinger- Visionary
Culinary Artists
Lito Saldana- Cocina Poblana Restaurant
Jim Woods- Mateveza
Musicans
Jovis Dies
Grace Woods
Bow Hammer Skins
For more information, go to www.1010collective.com
Check out 10 10 Collective on Channel 7′s “What’s Hot” feature here!
SOMArts Benefit Concert: Get Tickets Now!
What: Benefit Concert at SOMArts, part of Honoring Revolution With Healing: Dia de los Muertos 2010
When: Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 8pm. Closing reception beforehand open to the public.
What else: SOMArts has partnered with the San Francisco Symphony to present Quinteto Latino in a special Dia de los Muertos program of music performed by flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn and bassoon.
Where: 934 Brannan St (btwn 8th and 9th) But tickets online at muertos.eventbrite.com
Only 70 seats are left for this very intimate performance. Hear beautiful music and enjoy the stunning backdrop of this year’s Day of the Dead exhibition, which SF Weekly calls “intelligent … with gravitas, soul and deep cultural roots.”
SOMArts programming is supported in part by the Community Arts & Education Program of the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Coalition on Homelessness Art Auction Sept 9
What: Live & Silent Auction to benefit the work of the Coalition on Homelessness
When: Thursday, September 9, 2010, 5:30pm to 10:00pm
Tickets: $25 At the Door
This year’s auction for the Coalition on Homelessness will feature work by Andrew Leone, Zina Al-Shukri, Deborah Lyons, Kathryn Arnold, Sita Bhaumik, Tom Mogensen, Brett Amory, Johanna Poethig and others. For more information about the event, including artworks to be auctioned, go here. The Coalition on Homelessness provides a collection of literature and fact sheets on homelessness here.
Image credit: Art Hazelwood and Jos Sances, It’s Sinful, 2010, Heat Transfer Ceramic Tile
Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party
What: One-night-only special event exploring temporary multimedia abstract sound, video, and film installations.
When: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 9:00pm to 1:00am
Suggested donation $10-$5, no one turned away.
Advance registration recommended at http://nightlight.eventbrite.com/
SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery Exhibitions & Programs presents “Night Light: Multimedia Garden Party,” a one-night-only special event exploring temporary multimedia abstract sound, video, and film installations set in the garden and gallery. “Night Light” presents site-specific film installations spilling through the bamboo grove and on monitors sprinkled throughout the driveway, as well as ambient sound performances and amorphous video projections. The videos all feature a collection of locally produced video art installations with a grouping co-curated by Stephen Parr from the Oddball Films archive. Kerry Laitala premiere’s a new 3-D video projection titled “Afterimage: A Flicker of Life,” with soundtrack by Wobbly and Laitala, additional Laitala films to be screened include “Chromatic Cocktail Extra Fizzy” and “Chromatic Frenzy” accompanied by live sound by Cloud Archive as well as two new installations, “Mercurial Madness” and “Chromatastic.”
The one-night-only exhibition was conceived of by SOMArts Curator and Gallery Director Justin Hoover. Featured artists include Mauricio and Christine Ancalmo, Lucca Antonucci, Paul Clipson, Jon Grover, Justin Hurty, Scott Kildall, Lynn Marie Kirby, Kerri Laitala, Peter Max Lawrence, Conrad Meyers II, Stephen Parr, Skye Thorstensen, and Bryan Van Reuter/Cloud Archive and a special live performance titled 100 Songs by Ajna Lichau and Bryson Hansen.
“Night Light” investigates a strong local subgenre of sound and installation art in San Francisco that explores visual, light and sound installation art from a place of true abstraction, unhinging the confines of their art from conventions such as painterly formalism, sculptural composition, and time-based editing formalism. The one-night event was timed to coincide with the month-long exhibition “Totally Unrealistic: the art of abstraction,” which will be on display in the SOMArts Main Gallery through July.
Hoover commented, “the artwork featured in ‘Night Light’ investigates the continuing need, for exploring abstraction through film, sound, installation and video art as evidenced in its current upsurge in contemporary culture. These works build off a legacy of film makers such as Stan Brakhage and painters such as Clifford Still and Rothko, yet move through to a contemporary place where the structure of the visuals and the auditory forms become site-specifically entangled, and equally reject conventional cinematic narrative, iconographic, and time structures.”
For more information about the event, call 415-863-1414 x110 or email justin@somarts.org. SOMArts is located at 934 Brannan St between 8th and 9th. Detailed directions by bus, car and bicycle are available at http://www.somarts.org/about/directions/.
