Posts Tagged ‘Intersection for the Arts’
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INTERSECTION & OFF THE GRID | WHEN: Oct 5, noon to 2 pm | WHERE: 5th and Minna St | DETAILS: Acclaimed clarinetist/composer Ben Goldberg grew up in Denver, CO, and received his undergraduate music degree from UC Santa Cruz and a Master of Arts in Composition from Mills College. He was a pupil of the eminent clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo, and studied with Steve Lacy and Joe Lovano. In addition to composing for and playing in the Ben Goldberg Quintet, he currently performs in the following groups: Tin Hat; plays monk, a trio with Scott Amendola and Devin Hoff; Myra Melford’s Be Bread; Nels Cline’s New Monastery; Go Home with Charlie Hunter, Ron Miles, and Scott Amendola.
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INTERSECTION | WHEN: Oct 3, 6 to 9 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | DETAILS: Join us for a one-session workshop where you will learn tips, tricks and simple techniques you need to know to restore your old photographs.
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INTERSECTION | WHEN: September 28, 4 to 8 pm | WHERE: Kiosk at Mint Plaza, 5th Street between Market and Mission | DETAILS: Explore the sites, memories and histories of our SOMA neighborhood in this interactive photo event. We will provide images, a map and hints, you decipher the clues and match up nostalgic photos of this neighborhood with present day surroundings.
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INTERSECTION & OFF THE GRID | WHEN: September 21, noon–2 pm | WHERE: 5th & Minna St | DETAILS: Darren Johnston’s Northern Eclipse is an atmospheric, curious mix of country and open-ended modal jazz. Featuring Johnston on trumpet with David Phillips on pedal-steel guitar and Daniel Fabricant on bass, the moods they create range from melancholia to rollicking swing, as if the soundtrack to a deeply moving film that is yet to be made.
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HUB & INTERSECTION | WHEN: Sept 24, 5 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | DETAILS: An informal gathering for Hub members, the Intersection for the Arts community and people who want to grow a creative community together. Genocide, wildfires, mass shootings, tsunamis, oil spills, nuclear meltdowns — the work of many artists and social entrepreneurs involves making change in response to tragedy and trauma. The Arts & Entrepreneurship Forum invites you to make this important work known. We’re hosting an open mic for Intersection and HUB members to pitch their projects on disaster relief. In preparation, you are requested to post notices, pictures and ideas about your disaster relief work on a billboard that will rotate between the two organizations a month prior to the open mic.
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INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS | WHEN: September 21–23, 6:30–9:30 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | DETAILS: Intersection for the Arts, Playwrights Foundation, and Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project present Dogsbody by Erik Ehn Every story is a knife. Everyone is a witness. Directed by Rebecca Novick, Choreography by Erika Chong Shuch Performed by Catherine Castellanos, Rami Margron and Reggie D. White
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INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS & OFF THE GRID | WHEN: September 21, noon–2 pm | WHERE: 5th & Minna St | DETAILS: Howard Wiley – saxophone; John Turk – keyboards; Ron Belcher – bass; Danny Spencer – drums Howard Wiley’s grandfather, Sam Wiley, played saxophone in Count Basie’s Orchestra, and gave constant advice to the young musician growing up in Hercules, CA. Wiley’s debut recording, The Businessman (Sax Records, 1995) was produced shortly after his 15th birthday by Steve Savage and Jim Nadel, founder of The Stanford Jazz Workshop. While still in high school, Wiley received the Thelonious Monk Scholarship, Downbeat Blues/Pop/Rock Instrumentalist award for best soloist, and the MVP Award for the Grammy All-American Jazz Band.
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INTERSECTION & OFF THE GRID | WHEN: Sept 14, noon–2 pm | WHERE: 5th & Minna St | DETAILS: In 2004, multiple-award winning Guitarist Terrence Brewer started his own record label, Strong Brew Music, and to date has produced six albums for that record label. Brewer’ s last three albums (QuintEssential, Groovin Wes, and Setting The Standard: Vol 1) combined to spend nearly 100 weeks on the National JazzWeek Radio charts weekly top 50.
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INTERSECTION | WHEN: Sept 12, 7–9 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | DETAILS: After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake hit, a massive tsunami swept away houses, and everything that was inside them. As the search for survivors ended and attention turned to the clean up mission, Self-Defense forces, firemen, and policemen who were in Tohoku to help survivors began to pick up photos they found in the mud, and to store them in an elementary school gymnasium. Two months after the earthquake hit, a group called the “Memory Salvage Project” began to sort out the more than 750,000 photos and prepare them for return to their owners.
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5MPLACEWORKS | WHEN: Sept 12, 1:30 pm | WHERE: Mary and Mission Streets, west of 5th | DETAILS: Join San Francisco’s District 6 Supervisor, Jane Kim, and the growing Intersection community for this special event! The 5W’s Project is an urban art installation that provokes thought about the Who, What, Where, Why and When of the our neighborhood. 5Ws will unfold in phases. It will begin with 5 chalkboards in the shape of questions installed on the Chronicle building facing Mary Street. Who, What, When, Where & Why?
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