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2010 *2010 *2010 *2010
April 2010


MILLION FISHES ARTISTS COLLECTIVE GROUP SHOW
“TAKSU and the Dusk of Time”

What: Million Fishes Artists Collective premieres their new group show, TAKSU and the Dusk of Time, featuring original music, dance, performance, and a diversity of visual art & installation. Focused on the persistence of humanity’s creative fire — despite the cataclysmic conditions of any age — this show presents a flood of artistic offerings set amidst a Living Room from the Dusk of Time.

Who: Million Fishes Artists Collective’s 15 resident artists:
Tyson Ayers, Walker Babington, Brent Bishop, Frank Callozzo, Wendy Darling, Rich DDT, Mary Franck, Mikie Graham, Damon MacGregor, Carlos Marulanda, Marilyn McNeal, Lex McQuilkin, Christina Miglino, Joel Stockdill, Jonathan Warner

Why: Twice per year, Million Fishes’ diversity of resident artists band together to create a multi-disciplinary show of epic proportion. “TAKSU and the Dusk of Time” captures the spirit of this artistic community’s current ethos, debuting new work from its members, and celebrating its fleet of new faces.

Where: 2501 Bryant Street (at 23rd Street), San Francisco 94110

When: Saturday, April 3 2010 (in conjunction with MAPP: Mission Arts and Performance Project)
8pm-11pm

The Group Show was fantastic! See some photos below!!

Read about Million Fishes in Wednesday, April 7, 2010 SF Chronicle















March 2010


RUBBISH

Friday, March 19
6:00 pm on

Million Fishes Art Gallery
2501 Bryant Street, San Francisco


more info at:

www.wekillyou.net

www.theneverneverworld.com

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A Funraiser for:
The Sound Cave's Traveling Road Show Airship
& Collective Autonomy Network Tour


Saturday, March 20th

7 pm - midnight



Million Fishes Gallery
2501 Bryant St @ 23rd Street
$10-30+ suggested donation, notaflof


Performances by:

Tango La Melodia (Roaring 20's Gypsy, Tango, and old school jazz styles - www.tangolamelodia.com) - 10p






Paper Doll Militia (Aerial Theatre - www.paperdollmilitia.com) - 9p



DJ Rich DDT - 11p

DJ Joel Dean playing early, dirty rock and soul - 7p

and secret guests - 9p and throughout


plus silent auction, drinks, dancing, wonderful people, speakeasy outfits, and an opportunity to participate in creating a couple great projects.

$10-30+ suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds

why?
Come participate in creating two wonderful projects, the Sound Cave's Traveling Roadshow Airship and tour in collaboration with the Collective Autonomy Network, by enjoying a great party. With music, dancing, drinks, aerials performances, and silent auction we will raise the funds needed to purchase a 16' flatbed truck ($3000) to install the Sound Cave permanently on, transform the whole thing into a moveable art installation / performance venue / fantastical airship, and tour both projects to communities all across north america this summer. Come play!

want to:

purchase advance tickets?
contribute to the projects but can't attend the party?
contribute to the projects in a larger way?

please make a tax-deductible donation by mailing a check (attn: tyson; 2509 bryant st; san francisco, ca 94110) payable to "Intersection for the Arts" (our fiscal sponsor who allows us to use their non-profit status) with "Million Fishes - Sound Cave" in the memo line.

To make a credit card donation go to: https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=1380 , fill in the information you want, choosing "Million Fishes Arts Collective" as who you want to direct your donation to, and email me at firebrandart@yahoo.com so i verify with our fiscal sponsor that your donation was credited.

Thanks for any and all help with these projects!

more info at:


www.soundcave.org

www.collectiveautonomy.net

2009 *2009 *2009 *2009
November 2009

 

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DISH ON FASION

A Monthly Dinner & Fashion Series Showcasing Urban Artwear

A Table Side Fashion Show featuring Kittenhawk


Thursday, November 19
7:30 -9:30 pm

XYZ Restaurant
181 Third Street @ Howard
San Francisco

To reserve a table, please call XYZ at 415-817-7836

 

October 2009

 

September 2009

 

SIZE NEVER MATTERED, SIZE ALWAYS MATTERED

Featuring artists Ace Lehner, Crow Cianciola, Dallas Kavanagh,
Emmett Ramstad, James Giotta, Micah Bazant and Torreya Cummings.


Saturday, September 5th
7 - 9pm

Million Fishes Gallery
2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd
San Francisco

Show closes Sunday, September 20th

August 2009

Tuition Free Design Classes in
Photoshop, DreamWeaver and Flash

The classes run 5 - 9 weeks in length and meet Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
Some meet on Friday mornings.
All classes are at the downtown campus at 4th and Mission (Powell BART).

More info at www.ccsfweb.org

PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS > LEARN HOW TO EDIT DIGITAL PHOTOS, MAKE GRAPHICS

TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS
5:00 - 7:10 PM

AUGUST 18 - OCTOBER 15, 2009
Course Number: 84936
Subject Code: COMP
Course Code: 9959

TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS
5:00 - 7:10 PM

OCTOBER 20 - DECEMBER 17, 2009
Course Number: 84937
Subject Code: COMP
Course Code: 9959

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FRIDAYS
9:00 - 11:40 AM

AUGUST 21 - SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
Course Number: 84931
Subject Code: COMP
Course Code: 9957

FRIDAYS
9:00 - 11:40 AM

SEPTEMBER 25 - 0CT0BER 23, 2009
Course Number: 84934
Subject Code: COMP
Course Code: 9958

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FLASH > LEARN ANIMATION & HOW TO PUT VIDEO / AUDIO ON THE WEB

TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS
7:30 - 9:40 PM

AUGUST 18 - OCTOBER 15, 2009
Course Number: 84894
Subject Code: COMP
Course Code: 9922

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DREAMWEAVER > LEARN HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN WEBSITE


FRIDAYS
9:00 - 11:40 AM

OCTOBER 30 - DECEMBER 11, 2009
Course Number: 85211
Subject Code: COMP
Course Code: 9949

TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS
7:30 - 9:40 PM

OCTOBER 20 - DECEMBER 17, 2009
Course Number: 84887
Subject Code: COMP
Course Code: 9919

 

TO DOWNLOAD A PDF OF SCHEDULE CLICK HERE

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ALL CLASS INFO IS ONLINE AT WWW.CCSFWEB.ORG

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PRE BURNING MAN TRUNK SHOW

An Impromptu Market with One of A Kind Designer Treasures


Thursday, August 20th
7-11 pm

Million Fishes Gallery
2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd
San Francisco

 

 

June 2009

SEED

Featuring Million Fishes resident artist Frank Callozzo

Opening Reception:
Friday, June 19
7 pm

 

Location:
Blue Studio
2111 Mission St @ 17th Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94110

 

I HAVE THE POWER

Featuring Million Fishes resident artist Frank Callozzo

Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 20
7 pm

Show Dates:
June 20 - July 19, 2009

Location:
Double Punch Gallery
1821 Powell Street @ Filbert
San Francisco, CA 94133

 

 


THREADS


Opening Art Reception
Sunday, June 7, 2009

SOMArts Cultural Center
934 Brannon, San Francisco, CA

3 pm
FREE

Curators: Tirza True Latimer, Rudy Lemcke, Matt McKinley, Pamela Peniston,
Allison Smith, and Tina Takemoto Exhibition

Co-ordinators: Courtney Dailey & Tamara Loewenstein

 

Join Qcc and an amazing international group of talented visual/media artists for the opening of our art exhibition, Threads. Threads is not just about fabric and costume but also how queerness weaves the threads of our physical, social and moral existence together into a multi-dimensional fabric of community and our selves. What are the threads that bind, mend and sometimes unravel this spectacular fabric?

How do we fashion, perform, subvert or display queerness in our art and lives? So fashion yourself high or low and don your hottest threads for the opening! There will be a photo booth and photographers roaming about capturing the fabulousness of it all with music and performance in the galleries—not to mention, food and drink. All for free and fun.

Featuring work by Million Fishes resident artist Zee Boudreaux.

 


 

Leaving a Mark: Cutter Photozine

Includes photos from Million Fishes artist Marilyn McNeal

June 4 - August 22, 2009
Opening Reception: June 4, 2009
5 – 8 pm

Location:

SF Camerworks
657 Mission Street, 2nd floor
(btw Third & New Montgomery)

Cutter Photozine is a Bay Area-based documentary photo magazine dedicated to featuring people telling their own stories and documenting their own existence. Cutter seeks to undo a traditional voyeurism of the "other" and place the power of sight in the focused home of the author.

This special exhibition celebrates the launch of the second issue, Leaving a Mark, with more than 25 artists featured. This exhibition has been organized by Cutter editors Jesse Rose Roberts, Heather Renee Russ, and Rachel Styer.

 

May 2009

 

UP
A dance/theatre work in progress

RAW (residents artist workshop) presents UP (a work in progress)

Thursday, May 14
Friday, May 15
8:00 pm

THE GARAGE
975 Howard Street @ 6th
San Francisco

 

April 2009

SWARM INTELLIGENCE

Million Fishes Group Show

Opening: Saturday, April 25, 2009
7:00 - 11:00 pm

Million Fishes
2501 Bryant Street
San Francisco

Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1 - 4 pm

March 2009

CLEAN IS NEVER

BFA Exhibtion of Zee Boudreaux

Opening: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
5:30 - 7:30 pm


California College of the Arts
Isabelle Percy West Gallery
5212 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94618

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm

Zee Boudreaux is a resident artist of Million Fishes
xyzboudreaux@gmail.com


 

IT'S THE WAY THAT YOU MOVE

SATURDAY, MARCH 7
7 - 11 PM


2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd
Mission District, San Francisco

Curated by Katrina Lamb and Jeff Ray

Opening reception: March 7th 7-11PM,
with performances by Christian Oittinen, Kevin Parks Hauser,
Katrina Lamb, Radius 1

Through March, gallery hours TBA

 

The Way That You Move showcases artists who use bodies to explore issues around ritual,
performativity, the social body, the body in context. For the purpose of this exhibition,
the term "ritual" is used as a wide umbrella to encompass the body and social performance
in a broad and diverse number of ways, ranging from ritual involved in religious practices,
to the ritual and the body in exercise/fitness culture, to frat culture,
to the body in relationship to daily and private routines.

 

February 2009

 

BEGINNER'S BLOOD

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31
7 PM

2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd
Mission District, San Francisco

 

 

January 2009

 

PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS, DREAMWEAVER, FLASH
FREE CLASSES

STARTING TUESDAY, JANUARY 13
5 PM

88 Fourth Street @ Mission
City College Downtown Campus
(Near Powell BART)

For more information, visit www.ccsfweb.org

 


 

December 2008


JUDGEMENT DAY
| THE DEFINITE ARTICLES | GRASS WIDOW

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13
8 PM

2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd
Mission District, San Francisco
$5

 



MONIKERS OF FATE

Group art show consisting of six Californian emerging artists showing
new work in large scale painting, drawing, sculpture and video installation.

OPENING

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6
8 - 11 PM

(Art on display through December)

FREE

Million Fishes
2501 Bryant @ 23rd


ARTISTS INCLUDE:

Jon Casey Clary, Kylea Borges, Kevin E. Taylor, Lisa Chou, Ryan de la Hoz, 1451 Four



Curated by Kevin Scott Hailey


November 2008

 

MAMA CALIZO'S VOICE FACTORY
& RESIDENT ARTIST JESSICA FUDIM


PRESENT . . .

THE DANCE ANIMALS
PLEASE FEED MY ANIMAL


Featuring Million Fishes Resident Artist
Christina Miglino



EVENT LOCATION

Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
1519 Mission Street @ 11th
San Francisco



"CHAMPAGNE AND OTHER MOVIE DRINKS"

PRESENTS

JENNY PRITCHETT'S CHAPBOOK RELEASE PART

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
7 PM

 

featuring readings by jenny pritchett & toni mirosevich

7 pm
million fishes gallery (23rd / bryant)


 



CALAVERA OAXAQUENA
MENSAJES DE LA LUCHA SOCIAL

A DIA DE LOS MUERTOS EXHIBITION EVENING


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
7 PM

Calavera Oaxaqueña: Mensajes de la Lucha Social
Cost: $3-5 Suggested Donation

Million Fishes Gallery in the Mission of San Francisco * 2501 Bryant Street (at 23rd)




 

ANAPHYLACTIC

MOUNT EERIE, THANKSGIVING, WHITE FANG, COMMON EIDER KING EIDER

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
8 PM ALL AGES

2501 Bryant @ 23rd
Cost: $8

 




October 2008

 

MILLION FISHES GROUP SHOW

CLOSING BRUNCH

WAFFLES, PANCAKES, MIMOSAS & LIVE MUSIC BY . . .
QUINN DEVREAUZ, CATHAL O'BRIEN, AMMIE BACON

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26
12 - 4 PM


 

CAFE CALAVERA BENEFIT

A DIA DE LOS MUERTOS EXHIBITION EVENIING
TO BENEFIT OAXACAN ARTISTS

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
7 PM

 

Join us for Café Calavera, Saturday Oct 11th, 7pm
for a Dia de los Muertos exhibition evening to benefit Oaxacan Artists at the:

Million Fishes Gallery in the Mission of San Francisco * 2501 Bryant Street (at 23rd)


A celebration of the dead and the living with delicious food, drinks, yummy baked goods, live music, jangely dancing skeletons, live silkscreening, circus antics, projected documentaries of the Oaxacan movement of 2006, and much more! Many incredible bakers have offered to contribute their skills of tasty oven alchemy to turn out fresh cakes, pan muertes, flans, cupcakes and other delicious delights.

 

Please bring your sweet tooth and an article of clothing you would like to print, as there will be a silk screening station or two.

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All proceeds of this event go to the supporting artists in the upcoming art installation scheduled for the month of November at the Million Fishes Gallery: Calavera Oaxaqueña: Mensajes de la Lucha Social. The month long exhibit is a collaboration of over 65 Oaxacan and Bay Area Artists, featuring the collections of three revolutionary Oaxaquena artist collectives which formed as a result of the social and political movement of 2006.

Perhaps you are wondering about Oaxaca and the APPO movement of 2006? What is happening over there now?

Here's a couple worthwhile links:

http://www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com/appo/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Oaxaca_protests
http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2191.html

 

FEATURED ARTISTS

 

LAPIZTOLA

Lapiztola is a collective of 3 local oaxacan artists who focus in the media of street based stencils and silk-screening. It was founded by two artists in direct action to the movement of 2006. Today, they continue to be great contributors in the street art movementof Oaxaca.

 

ASARO

ASARO (Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca) is a collective of approximately 25 artists who call upon the creative strength of community for positive social transformation. They use public art as a means to create a dialogue of image and word, allowing people to view the conditions of existence, standards and contradictions from the society in which we live. ASARO emerged from the search to create a new reality of support, morality and communication, as well as from the need to reject and transcend authoritarian forms of power and culture that has been characterized as discriminatory and dehumanizing.

 

TALLER BAMBU

Taller Bambu is a Oaxacan printing workshop and art space founded by Abraham Torres. He is a local artist, teacher and great contributor to the Oaxacan Art Community. Taller Bambu housed the production of the 38 artist collaborative series Calavera Oaxaquena created in response to the movement of Oaxaca in 2006.

 


 

WORLDS

MILLION FISHES GROUP ARTISTS SHOW

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4
6 - 12 PM

 

EXHIBITION THROUGH OCTOBER 26

Gallery hours Saturdays 12 - 4 PM

THE OPENING RECEPTION WILL HOST

TUSSLE, LEMONHEAD, EATS TAPES

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ABOUT THE SHOW

 

September 2008

 

THE WAY OF ALL FLESH

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
7 PM - 12:00 AM

New works by Ryan DeLaHoz and Jesse Balmer

Photo Collaborations with Greg Speck

Installations by Lauren Lester

Visual display by John Jansen

BIG UMBRELLA STUDIOS

906 1/2 Divisadero Street @ McAllister
San Francisco, CA

415.359.9211


 

ERIKA SHUCH PERFORMANCE PROJECT
AFTER ALL, PART I

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
7 PM - 12:00 AM

World Premiere!

$25 Regular, $20 Member/Student/Senior/Teacher
Buy tickets online here

After All, Part 1 was originally conceived as part of a larger project with Intersection for the Arts,
where Erika Chong Shuch and the ESP Project have been in residence since 2004.
Development with Intersection is supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission/Cultural Equity Initiative.
Please go to theintersection.org for further information.

Million Fishes Resident Artist Christina Miglino will be part of the performance.

Front page article at SF Weekly

August 2008

 

HIGHLANDER CENTER - FUNDRAISING PARTY

FRIDAY, AUGUST 22
6 - 8:30 PM

You are invited you to a fundraising house party in celebration of the 75th Anniversary
of a place where history is made.

Friday, August 22, 2008
6:00 to 8:30 pm

Million Fishes Gallery
2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd Street


About The Highlander Center

Highlander is a popular education workshop center in east Tennessee that started in 1932 and today still brings together grassroots organizers, artists, educators, and workers to address the most pressing issues facing the people of the South.

Rosa Parks came to Highlander just 4 months before refusing to give up her seat on the bus, and the civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome was developed and spread by Highlander and friends.


Today, Highlander stands as a world renowned beacon for progressive, cutting edge organizing and is a leading resource for people working together across race, culture, and generations.

FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS

Francis Wong, The Rockin' Solidarity Labor Chorus & Vukani Mawethu Choir

Meet Highlander Director Pam McMichael and staff Monica Hernandez and Anasa Troutman

Hors d'oeuvres will be served


R.S.V.P.


Please R.S.V.P. by email to newman@highlandercenter.org or by phone 865-933-3443 ext 234


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION


Please contact Kip Williams 865-766-7502 or kipgwilliams@gmail.com or
Tami Newman (865) 933-3443 X 234 or newman@highlandercenter.org


DONATE

You can donate online at www.highlandercenter.org

 


 

Saturday, August 2

Between
Curated by Amie Leeking

Machine, Maya Hayuk, Ealish Wilson, Caitlin Sweet, Charlene Tan
Jimmy Robson, Jonathan Casella, Peter Max Lawrence


Opening
7:00 - 11:00 p.m.

Viewing Hours for the month of August
Saturdays 12 noon - 4:00 p.m.

 



 

Saturday, August 9

Anapphylactic!
Curated by Marcella Gries

Bands


Death Sentence: Panda!
, Casy and Brian, High Castle, 60 Watt Kid


Show starts
8:00 p.m.

All ages
Enter on 2823 23rd Street (@ Bryant)

$5


 

Sunday, July 27

Erase Errata

$10

5:00 p.m.

 


 

Saturday, July 26

Resonance: A night of electronic music played through a canopy of 100 gourds.

Music by miba (Kristin Miltner and Mark Bartshcer), Elise Baldwin, Xopher Davidson and Cliff Caruthers.

8:00 p.m.


2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd


$5

GALLERY HOURS

Saturday 1 - 4 pm
Sunday 1 - 4 pm or by appointment
Contact (415) 459-5728 for an appointment


SHOW DATES

July 12th - 28th, 2008


Saturday, July 12

Resonance A Sound Installation by Alex Potts
Curated by Carlos Marulanda with Performances by Participating Artists

Opening: Saturday July 12, 2008
7:00-11:30 p.m.

Installed: July 12-July 30, 2008


2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd


FREE

Through a canopy of 100 gourd speakers, form and vibration combine to create a unique sensory experience of enveloping sound and otherworldly song. Entwining the natural resonance of gourds with multi-channel electro-ambient music, this sound sculpture fuses organic vessels and technology in an extraordinary way.

A dynamically changing sound score has been created from the acoustic samples of the gourds as well as electronic music that utilizes their reverberant characteristics. Additionally, live input is collected from gallery visitors and embedded in the sound score. The installation is intended to travel from gallery to gallery, collect sounds from different environments and accumulate a collective memory of sound.

Alex Potts is a composer, installation artist and filmmaker. His work includes large-scale interactive sound and video installations, film and dance scores, and narrative and experimental films. His work has been shown throughout the U.S., in the UK, Italy, and the Netherlands. Participating artists will be performing their music through the installation as well.


 

Sunday, July 13

Stellar The First Annual San Francisco Fashion Awards
Runway Showcase


Featuring: Kittenhawk
3:00 p.m.

Bambuddha Lounge | Hotel Phoneix
601 Eddy Street @ Larkin


www.sanfranciscofashionawards.com

Tickets $10 advance, $15 door

 

Sponsored by : Citizen:Citizen & City Model Management
In Support by : AMMO Films, Mere Fashion, Poser and Fashion Replant Magazine

June 2008

 

Saturday, June 20




A benefit with performances by Mary Ann Brooks, Fauxnique,
Juanita MORE! Jupiter, Suppositori Spelling & The Lady Meat

and . . .

Music by D.J. Texx and Stanley (chilidog)

9:00 p.m.
$5

 


 

Million Fishes Gallery presents Queerity

Curated by Zee Boudreaux and Tamara Loewenstein

Opening:
Saturday June 7, 2008 /
7:00-11:30 p.m.

Show Open:
June 7-June 28, 2008
Million Fishes Gallery 2501 Bryant Street San Francisco, CA 94110



How does one decipher a queer body? Today, there exist more options than ever to express oneself through the canvas of the body. People identifying as queer have not always been in a position to publicize their queerness, but as the demarcations of gender and sexuality continue to shift and melt away, the freedom and opportunity for expression are increasing. This exhibition demonstrates the ways queerness expresses itself through the body in a multitude of ways; at times it is invisible to the eye, at other times it is more subtle or completely transparent, but always transgressive and provocative.

Queerity, a group exhibition of queer identified artists, reflects on matters pertinent to a queer body and the ways it is perceived, acknowledged or misunderstood. The artists in Queerity make visible an internal experience through an array of external mediums from photography to sculpture. Their work, like their bodies, act subversively against gender norms still in place throughout much of the world and offer up diverse perspectives about queerness and what it means to identify as such.

Featuring works by: Jai Carrillo, Miles Conrad, Torreya Cummings, eddie gesso, Patrick Hillman, Gregory Kaplowitz, Ace Lehner, Jason Fritz Michael, Matt Momchilov, Job Piston, Emmett Ramstad, Jennifer Rarick, Hilary Schwartz, Maxx Sizeler and Taylor Ward. Million Fishes Arts Collective is a Mission District-based live/work arts collective comprised of a diverse group of artists dedicated to working collaboratively.

Million Fishes creates an environment for artists to develop critical skills to engage in the processes involved in producing art and sharing it. The collective is a resource to the diverse community of the Mission District, as well as the communities of our resident artists. Programs include innovative exhibitions of work by members and non-members, an artist-in-residence program for sixteen artists from international backgrounds, and calendar and workshops open to the public.

For more information and images please contact Tamara Loewenstein or Zee Boudreaux at queerbodies@gmail.com

May 2008

 

Friday, May 16
Turning Heads Benefit

Turning Heads is a San Francisco based non profit that focuses on "Changing the Economic Outlook of Young People Through Vocational Arts, Business Education and Micro-Enterprise."

 

Sunday, May 18
11 - 3 p.m.
Access Cafe - an all volunteer nomadic restaurant event

 

Wednesday, May 21
7 - 9:30 p.m.
Champagnge & other movie drinks - featuring readings by;

*mimi lok
*suzanne kleid
*amira pierce
*richard loranger

come say bon bon voyage to champagne and other movie drinks! we're taking the summer off but will be back with an already-amazing lineup in september. also come and confess your lifelong crush on ms. amira pierce, whom is leaving us to teach skydiving in virginia come july. don't forget to deliver enormous hugs to miss mimi lok whom is off to hong kong for god knows how long, where she will be starring in the forthcoming feature film "mimi lok, we love you!" wish suzanne kleid a belated happy birthday and tell her all about YOUR experiences with "saturn returns."

don't forget richard loranger, he likes attention too! but we're getting ahead of ourselves. these are 4 of our favorite, fiercely talented writers and readers. come hear them so you can say you were there. don't blow it! see your there! wet bar and popcorn for sale! Xoxoxoxo, the other movie drinks

mimi lok is a writer and educator whose work has appeared in McSweeney's, nimble, Hyphen, Washington Post and elsewhere. A lecturer in Creative Writing at San Francisco City College, she is currently shortlisted for the 2008 Arts & Letters/Susan Atefat Prize for Nonfiction. Learn more about this person at mimilok.com.

Suzanne Kleid's fiction and critical writings have appeared in Pindeldayboz, Watchword, the Believer, and other places. She is the book reviewer for the KQED.org arts and culture blog.

Amira Pierce is moments away from receiving her M.A. in creative writing from SFSU, has barely been published, and is about to move to the other coast of this great land known as the united states.

Richard Loranger is a writer, performer, and visual artist who wandered back to San Francisco, the love of his bodily life, last fall, after fifteen years in less savory climes. He is the author of Poems for Teeth (We Press, 2005), as well as The Orange Book and eight chapbooks, including Hello Poems and The Day Was Warm and Blue. He enjoys smelling flowers, composing names for demons and saints, and singing with many hairy men

 

Thursday, May 22
7 - 10 pm
Re/Search Press "Counter Cultural Hour"

On May 22nd, Million Fishes will begin a new screening series with Re/Search Publications. "The Counter Cultural Hour" is a monthly series of screenings where Re/Search founder V. Vale interviews creative movers-and-shakers who have not yet given up on changing the world. These screenings are produced in collaboration with filmmaker Marian Wallace.

May features a video interview with Lyle Tuttle, the first world-famous tattoo artist of the 1960s. There will then be a live interview with Tanja Nixx, tattoo artist and owner of Lyle Tuttle Tattoo.

Re/Search books will be available for purchase and local body jewelry artists from Little Seven will be on hand to showcase their wares.

Some history about Re/Search: In San Francisco, Spring 1977, V. Vale, a worker at City Lights Bookstore, began documenting the rise of the early Punk Rock Cultural Revolution as an amateur anthropologist and historian, heavily influenced by Andy Warhol, the Dadaists, Surrealists and the Situationists. His magazine, SEARCH & DESTROY, was made possible when Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti each gave him $100 to start publishing.

In 1980, SEARCH & DESTROY morphed into book publishing with RE/ SEARCH, a pun on Search & Destroy. The goal is to produce primary source, undiluted, uncensored, ideas, conversations, and just plain inspiration to Do-It-Yourself Artist/Scientists who value independence, anti-authoritarianism, and Black Humor above all else. Vale's best-seller of all time was MODERN PRIMITIVES, which in 1989 sparked the global tattoo-and-body-piercing art-practice.



BAY AREA NATIONAL DANCE WEEK
@ MILLION FISHES



Sunday, May 4

Improvisational Lab & Jam
2:00 - 5:00 pm

Sunset Yoga Class
6:00 - 7:00 pm

LOCATION

Million Fishes Dance Studio
2829 23rd Street @ Bryant San Francisco, CA

CONTACT

maryann@millionfishes.com
415-515-3632

See Bay Area National Dance week website for more info

 

April 2008

 

BEATBEAT WHISPER
LOVE MENU
YES PLEASE


Friday, April 18

7:30 - 12:00 a.m.


Beatbeat Whisper CD release party with Love Menu (PDX) and Yes, Please (OAK)

This is an all ages show that will end early, so come early!

Million Fishes Gallery
2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd San Francisco, CA



MILLION FISHES GROUP SHOW

Opening Reception
Saturday, April 5


Million Fishes Gallery
2501 Bryant Street,
San Francisco, CA

Doors Open
7:00 - 11:00 p.m.

Million Fishes is a Mission District-based live/work collective & gallery composed of a diverse group of artists dedicated to collaborative, creative exploration. For the bi-annual group show the 14 resident artists create a space in which to present recent work; viewing this show is akin to studio-hopping each of the artists' workspaces. Transcending categorization, Medicine runs the gamut of work from video installation to dance, from puppetry and sound performance to textile arts. The mediums presented vary as much as the themes of the work. Congealing around the concept of Medicine is a sense of renewal, protection and transformation; on a personal level for the resident artists, and in light of the recent reworking of the gallery space.

 

March 2008

A Benefit For:

CARLITOS AND THE MAGIC GARDEN


An ArtsChange’s Traveling Theatre Benefit
Please join us on International Women’s Day to support art,
good food and theater for East Bay Youth.


Saturday, March 8, 2008

Million Fishes Gallery
2501 Bryant Street,
San Francisco, CA

Cost : $45 - $100


Carlitos and the Magic Garden: an ArtsChange’s Traveling Theatre Benefit:
Please join us on International Women’s Day to support art, good food and theater for East Bay Youth.

• Wine and Cal-Mex Supper from asparagus to tamalitos with fresh, organic and local ingredients by Chef Tere Robles.
• Sneak Preview of Carlitos and the Magic Garden Puppet Show by Tania Padilla.
• Jugglers! Accordionists! Abuelas! Stilt Walkers! Clowns!
• Funny Puppet Jokes By René Yañez!

Hosted By ArtsChange, David Donner, Julie Friedman, Fred Jackson, Maria Padilla,
Stan Padilla, Alice Prussin, Laura Brainin Rodriguez, Ann Schnake, Alan Siegel, Rosa Valdez, and Kip Williams.

Phone 510-231-1348 for more information.

 

February 2008

SOFT MONKEY PUZZLES

Freeform crochet, soft sculpture, pen / ink drawings
from Eden Veaudry


February 2, 2008


8 pm


Eden Veaudry is a Victoria-based visual artist who works in a wide range of media including drawing, soft sculpture, embroidery, painting, crochet, and film. She is primarily interested in expressing everyday sensations by manipulating her immediate impressions of the forms she finds around her.

Her work is driven by a need to re-imagine the many ways in which the natural world and one's own body may be combined to form a new, emotional entity. She believes in the concept of the remix, and frequently re-works a single idea in a variety of media.

Often a drawing will evolve into a mask, or a crocheted garment will reappear in a watercolour painting inspired by an embroidery. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in several cities across Canada and the U.S.

www.eveaudry.com



Wine Cellar Dances



A Benefit for Million Fishes Dance Studio

Sunday, January 27, 2008

7 - 9 pm

Help us fund the renovation our Dance Studio!
This event will feature Dance Film and Performances, Acrobalancing, Live Music, Wine and Raffle Prizes.

Our studio was formally a turn of the century wine cellar.
Join us in a celebration of it’s history and future!

 

Donations can also be sent to:
Million Fishes Dance Benefit, 2509 Bryant Street, SF CA 94110
and checks made payable to Lindsay King
Thank You!


Wine Cellar Dances
A Benefit for Million Fishes Dance Studio

Sunday, January 27th
7:00-9:00pm
$10-100 Donation

2829 23rd St. @ Bryant, San Francisco
ticket info: maryann@millionfishes.com

 

2007 *2007 *2007 *2007
December 2007

The Centennial Celebration of the Elationists
(1907 - 1915)
A Retrospective of San Francisco's Lost Movement

December 7, 8

December 13, 14, 15

8 pm

The Centennial Celebration of the Elationists is a Retrospective of a group of incredible artists and musicians that rose from the ashes of the 1906 Great Earthquake and Fire to bring joy back to their city.

The event will feature the Elationists' rediscovered artwork, music, archival film, and musical instruments--built from the shattered remnants of Victorian homes. It will also include a re-creation concert of their fantastic "Buzz" music.

And! The exhibition will also feature generous helpings of the Elationists' signature chocolate elixir.

DATES & TICKET INFO:
December 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 8pm

$15-35 sliding scale
adv tickets and info: elationists.org

Each night of the Celebration is expected to sell-out, so please get your tickets ahead of time.

Advanced tickets can be purchased through our website: elationists.org

LOCATION:
Foundation for the Preservation of Fantastic Possibilities:
444 Clementina Street, San Francisco CA 94103
Parking lots nearby, MUNI and BART accessible

elationists.org



In Search of Good Food
Saturday, December 1
5
7 pm - 11 pm


A 5 course organic dinner prepared by LEIF
Live entertainment by Divas de los Meurtos & Hannah the Raven

$40 - $100

MENU

saltbush-young golden beet-blossom bluff fuyu-pomegranate-cave aged marisa-filbert-pedro ximenez
~~~~~
soup of dirty girl cannelini shelling beans, carola potato, golden turnip, celeriac, and baby mustard
~~~~~
tahini/porcini cauliflower-rapini and rainbow chard with chanterelles and wild rice-brussel sprouts with knoll horseradish
~~~~~
roasted delicata-shallot/apple/yam puree-chestnut-seed brittle
~~~~~
maple/buckwheat gingerbread-spiced quince-quince/bourbon redux-cranberry creme fraiche-candied pecans
~~~~~
mignardise

RSVP

Only 45 spaces available
RSVP: insearchofgoodfood@gmail.com

 


 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1

Even More Bazaar Holiday Show


Saturday, December 1

2 pm - 11 pm

Sunday, December 2
12 pm - 5 pm

The Even More Bazaar Holiday Sale at Million Fishes is coming up again!

It will be held on Saturday & Sunday, Dec 1 & 2.

The Saturday hours are 2 pm - 11 pm, with DJs and an art opening for PJ Reptilehouse in the evening.
Sunday the hours are from 12 pm - 5 pm.

Both days will feature a bar & refreshments.

The event will be held in the Million Fishes gallery, at 2501 Bryant (@ 23rd.)


August 2007



SATURDAY, AUGUST 4

Lost in a Fog
the artwork of

Campbell Whyte and Elizabeth Marruffo


Saturday, August 4

7:00 p.m.

The Gallery at Million Fishes
2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd

After recently arriving here from Australia, Campbell Whyte and Elizabeth Marruffo will be holding a collaborative painting exhibition at Million Fishes Art Gallery. The exhibition titled 'Lost in a Fog' will be running from August 4th-18th 2007, opening on Saturday August 4th at 7pm until 11pm

The works are based on personal observations while ravelling through Japan and Europe and also their recent experiences here in the Mission District.

Their work can be described as urban art with a magic realist edge. These figurative paintings feature a mix of delicate, sensitively rendered details along with intriguing and thoughtful imagery that engages the viewer on many levels.

Their self-portraits and other imagery can evoke ideas of contrasting individual and collective energies that exist and that can become more apparent as a traveller. Our increasingly important connection to the weather and its patterns is also strongly referred to.

After their stay in San Francisco, Campbell and Elizabeth will be travelling to Mexico to further develop their ideas and artistic practice.

MEDIA RELEASE: Please click here     WEBSITE: qualityevent.blogspot.com


 

July 2007

SATURDAY, JULY 28

TANGO LA MELODIA
will be performing at the

Stevenson Street Soiree


Saturday, July 28

8:00 p.m.
$15 includes two drinks

Red Ink Studios
1035 Market Street @ 7th
www.redinkstudios.com


Featuring!


Tango La Melodia
Locura
Hot Pink Feathers
Spaceheater

TANGO LA MELODIA comes to Red Ink Studios for the Stevenson Street Soiree
--an intoxicating evening of Music, Art, and Dance!

We will be joined by the beautiful, heart-thumping LoCura!, the delectable Samba-Burlesque of Hot Pink Feathers Dance Troupe, the funky jazz of Spaceheater, and a few fantastic surprises we're keeping under our hat.

This will be our last San Francisco show before we hit the road, bringing the multimedia theatre show to the Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos (near Stanford).

June 2007

FRIDAY, JUNE 22

Frameline 31
San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival

Loving Transgressions - Queer Women of Color
Screening of Erzulie's Tears by Mary Anne Brooks


Roxie Film Center
8:15 pm

Curated by Madeleine Lim, these works were created through Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, which promotes the visibility of queer women of color through the creation, exhibition and distribution of films that reflect our life stories.

  60 Years of the Same
USA , 2007 , 11 min.
Director: Jolie Harris

Erzulie's Tears
USA , 2007 , 9 min.
Director: Mary Ann Brooks

Fashion Resistance to Militarism
USA , 2006 , 10 min.
Director: Kimberly Alvarenga

Flower Fokes
USA , 2007 , 11 min.
Director: Belinda "Beli" Sullivan

Infinite Breath
USA , 2006 , 8 min.
Director: Christine Liang

Las Ma-anitas
USA , 2007 , 9 min.
Director: Celestina Pearl

Pagsalig/Faith
USA , 2006 , 9 min.
Director: Maianam Minahal

The Saint
USA , 2007 , 6 min.
Director: Erin Wood

Slang It Like You Own It
USA , 2007 , 7 min.
Director: Tesa Bruce

That's Why I Hate Females
USA , 2007 , 10 min.
Director: Vassilisa Johri

to transgress: a meditation
USA , 2006 , 7 min.
Director: Maya Santos
Search Films

Total Running Time: 97 min

Co-presented by
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project

About Frameline:

Founded in 1977, Frameline's mission is to strengthen the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and further its visibility by supporting and promoting a broad array of cultural representations and artistic expression in film, video and other media arts.

Frameline is the nation's only nonprofit organization solely dedicated to thefunding, exhibition, distribution and promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media arts.




THURSAY, JUNE 14

Kevin Hailey @ Minnie Wilde
Gallery Opening
7 - 9 pm



SATURDAY, JUNE 9

3rd Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
San Francisco Premiere Screening of Erzulie's Tears by
Mary Ann Brooks

BRAVA Theater
2781 24th Street
San Francisco, CA


7 P.M.   FREE

FESTIVAL FOCUS:
"Reels of Resistance" - Queer Black Women's Films & Filmmakers

Sometimes humorous and tender, always courageous, these evocative films paint the vibrant and kaleidoscopic experiences of queer Black women and infuse our lives with a spectrum of hilarity, hope and meaning.

Followed by Q&A Panel with Filmmakers.

All works created through Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP), which promotes the visibility of queer women of color through the creation, exhibition and distribution of films that reflect our life stories.

Founded by Executive Director & award-winning filmmaker
Madeleine Lim.

ERZULIE'S TEARS (Mary Ann Brooks, 2007)
CHILD OF GOD (Kisha Montgomery, 2006)
NEED TO TALK (Jackie Loville, 2006)
ACTS OF LOVE (Crystal John, 2007)
60 YEARS OF THE SAME (Jolie Harris, 2007) PRACTICE MAKES... (Brenda
Williams, 2006) WALLOW (Sarah Beth Harris, 2006) THE SAINT (Erin Wood, 2007)
FLOWER FOKES (Belinda Sullivan, 2007) SLANG IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT (Letesa Bruce, 2007)

Program: 80 minutes

April 2007


APRIL 27

No Fat Haitians: Images from Haiti's Central Plateau
A Photo Show / Fundraiser for Haiti

Photos by Garrett MacLean

Opening Reception
April 27, 7 - 10 PM

bluespace gallery
593 Guerrero Street
415-431-BLUE
www.sfbluespace.com

 


 

APRIL 22

National Dance Week - Contact Improv Jam

Intro to Contact
1:00 - 2:00

Open Jam
2:00 - 5:00

Free of charge

National Dance Week website


 

 

 


 

 

 

 

Dancers: Mary Ann & Ali Woolwich / photo credit: Lacey Johnson

 


APRIL 21

Living Pulse Project Fundraiser * Red Party
Cost : $7-$20 donation / no one turned away for lack of funds

Live music! Dancing! Silent auction! screen printing!
Luscious heart themed cocktails!

The Living Pulse Project is a dynamic participatory sound sculpture that consists of a circle of musical trees that you can climb in and play, with a larger listening tree in the center that has a glowing pulsing red heart inside.

Also we are inviting 6 Bay Area community groups to participate with us by painting banners that will stretch between the trees. We are creating a playa wide game to interact with the installation and the other art works and camps on the playa.

This project will be experienced in the Bay Area, at Burning Man, and beyond.

Live music! Dancing! Silent auction! screen printing!
Luscious heart themed cocktails!

LoCura will play 9:45-11

Tango La Melodia will play!

 


APRIL 7

Be Honest . . .

Visual, Sound, & Performance Works from the members of Million Fishes and other Mission District artists.

Saturday, April 7
7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

2501 Bryant Street, Mission District, San Francisco
Admission is free, sliding scale donations of $5-15 accepted


BE HONEST engages with the essential quagmires of attempting to creatively re-interpret and re-present non-fiction narratives. Artists investigate the tools, license, and responsibilities inherent in the endeavor to artfully document and re-tell a 'real' story. Other artists explore the sphere of false or fabricated narratives and the complicated choice to present these stories as if they were 'true'. The show will feature work from photographers, painters, mixed-media artists, film, video and sound artists, and performers.


March 2007

 

MARCH 23

VidyA with special guest poet ALYSSA NICKELL

$10 donation. Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8 pm.
WHERE: Million Fishes Artist Collective, 2501 Bryant St. @ 23rd
(Enter through 23rd Steet gate.)
For more info, call: 415-826-2402

Vidya is an adventurous new group that merges the virtuosity of jazz with the melodic and rhythmic nuance of South Indian classical (Carnatic) music. Led by critically-acclaimed saxophonist, Prasant Radhakrishnan, vidyA has emerged with a soulful, penetrating sound that pushes the labels of "fusion" or "world music."

The drums and bass lock into one another, driving the music forward like a jazz rhythm section, while the tenor saxophone and violin elaborate and improvise on Carnatic ragas. The group weaves in and out of the two genres while all the time merging them into one. vidyA translates the language of Carnatic music into the idiom of Jazz.

This night's collaborative performance includes poet Alyssa Nickell. Nickell has been actively engaged in creative writing since she was 14, inspired by Mrs. Bouma's grey-and-white houndstooth suits, Jenny's pink-pink sweats, and the threat of getting stuck in Home Economics learning how to sew buttons and boil eggs. In the late eighties, she discovered spoken word at Chicago's Green Mill, one of Al Capone's roaring-20's speakeasies, and has been playing and procrastinating with rhyme and rhythm ever since.

This evening is part of a series of performances for vidyA as Red Poppy Artist-in-Residence. The group will be featured in a special
performance series with events happening twice per month through May. Future shows will include a variety of interdisciplinary
collaborations, including work with painters, dancers, poets and filmmakers. Keep your eye on the schedule for more!

VidyA's website is http://vidyamusic.com/

 

February 2007

FEBRUARY 27

Jeff Jarvis
Blogger, BuzzMachine.com

News War: What's Happening to the News
A PBS Frontline documentary

Tuesday, February 27
9 pm

check local listings

Million Fishes resident artist Aaron Selverton is the associate producer for this program which is part of the award-winning investigative documentary series, "Frontline," on PBS. See the preview on PBS's website.

 





FEBRUARY 15

Tango La Melodia Live in Concert

Thursday, February 15
10 pm

MAKEOUT ROOM
3225 22nd Street/Valencia, SF 94110
415 647 2888
www.makeoutroom.com

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: brentbishop.com

TANGO LA MELODIA will be playing live in concert next Thursday, February 15 at the Makeout Room at 10pm!
We will be playing the music from the multimedia media performance, and then some!

It is the night after Valentine's Day, and we will delight the lovers, the broken-hearted, and the unaffected with the sounds of Tango, Gypsy Jazz, Blues, and the madness of the moon.

We will be joined by two outstanding bands, Sweet Crude Bill & the Lighthouse Nautical Society (11pm) and Valerie Orth (9pm).

It's going to be a party, so put on your dapperest clothes, and gets those dancing feet ready! The evening
starts and 9pm, and the cover is $7. Just follow the sounds of the accordion, and we will see you at the show!

Cordially,
Brent, Paige, Carly, and all of TANGO LA MELODIA



FEBRUARY 13 & 16


Breath, Death and Prayer
"Breathing Chamber" Screens @ SF IndieFest

Location: Roxie Cinema
ROXIE Cinema is located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District at 3117 16th Street between Valencia and Guerrero streets.

Tuesday Feb 13 @ 9:30
Friday Feb 16 @ 2:15


Please join Million Fishes resident artist Carlos Marulanda for the screening of his short film “Breathing Chamber”. It will be playing at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival and is part of a program of shorts called “Breath, Death and Prayer”.

More info about this screening at SF Indiefest website



FEBRUARY 3


Februatus . . . Love, Lust, Romance & Textiles


Photos by Keith Aguilar © 2007

As part of the Mission Arts & Performance Project (MAPP), Million Fishes presents Febratus, a show featuring Zee Boudreaux and Kabrina Sky Buck, and Jason Fritz Michael.

There will be a performance by the Butoh dance troup Habitus Coalition and music by Manhaterrr (still from video to the right) and The Ghoulz.


Photo by Keith Aguilar © 2007

Zee Boudreaux
"valentine"
deconstructed fabric, manipulated heat transfer
(a detail of a larger work)
Kabrina Sky Buck
"is heart/is womb"
acrylic, oil and copper on wood


This show was curated by Zee Boudreaux.

January 2007


JANUARY 12


MAPP Retrospective
3 Years of Live Art in the Community

More than 55 artists, music, dance, performing art, video, live painting,
installations, all visual arts, coffee & cerviche

Participating Million Fishes Artists:
Andrei, Brent, Carlos, Doug, KT, Kevin, Marilyn, Tyson, Z

Opening Reception - Friday, January 12, 2007 at 7pm

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission Street @ 25th
Admission for the Opening $5

Exhibition January 12 - 25, admission $2


 

2006 *2006 *2006 *2006
December 2006


DECEMBER 9

Million Fishes Holiday Craft Bizarre

Art, jewelry, clothing, body care & other wonderful gift items.
Live music and performance

 

 

October 2006


OCTOBER 21

Visions of A New State: Photos by Matthew Savage
8 p.m.

These pictures are an exploration of California. Indeterminate areas on the
periphery of cities hold a transitory energy that gives them a marked importance.
If our cities are the core of a body, then these places would represent the skin of that body, in a state of constant transition and flux.

Matthew Savage's website

 

 


 

OCTOBER 21

Queer Films from Hamburg

Queer Films From Hamburg
11 Short Films, 1 Documentary
8 p.m.

Wine, beer, soda and sparkling water bar. Popcorn and snacks as well!

Donations go toward the archives at Bildwechsel, an umbrella organisation based in Germany for women in media, culture and art.

See below for full schedule.

 

Film Schedule Shorts


Schwule Mädchen - Gay Girls

(Island, 3:08 min, 2005, Hamburg Germany)

Mit den besten Wünschen - all the best wishes
(Durbahn, 7 min, 1982, Hamburg Germany)

Toi, Toi, Toi - Good luck!
(Essig und Osthaarchic, 1:47min, 200?, Hamburg
Germany)

Ganz Oben - On the top
(E+T, 2 min, 1997, Hamburg Germany)

CharakerX - in front of
(Nkid, 1:12 min, 2004, Cologne Germany)

the garden films
(heldin_der_abgrenzung, 2:12 min, 2006, Hamburg Germany)


Kein Licht am Ende der Welt - No light at the end of
the world

(Schwarz and Schleppegrell, 4 min, 2004,
Hamburg/Berlin Germany)

BCN - who needs love
(Nkid, 4:22 min, 2006, Hamburg Germany)

welke und blume
(Lou Sturm und Wiltrut Cordes, 13 min, 2005, Hamburg)

Jesses Maria - my dear be Jesus
(besilly productions, 3:02 min, 1993, Hamburg Germany)

Feetish
(Pornova Productions, 3:52 min, 2005, Hamburg Germany)

Film Schedule Documentary


Jungs wie ich und du - boys like me and you
(Anton Binnig, 46min, 2006, Hamburg Germany)

"boys like me and you" is a documentary on the ftm-topic based on interviews with 3 persons. The subjects of this film talk quite personally about enjoying their lifes and bodies and reject the binary sex/gender-system.

Bildwechsel was founded in 1979 as an umbrella organisation for women in media, culture and art. Based in Hamburg it acts as a platform and as an infrastructure which women/lesbians/transgenders can tap into to support and develop their own work / projects / ideas, to find out about the work of others, make connections, develop new initiatives and build up archival collections that represent their work and that of other women/lesbians/transgenders. You can get more information about us on our website at www.bildwechsel.org



OCTOBER 14

I Follow A Terrible Profession
A Million Fishes Group Show

A selection of new works by the members of the Million Fishes Art Collective.
Doors open at 7:30 pm


This event is part of MAPP, Mission Arts Performance Project
Doug Weigel
Andrei Boutyline
Marilyn McNeal


OCTOBER 11

MCCLA Video Fest 2006
Program II Screening @ The Roxie Cinema

The Mission Cultural Center of Latino Arts in San Francisco, California, presents its third annual VIDEO FEST web 2006. All video artists are invited to participate: video reporters, documentarians, experimental video makers, and young producers. The work should demonstrate interest in the Latino community that is positive, creative, and multicultural.

MCCLA VIDEO FEST is working in collaboration with New College of California's Roxie Film Center to show the OFFICIAL SELECTION and WINNERS of the VIDEO FEST and special guests in 4 different programs during the days 11 & 12 of October.

Videos are produced by filmmakers from Peru, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Canada, Venezuela and San Francisco.

For more info, go to the event website.


ROXIE Cinema
is located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District, at 3117 16th Street between Valencia and Guerrero


Films by two Million Fishes artists were chosen to be screened as part of this festival.

Breathing Chamber” (15 min) by Carlos Marulanda, was chosen as Best short fiction film.

Club Foot Queen”, (13 min) by Brent Bishop, silent short movie with live organ music by the author was an Official Selection

September 2006


SEPTEMBER 16 & 17

Illusion 5

Tyson & Brent perform in front of the de Young Museum as part of Illusion 5.
30 artists, 30 dreams, 2 days, 5 hours each day

 


SEPTEMBER 28

Mind Over Matter

Photo Exhibit by J. Danielle Hubbard
My father's diagnosis of "Terminal Brain Cancer"

 

 


SEPTEMBER 30

Haunted, A Show Curated by The Blood Rainbow Family

Ulrika Andersson takes part in Haunted, a show curated by The Blood Rainbow Family at Disjecta in Portland, Oregon

 




SEPTEMBER 15

US Military Abroad
A Documentary on CNN by Aaron Selverston & Najlae Benmbarek

Please tune in to Anderson Cooper 360 this Friday, 9/15, on CNN, at 8:00 PM / PST (11:00 PM / EST) to see my most recent documentary in addition to an interview with myself and my partner, Najlae Benmbarek, conducted by Anderson Cooper.

The piece is one of three produced under a Carnegie / Knight Fellowship focusing on the US Military abroad, outside of Iraq and Afghanistan. Our piece follows US troops in Djibouti, East Africa, as they attempt a modern "hearts and minds" campaign using civil affairs techniques. That this piece is airing during the week of 9/11 is no coincidence.

The full-length, uncut version of the Djibouti piece can be viewed online here. To read how viewers responded to the CNN piece visit the Anderson Cooper 360 blog.

Promos aired all week on CNN and Aaron blogged live on cnn.com during the actual broadcast.

Aaron also created a blog with video clips that was made while during his stay in Djibouti.
It can
can be viewed at http://news21usmilitaryabroad.typepad.com/

August 2006

AUGUST 11 & 12

Tango La Melodia

August 11 and 12, 2006 8pm
Tango la Melodia @ EXIT Theatre

Attention one and all! Live Music! Film! Dance! Etc!

Brent Bishop and Paige bring you TANGO LA MELODIA, a new multimedia performance in which audiences are transported to a speakeasy world of Tango, Gypsy Jazz, and faded Americana. Have a laugh, shed a tear, and join us for a Night of Music, Film, Dance, Love, Beauty and Tragedy.

The curtain opens August 11 & 12 at 8pm at the EXIT Theatre, home of the San Francisco Fringe Festival. For more info and online ticket reservations, please visit www.whatshewrote.com and www.theexit.org

We will see you at the show!
-Brent, Paige, Carly, and the rest of TANGO LA MELODIA

July 2006


JULY 6

Paradigm Brass Benefit Concert

Thursday, July 6, 2006 6pm-9pm

Paradigm Brass presents a benefit concert to raise much needed funds for their participation in the upcoming Brass Residency Program at the prestigious Banff Centre Summer Arts Festival in Canada. The group has been awarded a full scholarship to attend the programs but will need assistance in travel and lodging expenses, sheet music, and recording materials. This benefit concert will include performances by Paradigm Brass and friends, an art exhibit by the Million Fishes Art Collective, and raffle prizes. Wine and light snacks will be served.

Gifts in any amount for admission will be accepted. No one will be turned away for a lack of funds. The suggested contribution amount is $35.00. Cash and personal checks for gift contributions will be accepted at the event or in advance by contacting Jason.


Who is Paradigm Brass ?

Paradigm Brass, based in San Francisco with members around the States and Canada, creates a new model of brass ensemble, a hybrid of styles to create a distinct sound and reach a broader range of listeners. From church stages to nightclub scenes Paradigm Brass brings Bach to the bars and groove to the concert halls. We strive to make music that listeners of all types can connect with, and to create new paths of emotional connectivity with out culture by transcending the barriers between performer and listener.

May 2006


MAY 27

 

Epithemia: to touch and be touched

felt dances by mary ann brooks and andrew wass

date: saturday, may 27th
place: 2501 bryant @ 23rd st corner


time: 9:00pm

donation: $5-15 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

epithemia is an investigation into mediated and unmediated realms of dance and touch. how is dance as well as touch experienced through media and technology? television monitors, video cameras, cell phones, live feeds, and on line chats versus a conversation face to face or a hug, for instance. how much of your life experience is mediated through technology or not?

"real art is play, & play is one of the most immediate of all experiences...art will go on, in somewhat the same sense that breathing, eating, or fucking will go on." hakim bey


MAY 20

Grasping the Nettles

On Saturday, May 20th 8-11pm Million Fishes will host Grasping the Nettle.

Grasping the Nettle an evening of performance art by nationally and internationally acclaimed artists Marilyn Arsem (Boston), Krista DeNio (San Francisco), Hiroko Kikuchi (Boston), Kristina Lenzi (Salt Lake City), and Natalie Loveless (Santa Cruz). It is curated by Dillon Paul.

Hailing artists from throughout the country, Grasping the Nettle is a night of stunning performance by five women artists linked by their artistic bravery, unique visual language, and generous engagement with the audience. Marilyn Arsem, founder of Mobius, Boston's oldest artist collaborative, has been creating live events since 1975. Recognized throughout the world for her powerful, site-specific work, Arsem uses multiple media and engages all the senses to provide audiences with a visceral and intellectual experience that is both intimate and haunting.

San Francisco's beloved Krista DeNio is returning to San Francisco after a two-year hiatus in Boulder, Colorado, where she has been earning her MFA in Theater at Naropa University. DeNio is known for her own dance theater work, which she produced in San Francisco between 1997-2004, as well as for her collaborative work with Flyaway Productions, Epiphany Productions, and Rachael Lincoln, among others. A co-founder of the Experimental Performance Institute at the New College in San Francisco, DeNio is specifically interested in creating complex environments that engage all the senses through movement, sound, texture and media.

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Hiroko Kikuchi creates sculptural installation and performance work that draws upon Japanese culture and ritual to create a visual and physical language that has stirred and captivated viewers throughout the United States and abroad. Kristina Lenzi currently lives and works in Salt Lake City, where she regularly upsets the status quo by engaging in physical, visceral, and politically charged performance art that actively engages and challenges viewers. Originally from Montreal, Natalie Loveless is an artist, critic and theorist interested in dialogic space, performance practice, critical and cultural theory. She has exhibited, presented, and performed across North and South America, Europe, and Asia.

Grasping the Nettle is a project of recess, founded by Dillon Paul in 2004 to serve as an umbrella organization for collaborative projects among artists in all media. For more information about this event, contact Dillon Paul at 415.254.7711 or freshdill@hotmail.com.

April 2006


APRIL 22


Empirical Nostalgia

"chora" by Danielle Giudici Wallis

On April 22nd and 23rd, Million Fishes Arts Collective will present Empirical Nostalgia, an art exhibit of systematic works concerning the passage of space and time.

Empirical Nostalgia is an exhibition of attempts at the objective capture of personal experiences, as well as responses to the failures of memory. We are interested in work that is systematic in nature, showing both artistic understanding and an analytic approach to experience.

Captured in varied media and processes, the curators focused on pieces that presented an analytic or mechanical component.

Gallery hours are APRIL 22nd and 23rd, 12-5pm
The performances and opening reception are April 22nd, 7pm-midnight

garrett maclean
"mosaic" by Maria Bonn

3 Performers
Mary Ann Brooks (performance, Million Fishes)
Elizabeth Foster-Shaner (performance)
Miriam Wolodarsky (living installation)

11 Visual Artists
Garrett Maclean (photography, Million Fishes) Mischa Shoni (photography, Million Fishes)
Tyson (audio art, Million Fishes) Marilyn McNeal (multimedia installation, Million Fishes)
Peter Foucault (mylar installation) Tamera Ferro ( fabric art) Dean Gustafson (calendar installation)
Danielle Giudici Wallis (kinetic sculpture) Maria Bonn (mixed media) Jose Maro (lithograghy)
Jane Porter ( sculpture, possible video)

The Big Question
How do they fix transience? How do we?


March 2006

MARCH 31


Paint, Concept & Wood: The Work of Kevin Clarke


On Friday March 31st, Million Fishes will showcase the artwork of founding member Kevin Clarke. We will open up two of our exhibition spaces to show Kevin's painting, conceptual art and wood working. This show will explore Kevin's work from the last three years at the California College of the Arts (formerly known as CCAC), where he received a BFA in Painting and Drawing December last year.


MARCH 2


SMALL GALLERY PRESENTS BIBA BELL: GALLERY GIRL

Kevin Clarke's Small Gallery will feature its first performance when it hosts Biba Bell: Gallery Girl.
Biba will sit in the gallery and perform her function at 49 Geary St this Thursday March 2nd from 5:30 - 7:30 PM

Time: 5:30 - 7:30 PM

Location: 49 Geary

Contact: kevin@millionfishes.com



2005 *2005 *2005 *2005
December 2005


December 10

Mashup Salon
Installation / Video / Sound / Theater / Movement / Mixed Media

Saturday, December 10
7:00 -11:30 pm



ARTISTS:

Ivy Chuang, tyson, Clare Droney, Adrian Arias, Aydasara Ortega, Indira Urrutia, Andrei Boutyline, Denzil Meyers, John Flournoy, Matthew Gleeson, A. P. Saito, Brad Hornsby, Masumi Patzel, Phoebe Seligman, Thomas Frangillo

PERFORMANCES:
8 (for map tour) – Mary Ann Brooks (dance)
9 - The Mercurial Gay Beings (sound: banjo, objects,voice)
9:30 - Matt Gleason (storytelling)
10 – Interarts Project (sound, film, words)
10:30 – Nature Theatre of Oklahoma
11 – Soundtest (sound)

CONCEPT:

Applying the same tactics behind the new mashup genre of music that is fusing different music categories, we are proposing a mashup of artists and mediums. The Million Fishes Gallery will be divided into ‘work spaces’ that are allocated among 15 artists. The artist is given creative freedom of the space and is allowed to develop that space over the course of a week. The result will be displayed in an evening of art, music, and performance on Saturday, Dec. 10.


December 4

Tyson Performs with Chrysalis Ensemble

Tyson from Million Fishes performs as part of the Chrysalis Ensemble
in the 2005 Chrysalis Concerts

Saturday, December 3rd, 8 p.m.
Sunday, December 4th, 4 p.m.

Chrysalis New Music Studio
275 Clara Street
San Francisco, CA

These concerts will feature music composed by Cris Forster for seven original acoustic instruments, played by the Chrysalis Ensemble.

Joining the ensemble for these concerts are five musicians who have participated in our internship program, funded by a generous grant from the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund.

Harmonic Melodic Canon (pictured above)
design & constructed by Cris Forster (photo above right)
photo by Will Gullette



December 3


No Mo Tour
8 dancers from Brooklyn

original music by

Mike Brown
Lani Rowe

installation by

Phoebe Seligman

 


starring

Biba Bell
Liz Boubion
Jacqueline Fritz
Nancy Garcia
Targuin Gill-Kehoe
Jessie Gold
Jbird Leary
Hope Mohr
Andrew Wass

October 2005  


October 22

Mission Arts & Performance Project


photo credit: Alan Bamberger, artbusiness.com 

May 2005


May 28

Shelter: A Million Fishes Show


Curators:

Mike Shankman and Yes Duffy

We occupy shelters our whole lives. Some we build, others we tear down. They are physical habitats, cultural institutions, personal ideologies, and artistic vernaculars.

Shelter Exhibition was a conceptual exploration of shelter as a social construction, environmental distinction, behavior pattern, and ideology.

Presenting works in 2D, 3D, large scale installation, film, video, performance and sound, Shelter Exhibition challenged the traditional gallery showcase, channeling an array of ideas and approaches, generating an experimental forum that was both an exhibition and an interactive experience.

Artists:
Suha Araj, Biba Bell, Heather Bernard, Mike Brown, Kevin Clarke, Tess Donohoe, Lesley Ehrenfeld, Orion Harbour, Sarah Hirneisen, Clint Imboden, Ryan Mulroney, Heather Palmer, Anne Regan, Airyka Rockefeller, Jim Saliba, Phoebe Tooke, Tyson, Melissa Wyman

 

Curators:
Mike Shankman and Yes Duffy

photo credit: Alan Bamberger, artbusiness.com

 

July 2005

 

July 15

Mission Arts & Performance Project

Featuring solo artist showcase - Peter and performances by The Get Down Funk Band and local breakdancers.

 

 

 

 

 





March 2005

 

MARCH 19

Mission Arts & Performance Project

Our participation is the last Mission Arts and Performance Project: MAPP was a huge success. In our Million Fishes Cellar we had bodies of work by three photographers: Charlie Schneider, Lars, and one of our own resident artists, Ivy Chuang. In the Million Fishes Gallery, we housed a collection of exquisite works of cut paper by Casey Watson and great musical performances by Ian Shaul, Anna Laube, and Pirate Radio. The MAPP tour that connected us with the other 5 participating spaces was also well attended and we look forward to doing it again.

 

January 2005


January 15

Mission Arts & Performance Project

MF showcase of photography by Travis Lutz, paintings by Tyson Ayers, performances by Naomi Adiv. Also featuring a bluegrass jam session.

 

 


2004 *2004 *2004 *2004
August 2004


August 13

Barbi Speed & Graffitti: A Million Fishes Show

On Friday August 13th, 2004, Million Fishes presented 2D &3D mixed media works of Altered Barbi's, live dance & performance art painting, photography and a Precita Eyes mural in a show titled 'Barbie, Speed, and Graffiti. The gallery was open to the public that weekend and the following weekend.

The concept of the show was to explore Barbie as an icon and symbol of feminity and how the parallels to reality and emotion are often distorted.

Artists included: Miriam Blachman, Kevin Clarke, Michael Shankman, Jenn Crawford, Mischa Purcell, Phoebe Seligman, Ben Flax, Yes Duffy, Sari Pace, Nick Brubaker, and a show window mural by Precita Eyes.

photo credit: Alan Bamberger, artbusiness.com

June 2004


June 10

Submerge: A Million Fishes Show

On Thursday, June 10th , 2004, Million Fishes Art Collective presented Submerge, an eccentric art/fashion show, in their Mission art space. Four designers' work was on display in an aquatic, dream-like environment,
nuanced with experimental soundscapes and original showcased art. The gallery was open through that weekend.

photo credit: Alan Bamberger, artbusiness.com  

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