The Emerald Tablet

ART’S NOT DEAD: The Convent’s First Annual Exhibit

emtab — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 19:50:58 +0000

First Annual “ART’S NOT DEAD, SF” Group Exhibition
Opening and artists reception: Thursday, December 3rd, 6-10pm
(Official page, Press release, RSVP on Facebook)

The Convent Arts Collective, in conjunction with The Emerald Tablet, is hosting a major exhibition of works and processes by resident artists past and present. For more information, please follow the links above.

Thursday December 3.
Opening reception: 6-10 pm.
The Convent, 660 Oak St, San Francisco, CA 94117 (map)
FREE. Refreshments available.

UNDER THE INFLUENCE: from Sophocles to Letterman

Evan Karp — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:41:40 +0000

Join us on Tuesday, June 23rd at 7:30pm at Viracocha for the twenty-seventh installment of our first homegrown performance series, Under the Influence, co-created with and hosted by Quiet Lightning’s Evan Karp.

Five artists perform work by one of their major influences, followed by original work created for the show that channels that influence. Artists have 15 minutes and select the following month’s performers, so each show is inspired by the one before.

This month’s show features Jason Headley, Ivan Arguelles, Aaron Mayfield-Sunshine, and Adam “Bucho” Rodenberger! Information about the performers and their influences will be up soon here.

Come see what turns people on and what they do about it. Who knows? You might take someone more than just home with you. Under the Influence: because some things last longer than homes.

Tuesday June 23.
Doors 7:00 pm. Show 7:30 pm.
Viracocha, 998 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110 (map)
$10. Nobody turned away for lack of funds.
Delicious complimentary food. Drinks by donation.

BIGGI VINKELOE ROUGHTET: composite visual and musical showcase

emtab — Thu, 14 May 2015 20:00:03 +0000

We’re excited to once again welcome German/Swedish saxophonist and flautist Biggi Vinkeloe with her US touring ensemble, the Biggi Vinkeloe Roughtet.

For full information on the Roughtet’s current tour, click here. For their concert at The Emerald Tablet, click here. For a recent review, click here.

FLAMENCO DEL ORO: cuadro flamenco

emtab — Thu, 14 May 2015 19:51:18 +0000

Flamenco del Oro and The Emerald Tablet present Cuadro Flamenco with legendary artist/singer Roberto Zamora, guitarist Gopal Slavonic, and dancer’s Bianca Rodriguez, and Cynthia Sanchez. Last flamenco show scheduled at the Emerald Tablet for now, so don’t miss it!
2 sets with intermission. Admission is $18 recommended donation for the artists! Tapas provided and drinks for sale!
(415) 500-2323
Easy parking at Vallejo Street Garage (766 Vallejo Street SF)

www.flamencodeloro.com
www.emtab.org

TIMELESS BEAUTY IN MOMENTARY MADNESS

emtab — Thu, 14 May 2015 08:00:20 +0000

This is a special event. It was sculpted out of crystals of pure madness by dreaming drifters and gambling gallerists, for the sake of the only one beauty that rules everything, in secret. It may be a swan song. It may be only the beginning of a new era. We can’t tell you which.

While you weren’t watching, it began hatching. The question before you now is: will you be there when it is born?

SF PUNK RENAISSANCE: early warning 2015

emtab — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 00:42:06 +0000

SF PUNK RENAISSANCE: early warning 2015
Art Exhibit and Reception — Friday May 1st 2015, 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Spoken Word and Performance — Saturday May 2nd 2015, 5:30 pm to 10 pm
The Emerald Tablet, 80 Fresno St, San Francisco, CA 94133 (map)
Free. Nobody turned away for lack of funds.
Delicious complimentary refreshments.

DROP LEAF PRESS PRESENTS: a release party for OXALIS

emtab — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 00:55:07 +0000

Celebrate with us as we honor our inaugural issue of OXALIS, an occasional handmade magazine from Drop Leaf Press. Readers include:

Susan Calvillo
Christopher Chen
Tiffany Higgins
Caitlin Myer
Lehua M. Taitano
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux
Nicholas James Whittington

Meet the five editors of this new indie press, and join us for an afternoon of poetry and prose (maybe even a play!) from some of our favorite Bay Area writers.

For more info, check out this Facebook post.

DROP LEAF PRESS PRESENTS: a release party for OXALIS
Sunday May 3rd 2015, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
The Emerald Tablet, 80 Fresno St, San Francisco, CA 94133 (map)
Free, sliding scale. Nobody turned away for lack of funds.
Complimentary refreshments.

THE LIVES OF THE CREATORS: with Hugh Leeman

Della — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 02:52:14 +0000

THE LIVES
OF THE CREATORS

A series of storytelling, informal conversations, and live performances with creators and an audience. The speakers are a beautiful range of inspiring people from a former Fortune 500 consultant who quit his job and founded a company bringing clean water to the Indigenous Aeta Tribe that he was raised alongside in his native Philippines to a gay married couple who with their adopted daughter wrote a cabaret about their lives which has debuted in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and will open this fall in New York City as well as a brillant Engineer/Artist who has been a part of creating Avatar, The Pirates of the Caribbean not to mention his own beautiful artwork, with an award winning filmmaker, and an award winning street musician.This casual event is free and open to the public, it is hosted by Hugh Leeman in North Beach at the Emerald Tablet. This event allows the line between creator and audience to blend by creating informal dialogue propelled towards the profound through the power of storytelling with passion, humor, and vulnerability.

The founding idea is that when we put the creative ideas that live in our heads into the air around our heads and share these ideas with others, we begin to expand the idea of what art is and what a creator is and in that we expand the potential of what we believe we are capable of. Because at the end of the day, in the best of all of us is our ability to create. When we speak on our thoughts and feelings in an open minded environment we bring those thoughts and ideas one step closer to a tangible reality, improving not just the lives of others but our own as well.

The format:
Each creator will speak for 15 minutes on what they are creating with a focus on the backstory, what it is in their life that has influenced and inspired them to do what they are doing. At the end of the 15 minutes the host will facilitate dialogue between the speaker and the audience for 5 minutes with the focus of this dialogue being less of a question and answer session and more of a conversation to inform and ideally inspire.

The focus is what inspires your dreams and how can others be a part of that

The Speakers:

Fernando Briosos founded the Aeta Tribe Foundation, a non-profit corporation, with the sole purpose of bringing clean drinking water to the mountains for the indigenous Aeta tribal population. The foundation will allow the Aeta people to continue living peacefully and sustainably in the forest they call home. Briosos was born and raised in a rural village of the Philippines, next to the indigenous, Aeta tribe. He moved to the United States at the age of 14.
Read more, http://www.sfgate.com/news

Ava Vukic and Frank Silletti A father and his 11 year old daughter, created and star in “The Book of Ava- the birth of a family” a cabaret based on their life together and celebrating the modern family. Through story and song, “The Book of Ava” is a fun and tender look at adoption, marriage, equality and the love that binds Ava and her two dads in our changing world. The show had successful debuts in San Francisco and Los Angeles earlier this year and will return to SF and debut in New York in the fall.
Read more, http://www.sfgate.com/music

Matthew Parrot is an artist and engineer working in visual effects. His personal work is a Romantic take on nightscapes, cityscapes, and the Self. Parrot has additionally created visual effects on major motion pictures such as Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Monsters Inc.
See more, http://matthewatabet.com

Michael Morgenstern is a filmmaker, artist, and techie who has made two award-winning shorts, numerous web projects, and started a national event called Nametag Day. Between tech company commercials, teaching, and writing, his primary focus is directing a feature film. His projects and films have been featured on HBO, CBS, and The New York Times.See more, http://everythingisfilm.com

Vinny “Blue” Priest is a Viet Nam veteran originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. He has more than 25 years of experience playing harmonica in front of live audiences as a street performer. “Blue” as he is affectionatley known has appeared on The New York Times as well as on the cover of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Bay Area section.
Read more http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea

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Hugh Leeman presents: The Lives of Creators
Sunday May 17th 2015, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
The Emerald Tablet, 80 Fresno St, San Francisco, CA 94133 (map)
Free, sliding scale. Nobody turned away for lack of funds.
Complimentary refreshments.

Art Exhibit: From Mission to North Beach

Della — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:21:39 +0000

FROM MISSION to NORTH BEACH:

Large scale paintings exhibit by Mission and North Beach artists

Dorothy Payne, Todd T. Brown, Adrian Arias, Mauro Fortissimo, Jack Hirschman, George Long, Romeo Osorio and Casson Kauffman

Closing celebration: Thursday, March 26th 6:00-10 pm

World music by Jorge Molina, poetry by the Emeritus Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman, LA Slam Champ Matt Sedillo and others

Please join us on Thursday, March 26 at 6pm for a closing celebration of From Mission to North Beach!

The closing for this exhibition of very large drawings, paintings and wall sculptures features some of the most dedicated artists/activists of two of San Francisco’s most vibrant artistic neighborhoods; we will be presenting work which reflects their ongoing commitment as artists to their communities

World music by Jorge Molina, poetry by the Emeritus Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman, LA Slam Champ Matt Sedillo, and others.

FROM THE MISSION TO NORTH BEACH: closing celebration
Thursday March 26, 2015.
6 – 10 pm.
The Emerald Tablet, 80 Fresno St, San Francisco, CA 94133 (map)
FREE. Delicious complimentary food. Drinks by donation.

ICAROS: Shamanic Stitchcraft

Della — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:39:30 +0000

Icaros: Shamanic Stitchcraft

An Exhibit of Shipibo Ayahuasca Artwork

Presentation Event: Wednesday Sept. 24th at 7:30pm
Doors at 6:30
Exhibit on view Sept. 19th – 28th 2014

In this exhibit we will be displaying the handcrafted artistry of the Shipibo, a Peruvian tribe, whose brightly colored, dextrously embroidered tapestries depict visual representations of the Icaros. Used to navigate the medicinal channels, Icaros are magical, healing songs that function as an ancient technology, sung by Shipibo shamans during ceremonies that utilize the visionary jungle brew Ayahuasca. Representative of visually beheld music, the artwork resembles snakeskin as well as circuitry.

There will be stunning hand crafted jewelry on sale made from the Ayahuasca vine, combined with animal bone and mineral and plant medicine artifacts.

Kent Osborne, who has lived and worked with the Shipibo in the Amazon jungle for several years, will give a presentation on the meaning and significance of the Shipibo imagery and Ayahuasca rituals.

Net proceeds of sales go to the Shipibo people.