February:
Saturday, February 6th
An evening of fresh folk with
MaMuse & Sean Burns
doors @ 7pm/ music @ 8pm
$10 @door
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February 18, 8pm
A two part night of improvisations by a collection of dancers and performance artists.
Part one at Subterranean Arthouse: Spinning through records marking each decade of the 20th Century, the artists negotiate space for solos, silence, and ensemble in a moment.
Part two in the outside open garage near Subterranean Arthouse: Shifting through the milieu of the outdoor, dances are created against and with.
Curated by Isak Immanuel and Yuko Kaseki.
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Sunday, February 21st, 8pm
Sarah McKinney, and Lila Nelson
Performance Investigation Salon
Sunday February 28th, 7-9pm
Choreographer Brianna Taylor curates the monthly dance and choreography salon. Each month dancers will perform a creation as a work in progress and through focused community discussions will have the opportunity to develop their work to the next level. The evening will consist of a handful of local performers who will perform their work that is followed by an informal feedback discussion.
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Past Events!!!!
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Thursday, January 21st, 8pm
Film Screening/ Live Concert
($5-$20 suggested donation)
You are invited to a very special movie screening and live music event featuring movies about the incredible Romanian Roma band Taraf de Haïdouks, followed by live music by the incredible Orkestar Sali!
8pm- Taraf de Haïdouks documentaries and concert footage from: “No Man is a Prophet in His Own Land” & “Live at Union Chapel”
10:15pm- live music by Orkestar Sali
Taraf de Haïdouks (“band of brigands”) are luminaries of the Romanian Roma “lăutari” tradition. Taraf de Haïdouks hails from the little Romanian village of Clejani and represents a continuum of the old and new styles of lautari music, passed down and innovated across generations. The dozen+ members of the group range in age from teenagers to octogenarians and feature. Since the early 1990’s they have toured the world performing their soulful ballads and incomprehensibly fast dance tunes played on violins, cymbalons, accordions, clarinets, and flute.
Orkestar Sali will then present an exciting set of live Balkan and Romani music. The band is led by master musician Rumen “Sali” Shopov, who hails from the Turkish Romani mahala of Gotse Delchev, a crossroads town in Southwest Bulgaria’s Pirin Mountain range, neighboring the borders of Greece and Macedonia. Rumen has toured internationally and nationally with some of the luminaries of Balkan music (such as Ivo Papasov and Yuri Yanakov). Rumen currently resides in Berkeley. Orkestar Sali is Rumen “Sali” Shopov –Tambura, Peter Jaques – clarinet, Dan Cantrell – accordion, Evan Stuart – bass, Sean Tergis – percussion
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Fri, January 22, 7pm – 10pm
Opening: Local Student Art Show
Saturday January 23, 8pm
1920’s Speakeasy style party
We have invited Quinn DeVeaux and the Blue Beat Review, www.quinndeveaux.com, the bluebeat dance band that is captivating bay area booty shakers. They will be supported by the West Nile Ramblers who will be coming all the way from Davis with western swing grooves in Tow.
Sunday January 24, 7pm-10pm
Performance Investigation Salon
Choreographer Brianna Taylor curates the monthly Performance Investigation Salon. Each month dancers will perform a creation as a work in progress and through focused community discussions will have the opportunity to develop their work to the next level. The evening will consist of a handful of local performers who will perform their work that is followed by an informal feedback discussion.
