16 APR 2024 ~ Promoting the Arts Worldwide

2024 APR

MUSIC, 16 APR: Israeli Chamber Project with Karim Sulayman: Music Across Borders at Meany Center for the Performing Arts, Seattle, Washington State, USA • ArtsEarth

Composer Gity Razaz’s new song cycle, Flowing Down the Widening Rings of Being, enjoys a premiere performance by the Israeli Chamber Project with Lebanese-American tenor Karim Sulayman at Meany Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Washington. The song cycle is based on the writings of Rumi and Rainer Maria Rilke and is commissioned by the Israeli Chamber Project. Hailed by The New York Times as “ravishing and engulfing,” Razaz’s music is deeply influenced by the constantly changing, at times tumultuous, realities of the world, including her identity and personal journey as an immigrant.

Presented by Meany Center for the Performing Arts

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MUSIC, 16 APR: SF Performances: Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain at Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth

A runaway hit of our 2021-22 season, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain scored with audiences with its unique, energetic blend of arrangements from pop to classical, humor, and, of course, lots and lots of expert strumming. This ensemble of a dozen-plus plucky artists are “the best musical entertainment in the country,” according to the Independent. “Nothing is spoof proof,” added The Times.

Program to be announced from the stage.

Presented by San Francisco Performances

LITERATURE, 17 APR: On The New Rules of Attachment: A Conversation with Judy Ho and Kini Chang (ONLINE) • ArtsEarth

Discover the profound impact of attachment styles beyond romantic relationships! Dr. Judy Ho, a triple board-certified neuropsychologist, challenges common misconceptions about Attachment Theory. Grounded in scientific insights, her approach reveals how attachment styles shape friendships, careers, goal-setting, and self-perception. We can all learn to be securely attached, reshaping our lives for safety, love, and success. In The New Rules of Attachment, Dr. Ho guides readers to identify their style, address core needs, and employ evidence-based tools for inner child healing. Join Kini Chang in a discussion with Dr. Ho on developing unconditional self-love for a fulfilling life.

Presented by CIIS Public Programs

MUSIC, 18 APR: ODE: Exploring Resonance, Expression, and Ancestry Through Voice at Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth

Join vocal artist Odeya Nini for ODE, an interdisciplinary vocal performance in The CJM’s Yud Gallery. Drawing on the sounds of her Yemenite Jewish ancestry and playing off of the unique acoustic properties of the gallery space, Nini will create vocal improvisations in response to the Judaica on view in Radiant Practices: Illuminating Jewish Traditions. Visitors will experience how song can connect us to our bodies, ancestry, and memories.

Presented by Contemporary Jewish Museum

MUSIC, 18 APR: SFJAZZ: Ranzel Merritt at SFJAZZ Center, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth

For this special Joe Henderson Festival Hotplate, saxophonist Ranzel Merritt performs the immortal music from Henderson’s 1966 Blue Note album.

A serious young musician, composer, and producer, Merritt is the son of acclaimed drummer Ranzel Merritt, Sr., veteran of work with David Murray and Pharoah Sanders. The saxophonist was mentored by Murray and is a former member of the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars, now a teaching artist with the SFJAZZ Education department and alumni of the New School in New York.

MULTIMEDIA, 18 APR: THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret at Brava Theater Center, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth

Need to juice up on your NONBINARY energy but can’t wait until NOV for the THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Performance Festival? Well enbies, you’re in luck! Brava and Diamond Wave are teaming up to offer six events in 2024!

For April, they’re thrilled to be working with powerhouse performers, including: drag king Jota Mercury, poet Alder Duan Hurley, and experimental performance artist Xtra.dae. Hosted by Brava artist-in-residence and THEYFRIEND founder Vin Seaman, a thrilling night of live performance uplifting, centering and celebrating nonbinary identity! There will also be a few OPEN MIC slots at the beginning of the show for emerging nonbinary performers looking to flex their skills.

Presented by Brava Theater Center

MUSIC, 19 APR: Mercury Soul at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth

Mercury Soul’s signature fusion of DJs, classical music, and immersive visuals comes to San Francisco’s iconic Grace Cathedral! This gorgeous setting will be brought to life with a lavishly blended tapestry of sound, movement, and visual arts.

DJ sets by DJ Masonic (Mason Bates), DJ Rob Garza, and DJ Justin Reed (illmeasures Chicago) plus immersive visuals by Mark Johns and performances by SF Opera Adler Fellow Arianna Rodriguez, SF Conservatory of Music Brass Ensemble, solo violinists Ava Pakiam and Diego de la Cruz Iwadare, pianist Kristie Janczyk, conductor Daniel Stewart, and more!

Presented by Mercury Soul

MUSIC, 19 APR: SFJAZZ: RJAM Side by Side at SFJAZZ Center, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth

SFJAZZ is proud to partner with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and its Roots, Jazz & American Music (RJAM) program, linking a world-class conservatory to the award-winning SFJAZZ Center and its resident all-star ensemble, the SFJAZZ Collective.

Side-By-Side concerts pair select faculty from the Roots, Jazz and American Music (RJAM) program at The San Francisco Conservatory of Music with their young artist proteges. The stellar faculty cast includes the SFJAZZ Collective’s Warren Wolf, David Sanchez, Edward Simon, and Matt Brewer, along with luminaries Joshua Redman, Carmen Bradford, Julian Lage, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Matt Wilson and many others.

This concert will feature pianist and SFJAZZ Collective member Edward Simon, and saxophonist and RJAM Executive Director Jason Hainsworth.

MUSIC, 19+20 APR: Patricia Sings Piaf at Presidio Theatre Performing Arts Center, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth

An iconic artist of our time, Grammy Award-winning soprano Patricia Racette conjures the timeless power and viscerally authentic impact of French singer Édith Piaf (1915-1963), whose music gave voice to the mid-twentieth century, transcending language and borders. “For me, Piaf is a shining example through words and music. Great artist. Great actor. Great chanteuse,” says Ms. Racette. “I want to evoke Piaf without ever crossing the line of trying to imitate her. I want to create an experience.”

Presented by Presidio Theatre on the Main Post

MUSIC, 20 APR: SFJAZZ: Student Poetry Showcase at SFJAZZ Center, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth

SFJAZZ’s Education Department welcomes nationally renowned spoken word poets and jazz musicians to celebrate the youth we serve. This event will feature students from Jazz in the Middle, SFJAZZ’s premiere middle school arts programs, student musicians, youth poets from the Bay Area, and our star-studded staff of Teaching Artists for an afternoon of poetry, jazz and reflection on how these art forms work together to move us toward a brighter future.

Featured Poets: Imani Cezanne, Darius Simpson, Gabriel Cortez

Featured Musicians: Marcus Stephens, Tammy L. Hall, Michael Mitchell, Levi Friedman

MUSIC, 20 APR: Live in The Laurel: Nzuri Soul Band at Degrees Plato Tap Room Bottle Shop and Kitchen, Oakland, California, USA • ArtsEarth

The Live in The Laurel (LITL) free concert series promises a great season of outstanding locally-based live music and homegrown fun in The Laurel. Each month, explore some rising stars and local favorites as they perform in intimate venues along MacArthur Boulevard.

Nzuri Soul, a Bay Area powerhouse singer-songwriter, brings electrifying stage presence and personality.

Visitors are invited to dine at participating restaurant venues during the shows or at one of the many Boulevard restaurants before/after. Stick around to browse boutique shops, catch a yoga class, pamper and glam at a salon, and explore the many public art works and murals.

Presented by Laurel District Association

MULTIMEDIA, 20 APR: A Unique Art Show featuring Morton Feldman’s For Bunita Marcus in Sunnyvale, California, USA • ArtsEarth

A Unique Art Show featuring Morton Feldman’s For Bunita Marcus (1985) by Eliot Burk. Unique digital art, objects, performance, painting, and fashion.

Presenting Artists Include: Alejandra Acevedo, Eddy Atoms, Slam Goldstein, Jesús Ramos, Patrick Talesfore Jr., Spencer Talesfore

MUSIC, 20 APR: SFJAZZ: Lori Bell Quartet at SFJAZZ Center, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth

With “a wide harmonic palette, a sophisticated rhythmic sensibility and a refined sense of dynamics, along with an urge to swing” (DownBeat), flutist and composer Lori Bell brings her quartet The Modern Line for this celebration of Joe Henderson and more.

MUSIC, 20 APR: Steinway Society – The Bay Area: Trio Wanderer at St. Francis Episcopal Church, San Jose, California, USA • ArtsEarth

Steinway Society – The Bay Area presents one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles, Trio Wanderer. To meet the needs of a diverse community of patrons, Steinway Society also offers a streaming option to watch the concert live and provide “unlimited listens” for 48 hours afterward.

The Trio’s qualities became obvious at once: a piano bursting with inspiring energy, a wonderfully intense and lyrical violin, and a cello with deep, full sounds. Their style can further be characterized by its typically French distinctness and airy lightness.

–Nurnberg Zeitung (Germany)

Concert Program

• Gabriel Fauré: Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 120
• Lili Boulanger: D’un soir triste—D’un matin de printemps, for Piano Trio
• Mel Bonis: Soir. Matin, Op.76 for Piano Trio
• Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor

MULTIMEDIA, 20+21 APR: Huellas: Afro-Peruvian Dance Theater at Brava Theater Center, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth

Huellas is an Afro-Peruvian dance theater performance co-created by Carmen Roman and Pierr Padilla Vásquez, inspired by the ancestral dance Son de los Diablos. The Son de los Diablos is the first manifestation of resilience for African descendants in Peru. It represents a fight for culture and identity and a way to keep ancestral memory alive and shares the story of decolonization, resistance and of connecting to ancestral memory. Huellas centers Afro-Peruvian rhythms, instruments, and dances to bring visibility to the African Diaspora in Latinx communities.

Presented by Brava Theater Center

LITERATURE, 21 APR: Poets on Earth: Environmental Write-In, Reading, and Open Mic at California Writers Circle (formerly Fire Circle), Oakland, California, USA • ArtsEarth

The City of Oakland co-hosts Poets on Earth: An Earth Day Salon from 1-4 PM in Joaquin Miller Park.

MC Kristen Caven will lead:

• 1:00 PM California Writers Club (CWC) monthly meeting and announcements.
• 1:30 PM Attendees will engage in writing prompts focused on catalyzing local environmental change collectively, writing either on Earthday.org’s theme of “Planet vs. Plastics” or their own concerns.
• 2:30 PM Open mic featuring author, publisher and eco-poet Lucille Lang Day; poet, teacher and literary community builder Richard Loranger; and Alameda poet and Native American journalist Nanette Deetz.

Presented by California Writers Club – Berkeley

MUSIC, 21 APR: Ting Luo: New Works for Solo Piano at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Albany, California, USA • ArtsEarth

For this exciting recital, pianist Ting Luo will perform both classical favorites and new works, with compositions from Schubert and J.S. Bach, as well as several pieces from contemporary and new piano music, featuring pieces by Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and Ingrid Stölzel. A special highlight will be the inclusion of prepared piano classics by John Cage. Additionally, Ting Luo will showcase selected compositions from the New Arts Collaboration 2023 season, including pieces by Xuesi Xu, Dylan Findley, and Cole Reyes.

Presented by Calliope: East Bay Music & Arts

MUSIC, 21 APR: SFJAZZ: Michael Zilber at SFJAZZ Center, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth

“One of the true masters of modern jazz saxophone” (All About Jazz), Michael Zilber is the most accomplished reedist, composer, arranger, educator, and bandleader working in the Bay Area. Following his SFJAZZ Hotplate performances with his Wayne Shorter/Weather Report tribute project Weather Wayne and a night with legendary drummer Mike Clark, the Vancouver, BC native returns with a superb band to honor the legacy of saxophone icon Joe Henderson.

DANCE, 22 APR: Afro LatinX Club SFSU: Rhyme & Pride at Student Life Event Center SFSU, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth

The Afro-Latiné student organization at SFSU is hosting a celebratory dance to honor black, latinx, queerness, and allyship culture and identity.

Note: We are searching for licensed caters and performers to come to our event and sell their products… Instagram: afrolatinxsfsu or Email: afrolatinxsfsu@gmail.com.

THEATRE, 22 APR: Prose and Confluence: A Queer Cowboy Musical at Z Below, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth

Prose and Confluence is a queer cowboy musical, featuring an original score and script, that playfully explores themes of loss, mourning, and understanding. Telling the tale of a grieving river hermit and his homunculus like creation, The WaterBoy, Prose and Confluence is a surreal performance and existential experiment utilizing theatrical scenes, projections, soundscapes, live music, essay, and visual art to explore the profound grief which stems from an inability to articulate pain to others. With musicality as the throughline the Klanghaus team crafts an experience that is intimate, soft and meditative while maintaining a childlike playfulness.

Presented by Klanghaus

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MUSIC, 17 FEB-MAY 18: Oakland Interfaith Community Choir at Imani Community Church, Oakland, California, USA • ArtsEarth

Experience Black gospel music with Master Artist Terrance Kelly. Founded in September of 2013, the Oakland Interfaith Community Choir now has over 150 members! OICC was created to fill a need in the community for a low-commitment, high-energy group that follows the same mission as its parent choir: to inspire joy and unity among all people through Black gospel and spiritual music.

Rehearse once a month from February to June and August to December. OICC performs 4 to 5 times throughout the year in various venues and churches in the Bay Area, and have included the Paramount Theatre, Mission Dolores Basilica, and outreach to inmates at Santa Rita Jail.

Presented by Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir

THEATRE, 13 APR-JUN 23: The Speakeasy: Age of Scofflaws at The Palace Theater, San Francisco, California, USA • ArtsEarth

San Francisco’s #1 Immersive Experience is back for a limited run! Step back in time and visit a secretive prohibition nightclub. Within these hidden speakeasy walls, more than twenty characters beckon you into their underground world, each with their own tale to tell. Navigate through an interweaving maze of stories and side-quests, as over a dozen unique storylines unfold around you. Your choices shape your experience in this immersive 1920s playground.

• Hidden Rooms & Secret Passages
• 15 Interweaving Storylines
• 1,000+ Pages of Script
• 20 Interactive Characters
• 50+ Side-Quests
• Handcrafted Prohibition-era Cocktails
• Casino Games, Tarot Card Readings, “Man in the Moon” Photo Booth, Cabaret Shows

The Speakeasy is an illicit bar, a crooked casino and a vaudeville cabaret. Located in a discreet location on the edge of North Beach and Chinatown in San Francisco.

The Speakeasy is both a time warp and a head trip.

—Frommer’s

A voyeur’s playland.

—San Francisco magazine

Period-perfect, right down to the ladies’ room itself.

—San Francisco Examiner

Presented by Boxcar Theatre

VISUAL, 22 FEB-JUL 22: HOME1947: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy – Exhibition at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA • ArtsEarth

HOME1947: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy explores the lives and stories of the millions displaced in 1947 during the creation of two new independent nation-states, India and Pakistan. The installation crafts visual memories through a series of short documentary and narrative films, virtual reality, photographs and oral histories, objects and archival documents, and sound installations–recreating the long-lost sights, sounds, and smells of what millions once called home.

VISUAL, 15 FEB-JUL 31: VI International Mini Print Cantabria – Open Call at Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center, Santander, Spain • ArtsEarth

The Award is open to all printmaking disciplines, admitting digital printed artwork and monotype as well.

The general theme is The Sea and the Lighthouses, but this does not imply that the artwork must be figurative. All kinds of aesthetic languages are admitted.

The image and the paper must not exceed 20 x 20 cm. (7,8” x 7,8”)

There is no minimum image or paper size.

You can submit up to 3 artworks

Awards

• 1st Prize: € 4000.-
• 2nd Prize: € 1500.-
• 3rd Prize: € 500.-
• Mar Cantabrico Award: € 500.-

Exhibition: September 1 to December 31, 2024 at Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center, Santander, Spain

VISUAL, 26 MAR-AUG 1: Opulent Mobility: Enter the Goddesses – Call for Artists at Los Angeles Makery, Los Angeles, California, USA • ArtsEarth

The gods have had their era… now it is high time for the goddesses to take center stage!

Submit your art that celebrates your goddess/es of choice. 2D, sculptural, and performance work welcomed.

Curated by A. Laura Brody, founder of Opulent Mobility.

Fill out the form to submit your art! There are no strict limits on the size of the artworks, but contact me at brody@laura@gmail.com if the works are larger than 5′ across or if there are issues with the form. No fee to submit, 30% commission on any sales.

The deadline for submissions is August 1, artists will be notified September 1, and the in person exhibit will run October 3 to 30, 2024 at the Los Angeles Makery in Little Tokyo.

It will coincide with the exhibit “Art of Costume Couture”.

Artwork must be original to the maker. If this work is still in process or concept mode please include a statement about what you plan to make.

VISUAL, 1 JAN-DEC 31: Mila Ryk: Imaginary Expressionism (ONLINE) • ArtsEarth

Join curator and concert host Andrea Clearfield as she presents an exciting International ZALON from The Bellagio Center, Lake Como, Italy. The online ZALON features performers live from around the USA to Greece, England, Argentina and Nepal! This exciting program features 11 exceptional artist/ensembles!

Performers include: Jeffrey Solow and Elise Auerbach (Philadelphia, PA); Mada and Hugh Piano Duo (Philadelphia, PA); Noelle Streuber-Eden and Sonja Streuber (Philadelphia, PA); Teagan Faran and Leo Sussman (Indiana); Katha Tango Ensemble (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Suzanne Teng and Gilbert Levy (Santa Fe, NM); Dirk Quinn Band (Coatesville, PA); Iris Malkin and Daniel Gledhill (Los Angeles, CA); Ortakides (Crete, Greece/London, England); Ella Gahnt and Aaron Graves (Philadelphia, PA); Kanta dab dab (Kathmandu, Nepal)

VISUAL, 31 AUG-JAN 13: Eva Schlegel: Multiple Voices at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA • ArtsEarth

Multiple Voices is the first public artwork in the United States by Eva Schlegel, the Austria-based artist known for engineering steel and mirrors into spectacular, architectonic sculptures. Working with materials similar to the arts center’s new building, Schlegel created a series of polished and translucent surfaces that catch and reflect light and parts of the surrounding environment, encouraging visitors to gather, play and learn. Poems by Steve Bellin-Oka, Kimberly Blaeser, and Joy Harjo appear in blurred form on glass panels, registering each poem as part of the sculpture, but rendered cryptic to the viewer.

• AUG 31, 2023-JAN 13, 2025 at Campbell Art Park

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