The next MAPP happening. ..
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
MISSION ARTS & PERFORMANCE PROJECT
"BEST ART ALL OVER THE HOOD" Best of the Bay, SF Bay Guardian 2006
The MAPP is a bi-monthly neighborhood inter-cultural arts event that transforms garages, cafes, studios, gardens, and local businesses into make-shift arts & performance spaces where daily life meets artistic innovation and expression.
1:00 PM - 4 PM
The FAMILY MAPP
Painting activities, Storytelling, and Music
for children and families
7PM-midnight
The Evening MAPP
multidisciplinary/intercultural community arts event that features as many as 120 artists presenting in up to 18 street-level alternative venues, such as garages, gardens, living rooms, cafes, and street corners, as well as artist galleries and studios.
MAPP Performance at the Red Poppy:
PAUL FLORES: You're Gonna Cry: A Solo Theater Work in Progress
Visual Art by Juan Carlos Quintana
Groupo Obara: Rumba Performance and Dance Party
Performance begins at 7:30 pm.
Tonight, as part of MAPP, the Red Poppy presents You're Gonna Cry, written and performed by Paul Flores, and directed by Brian Freeman. How could gentrification be violent if artists started it? Like many young artists, Paul Flores came to San Francisco looking to find a community and to establish himself. You're Gonna Cry is about the hard realities of life in San Francisco's Mission District, and the offbeat and humorous characters who also make it a place to love.
You're Gonna Cry is an original multimedia solo theater piece and work in progress reflecting Paul Flores’s relationship to the Mission District’s Latino community. It was here that Flores spent ten years developing as a community artist while witnessing the forces of gentrification displace Latino residents and fellow artists (even as the San Francisco Chronicle dubbed the neighborhood the “New Bohemia”). Flores’s story addresses his search for identity as an artist while pursuing an ideal/romantic vision of the Mission District as the Latino cultural oasis that it was famed to be in the 1960s and ’70s.
You're Gonna Cry includes spoken word, personal narrative, character monologues, puppets and a multimedia component designed by Haldun Morgan. Each element explores Flores’s personal journey as he developed into a Mission-based poet, youth mentor, and Latino community activist against the backdrop of San Francisco's “Dot-Com Boom.” Flores follows changes in the dynamics of the Mission's Latino community—including mass evictions, gang injunctions and immigration enforcement raids—largely brought on by the effects of gentrification. His journey leads him to a wiser, more realistic understanding of artists and their communities.
Paul Flores (writer and performer) is a San Francisco based poet, playwright, novelist and nationally prominent spoken-word artist who specializes in bilingual and hip-
www.myspace.com/paulfloresrepresenta
http://vimeo.com/2587678
Brian Freeman (director) is an award-winning playwright, director, and performance artist. His play Civil Sex, about the black gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, has been produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Joseph Papp Public Theater (NY), and Woolly Mammoth Theater (Washington, D.C.). He has written or co-authored more than two dozen plays, solo shows and performance works, including Fierce Love and Dark Fruit for Pomo Afro Homos, and co-founded a groundbreaking black queer performance trio which played from 1990-’95 to standing-room-only hop performance. Flores is a founding member of both Los Delicados and Chicano Messengers of Spoken Word. His most recent plays—Fear of a Brown Planet (2005) and REPRESENTA! (2007)—were National Performance Network Creation Fund Commissions. Flores was featured on Russell Simmons: Presents Def Poetry on HBO, and was among the first artists awarded a Center for Cultural Innovation grant to tour Latin America. He is the co-founder of Youth Speaks and currently teaches Hip-Hop Theater and Spoken Word at the University of San Francisco. crowds from Lincoln Center to London. Brian has directed and developed solo shows by Regie Cabico, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Wayne Corbett, Diane Ferlatte, Wayne Harris, Marijo, and Canyon Sam; experimental works with Bill T. Jones, Rhodessa Jones and Marc Bamuthi Joseph; and plays with the Mark Taper Forum, Public Theater, the Theater Offensive, Teatro Vision, and San Francisco Mime Troupe, where he was a company member for eight years. From 2002-’05 he was a staff dramaturg and Resident Artist/Director at the Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles), where he developed new work with Roger Guenvere Smith, Kia Corthran and hip-hop artist Jerry Quickley. Brian currently lectures in Theater/Critical Studies at UCLA. Awards include a California Arts Council Playwriting Fellowship, the CalArts Alpert Award in Theater, three Rockefeller MAP grants, a Creative Capital Fellowship, and the New York Dance & Performance Bessie Award.
Closing the evening, Groupo Obara, will close the evening with a Rumba Performance and Dance Party!
MAPP PROGRAMS will be available on the day of the event, but not sooner (except for momments of divine intervention). This is due to the nature of the project - that of trying to organize 100 artists with no money, paid staff, or singular infrastructure. We call it "mapp magic" - the rule of improvisation - down to the last minute. But always be certain, if you just show up with an open mind, you'll find your way.
Download the program at
www.sfmapp.com
Printed programs, with a map of the participating locations,
can be found at the Red Poppy Art House (Folsom/23rd) and pick up |
Examples of past MAPP locations. . . .
 
RED POPPY ART HOUSE
2698 Folsom @ 23rd Street (415) 826-2402
MILLION FISHES GALLERY:
2501 Bryant @ 23rd Street (415) 770-1052
www.millionfishes.com
2881 SPACE
2881 - 23rd Street @ Florida
LA CASA DE LOS SENTIDOS
2649 Folsom @ 23rd Street
(garage made available by Nosrat Zahiri and Luis Vasquez-Gomez)
 
PHILZ (COFFEE) ART SALON
3101- 24th Street @ Folsom (415) 282-9155
www.philzcoffee.com
(Made available by Phil, of course)
L'S CAFFE
2871 - 24th Street @ Bryant (415) 206-0274
www.lscaffe.net
(Hosted by Lozano sisters)
COCOON
2941-A Harrison @ 25th Street
CAFÉ OFF BRAVA
2773 24th Street between York & Hampshire
 
LE PETITE GARAGE
2694 Folsom @ 23rd Street
Next Door to the Red Poppy Art House
 THE SANGATI CENTER
3049 22nd Street @ Shotwell
www.sangaticenter.org
BALMY FUSION
Balmy Alley @ 24th Street (between Treat & Harrison)
THE WORD PARTY
3043 - 24th Street @ Treat Street
HIDDEN ALLEY WORKS
2555 Bryant (between 23rd and 24th Streets- side gate to patio in the back)
 GALERIA DE LA RAZA/ STUDIO 24
2857- 24th Street @ Bryant
(415) 826-8009
www.galeriadelaraza.org
CASA SANCHEZ
2778- 24th Street @ York
AS-WOULD-SAY
1142 Florida @ 23rd Street
NIÑOS CORNER
23rd Street @ Treat
TREAT STREET GARDEN
850 Treat between 21st & 22nd Streets
415/647-1770
PRECITA EYES
2981- 24th Street @ Harrison (415) 285-2287
www.precitaeyes.org
YOGA PROPS
3055- 23rd Street @ Treat
(Hosted by Ruth Steiger)
Many thanks to Pearl Fine Art Supply and Rainbow Grocery for their donations to the Family MAPP.
 
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