Eeek! – Another boring holiday party at the office?

Come see XANADU the Broadway musical instead!! It’s got ROLLER SKATING! More than one DISCO BALL! And classic songs like “I’m Alive,” “Magic,” “Evil Woman,” “Have You Never Been Mellow” and the hit title song.

XANADU runs from DEC 2, 2011 – JAN 15, 2012.

New Conservatory Theatre invites you to the party starting December 2nd. Group tickets as low as $18! (Student groups even lower.)

For even more fun, we’re offering a XANADU PARTY PACK. This includes a special Xanadu cocktail in a glowing cup (or drink of your choice), a poster of the show, a themed party snack, and some bling to wear during the show – WOW!!
Book early for best seating. Space available for pre-show reception by arrangement.
Contact Josh at boxoffice@nctcsf.org for group price list and details or call 415-861-4914 Wed-Sat 1pm-9pm, Sun 11am-4pm.

SEE YOU AT THE ROLLER DISCO!

Box Office
New Conservatory Theatre Center
www.nctcsf.org
25 Van Ness (@ Market)
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-861-8972

Image of exhibition at the pop-up of the Museum of Craft and Design in Hayes Valley. This space-making piece by Nataly Gattego and Jason Kelly Johnson.

FRANZ LISZT
200th Birthday Anniversary
Concert and Celebration
featuring
Pianist William Kirkpatrick
on our Bosendorfer Imperial grand 1933.

Saturday October 22nd
Salle Pianos and Events
1632C Market Street (by Zuni)

NEW:7 pm European wine tasting sponsored by: The Wine House Ltd

Program:The most soulful darkest works of Liszt.Truly amazing.
After concert Hungarian goulash, Salad, La boulange desserts (much) more house wine and champagne ….and jazz, ragtime by the same pianist.

Donation: $25-30
Please RSVP:
artcasepianos@gmail.com

or 415 240-2181

FREE Noontime Dance at U.N. Plaza
Shake a tail feather to Latin and Caribbean beats
All classes will take place Tuesdays from 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Learn from these master performers and join in on the fun!

When: Tuesday, October 25, November 1, and November 8 at noon to 1:30 p.m.
Where: U.N. Plaza, Market Street between 7th and 8th streets

The ARTery Project presents a lively series of interactive dance and musical performances created in partnership with Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. For three consecutive Tuesdays this fall, the public is encouraged to head down to U.N. Plaza where everyone can enjoy delicious bites courtesy of Off the Grid and shake a tail feather to Latin and Caribbean beats. Tuesday, October 25 features high-energy Brazilian dance and live percussion by Fogo na Roupa; on Tuesday, November 1, former Carnaval SF Queen Elizabeth Soberanes will teach her popular Latin Dance Grooves class, featuring a variety of Latin rhythms; and on Tuesday, November 8, folks can enjoy live Haitian drumming and dance with the Afoutayi Dance Company. All performances will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. Audience participation is strongly encouraged!

Dancer Bios:

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 (RSVP here)
Metzi Henriquez is a graduate of San Francisco’s School of the Arts Dance Department; After years of formal and classical training, Metzi found inspiration in dances of the African Diaspora, primarily Afro-Latin dances and began training in Afro-Brasilian dance and folklore with Mestre Carlos Aceituno and performing with Fogo Na Roupa performing company. Currently she is co-artistic director and choreographer of Fogo Na Roupa Grupo Carnavalesco and teaches weekly classes at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011 (RSVP here)
Elizabeth Soberanes emigrated with her family from Mexico to San Francisco’s Mission District in 1973. She began to pursue dance as a way of life in 1985 at Rhythm and Motion Dance Center. She holds a BA in Dance Ethnology and has studied Dunham Technique, Afro-Haitian, Brazilian, Cuban, Modern, Hip Hop and Jazz Dance. Over the past 20 years, she has been involved in dance as a performer, arts educator, administrator and producer for prominent organizations such as Performing Arts Workshop, World Arts West, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, and Carnaval San Francisco, where she was crowned Carnaval SF Queen in 2001. she created Latin Dance Grooves in 2008 as a way to share her love of Latin dance with others.

Elizabeth has traveled to Brazil and Cuba to study dance and participate in their Carnaval celebrations and regularly travels to New York and Miami to study dance and fitness. She believes that dance is a healing force for physical, emotional and spiritual well-being and hopes to inspire students to lose themselves in the joy of dance!

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 (RSVP here)
Haitian-born Djenane Saint Juste is an accomplished choreographer, dancer, actress and vocalist specializing in authentic Haitian folkloric dance. Through spiritual practice she continues to refine, protect and preserve the Haitian dance tradition. Djenane has dedicated herself to the research, development, and promotion of traditional Haitian dance, song and storytelling. In 2009, she co-founded Afoutayi Dance, music and Arts Company with her mother Florencia Pierre, a renowned choreographer, singer, actress and educator, and Mambo priestess, and her brother and gifted drummer, Jeff Pierre. Afoutayi was founded to provide awareness and education about Haitian culture. Locally they have performed at Stanford University, MOAD, SF State, Occidental College, Dance Mission Theater and Bollyhood Café.

Harvest Market is a benefit fair for the SF LGBT Center.  Local artisans, jewelers, craft folk, and general DIY-ers will be selling their goods and wares at the Center.

Here’s what you need to know:

Date: Saturday, October 22
Time: 1:30pm – 5:30pm
Location: SF LGBT Center @ 1800 Market St. SF
Cost: Free to all attendees

Event website:

The event will be held in the Ceremonial Room in the SF LGBT Center, on the 4th floor. Admittance is open to all ages, with a $5 donation suggested at the door. This also gets you 10 raffle tickets upfront. Inside raffle tickets will be sold $1 a ticket. Proceeds will go to the SF LGBT Center.
Keep updated on our ever growing vendor list and sponsor donations by following our blog!

Oh…and did we mention there would be food? Yeah, you know you want to come by.

Looking for some art and culture in our neighborhood?

Two great events are coming up:

13 MODERN COMPOSITIONS ON BACH’S GOLDBERG VARIATIONS WITH PIANIST LARA DOWNES

October 14th At Salle Pianos and Events
7pm wine reception , buffet, desserts and the film of Glenn Gould projected in a relaxed salon setting at Salle.
Concert follows.
Salle Pianos 1632 C Market street by Zuni.
Donation:$25-30
Please RSVP: artcasepianos@gmail.com

Second Event:

From the African Outlet, a long standing business and partner in the community.

October 22, 2011 Return to Power, @Bissap, 3372 19th St., between Mission & Capp

Announcing Paths of Native Africa’s upcoming benefit! The performances will be wonderful, the food, amazing – a real African night!
Main event will be taking place from 6PM – 9:30/10PM.

African and reggae music djs will continue to closing at 2AM.
The ambiance is all night! – as is the raffle.

Come early, stay late! show your support for the Akwa Ibom Green Energy Project
*bringing three recently graduated secondary school/high school youth from Ikot Usen,Akwa Ibom State, southeastern Nigeria, to the Bay Area for training in concepts and application of self sustaining renewable energy sources, including technologies related to sun, wind, water, and waste.
*three youth, chosen from Western Addition, Treasure Island, and Bayview-Hunter’s Point applicants, will also receive this training.
*after coursework is completed, the six will travel to Ikot Usen, begin application of their new skills, accompanied by a Solar Living Institute instructor and two members of Paths of Native Africa, under the guidance of the village elders.

YACINE KOUYATE

JEWNBUG

THE AFRICAN OUTLET EXPERIENCE

DJ \LISA -ASIWOULDSAY

DJ IRIE DOLE – JAH WARRIOR SHELTER

Tuesday October 4, 7pm The Green Arcade (1680 Market Street @Gough) is proud to host West Coast book release reading and party Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels And Black Power: Community Organizing In Radical Times, with Co-authors Amy Sonnie And James Tracy: Introduced By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

(party will continue at Buck’s Tavern across the street after the reading)

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6PM-8PM
Sargent Johnson Gallery
African American Art & Culture Complex
762 Fulton St. (@ Webster St.)
September 29, 2011 – January 12, 2012 (exhibit dates)

The Sargent Johnson Gallery is pleased to present Jack White, a pioneering American artist in his first solo show in California. Born in 1931, in Benson, North Carolina, Jack White has long been recognized for his contributions to mainstream art and arts education. A self-described Abstract Impressionist, Jack White’s works strongly reflect his commitment to his African heritage. His paintings, prints and sculpture have been exhibited in numerous venues; particularly college and university exhibition spaces, such as Syracuse University where he taught for a number of years. His work has also been shown at the Asheville, NC. Art Museum, the Syracuse Community Folk Art Gallery, the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jacksonville, the GWC Museum and Cultural Center in Austin, Texas, where he currently resides and at the Galerie Zygos in Athens, Greece, among others. As a result, he has raised awareness of the work and vital importance of Black artists in the larger arts community.

Jack White’s influence is as geographically broad as it is widely acclaimed. He has had numerous solo shows and participated in group shows from New York City to Pine Bluff, Arkansas. His influence is especially felt on the college campuses where he has taught, mentored and shown his work. His work is included in several museum and private collections. Among them are the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL; the Tampa Museum of Art, the Arkansas Arts Center and the James E. Lewis Museum of Art at Morgan State University.

Historically,he serves as a link between the mid- twentieth century African American arts movements through his association and study with Professor James Lewis at Morgan State University. Following a long tradition among African American artists, he was also an expatriate artist who lived and worked in Greece for several years. Further, the significance of White’s work is confirmed by its inclusion in the collection jazz great Donald Byrd, whose holdings constitute a veritable who’s who of African American art.

This exhibition is curated by Nashormeh Lindo and generously supported by the African American Art & Culture Complex and the San Francisco Arts Commission.