Red Poppy Art House: MAPP- August 5th

MAPP
(Mission Arts Performance Project)
The summer of solidarity

Curated by Indira Urrutia
Chilean-born interdisciplinary artist, educator, community organizer, curator, and co-founder of several arts education initiatives.

Saturday, August 5th, 2023
6:30pm-10pm

FREE
(Donation is encouraged)
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM:

6:30 – 7:00 Art Exhibition
Open for viewing

7 – 7:30 Artist presentation
(Installation & Photography by Indira Urrutia & Marc Hors)

7:40 – 8:20
Rafa Bustamante (la Gente) and Javier Navarrette Duo
Guitar and Cajon

8:30 – 8: 40 My-Linh Le
(Solo dance performance)

9 – 10 Sol Tevél
(Reggae and World music)

Artwork by Marc Hors
(Photography): “Nazavzhdy” Para Siempre / Forever by Marc Hors
Installation “Soul Tears”
by Indira Urrutia

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
My-Linh Le
Solo dance performance
is a second generation Vietnamese American dancer, award winning choreographer, multidisciplinary storyteller, and former environmental attorney. She is the founding director of Mud Water Theatre, a street dance performance collective featuring turfers. As a strutter/popper, she is the first woman to represent Playboyz Inc. since its formation in 1981, making it one of the Bay Area’s oldest dance crews. She has danced for artists including Sanford Biggers and Grammy winning Kendrick Lamar.Acoustic Set.

Rafa Bustamante (la Gente) and Javier Navarrette Duo
Guitar and Cajon Duo
Javier Navarrette is a professional percussionist, musician, composer, arranger and educator living in Oakland, California, specializing in Afro-Caribbean music. Javier’s performance and recording career spans over three decades. He has played and studied with many of the greats in the Afro-Latin music tradition, and has recorded on three Grammy-nominated albums with John Santos and the Machete Ensemble/ Folklorico Kindembo.
Rafael Sarria Bustamante is a Colombian-Nicaraguan singer-songwriter, activist, band leader of LA GENTE SF and voting member of the Recording Academy/Grammy’s.
With his group he has created his own unique blend of Cumbia, Reggae, Salsa, Champeta and Reggaeton. His original composition and live shows fuse together rhythms,
dances and cultural influences from all over Latino America and the Caribbean with a distinct San Francisco flavor, to create an infectious, high energy dance party.
From his new home base of Madrid Spain Rafa & LA GENTE SF has just released “Lotus Hotel” their first single and music video from their fifth studio album
“Entre 2 Mundos” The album and series of music videos were recorded and filmed in San Francisco, Colombia, Spain, Mexico and Morocco. Produced by
Rafael Sarria Bustamante, Maya Finlay & Jordan Feinstein. He is currently on his 2023 world tour with dates in the US, Spain, Mexico & more.

Sol Tevél
Reggae and World music
San Francisco-based band Sol Tevél, led by Jerusalem-born artist Lior Ben-Hur, is redefining Reggae and World music with its uplifting melodies and unique approach.
Lior Ben-Hur & Sol Tevél released an eclectic World music album in 2012, infusing contemporary interpretations of Jewish texts, ideals, and mysticism. The band’s passion for Reggae, a key inspiration for their creativity is evident in their self-titled 2015 Reggae EP.
Their full-length album, So I Wander, was released in 2017, debuting at #14 on Billboard’s Top Reggae Albums chart. This band, having shared the stage with Roots Reggae legends like Stephen Marley and Black Uhuru, represents a new generation of World and Reggae music.

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ABOUT THE CURATOR AND THE INSTALLATION
Indira Urrutia
Installation “Soul Tears”
Indira Urrutia is a Chilean-born interdisciplinary artist of international projection with a very personal style defined by organic elements combined in a perfect harmony that prints beautiful emotions in her work, allowing the audience to experience different sensations and movements while watching.
The Pandemia has kept her stock in Barcelona for three years, where her work inhabits time, silence, and memory, where weaving interacts to create a surface, skin, and little by little, a presence manifest.
Weaving is an organic and metaphorical expression and a meditation on the nature of life. We are all bound together, interwoven and interconnected, in ways that we overlook in our modern lives.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in group and individual presentations, including The de Young Museum, Root Division, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco USA; National Council of Culture and the Arts, Pablo Neruda House Museum, Chile; Invited to the VII Biennial of Art and Design, Valencia, Spain, Real Cercle Artistic de Barcelona, El Borsí, Barcelona, Spain, Fontecchio International Airport Gallery, Italy.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARC HORS

“Nazavzhdy” Para Siempre / Forever by Marc Hors
The escalation of the international armed conflict in Ukraine has caused civilian casualties and destruction of civilian infrastructure, forcing people to flee their homes seeking safety, protection and assistance. Millions of refugees from Ukraine have crossed borders into neighboring countries, and many more have been forced to move inside the country.
“The situation is disconcerting, this is what several Ukrainian women I talk to are telling me. They agree in shrinking the importance of material belongings, including the roof under which they raised the children who accompany them, and which, as they can learn from the news, has now turned into ruins. The real heartbreaker has been to leave their husbands fighting with rudimentary resources against a Goliath armed outright. The two typical words in any farewell “see you soon” have been replaced by “love you forever”. The chances of surviving are swinging at the rhythm of the bombs and the decisions taken by political leaders coerced by economic interests.”
This series of photographs were taken at the Polish border of Medyka and the town of Przemyšl during the month of March 2022. Photographs that bring us closer to a reality that, however distant it may seem to us geographically, puts into perspective the fragility of the social fabric that led us to develop as a civilized species.
Format: Fine art prints on cotton paper Size: 13 x 19” – 17 x 22”