If you’re thinking about going to MAPP — that’s the Mission Arts and Performance Project — here’s what you need to know before you head out.
The venues are indicated on the map above as well as in the list of events below. MAPP takes place every other month, on the first Saturday of the month. During the course of the evening, five to 20 or so homes and businesses open up their space to performers of art, poetry and music.
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom @ 23rd
“Red Poppy Music and Art Fritanga”
1:00-4:00 p.m.: The FAMILY MAPP: A full afternoon of activities for youths, including mural and sidewalk art!
7:00-7:15 Stina Da Silva (Songstress)
7:15-8:00 Classical Revolution (Chamber Music)
8:15-8:45 Todd Brown presents “Toebi’s Dream” (Multidisciplinary performance)
9:00-9:45 Blind Willies (Folk, Rock, Americana)
10:00-10:45 La Gente (Reggae, Latin, Hip-Hop)
11:00-11:30 Rupa, Todd Sickafoose, Rob Reich (tiny poetic soundscapes)
Pathos-on-Harrison
2754 Harrison @ 23rd
8:45 Intro David Kubrin
9:00 Ron Chernow, Anita, Irretitus Sesol: percussion
9:20 David Kubrin: poet-storyteller
9:35 Alejandro Chavez: singer-songwriter
9:55 David Kubrin: Poet Storyteller
10:15 Willy Lizarraga, storyteller
10:40 Joe Warner: pianist
11:00 Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney, music
11:30 Jorge Molina and the Spontaneous
Combustion Opera.
Visual Art by Windsong
Mara Kubrin: Bite sized baking goods and libations
Casa De Los Sentidos
2649 Folsom St. @ 23rd St
8:00 pm Ceremony
8:30 pm Mamacoalt, Songs vibrating with the heart of the Earth
9:00 pm Los Nadies, Polictical Latin Rock Music
9:30 pm Boru-Coe, Exploring & rescuing musical treasures of South America.
10:00 pm Antioquia Band, Psychedelic Rock meets Afrocolombian Rhythm
Paintings and drawings by: Hersalia Cantoral Trejo.
El Jardin Secreto – The Secret Garden
Harrison Street between 23rd and 24th
Transiciones – Transitions
6:15 Nikki Krishnan – Acoustic Songstress
6:30 Amber Gougis – Seductive Jazz and French Chanson
7:00 Melita Morales – Spoken Word “”I am Love””
7:15 Jorge Guillermo Perez Molina – Opening Blessing
7:20 Los Rumberitos del Barrio – Rumba Cubana en el Jardin
8:00 Ernesto Garay – Spoken Word
8:15 YeYe Suarez – Songstress and Dancing Storyteller
9:00 LoCura – Musica Mestizo with special guests
Visual Exhibition – Photography by Michelle Chandra and paintings by Melita Morales
Interactive Storytelling Project – Una Vida de Cambio
Tasty, local food by Raise the Root
Galeria de la Raza
2857 24th St @ Bryant
7:30-10:00pm Opening reception: “”Crude Reflections/Cruda Realidad””
Photographaphy of Lou Dematteis: Documenting the beauty and devastation of the Amazon rainforest
Live music by “”Spring of Shamans”” (contemporary indigenous sounds from the Andes)
The Box Factory
865 Florida street between 20th & 21st
Curator: Jeremy Chase Sanders & Spencer James Peterson
7:00-9:00pm: “”Men’s Work”” A national exhibition of male identity in domestic forms, opening reception: .
9:30 – 10:30 pm.””An Appealing & Appalling Evening With Doktor Bordello”” live cabaret show:
Featured Artists: Bren Ahearn, Victor De La Rosa, Cirilo Domine, Steven Frost, Kris Grey, Luke Haynes, Sam Lopes, John Paradiso, Jeremy Chase Sanders, Erik Scollon.
The House of Lemuria
1135 Shotwell
6:00-6:45 Pedrito Biava & Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes (Folk n’ things)
7:00-7:45 Cara Vida (Poetry)
8:00-8:45 The Wesley Morgan (Swamp Noir)
9:00-9:45 Stina Da Silva (Songstress)
L’s Cafe
2871 24th St. (between Bryant and Florida)
5:30 Heather Klein’s: Hungry for Yiddish – Participatory Yiddish theater music with classical roots
6:00 John Honey- Organ & voice, original pieces and a few covers by Kim Deal
6:30 Salena and the Boom Shakti Band – Organic and Electronic Healing Music
7:15 George Brais – Electronic Spiritual Dreamscape
8:00 Pedrito Biava and Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, A mixed bag of folk and other things
8:45 Jonny Mac- Singer Songwriter
Plasma Art Gallery (India) will be exhibiting their art throughout the night for the first time in the U.S.
Million Fishes
2501 Bryant @ 23rd St.
7-10pm Visual Exhibition “My Heart is a Telephone” by Calcagno Cullen Potluck and Performance
Artillery Gallery
2751 Mission
7:00-8:00 Opening Reception
8:00-9:00 Alma 25 (Afro-Brazilian Drummers)
9:00-11:00 All Night Mixing DJ BAYSIK & DJ EWOK
“”Patrón Y Cultura”” Visual Exhibition Alexa Treviño & Ivan Lopez
AREA 2881 Micromuseum
2881 23rd Street @ Florida
8:00pm-12:00 Kinetic/Robotic/Light Sculpture & 3D Photography by Carl Pisaturo
Revolution Cafe
3248 22nd St
9pm-12:30am Aaron Leese & The Panhandlers (Blues)
Cafe Boheme
3318 24th St @ Mission
7:00-10:00pm Live Music by Alfredo Gomez
Kaleidescope
3109 24th Street
7-10pm Radio Free Clear Light interactive drone installation

is there a way/place to find out about MAPP happenings ahead of time? the MAPP website (http://www.sfmapp.com/live/) says “next mapp june 4th”… I run a local gallery and wanted to try to be a part but could not get any info, I’d like to try to get in on the next one though. is there a different website or other contact info?
Contact Todd Brown at the Red Poppy Cafe Todd Brown
Best, Lydia