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)

Adrian poema-perfo in NEFASHA concert, Friday 6 & Saturday 7 at BRAVA Theatre

NEFASHA AYER ~ THE SPACE OF IN BETWEEN
A Transcontinental Odyssey of Music

Friday February 6th & Saturday February 7th. 8pm.
At the Brava Theater Center - 2781 24th Street (at York)

This February, get ready for an extraordinary concert collaboration bringing together some of the Bay Area's most dynamic musicians and poets! It's Black History month, and Nefasha Ayer is performing at the Brava, telling the tale of the way in which the African diaspora is still weaving its course throughout the world today.

A Red Poppy Art House resident artist ensemble, Nefasha Ayer is an eight-member music ensemble that tells of a transcontinental odyssey of multiple characters who find themselves caught between national identities, cultures, and politics. Headed by Ethiopian-born vocalist/lyricist, Meklit Hadero, and composer/multi-instrumentalist Todd Brown, Nefasha Ayer joins melodies, rhythms, and poetic texts from the continents of Africa, South Asia, and the Americas. Through this interweaving, the ensemble explores the intangible quality of living in a world where borders have given way, where identity is fluid and moving, no longer framed by nation or tradition, but born in the space between the many.

NEFASHA AYER:
Keenan Webster: balafon, kora, m’bira (bandleader of Pan-African ensemble Talking Wood)
Michael Warr: poetic text (author of the book, "We Are All the Black Boy.")
Mohini Rustagi: drums (from the all-women jazz-indian trio "Ambika")
Prasant Radhakrishnan, tenor saxophone (composer/saxphonist/band leader of South Indian carnatic jazz trio VidyA)
Abdi Jibril: percussion (percussionist from Talking Wood)
Meklit Hadero: voice, lyrics/composition (Nefasha bandleader)
Todd Brown: guitar, composition (Nefasha bandleader)

GUEST ARTIST:
Howard Wiley: tenor saxophone (composer/band leader, 2007 release, "the Angola Project")
Gabriel Teodros: emcee (first generation Ethiopian-born Emcee, flying in from the North West's hip-hop community)
Marcus Shelby: upright bass (acclaimed composer/bassist/band leader of the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra)
Lalo Izquierdo: cajón (Founding member, musician and choreographer, of the world-acclaimed Afro-Peruvian performance troupe Peru Negro)
Adrian Arias: poetic text & performance (Peru-San Francisco interdisciplinary surrealist and creator of "Ilusion")

Show at 8:00pm
Tickets: $18 in advance, $25 at the door
Tickets are $7 less in advance, so buy now! HERE

Brava Theater Center
2781 24th Street (at York)
San Francisco, CA 94110
PHONE: 415-647-2822
Box Office HOURS: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Monday - Friday

top image by Dan Won.

TARDE O TEMPRANO UNA NARANJA SE CONVIERTE EN POEMA - en SEVILLA

LECTURA DE POESIA EN SEVILLA
- - - BAR RAYUELA - - -
Calle FERIA 52, Sevilla
Sabado 10 de Enero 2009
21:39 horas
(9:39 pm)

Adrian Arias presentara una serie de poemas escritos sobre naranjas (!)
inspirados por los naranjos de Sevilla
en una lectura interactiva gracias a la invitacion de Susana, la jefa del Rayuela

Adrian esta colgando una serie de 123 poemas en los naranjos de la calle Feria y alrededores


El sábado se leeran algunos poemas de sus libros "Sueños y Paranoias", "Castigo Divino", "26-10-2028" y "Poema del Dia"

....el nacimiento de un silencio
está escrito en la agonía de un suspiro...



... el silencio es el esclavo del miedo
cuando al miedo lo tratamos como a un rey...

Ademas el poeta preparara un ceviche-poema


(((la virgen de los 30 kms por hora))))

(en esta pagina una serie de dibujos que adrian realiza en Sevilla, influenciado por las naranjas, las calles, las virgenes y los azulejos)

Más poesia y dibujos en:
poemadeldia2008.blogspot.com

EL LIBRO DEL CUERPO en Madrid

Adrian Arias (Peru 1961) ha sido invitado a leer poesía el día de la clausura del evento "El Ritual de la Papa", en Madrid, España, en la FUNDACION ALIANZA HISPANICA. Este espacio de arte y cultura ha servido para que artistas visuales y poetas rindan homenaje a un ícono alimenticio, cultural y social de la humanidad, "La Papa".



Sintiendo la profunda raiz que esto encierra, Adrian ha preparado la presentación de una selección de poemas pertenecientes al LIBRO DEL CUERPO, un libro que estuvo publicando virtualmente en su Blog desde Mayo hasta Noviembre del 2008.



Tambien se proyectará la última selección de video-poemas del artista visual y poeta.

CUANDO? ... El martes 23 de Diciembre
A que hora? ... 8 pm
DONDE? ... en la ALIANZA HISPANICA, la calle San Pedro nº 22 Madrid 28014 (Atocha)



El libro a presentarse consta de 41 poemas y 11 fotografías, escritos y fotografías han sido producidos durante el 2008.
Las imágenes pertenecen al portafolio CUERPOEMA, que Adrián sigue trabajando gracias a la colaboracion de sus modelos: Diana, Sandra, Maisa, Tania F., Carolina, Hokulani, Millaray, Tania L, Tiffany, y a más que serán fotografiadas en el 2009.



CUERPOEMA es un portafolio dedicado a explorar el arte poetico del cuerpo femenino, escribiendo poemas-visuales con la expresión del cuerpo, la superposición del cuerpo femenino en espacios no convencionales, la conversacion entre el sueño y la vigilia de un cuerpo, la búsqueda de lo sensual integrado al lenguaje poetico.



Se puede leer el LIBRO DEL CUERPO en el blog:
http://poemadeldia2008.blogspot.com/

y se pueden ver más imagenes del portafolio CUERPOEMA aqui:
http://cuerpoema-fotos.blogspot.com/

POEMA DEL DIA / POEM OF THE DAY at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

This Saturday September 20th at 2:02pm, bilingual poetry reading and show, with Nina Serrano, the official translator of Adrian; Meklit Hadero singing the poem DAY 255, Nadja Haas dancing fragments of THE BOOK OF STONES, La Tania dancing fragments of THE BOOK OF THE BODY -in progress- and the special presentation of 2 video-poems, "Frida in the mirror" and "206 pretexts". Admission FREE

Este Sábado 20 de Seteimbre a las 2:02pm, lectura de poemas bilingues, video, música y danza. Con la participacion de Nina serrano, que traduce todos los poemas de Adrián, Meklit Hadero cantando el poema DIA 255, Nadja Haas creando un baile basado en 18 poemas cortos del LIBRO DE LAS PIEDRAS y Tania bailando fragmentos del LIBRO DEL CUERPO. Con la presentación del video-poema FRIDA en el espejo, que canta Mamacoatl, con música de Greg Landau y del video-poema 206 PRETEXTOS con música de David Molina. La entrada es GRATIS.

POEMA DEL DIA at the SF Public Library -May 14th, 2008

Chelis Lopez presents POEMA DEL DIA, thanks to the SF Public Library & Alvaro Sanabria

Adrian read a poem, in the back a video-poem with images of the poems-objects from the Blog Poema del dia.


Nina Serrano en equilibrio. She is the official translator of Adrian´s poetry


Meklit Hadero sing the poem-song DIA 255 / DAY 255


Mamacoatl sing the poem DIA 121, in company of Rachel Bouch & Ezra Gale


Adrian shows a special edition of his grand-father poet Carlos Maria López-Rocha, from 1905.


Rupa & Pawel Walerowski singing the poem-song DAY 327 / DIA 327


Adrian reading a poem in front to a video-poem


La Tania dance the poem DIA 216 / DAY 216, with Mark taylor in guitar, Chus Alonso in flute & Sage Baggott in percussion.




The complete crew of POEMA DEL DIA....(left to right) Nina Serrano, Ezra Gale, Mamacoatl -with flowers- Paloma Parra, Pawel Walrowski, Rupa, Mark Taylor, Chus Alonso, Meklit Hadero, La Tania, Adrian, Anais Arias-Aragon & Todd Brown


Here the program...El programa de la noche...