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mon, 12 THE
PABLO NERUDA CENTENARY FIESTA 100 years
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7:30 pm FREE
Readings inaugurating "The
Essential Neruda" co-sponsored by City Lights.
Robert Hass, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, Jack Hirschman, Stephen Kessler, Mark
Eisner, Youth from Center for Art in Translation.
Accompaniment by Quijeremá, (about
the music) a new dynamic Latin Americana music
ensemble....
8:30 pm $15
World Premiere of documentary,
¡PABLO
NERUDA! ¡PRESENTE!
Reception & Fiesta
Sponsored by Peña Pachamama & Stags' Leap
Winery
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tues, 13 La Noche de Juventud/The
Night of the Children
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 7:30
pm FREE
La Noche de Juventud
Youth readings: Youth Speaks, Center
for Art in Translation, WritersCorps, Colored Ink,
& more...
8:30 pm $7
Community Night
¡PABLO
NERUDA! ¡PRESENTE!
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wed, 14 Es
Hora de Jardín /It's the Hour of the Garden
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7:00 pm FREE
Es Hora de Jardín
Cultivating art-activism in the spirit of Neruda
Panel of poets, artists, and activists moderated by
author/educator, Alejandro Murguía.
Panel: Poet Laureate devorah major, Jack Hirschman,
James Lerager, Leslie Scalapino, etc.
While Neruda is known in the
U.S. as a writer of love poems, a tribute to his
work must acknowledge him as a life-long activist.
In the '40s he was exiled from Chile for accusing
his president of selling out to the US and oppressing
workers and communists. In the year 2004, we explore
the role of the writer and the artist in the face
of the violence of an unjustified war, attacks
on civil rights, and a government favoring private
interests over the social well being of its country.
Es Hora de Jardín , features a dialogue
among poets, artists, and activists in the spirit
of Neruda, to encourage a call for social change.
8:30 pm $15
¡PABLO
NERUDA! ¡PRESENTE!
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thurs,15 de
flor o sangre / of flower or blood
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 6-8
pm FREE
de flor o sangre
A multidisciplinary art show, featuring painting,
sculpture, installation, and performances by twenty-two
well-known artists from Latin America, Europe, and
the United States. Work by Roberto Matta*, Rene Yañez,
Tom Fowler, resident Red Poppy artist Todd Brown and
many others!
Lover's Graffiti is a piece
choreographed and
performed by Kalliope Kalombratsos. Also performed
by Juan de la Rosa & Xochitl Sami. Lover's
Graffiti incorporates Neruda's poem, "I have
gone marking." It exposes the raw act of sharing
one's experience; a visual connection between words,
thoughts, & sensations.
8:30 pm $15
¡PABLO
NERUDA! ¡PRESENTE!
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fri, 16 FESTIVALNERUDA
GALA
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Pre show
7:00 pm
Live Painting by Peter Macon.
Readings of Pablo Neruda's Memoirs, Confieso de
Vivido
by Paula Tejeda Rieloff.
8:00 pm $45
FESTIVAL NERUDA GALA
Film, Poetry, Jazz, & Dance.
¡PABLO
NERUDA! ¡PRESENTE!
LOVE AND WAR
Presenting an original work showcasing an interdisciplinary
collaboration of jazz, poetry, and modern dance as
a re-interpretion of Neruda's text.
Jazz:
MARCUS SHELBY TRIO
Spoken Palabra (excerpts from Neruda's text):
Peter Macon & Paula Tejeda Rieloff
Choreography:
Veronica Irene & Jacinta Vlach
Dance:
Kalliope Kalombratsos, Aja Randall, Juan Carlos de
la Rosa, Laura Sadai, Laura Serghiou, and Jacinta Vlach
Lighting Design:
Drew Yerys
Costume Design:
Sasha Rieker
Reception featuring Flamenco
by Carola Zertuche
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sat, 17 Matinees
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3:30 pm Matinees $7
¡PABLO
NERUDA! ¡PRESENTE!
5:30 pm $7
La Hormiguita*: documental que refleja
Delia Del Carril, segunda esposa de Neruda
*spanish only
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sat, 17 TANGO
FOR DON PABLO
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8:00 pm $20
Tango for Don Pablo
Film & Tango
¡PABLO
NERUDA! ¡PRESENTE!
TANGO FOR DON PABLO
Tango Protesta is a Buenos Aires-based dance theater
collective that
utilizes popular culture (tango) to explore and address
political and social
issues. Festival Neruda is proud to have Pedro "El
Indio" Benavente, Tango
Protesta founder, here collaborating with local dancers
and actors to
present this night's performance. What better tribute
to Neruda than to
present the joining of political intent with artistic
expression.
Featuring: "El Indio," Todd Brown, Nadja
Haas, Kalliope Kalombratsos, Daniel Montessano, Juan
de la Rosa, Xochitl Sami, & Niloufar Talebi.
This night's dance theater
performance is formed from an interplay of images
and scenarios juxtaposing fragments of Neruda's work
against the diverse
realities that compose today's modern society. The
performance occurs
outside the stage setting, engaging the actual space;
the architectural
reality of the canning factory that we now know as
Artaud Theater. It is
fragmented and abstract, guerilla theater that emerged
from a week of
collaborative workshops. We leave you to your own
interpretations.
Milonga:
Tango dance
Sponsored by Dos XX.
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sun. 18 Matinee
sun, 18 give rise to my song / originan
mi canto
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7:30 pm $20
Final Musical:
Ismael Duran & Lichi Fuentes
 "
Neruda's Territories " Tribute to Pablo Neruda
A musical homage with rhythms and colors of the traditional
music of Latin-America and the magical poetry of Pablo
Neruda of Chile. Celebrating the 100th.Anniversary
of the poet with original compositions which have
found in Neruda's poetry inspiration and courage to
sing a wake-up call for the people of the world. http://www.duranproductions.com/tour
http://www.lichifuentes.com/
Quijeremá
 "tinta
verde / green ink" (about the music)
Soundtrack of the documentary
¡PABLO
NERUDA! ¡PRESENTE!
Quique Cruz (Claudio Durán Pardo) has composed
an exceptional score for the movie with his new dynamic
Latin Americana group Quijeremá. It draws from
the musical roots of the Americas, incorporating jazz
ideals with South American instruments and rhythms.
The soundtrack will be available July 12th, so check
back then! The album is named "Tinta Verde,"
after the green ink in which Neruda wrote his poems.
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Festival Passes are available for all
events: $65
Ticket Reservations: 866-413-0868
Online
Ticket Purchase
Sliding scale and discounted tickets for students, seniors,
and disabled available at the door or by phone reservation.
Film by Mark Eisner. A Red Poppy Production.
Festival produced by Tanya Marie Vlach.
Sponsors: Red Poppy, Latino Film
Festival, City Lights, Project Artaud, Stanford Center for
Latin American Studies and La Peña Cultural Center.
de flor o sangre / of flower or blood
See
de flor o sangre flyer
A multidisciplinary art show presenting works inspired by
the poet. Featuring painting, sculpture, installation, and
performances by twenty-two well-known artists from Latin
America, Europe, and the United States.
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Pablo was the image
of despair. Art is like that. His despair was so vast
that he had to interrupt it in the form of poems.
He despaired of his shoelaces, of the illusions of
the bottle, of the smell of Munñoz; he was
always in despair.... One has to be in despair about
everything, in order to defeat despair.
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-- Roberto Matta
on Pablo Neruda
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Featured artists: Adrian Arias,
Veronica Blanco, Todd Brown, Caleb Duarte, Tom Fowler, Gianluca
Franzese, Francisco Gomez, Matthew Heller, Kalliope Kalombratsos,
Peter Macon, Roberto Matta*, Emanuel Paniagua, Sasha Rieker,
Marcela Reyes, Prem Sarjo, Alyson Saslow, Jeff Stott, Armando
Torres, Rene Yañez & many more!
*Special showing of the work of the Chilean
artist, Roberto Matta, friend and compatriot of Neruda courtesy
of the Weinstein Gallery.
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flor o sangre Artist Bios (top)
Adrián Arias (Peru 1961)
is a poet, visual artist, and performer, who has exhibited
work in the Poetry Bunker at the Venice Bienal, the Bienal
Iberoamericana in Lima, and in exhibitions in Canada, the
Dominican Republic, Mexico, Poland, France, and Japan. He
has published four poetry collections, which received important
prizes in Peru and Argentina.
Veronica Blanco (Buenos Aires)
has a contagious passion and love for arts, she found that
it had become a strong part of her life. Her sensibility
and playfulness create a freedom of expression that illuminates
any room. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina she
was educated and trained with a consistent artistic focus.
She has a B.A. in Graphic Design and Publicity from Escuela
Panamericana de Arte in Buenos Aires and has also studied
fine art for two years in Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes
Regina Pacis, Buenos Aires.
Todd Brown (Vermont 1970) is painter
who also has worked as a facilitator in resiliency work,
first with troubled youth and later, after moving to California,
with adults in recovery programs and correctional facilities.
In 2000 Todd co-founded Tango for Protest (later called
the Milonga Masala Tango Project) a project dedicated toward
building community and social awareness through artistic
means. In 2003 Todd co-founded Porfilio Is (now Red Poppy
Art House) a working artist studio that hosts multi-genre
arts events and is the hub for the MAPP: Mission Art &
Performance Project.
Caleb Duarte (California) is currently
using driftwood and dry wall for his painting/installation
pieces with the intention of creating objects that explore
the ideas of shelter and the basic necessities needed to
keep the body functional. His work has been exhibited in
Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, India, Italy, San Francisco,
Oakland, Hollywood, Sacramento, and Fresno. He is a second-generation
immigrant to the United States, and he lives and works in
Oakland, California.
Rona Eisner (Washington DC), a
retired psychologist, is a photographer and artist. She
draws her inspiration from nature and a strong sense of
place. Eisner's work has been shown across the country,
from the National Organization of Woman's 2003 Gala Dinner
to Georgetown University to Northern Michigan's Traverse
Magazine. Her photograph of "Pablo's Poppy" appears
on the cover of City Lights' The Essential Neruda, edited
by her son Mark. Rona lives just outside of Washington DC.
Tom Fowler (Arizona) studied traditional
landscape painting as an apprentice to western artist Bob
Gunitson. Fowler now exhibits and publishes his work locally
and internationally and has received a number of awards
and commissions including: The Colorado Governors Award
for Excellence in the Arts; Commissioned portrait of King
Lear for the San Francisco Opera; Artist residency, Kunsthaus
Tacheles Art Center, Berlin; Artist residency, De Young
Museum, San Francisco; Featured exhibitor, Genoa Center
for Contemporary Art, Genoa Italy; 12 commissioned portraits
for the San Francisco 49er's football team. Fowler's work
is in numerous private and corporate collections. He shows
regularly at Live Art Gallery and Melting Point Gallery
in San Francisco in addition to exhibiting at The Canvas
Gallery, Sonoma Museum of Fine Arts, and the Richmond Art
Center in northern California. He has shown at Gallery 473
Broadway in New York City's Soho district, Soapbox Gallery
in Venice Beach California, and The New Museum in Michigan.
His work has been seen at Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin Germany,
Zincografia, Venice Italy, Museum of Romanian Literature,
Bucharest Romania and the Genoa Center for Contemporary
Art, Genoa Italy. Fowler was a resident studio artist at
The De Young Museum in July, 2002 and was a juror of the
2003, 2004 Scholastic Art Awards for Bay Area youth.
Gianluca Franzese (Italy) communicates
to the world through his art. Due to a loss of hearing at
age four, his visual perception was enhanced, and he began
to use art to express both emotions and explore self-perspective.
Franzese currently paints portraits, still lifes, landscapes,
and frescos. His aspiration is to bring a resurgence of
appreciation of the forms and techniques used by the masters
of the nineteenth century.
Francisco J. Gomez (San Francisco, 1958), whose work is
primarily in mixed media-- photography with over painting
in acrylic--has exhibited at such varied venues as the Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts, The Luggage Store, and the Mission
Cultural Center. He lives and works in San Francisco.
Matthew Heller (Boston, 1974) once
predominantly made huge architectural installations, but
now his medium is painting. Heller had several shows in
small Los Angeles galleries, before moving to New York,
where he exhibited work in a few Manhattan-based galleries.
In 2002, Heller moved back to Los Angeles, where he is painting
up a storm.
Kalliope Kalombratsos (Greece)
trained in dance at School of the Arts, then continued study
with Elvia Marta, Bayan Jamay, Cheryl Chaddick, Patricia
Jiron, and others. She has performed with Tread Dance Company,
School of the Arts Alumni, and Patricia Jiron. Kalliope
teaches at Rhythm and Motion Dance Studio.
Roberto Matta (Chile, 1911-2002)
went to Paris, where, by 1937, he had exhibited his first
drawings and had become a part of the influential Surrealist
Group led by Andre Breton. He spent the war years in New
York, where he stayed until 1948, before returning to Europe.
He met Marcel Duchamp, and at the same time became fascinated
by the relationship between modern man and the technological
world. He used ancient Mexican symbolism to create a new
imagery with which to highlight the alienation of modern
man in a world dominated by mechanization. In the 1960's,
Matta painted a number of mural-sized works depicting themes
such as the Vietnam War and the civil rights struggle in
Alabama. In 1990, he worked at the Piombino shipyards, in
Italy where he made a 10-meter obelisk "Cosmos-Now,"
depicting a finger pointing to the sky. Between 1990 and
1993 he also worked at the Bonvincini foundry in Verona,
where he created a number of bronze statues. He has also
completed recent work in ceramics in the town of Faenza.
His recent large scale canvases, such as "Fire is the
Depth of Consciousness," aim at representing humanity's
deepest communal unconscious. Like Picasso, Matta stands
in the very rare company of artists who have produced some
of their most powerful etchings in their eighties. In October,
1995 Matta was recognized by the Queen of England and the
Emperor of Japan with the highly coveted "Nobel Prize"
of Art.
Emanuel Paniagua (Guatemala, 1958)
was born into an aesthetic culture that has been crafted
through centuries with artistic mastery in weavings, clay,
stone, and other materials. He is always in search of color,
and when he comes into contact with a particular material,
he tries to solicit its intimate confession. For that, he
says, a good painting emerges.
Prem Sarjo (Chile, 1965) is a painter
and installation artist, whose work focuses on issues of
identity and loss. Because of the political nature of his
work, he has recently been censored in Chile, both in the
press and in galleries. He lived for six years in Mexico
City and spent a year in New York City, where his work was
shown in numerous exhibits and in alternative spaces. He
has also participated in more than 100 exhibits in the United
States and throughout Latin America (Peru, Bolivia, Argentina,
Chile, Mexico, and so on). His work is in the permanent
collections of Chile's major museums and in private collections
throughout Latin America.
Alyson Saslow (Michigan, 1973)
divides her time between Santa Barbara, Oaxaca, Mexico,
and northern Michigan. Her work is influenced by Oaxaca's
forests and marine life, as well as the indigenous artists
and their colorful wooden carvings. The outdoors figures
largely in her brilliant watercolors, which have been hung
in Ann Arbor, in private collections, and will be shown
in Santa Barbara and San Francisco in the summer of 2004.
Armando H. Torres (Fresno, Calif.)
is a shoemaker and photographer, who in 2000 received a
grant from the California Alliance for Traditional Arts
to focus on the art of cowboy-boot making. He designed,
produced, and
curated an exhibition in 2001 at Arte Americas (Fresno,
Calif.) consisting of several pairs of boots, and a 37 foot
long photo-mural of over 150 photos detailing the dying
art of hand making cowboy boots. He recently exhibited digital
photos as part of "Re-mix 2004" at SOMARTS Cultural
Center.
Rene Yáñez (San Francisco)
is a curator, artist, writer, and producer, who is curating
the art exhibit Chicano Visions: American Painters on the
Verge. Yáñez, founder and former artistic
director of San Francisco's Galeria de la Raza, was one
of the first curators to introduce the contemporary concept
of Mexico's Day of the Dead to the United States. Active
as both a visual and performance arts curator and artist,
Yáñez co-founded the successful Chicano performance
trio Culture Clash. In 1998, he received the "Special
Trustees Award in Cultural Leadership" from the San
Francisco Foundation for his long-standing contribution
to the cultural life of the Bay Area. As a Rockefeller Fellow
in 1974, Yáñez held an apprenticeship at the
De Young Museum and was subsequently curator of traveling
exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in
1975. He was a founding board member of the San Francisco
Arts Commission Gallery where he served for eight years.
He has been on numerous panels both for the California Arts
Council and National Endowment for the Arts, and has been
a Master Teacher for the National Foundation for the Advancement
of the Arts. He currently teaches at New College of California.
Festival Bios
(top)
mon, 12
THE PABLO NERUDA CENTENARY FIESTA 100
years
Center for Art and Translation.
The mission of the Center for Art in Translation is to promote
translation and international literature through programs
in publishing, education, community outreach and the arts.
Since its founding, CAT has launched several new programs
including Poetry Inside Out (PIO), which brings literary
translators into San Francisco Public Schools to work with
bilingual Latino students. The PIO program seeks to demonstrate
the benefits of bilingualism, encourage language learning,
and promote reading and translation skills through a series
of activities, culminating in public poetry recitals.
Mark Eisner is currently a Visiting Scholar at Stanford
University's Center for Latin American Studies. While in
Chile several years ago, he was the initiator of the Pablo
Neruda Centennial Project. Besides his work on this film,
he is currently editing a new book of translations of Neruda
into English, which City Lights is publishing. Eisner received
a Masters in Latin American Studies from Stanford in 2001.
This came after three years of extensive backpacking travels
and adventures throughout Latin America, including working
on a rustic ranch in the rugged Central Valley of Chile
for seven months. Before that, Eisner earned a Bachelors
of Arts degree with High Honors from the University of Michigan
in English/Creative Writing and Political Science. He has
studied documentaries at the Film Arts Foundation in San
Francisco.
Lawrence Ferlinghettii was born
in 1919 in state New York. After attending the University
of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, Ferlinghetti joined the
navy and was stationed in Nagasaki weeks after the nuclear
bomb was dropped. Ferlinghetti went on to teach French and
created his own bookstore, the City Lights Bookstore, with
Peter Martin. Ferlinghetti is one of the main writers from
the Beat Generation. His City Lights Bookshop has became
a center for writers diverging from convention and the status
quo. San Francisco's 1998 Poet Laureate, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
is seen as one of the most influential writers in the last
century.
Robert Hass is the author of three
books of poems, Field Guide (1973), Praise (1979), and Human
Wishes, A book of his essays, Twentieth Century Pleasures,
received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984.
His many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Fellowship. In 1995 he was selected by the Library of Congress
as Poet Laureate of the United States. Robert Hass is a
Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jack Hirschman. Writer/translator
Jack Hirschman was born on December 13, 1933, in New York,
NY
Hirschman received his Bachelor of Arts degree from City
College New York in 1955. He has worked with many prestigious
institutions and Universities as a writer and an artist.
He has translated of over 25 books from the original German,
French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Albanian, and Greek.
He has taken the free exchange of poetry and politics into
the streets, where he is, in the words of poet Luke Breit,
called, "America's most important living poet."
He uses his skills to help awaken the American people to
homelessness as an expression of a system that can no longer
take care of its people. He has written more than 50 volumes
of poetry and essays. His impassioned readings challenge
his audience. He speaks on the artist's role in social transformation.
Stephen Kessler's latest book of
poems is After Modigliani (Creative Arts). His recent translations
include Save Twilight, Selected Poems of Julio Cortázar
(City Lights), and a substantial contribution to the Selected
Poems of Jorge Luis Borges (Viking/Penguin). His new version
of Pablo Neruda's Heights of Macchu Picchu with photographs
by Barry Brukoff will be published next year by Bulfinch,
and his Aphorisms of César Vallejo is forthcoming
from Green Integer. He also edits The Redwood Coast Review.
Quijerema (see
about the music)
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LA NOCHE DE JUVENTUD
Center for Art and Translation,
(see above)
Colored Ink. In July 2001, a cadre
of Brava Theater Academy graduates, proudly marched into
a BRAVA Board of Directors' meeting and presented the vision
and name of their newly formed company, Colored Ink. Now
in its second year under BRAVA's mentorship, Colored Ink-
"The folks that make you think"-have created numerous
original productions at the Brava Theater Center, as well
as led classes in the CI style. Colored Ink received its
first funding with BRAVA for a project called Two Generations,
One HeartBEAT that pairs new spoken word artists with beat
generation poets like Ferlinghetti, Janice Mirikatani, devorah
major and Jimmy Santiago Baca.
WritersCorps, a project of the
San Francisco Arts Commission, works to transform and strengthen
individuals and communities through the written and spoken
word. Objectives include improving writing skills and self-confidence
of undeserved youth in San Francisco and to increase community
awareness and understanding of the lives of youth through
WritersCorps publications and special events.
Youth Speaks (SF) is building the next generation
of leaders through the written and spoken word. Founded
in San Francisco in 1996, Youth Speaks is one of the premier
nonprofit presenters of spoken word in the country, producing
multiple artistic forums, such as the Living Word Festival,
the Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam, Second Sundays, and Brave
New Voices, along with a comprehensive curricula of workshops,
arts education and youth development programs.
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Es Hora de Jardín: Cultivating
art-activism in the spirit of Neruda.
Jack Hirschman, (Poet/Painter)
James Lerager, (Photographer)
devorah major, (Poet Laureate)
Alejandro Murguía, (Author/Educator)
Leslie Scalapino, (Poet)
thurs, 15
de flor o sangre a collective show by artists
of the Americas
multi- and inter-disciplinary works inspired by Neruda's
poetry.
See de flor o sangre
fri, 16
LOVE & WAR: Interdisciplinary performance w/
jazz, poetry, and modern dance.
Veronica Irene, (Choreographer)
a native of Buffalo, New York, has studied dance and theater
for over twenty years. She attended the Conservatory of
Dance at Suny Purchase College where she was trained in
dance-composition and studied art history. She has choreographed
and taught dance in various areas throughout the United
States. Veronica presents " Porque Tú "---
(translated "Because of You")-. A passionate scene
inspired by words of Neruda, movement of lovers and selected
composers.
Kalliope Kalombratsos, (Dancer)
is originally from Athens, Greece. She has resided in San
Francisco for the past 14 years. Began her dance training
at School Of The Arts and continued study with Elvia Marta,
Bayan Jamay, Cheryl Chaddick, Patricia Jiron and other wonderful
Bay Area teachers. She has performed with Tread Dance Company,
School of the Arts Alumni and Patricia Jiron. Presently,
Kalliope teaches at Rhythm and Motion Dance Studio, as well
as continuing her studies at SF State University and the
Acupressure Institute in Berkeley.
Peter Macon, (Actor, Painter, &
Dancer) a native a Chicago began acting professionally at
the age of seventeen. Since the start of his career, Peter
has performed in numerous regional theatres across the country
including the Guthrie Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre,
California Shakespeare Festival, New Federal Theatre, and
Lincoln Center. All the while Mr. Macon actively pursued
a career as a professional artist showing his work in Minneapolis,
Atlanta, Oakland and San Francisco. Peter Received a B.F.A
from the San Francisco Art Institute where he studied painting.
Mr. Macon has studied West African dance and drumming since
1987 and has performed concerts with mentor/miestro Fode
Bangora, Wallace Hill and with Pepo Alfajiri Dance Theatre.
Peter has studied sculpture in Ghana where he chronicled
his findings entitled "The Asante Carving process and
me" which can be found in the University of Minnesota's
Wilson Library. After working professionally for over twelve
years as a visual and performing artist, Peter entered the
Yale School of Drama where he received an M.F.A in acting,
as well as the Herschel Williams award for outstanding achievement
in acting. Mr. Macon is also the proud recipient of a Creative
Emmy Award for his narration of HBO's "John Henry the
Steel Driving Man." Peter also appeared on Broadway
in the Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Regina Taylor's
"Drowning Crow" .
Marcus Anthony Shelby. (Composer)
Born in February 1966, Marcus Shelby has been playing the
acoustic bass for 19 years. He has released CDs on Columbia
Records and GRP Impulse! With his group Black/Note.
Mr. Shelby is also a music director and composer for theater,
dance and film to CEO/President of the San Francisco based
independent record label NOIR Records.
Shelby believes in the essential need for urban arts and
for the place of jazz within the urban context.
Sasha Rieker, (Costume Designer)
Sasha's costume work has been seen at the Santa Fe Opera,
the San Diego Old Globe, Theatre Works, Opera San José,
and The Magic Theatre. Her tailoring for the Broadway Play
IMAGINARY FRIENDS was pictured in Vogue Magazine. She has
a BFA in Theatre Design and Technology from the University
of Montana.
Paula Tejeda Rieloff, (Narrator,
Poet)
Jacinta Vlach, (Choreography) started
her dance training in San Francisco at School of the Arts
High School. Jacinta furthered her dance training at North
Carolina School of the Arts and at the Alvin Ailey American
Dance Center in NYC. In New York she performed in works
choreographed by Sean Curran, Reginald Yates, Colin Conner,
Earl Mosely, Max Luna III, Alvin Ailey, and others. She
also danced with New York based dance companies: Roger Jeffrey/
Subtle Changes, Ricardo Gomez Dance Theater, and Nathan
Trice/ RITUALS. Locally, Jacinta has worked with Robert
Moses, performed with Savage Jazz Dance Company, Alayo Dance
Company, the Universal Arts production of "the Beat"
and the Oneness Awards in L.A. Ms. Vlach's choreography
has been seen at Intersection for the Arts, Legion of Honor,
and Yerba Buena Gardens (Youth Arts Festival/ courtesy SF
Ballet). She is currently preparing to remount 'Meditations
on Integration', a dance-theater piece, to be performed
at the African American Art and Culture Complex in October.
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TANGO FOR DON PABLO
Pedro Benavente, "El Indio"(Argentina)
was born in Buenos Aires. He has a very special style of
dancing, mainly due to his academic and popular background.
He was the first dancer of the Brandsen Ballet and the Ballet
Nacional Folklórico. In 1991, after becoming an independent
dancer he won the Bienal de Arte Joven en Danza Contemporanea
(Biannual festival of young art in contemporary dance).
In 1992 he was invited by the Bolshoi Ballet to create a
fusion of tango and ballet with the music of Astor Piazzola,
in Moscow and Georgia. The same experience was repeated
in 1994 at the Opera Theatre in Buenos Aires. 1999 he worked
with Mercedes Sosa and León Gieco, and Victor Heredia
in different festivals throughout Argentina. During the
last 10 years he has toured different festivals and tango
congresses in Buenos Aires, USA and Europe, including CITA
99 & 2000, and Nora's Tango Week 99 and 2000. He also
has kept for 10 years a street performance at Plaza Dorrego
in San Telmo (typical tango neighborhood in Buenos Aires)
portraying the history of tango through dance.
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give rise to my song
Final Musical
Ismael Duran. Chilean singer,songwriter
and guitarist ISMAEL DURAN was born in the "Southernmost
city of the world" Punta Arenas. He has been composing
and performing since 1970,singing the Nueva Cancion(New
Song) of Latin America throughout Chile, Europes and The
Americas.
Lichi Fuentes was born and grew
up in San Fernando, Chile, a small town a couple of hours
south of the capital, Santiago. Lichi is currently the musical
director of La Peña Community Chorus, an organization
based in Berkeley which has toured internationally and recorded
an album. The 2002 tour went to Mexico and included concerts
in Mexico City, Chiapas and Veracruz. Other tours have been
to Chile and Cuba. In the last few years, Lichi has been
more involved in solo musical projects, collaborating with
musicians from the Bay Area. This CD, QUIEN SOY (Who I Am),
produced by Wayne Wallace, is the result.
Quijeremá. Founded in October
2002 by quique cruz (Chile), Jeremy Allen (US), and María
Fernanda Acuña (Venezuela), Quijeremá draws
from the musical roots of the Americas, incorporating jazz
ideals with South American instruments and rhythms. They
define their musical genre as new latin americana music.˜
Quique Cruz / aka Claudio Durán
Pardo (Chile) of Quijeremá. The composer is a Chilean
born musician and writer. He has recorded several albums.
He has been awarded the prestigious Oshita Composer Fellowship
by the Djerassi Foundation in California, and received a
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is a Ph.D.
candidate in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University.
Jeremy Allen (US) of Quijeremá,
has recorded and performed jazz, latin, and fusion music
in the U.S. He has been featured with the San Francisco
symphony's Adventures in Music program, and holds a B.A.
from U.C. Berkeley.
María Fernanda (Venezuela)
of Quijeremá, has been musically trained in Venezuela
and the U.S., and is currently finishing a degree in Latin
American Literature at Mills College, working on the historic
and cultural development of Venezuelan music and the contributions
of the African Diaspora.
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