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Source: Bay Improviser Calendar.

Friday, March 3

Fri 3/03 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
The Composition Forum presents the residency concert of Rajna Swaminathan, Ganavya Doraiswamy, and Myra Melford.

Fri 3/03 8:00 PM Presidio Theatre [99 Moraga Avenue San Francisco]
ShadowLight Productions & Paul Dresher Ensemble
Sojourner ZY: An Asian American science fiction fantasy
Sojourner ZY is an original play written by Eugenie Chan. Performed by ShadowLight Productions in their signature style of large-scale cinematic shadow theater. Featuring original music by Paul Dresher. Directed by Larry Reed.

Saturday, March 4

Sat 3/04 7:00 PM Happyland Salon [Hayward, CA]
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Improvisation Number 1000 Andrew Barnes Jamieson

Sat 3/04 8:00 PM Presidio Theatre [99 Moraga Avenue San Francisco]
ShadowLight Productions & Paul Dresher Ensemble
Sojourner ZY: An Asian American science fiction fantasy
Sojourner ZY is an original play written by Eugenie Chan. Performed by ShadowLight Productions in their signature style of large-scale cinematic shadow theater. Featuring original music by Paul Dresher. Directed by Larry Reed.

Sat 3/04 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Roxanne Nesbitt & Ben Brown play Symbiotic Instruments More…

Sat 3/04 9:00 PM SoundBox [300 Franklin Street SF]
CODES – CURATED BY NICO MUHLY WITH YUJA WANG

Sat 3/04 10:00 PM San Francisco Public Library [100 Larkin St SF]
Pamela Z – Night of Ideas

Sunday, March 5

Sun 3/05 2:00 PM Presidio Theatre [99 Moraga Avenue San Francisco]
ShadowLight Productions & Paul Dresher Ensemble
Sojourner ZY: An Asian American science fiction fantasy
Sojourner ZY is an original play written by Eugenie Chan. Performed by ShadowLight Productions in their signature style of large-scale cinematic shadow theater. Featuring original music by Paul Dresher. Directed by Larry Reed.

Sun 3/05 3:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Chris Brown – Ben Davis – Marshall Trammell CD Release Show More…

Sun 3/05 7:00 PM Berkeley Finnsh Hall [1970 Chestnut St. Berkeley]
Outsound Presents
Vinny Golia’s Heptacontakaiheptagon Ensemble
A special 77 pieces large Ensemble made up of some of the most adventurous musicians from the Bay Area and beyond will perform a debut composed and directed by award winning musician Vinny Golia!

Sun 3/05 7:00 PM UC Berkeley Hertz Hall [101 Cross-Sproul Path on the campus of UC Berkeley]
Violinist-composer Dan Flanagan (danflanaganviolin.com) performs The Bow and the Brush: an evening of 20 solo violin compositions, accompanied by projections of visual art from Flanagan’s personal collection. With music directly inspired by paintings, pastels, mixed media, and sculptures, the program highlights pieces by Raffaëlli, Guillaumin, Pinchon, and living artists including Paul Gibson, Nikki Vismara, and Elaine Pratt. The concert serves as a CD release party for Flanagan’s upcoming solo album, The Bow and the Brush, slated for release on MSR Classics, with visual video accompaniment of the art to be uploaded to YouTube. All of the musical works are Berkeley premieres; Works by Stephenson and Mecionis will be West Coast Premieres; and works by Neville, Weston and Flanagan (“Timeless”) will be World Premieres.

Sun 3/05 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

Monday, March 6

Mon 3/06 8:30 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St SF]
Colin Stetson

Thursday, March 9

Thu 3/09 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street, San Francisco]
Audium: New Voices II featuring the performances by Sharmi Basu, Alex Abalos & Ronald Peabody

Thu 3/09 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight St SF]
Cheryl Leonard
Foot SOS (Theresa Currie, Dianne Lynn and Angela Roberts)
Risa (Mitch Stahlmann and Brendon Glasson)
The Human Deselection & Realization Nature Group (Anthony A. Russell and Michael Goldwater)
7:30pm doors; 8pm music $5-$15 sliding, all-ages, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Please rapid-test day of show, keep each other healthy and safe!

Friday, March 10
Fri 3/10 7:30 PM Southern Exposure [3030 20th Street San Francisco, CA 94100]
Public performance by Thea Farhadian with Silvia Matheus and Sahba Aminikia with Adrienne Shamszad organized by the Taneen Working Group.
Live improvisational and collaborative performances to support community organization and relief as part of a series exploring the ongoing Iranian feminist revolutionary movement.

Fri 3/10 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Sarah Buckius is a 2023 receipient of Indexical’s new Micro-Residency Commissions for Santa Cruz-based artists. A new work stemming from her ongoing project !!! techn010ffspring !!!, her commssioned project If (x = Robot) … is an investigation into the female-coded personae of robots—from the ubiquitous disembodied voices of personal assistants Siri and Alexa to Cassie, “the Usain Bolt of robots,” who is simply a pair of fast-running torsoless robotic legs.