7th Generation Rise

Saturday, May 15
@SOMArts
934 Brannan Street, SF
7pm-11pm

An INDIGENOUS ARTS Fun-draiser to send
youth to the Allied Media Conference!

$5-20 suggested donation
ALL AGES family friendly!

TRADITIONS:
HA-BIDA (Pomo dancers)
ALL NATIONS (Powwow drum)
MEDICINE WARRIORS (Intertribal Powwow)

GALLERY/LIVE ART:
YOUTH SKATEBOARDS by SNAG Indigenous Arts
SAMMY TANGUILEG (Pomo visual artist/Skateboards)
CY WAGONER (Diné visual artist/Muralist)
CHANDRA NARCIA (Pima photographer/Mixed media)
SILO (Mexica/Xicana visual artist)
MIGUEL "BOUNCE" PEREZ (Nicoya visual artist)
DESI (Weapons of Mass Expression)
OZI MAGANA (Salvadorean/painter)
NIKILA BADUA (Native Hawaiian visual artist)
JAIV1 (Filipino live painter/Visual artist)

MUSIC/ENTERTAINMENT:
JEREMY GOODFEATHER (Mohawk acoustic soul)
PHILLIP MESHEKEY & BLUEBIRD WOMBYN
(Anishinaabe/Lakota poetry dance)
RAS KDJ & TEAO (Audiopharmacy DJ's)
DJ SHANA-KALAY (Pomo/Zulu nation)
DJ SANTERO (Cuban/Latin, Hip-hop)

FOOD:
7TH GENERATION NATION
(Buffalo, wild rice & blue corn tortillas)
EMPENADAS DE EL SALVADOR
(Vegan pastries, Indio/Latino delights)

OUTDOORS:
COMPOSTING WORKSHOP
OPEN MIC/STORYTELLING
& PHOTO BOOTH!!!

Sins Invalid: Artists In Residence (AIR) Program

http://sinsinvalid.org/whats_new.html#air

All new for 2010!
SINS INVALID ARTIST IN RESIDENCE APPLICATION
Applications Due April 26, 2010
{Download the Application}

Sins Invalid is launching a brand new Artists In Residence (AIR) Program, in which four to eight emerging artists will be invited to partner us in developing their craft over a period of eight months, with a series of monthly workshops culminating in a performance in December 2010.

Workshops will be held in San Francisco and/or the East Bay.

Check Out She Who Laughs Lasts on Mission Loc@l!

http://missionlocal.org/2009/11/she-who-laughs-last-benefit-for-sfwar/

Philippine Dance Showcase & Family Day (free)

Nov 22: Philippine Dance Showcase & Family Day (free)
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American Center of Philippine Arts (ACPA) presents its annual
Philippine Dance Showcase & Family Day
co sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center

We welcome everyone to spend the afternoon with us for a
free presentation of Philippine cultural dances by ACPA's
youth program, food, fun and activities for the whole
family! This event is free to the public.

Sunday, November 22
2:00PM Performance
3:00PM Food, Fun & Activities

Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th Street, Suite 290, Oakland, CA
Located on the 2nd Floor of the Plaza
For directions, call (510) 637-0455

Donations greatly appreciated!
For details or small business advertising opportunities,
please contact Herna Cruz-Louie, Executive Director at
herna.cruzlouie@philippinearts.org. Submitted by: Herna
Cruz-Louie (hcruz.louie@yahoo.com)

Performers and volunteers needed for VDay 2010!!

**Looking for both male and female performers and volunteers <3

Performers and Volunteers needed!

V-Day San Francisco is proud to announce A MEMORY, A MONOLOGUE, A RANT, A PRAYER ("MMRP"). This is a performance to benefit community organizations that empower women and communities impacted by violence. This year's performance will raise funds and awareness for San Francisco Women Against Rape (www.sfwar.org), The Riley Center (www.rileycenter.org), and Spark (www.sparksf.org).

The performance date and venue have yet to be determined. The goal is to perform the production in March 2010, in the Mission District of San Francisco. We are in the beginning stages of organizing this performance, so the details will be provided as they come!

About V-Day: V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwrite/Founder Eve Ensler's award-winning play The Vagina Monologues and other artistic works.

Stage Performers Info:

• Passion is more important than experience. Audition is required. Details provided upon application.
• This show is in staged-reading format. Memorization is not required.
• Group Rehearsals will be once a month until the month of the performance, at which point rehearsals will be bi-weekly or as needed.
• Directors will be available for additional rehearsals on a one-on-one basis as needed, or as requested by performers.
• This is a volunteer performance. No stipend will be given to stage performers.
• All stage performers will be expected to fundraise.

Volunteers Info:

• No experience necessary.
• We will needs lots of help to put the perfomance on! We are seeking short-term and long-term volunteers.
• Examples of help we need: Stage crew, techical crew, ushers, materials design, fundraising, passing out flyers, etc.
• We are also organizing a screening of a V-Day film called ANY ONE OF US ("AOOU") about women in prison, and will need volunteers for that event also. The date of that event is TBD, as well as the location within San Francisco. Please be open to helping with either event.

To fill out an application to participate, please email vdaysf2010@gmail.com

Thank you!

V-day San Francisco MMRP/AOOU

Le Chill du Nord: SF's finest Downtempo Music, Art & Fashion

Start Time:	Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 8:00pm
End Time:	Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 2:00am
Location:	Cafe Du Nord
Street:	2174 Market St
City/Town:	San Francisco, CA

The Beat Box Armada & Cafe du Nord present The Chill du Nord: Grab a drink and come cruise the legendary Victorian venue on this autumnal Tuesday night. Loungey female vocalists will serenade you whilst you absorb the work of beautiful fashionistas and original artists. Between the sets, listen to some banging right-on performance pieces.

All on one night!
All for a fantastic cause!

Featuring some of SF's finest chill downtempo music acts:

- MICROPIXIE
- UNDER
- DIVASONIC
- MIA CALDERON

Chill beats & grooves before and after the sets will be provided by BELOW ZERO. Special Yoni Ki Baat performances by SOUTH ASIAN SISTERS, Anjali Verma and Anjali Kamat. Art by NICOLETTE NIGRO and LARK CALDERON-GOMEZ. Fashion experiences by THE MISSION STATEMENT, SZOENYI, and ITPAPALOTL. MC'd by Writer and Conscious Fashionista, NAYOMI MUNAWEERA. Proceeds of all art, merch, and 100% of door sales go to SF WAR, Rape & Human-Trafficking awareness. 21+

She Who Laughs Lasts!!!

While rape is not a laughing matter, we believe that humor is a powerful tool to help unify and heal individuals and communities. Join us for a lighthearted evening of comedy that brings together performers and audience members committed to ending sexual violence!

Sunday, November 15th
6pm Reception, 6:30pm Show
Get Tickets at www.sfwar.org
Victoria Theater
2961-16th Street (@ Capp St)
San Francisco, CA 9110

Tickets: $15-50 sliding scale
No one turned away for lack of funds
All proceeds benefit SFWAR's services supporting survivors of rape and sexual assault.

Reception:
Come early for pizza, beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages!

Come ready for the raffle! One ticket for $3 or two for $5
Prizes include:
Five-class Pass for Belly Dancing Lessons
Vegetarian and Vegan Cuisine of India- Cooking Classes
Pilates Lesson

Featuring!!

Sia Amma is out of Africa. She is a stand-up comedian, writer, dancer, and actress who is best known as Africa's most outrageous, hysterical, and inspiring comedienne. She is well known for making fun of African and American cultures, relationships, life experiences, sexuality and, of course, herself. She has given presentations that combine humor and celebration that are refreshing, honest, and very informative about the issue of female circumcision, and she has drawn great reviews at major colleges, universities, and around the country. Sia Amma performs her stand-up comedy material three times a week at Our Little Comedy Club in San Francisco. Her newest presentation for mothers and daughters is called "What Mama Said About 'Down There'."

Brooklyn-based comedian, actress and educator, Micia Mosely is a founding artist with Nursha Project; a group committed to supporting artists and projects rooted in socio-political offerings. Since earning her Ph.D. in education from U.C. Berkeley, Micia has shared her comedic performance in cities all over the United States including, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Boston, Washington D.C. and Honolulu. In 2009, her one woman show "Where My Girls At?" was nominated for a New York Innovative Theater Award for best solo performance.

Native San Franciscan Ali Wong is a local legend. SF Weekly selected her as the "Best Comedian of 2009" and the SF Bay Guardian awarded her a "Best of the Bay" title. In March 2009, she moved to NYC and will be producing a one-day music festival in LA, summer of 2010.

Kristina Wong is a nationally presented solo performer, writer, actor, educator, culture jammer, and filmmaker. Described by the East Bay Express as "brutal but hilarious... a woman who takes life's absurdities very seriously," her body of performance work includes short and full-length solo performance works, outrageous street theater stunts and pranks, subversive internet installations, and plays and sketch comedy. She was awarded the Creative Capital Award in Theater and a Creation Fund from the National Performance Network to create her third full-length solo show, "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" exploring the remarkably high incidence of suicide among Asian American women in a world that's more nuts than we are. She is a freelance contributor to anthologies and magazines like Playgirl Magazine.

Flipping the Script on Poverty

http://colorlines.com/article.php?ID=614
http://www.poormagazine.org/index.cfm?L1=news&story=1750

"The Bay Area-based welfareQueens, a project of the POOR News Network, are fighting back against a system that dehumanizes poor mothers—with poetry, theater, and any other media tool they can access."

Check it out!

Performance: Sins Invalid

Sins Invalid is a performance project on disability and sexuality that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized from social discourse.

WHEN:
8pm Friday, October 2nd
8pm Saturday, October 3rd (interpretation provided by Stage Hands)
7pm Sunday, October 4th

WHERE:
Brava Theater
2789 24th St. (at York), San Francisco [map]
For more info please call 510.689.7198