Live drawing by Adrian, LOCURA Album release @ The Independent

© Photos by Maisa Arias

The Big Questions poetry Reading

Nina serrano & Adrian Arias, Nov. 3, 2011

Cruzando Fronteras / Crossing Borders, poetry reading May 21, SFPL

Come and enjoy "El ultimo día del planeta" con Poesía en Español y traducción simultanea al Inglés via proyeccion.

MAPP, Feb. 5, 2011 "El Amor es como el Tren" ................... "Love is like the Train"

Mural-installation of 196 plastic zipper bags with digital images and garlic skin
"We are what we eat" / SMOS LO QUE COMEMOS

images from the night of MAPP February 5th 2011@ The Red Poppy Art House.....


Rupa!






Adrian Poema-performance
Photos by Claudio





...and the old poema-sonoro "El Amor es como el tren", "The Love is like the Train"

"Somos lo que Comemos"....

Autoretrato con comida, aprés Klimt
196 Zip-locks, digital prints y piel de ajo
Adrian Arias 2011
parte del MAPP, Febrero 5, 2011
Red Poppy Art House

Adrian es parte de TANGOS CON CHILE

El Sabado 13 de Noviembre a las 7pm, junto a YosiMar Reyes, Jack Hirschman, MamaCoAtl y su banda, que esta preparando una buena coleccion de Tangos sensuales (picantes!)

En el RED POPPY ART HOUSE
esquina de Folsom St. y la calle 23, San Francisco,
una noche llena de sorpresas poeticas y musicales, llena de calor en pleno invierno,
la puerta abre a las 6:33pm

Adrian Perfos in August 2010

AUGUST 1st
special guest of Meklit Hadero in Stern Grove Annual Festival

2-3 pm Meklit Hadero (Adrian will perform a new poem)

3-4 pm Ricky Lee Jones.
Stern Grove Link here



AUGUST 4
Red Poppy Art House Wednesday saloon, Adrian will be showin g some footage of his project "Beautiful Trash" and a group of musicians (TBA) will be improv. over the images.
More info about BEAUTIFUL TRASH here



AUGUST 12
"PROBLEM#1070" @ MCCLA with Jack Hirshman, Yosimar reyes, Lakin Valdez and many more, in a night for the rights of inmigrants
More info here



AUGUST 29
"Floricanto en la Mission", Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts

with poets: Francisco Alarcon, Cathy Arellanos, Adrian Arias, Devreaux Baker, Charles Blackwell, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Estela De la Cruz, Patricia Fernandez Villaseñor, Xisco Gonzales, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, QR, Leticia Hernandez-Linares, Beatriz Herrera, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jack Hirschman, Genny Lim, Devorah Major, MamaCoAtl, Jacqueline Mendez, Dorinda Moreno, Alejandro Murguia, Joe Navarro, Gerardo Pacheco, Reina Alejandra Prado, Naomi Quinones, Tomas Riley, Margarita Robles, Miguel Robles, John Ross, Mary Rudge, Nina Serrano, Jorge Tetl Argueta, Alfonso Texidor, Roberto Vargas, Roberto Ariel Vargas, Vickie Vertiz, Nellie Wong.

Cumpleaños 106 de Pablo Neruda

Red Poppy and The WORD Party invite you to a fiesta de la poesia—a special night of poetry and performance to celebrate the 106th birthday of Chilean poet and activist Pablo Neruda! The evening will feature readings of Neruda’s poetry in English and Spanish, as well as poetry inspired by the humanitarian Nobel Laureate. We will also show a VIDEOPOEM of Pablo Neruda, "Poema XV" directed by Adrian Arias, as part of "The Poet's Calling", the critically acclaimed work-in-progress documentary by Mark Eisner.

Performers:
Adrian Arias
Jennifer Barone
Neeli Cherkovski
Ingrid Keir
Nina Serrano
Jonathan Siegel

POEMAS de Adrian en el MAPP - June 5th, 9:47pm - Bilingual Poetry Reading

Visual artist & poet Adrian Arias,
in collaboration with poet & activist Nina Serrano
"Poemas para mi madre muerta" (poems for my dead mother)
Dedicated to the memory of Maria Asuncion Lopez Rocha (1937-2010)



a poetry reading of Adrian's poems, bilingual spanish-English,
with translation by Nina Serrano
JUNE 5th, 9:47pm @ MAPP
RED POPPY ART HOUSE

Adrian OPEN STUDIO: Saturday JUNE 5 & Saturday JUNE 12 - Noon to 6:33pm

WHAT?

Adrian Arias
Visual Poetry Studio
Mixed Media and Photography



WHERE?

3501 Grand Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610



DATE & TIME?
ONLY two SATURDAYS
JUNE 5 & 12
Noon to 6:33pm

Questions:
adrian@adrianarias.net

Back to Adrian´s website www.adrianarias.net

organize by PRO ARTS Gallery

Photos & Poems by Adrian: (abrazo)

( a b r a z o )
16 images with 16 poems
as part of the work in progress CUERPOEMA
Adrian performance at 7:37pm (surprise)

OCTOBER 3rd, 2009
7pm
@ NO RIGHT TURN STUDIO
2988 Mission St. @ 26th St
San Francisco CA, 94110
2nd Floor

thanks to Chelis Lopez & Carlos Cartagena, curators and producers,
thanks to my models: Sandra, Diana Marcela, Maisa, Petrice, Violeta, Estrella, Millaray, Diana, Tania, Carolina, Nefertiti, Tiffany, Noemy.
More images about CUERPOEMA HERE

BOHEMIAN NIGHT with Luis Arias Vera

CLICK over the image to enlarge and read:



SABADO 19 de SETIEMBRE, 2009
de 6 a 9 PM
POTLUCK con arte, musica, baile, performance.....

BOOK OF THE BODY / LIBRO DEL CUERPO en GALERIA DE LA RAZA, 2 de Mayo 7:37pm

BOOK OF THE BODY / LIBRO DEL CUERPO

Special edition Book release
Poetry-Performance Show
with the new VIDEO-POEMS of Adrian:
"206 Pretexts", "Cuando abro los ojos" & "Frida in the mirror/Frida en el espejo"
GALERIA DE LA RAZA
Saturday May 2, 2009, 7:37pm
2857 24th Street @ Bryant, San Francisco CA 94110



Featuring:
Sandra Durand, flamenco dance
Rachael Bouch, percussion
Ryan García, guitar
Kata Miletich, voice
Sonia Caltvedt, flute
Mamacoatl, perfo-voice-poetry
Nina Serrano, all translations of Adrian poetry



Adrian Arias BLOG of Poetry in Spanish HERE



Adrian Blog of poetry in English HERE

Adrian collaboration with NEFASHA AYER ( FOREST SONG-POEM)

NEFASHA AYER is "the wind that travels" y viaja de ayer hasta mañana, de nunca hasta siempre... this is a magical group of musicians...ellos guardan magia para compartir...here pictures by Anais & Adrian at the concert in February 6th...













...Aqui Adrian performea THE FOREST, una cancion-poema, musica de Todd Brown y Nefasha Ayer, poema de Adrian (fotos de Anais!)









THE FOREST SONG (poem)
…Mmmhhh it seems like at last I have arrived…this is the famous NOTHINGNESS…
It is a little empty…but this we can fix by drawing something…
…a box…a box of nothingness…
mmmhhh inside this box it seems there's something more
yes…it is something round, smooth and luminous…
it is the moon…the moon of nothing…we take it out and zas!
Now we have a little light in the nothingness
Mmmmhhhh…I think that inside the box there's more…
Yessss, here are clouds and birds…we take them out …
But….What are they doing there so still?...ahhh it's that they need something else….
mmhhh… hidden in that corner there is the….
…the wind…oohhh…oohhh….
Mmhhh…now the birds fly and write poems in the air
Now the clouds strech and make drawings in the sky
….mmmhhh… but there is more in the box of nothingness….
..there are earth and seeds…zas! There are mountains, rivers and trees…
…There are fish, frogs, butterflies and fireflies….zas!
Now we have a forest… a marvelous forest
made of things found in the box of nothingness…mmhhhh
how good nothingness is when we can make so many things with it
now I am a little tired…
I am going to take a nap next to these rabbits and these elephants…mmmhhh…it seems there is
something else in the box. Let's see
…oh oh … it is a small two-legged being and a big head that wants to get out
…mmmhh I think that one we'll leave for later…now we're going to dream
(chorus)
…I dream We are trees, tree that are birds and the birds are rivers
and the rivers unicorns and the unicorns songs and the songs
a forest where we all live though in reality we are drops of water dreaming that we are trees…

(aa)