From the Bay Improviser Calendar.
Friday, March 31
Fri 3/31 6:30 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF
EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM
Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance
The journey begins at sunset
Thursday – Sunday, March 11 – April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical ParkSaturday, April 1
Sat 4/01 6:30 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF
EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM
Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance
The journey begins at sunset
Thursday – Sunday, March 11 – April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical ParkSat 4/01 7:30 PM Incarnation Episcopal Church [1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122]
The San Francisco Guitar Quartet performs music by Paul Dresher, Phillip Houghton, as well as pieces written for the SFGQ by Christopher Gainey and Garry Eister. Since its debut in 1997, the San Francisco Guitar Quartet has established itself as a dynamic force in the guitar world through its innovative concerts and recordings. The current generation of the group seeks to continue the mission of expanding the guitar quartet repertoire through collaboration with living composers, bringing creative new works to life.Sat 4/01 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
X Sound – A Festival of New Works by Mills Senior Composers and Media Artists.Sat 4/01 8:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
BAMPFA presents a 35mm film print of Jon Coney’s SPACE IS THE PLACE starring Sun Ra, Barbara Deloney, Raymond Johnson, Erika Leder,
Inspired by Sun Ra’s 1971 UC Berkeley course The Black Man in the Cosmos and filmed in Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, and Richmond, “Space Is the Place is an otherworldly frolic combining intergalactic bebop with riffs on black liberation. Director Coney’s boldly mystical blaxploitation film takes to heart Sun Ra’s cosmic philosophy of music as a liberating force. Performed by The Intergalactic Myth-Science Solar Arkestra, Sun Ra’s music suffuses the hip-edelic atmosphere. Whimsical, funky, and alchemically whack, Space Is the Place takes on Afro-liberation, extraterrestrial activism, and whatever else enters the ever–expanding mind of Sun Ra” (Steve Seid).Sunday, April 2
Sun 4/02 3:00 PM Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts [1537 Euclid Ave. Berkeley]
E4TT with guest cellist, Anne Lerner-Wright and guest violinist Dawn Harms, present The Guernica Project. Featured is a new call-and-response commission by composer Jeffrey Hoover entitled “Guernica” along with 2016 Call for Scores winners Mario Carro, Mercedes Zavala and Hoover. Also on the program is “Death with Interruptions,” by Grammy- nominated composer Derek Bermel and “Guernica,” by composer Frederic Sharaf, with images provided by the Museo de la Paz de Guernica.Sun 4/02 6:30 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF
EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM
Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance
The journey begins at sunset
Thursday – Sunday, March 11 – April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical ParkMonday, April 3
Mon 4/03 7:30 PM Mills College Ensemble Room [5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613]
The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present the Songlines Series:
Swedish composer and instrumentalist Biggi Vinkeloe talks about her experience of being a woman in a mainly male instrumental world, and then explores “instant” composition in collaboration with student improvisors.Thursday, April 6
Thu 4/06 6:40 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF
EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM
Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance
The journey begins at sunset
Thursday – Sunday, March 11 – April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical ParkThu 4/06 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15pm: TM Duplantis – 8 bit noise
8:45pm: Scy1e (Raub Roy – electronics)
9:30pm: Waxy Tomb (electronics)Friday, April 7
Fri 4/07 6:40 PM San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park [2905 Hyde Street San Francisco]
We Players+inkBoat+Rova present: BEOWULF
EXPLORATION OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT, POWER AND CONQUEST, MONSTROSITY AND HEROISM
Directed by Ava Roy and Shinichi Iova-Koga
Created and performed by We Players, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance
The journey begins at sunset
Thursday – Sunday, March 11 – April 16, 2017
San Francisco Maritime National Historical ParkFri 4/07 7:30 PM Artiszen Cultural Arts Center [337 Georgia Street, Vallejo, CA]
The legendary saxophone giant, David Murray, and multi-percussion icon, Kahil El’Zabar, come together in a very dynamic and unforgettable duo!
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