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Bike Tour: Food History
Sat., September 4, 2010 11am, $15-50 sliding scale to benefit Shaping SF
We’re starting an hour earlier so we can stop first at the Saturday Farmer’s Market at the Ferry Building. Meet at the Valet Bike Parking across from the Ferry Building. After that we’ll go north to explore the old Italian food industries, before turning south to explore the multiple food histories of the Mission and with luck, making it to Alemany Farm for our final stop. Special food stops all the way!
No Reservations Necessary!
NavaRasas for World Peace
Priyanjali Dance
Sat., September 11, 2010 6pm, $20-$25 (Members $15-20)
Priyanjali Dance will perform on 9/11 to promote World Peace. The dancers will present Bharata Natyam, a classical Indian dance art form by communicating relatable events through Nava Rasas (Nine Emotions). Through these Rasas, we can better understand the human condition and promote a tolerance for a peaceful existence. Choreography by Priyanjali Dance.
2nd Sundays
Sun., September 12, 2010 2pm, Free
Dancer’s Group and CounterPULSE present 2nd Sundays, an open discourse project in which artists share works in progress and converse with audience members and fellow artists. This is an exciting opportunity to advance the open exchange of ideas and participate in the creative process of critique.
September’s salon includes:
Philein Wang/ZiRu Tiger Pro will present an excerpt and work in progress to be premiered for the fall season at Mountain View Center for Performing Arts. Saving Lives and Singing Lullaby’s is a collaboration of three second generation Chinese American Artists (Philein Wang, Areta Wang and Simon Ting) and their respective art forms: Choreography/Poetry, Visual Art and Music.
Tammy Cheney will present excerpts from Necessary: sections 2 & 3. This pure dance piece addresses choices and their consequences, how they affect us, and how we learn from them.
Lenora Lee will present Passages, a new interdisciplinary multimedia work between choreographer / director Lenora Lee, lighting designer Patty-Ann Farrell, media designer Olivia Ting, and composer/sound designer Francis Wong. The piece is in homage to Lee’s maternal grandmother, Lee Ping To, who immigrated through the Angel Island Immigration Station in 1940, the year that the Station was closed. Inspired by the concept of Angel Island Immigration Station as the portal between past and present, Lee will work with her collaborators to create an environment for the audience that evokes both memory and sense of passage.
No Reservations Necessary!
Talks! Imprisoned But Unbowed: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
Wed., September 15, 2010 7:30pm, Free
Join a panel of ex-cons discussing the myriad ways resistance continues and perseveres behind bars, and how such herstories are, or are not, recorded and celebrated. Featuring: Bo Brown, former social and political prisoner, and George Jackson Brigade member, a longtime prison abolitionist, from both sides of the walls; Sin Soracco found time between dancing, bookselling, and a stint inside, to pen the now legendary prison novel Low Bite, a tale of survival, dignity, friendship and insubordination. Co-sponsored by PM Press.
No Reservations Necessary!
Dana Lawton Dances and Jia Wu Dance Theater
18 Virgo Horses
Thurs-Sat., September 16-18, 2010 8pm, $10-20 sliding scale (Members $5-15)
Bay Area choreographer Dana Lawton shares an evening of exciting, provocative dance with nationally renowned artist Jia Wu, formally of Beijing, China. Original compositions by Frank Zincavage, Sean McCue, and Michelle Beauchesne promise to make18 Virgo Horses an evening of sensational imagery, exquisite performances, and innovative/unexpected moments of dance and music.
Bike Tour: Dissent
Sat., September 18, 2010 noon, $15-50 sliding scale to benefit Shaping SF
Covering everything from literary dissenters to urban riots and protests, this tour examines sites of conflict and unrest, the social movements and upheavals, that have shaped San Francisco since its origins. It’s a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour through the city’s contrarian past and present.
No Reservations Necessary!
Talks! Art & Politics: Rigo
Wed., September 22, 2010 7:30pm, Free
Rigo 95, Rigo 23, Rigo Rigo Rigo! He’ll be here to give us a taste of his amazing work, from huge mosaics and building-size murals, street sign satires, and commemorative sculptures. Come and meet one of the giants of our local scene, who also happens to be an international star too, and yet is one of the most relaxed people you’ll ever meet.
No Reservations Necessary!
Kat Cole and Eric Garcia
along the way
Fri-Sat., September 24-25, 2010 8pm, $10
Through a collection of vignettes–from dusty roadsides and picket fences to mom’s kitchen table–along the way finds quirk in the mundane and explores qualities both subtle and sublime. The work dissects these everyday spaces, reconfiguring them into places of curiosity. More Info!
Talks! Education Crisis/Radical Responses: Caitlin Manning & Andrej Grubacic
Wed., September 29, 2010 7:30pm, Free
From the crisis in the California universities to the steady destruction of public schools, we’re in the epicenter of a storm that spans the globe as neoliberalist politicians and the interests they serve seem determined to make education a precious commodity that is no longer a bedrock of democratic society. Come and discuss radical responses to this crisis, leading to the big October 7 Day of Action.
