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| | ART 415 ART | MUSIC | FASHION | DANCE | FILM | POLITICS | COMMUNITY only in san francisco!  The San Francisco Late Night Coalition is hosting their largest fundraiser ever. And we hope that YOU can make it!
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 | Additional information is available via http://www.ART415.com. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS! 28,000 square feet of art, music, fashion, dance, film, politics, and community... SATURDAY | AUGUST 21st | 7:00 PM - 4 AM | 511 HARRISON |
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| N E W A R T RETNA  This is Retna's first art show in San Francisco. For the last decade, Retna has been an exceptionally prolific artist whose work has appeared on walls around the world. Albeit not always in galleries! In 1999 Retna reconstructed his first fashion advert, transforming mainstream advertising with his futuristically gritty style. Retna's sensuously exotic patterns consist of Mayan, Egyptian, and Asian motifs. He mixes his typography with a dash of Gustav Klimt and Alphonse Mucha for good measure. The results are stunning. Models become deities, and corporate advertising and public spaces are reinvented... ART 415 includes dozens of new works from Retna. Incuding a few 'liberated' billboards... |
| DAVID DEROSA  David DeRosa is a classically trained painter who had the first public showing of his work earlier this year. Over the past several months, David has donated works in his signature after image style to a number of San Francisco non-profits, raising thousands of dollars in auctions for some top-notch organizations, including Visual Aid and Glide Memorial. David is currently working on commissioned portraits for a whole host of acclaimed actors, musicians, and professional athletes - several of which are included in this show. Along with some GIANT pieces that have NEVER been shown publicly! ART 415 is the first large scale exhibition of his work. |
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|  M U S I C ART 415 features LOTS of local musical talent. Felonious onelovehiphop | Kev Kelley | aSza | Kid Beyond | WiseProof SETS | DJ Kramer | marQue | Double ~O | DJ Tom Thump | Preach Martin Hectic | Kelly Tunstall (spinning!) | Shawn Snyder | Mistah Fab | Styllion NoMe | Mad Dog (8 year old rapper!) | LOOP ! STATION | Malika | ikamyo DJ Soulside | Masta Steele | PID | and more! Plus a very special performance from our friends at Dhamaal Soundsystem.  Dhamaal just cracked the TOP 20 on the i-tunes electronic chart. They're also getting heavy airplay on John Peel's acclaimed BBC Radio 1 show, and are part of Amoeba's Homegrown Artist program. Plus they just won the Guardian's BEST OF THE BAY Readers Poll for Best Electronic Band + Best DJ Janaka. The Dhamaal crew weaves South Asian classical instrumentation into genre-bending future sounds from Breakbeat & D'n'B to Downtempo & IDM stylings. With a new album, UK gigs with the asian dub foundation tour, live DJ sets on BBC Radio, and their monthly party at Club Six, we definitely got lucky with the addition of Dhamaal... AND THIS JUST IN... |
|  Felonious onelovehiphop is an award winning live hip hop band based in San Francisco, consisting of a seven-man ensemble with 4 "live" Emcees, Bass, Guitar, Drums and plenty of ACTION. According to the Guardian, they are SF's best hip hop group! ART 415 features some astounding LIVE hip hop performance art from this amazing group. 
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|  Kid Beyond, aka Andrew Chaikin, is a vocalist, throat singer and beatboxer, known as one of the world's foremost vocal percussionists. A beatboxer for over 20 years, Andrew can produce full-on rock drum kits, hip-hop beats, funk grooves, turntable scratches, house, techno, drum-n-bass, Latin and African percussion - all with mind-blowing precision. No wonder SF Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll devoted an entire column to Andrew's "lips of pure gold."  Andrew has shared the stage with James Brown, LL Cool J, Run-DMC, Ray Charles, the Neville Brothers, Crosby Stills and Nash, The Gap Band, the Pointer Sisters, the Temptations, Tower of Power, Black Sheep, The Luniz, Freestyle Fellowship's P.E.A.C.E., and even President Bill Clinton. He has beatboxed at Carnegie Hall, at Bangkok's hottest club Song Slueng, and on FOX-TV's "30 Seconds to Fame." ART 415 features KID BEYOND doing some of his inimitable live looping - which is absolutely mesmerizing... and finally, watch for a VERY special performance from Kev Kelley... |
| F A S H I O N  The folks who first brought top fashion week designers to San Francisco this past year, Jacinta Designs - have outdone themselves with this fashion show! Jacinta's last event received international press coverage, and this one is even better. Showcasing vintage sportswear from San Francisco's very own BLUE MARLIN CLOTHING, ART 415 showcases a premier local company, and launches their NEW juniors collection.... The fashion show starts at 10 pm... |
| D A N C E  XENO Xeno is a San Francisco-based performance collective combining dance, music, and aerial arts, exploring the unabashed expression of individual spirit. We are VERY pleased to announce a special 40 minute Xeno performance at ART 415... |
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|  San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest The San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest showcases professional hip hop dance companies and youth performance groups together in one amazing weekend of unforgettable performances. The mission of this unique event is to give hip hop performers the opportunity to share with audiences their wealth of talents and to enrich the Bay Area community with its all-inclusive, multicultural, and engaging performances. The actual SF Hip Hop DanceFest is not until November 18-21 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and ART 415 will include a number of top-notch local hip-hop dancers + performers... |
| F I L M KEVIN EPPS  MASTAMIND PRODUCTIONS Straight Outta Hunter's Point, the award winning Hip Hop documentary by independent filmmaker Kevin Epps was only the beginning...  At ART 415, Kevin will be screening EXCLUSIVE excerpts from his two latest projects: > RAP DREAMS: chronicles the journey of aspiring rappers in san francisco > THE BLACK ROCK: the untold story of the black convict experience in alcatraz |
| QUALITY OF LIFE  SUMMERSHINES PRODUCTIONS Quality of Life is a local independent film that has been receiving rave reviews: * extraordinary - Berlin International Film Festival Jury * streetwise honesty...powerful - Seattle Post Intelligencer * authentic-looking glimpse into an exotic world - Variety Shot on location in San Francisco's Mission District, this narrative feature film sheds light on a clandestine graffiti subculture, highlighting one artist's personal struggle for identity, acceptance, and recognition. The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, where it was awarded a Special Mention. See excerpts BEFORE these films open in San Francisco later this year... |
| P O L I T I C S The San Francisco Late Night Coalition is a broad-based group composed of promoters, activists, dj's, musicians, artists, community members and club owners. The goal of the SFLNC is to protect, preserve and promote San Francisco's late-night culture. Their lobbying efforts were instrumental in the creation of San Francisco's Entertainment Commission, which has become a model for other cities throughout the United States. As the primary political advocate for San Francisco's diverse arts, entertainment, and nightlife constituencies, the SFLNC is doing some very important work. ART 415 constitutes their most ambitious fundraiser to date... | |
| T H E S P A C E  ART 415 is hosted by TERRA - one of San Francisco's most impressive new event venues. You won't believe the space! At over 14,000 square feet, TERRA is the PERFECT venue for this celebration of San Francisco's unique arts + culture.... plus a 14,000 square foot garage that is being transformed for a quite unprecedented art show... |
| THE ATM ART SHOW  this is NOT your typical wine + cheese art opening! 60+ emerging artists from San Francisco will be making art LIVE in an amazing 14,000 square foot space that used to be a garage! EVERYTHING that is being created is available for less than $200 - with ALL the money going directly to the artists! We are even bringing in a mobile ATM for your art shopping convenience... No charge for the artists to participate, either. This is simply a showcase of San Francisco's emerging artistic talent, and a unique opportunity for folks to DIRECTLY support San Francisco's premier emerging artists. You might recognize some of their names. Others have NEVER shown their work publicly before... And EVERYTHING is less than $200! Featured artists include Winston Smith, Kelly Tunstall, Warner Williams, Sandro Tchikovani, NoMe, Josh Feldman, Matt Irving, Anne Faith Nicholls, Sirron Norris, Gennifer Hirano, Ward Moore, Jakob Bokulich, Apex, Vic Chapa, Seth Minkin, Isaac McKay-Randozzi, Brad Isdrab, Ryan Stubbs, Preston Thomas, Timothy Rose, Ray Torres, Weston Thomson, David Troyer Sutherland, Grime, Teresa Moore, John Sheridan, Jake Hout, sfaustina, PUSH, Sarah Schumm, Karissa, Norm, Jennifer Wanderer, Steven Barich, Robert Allison, Ann Simms, Jennifer Hagen, Davin Skonberg, Melina Raissnia, Emet Sosna, Max Carlson, Reuben Raffael, Scatha G. Allison, Jennifer Delilah, Olivia Park, Max Carlson, SEVER, Mari Naomi, Chris Oatey, Amanda Lynn, Eric Helsley, Lucien Shapiro, Ta Sin Sabir, Jenny Pfeiffer, The Culprit Research Project, Sasha Harris-Cronin, Hang Nguyen, Erin Ashford, Ciaran Doyle, Alexis Mackenzie, Casondra Sobieralski, Gabrielle Wolodarski, Erica Schuck, Erik Siador, and Heather Luque. Plus the Gestalt Collective painting a giant mural LIVE! Along with a special booth from our friends at Last Gasp Press, who have been supporting local emerging artists for DECADES! The ATM ART SHOW is open from 6 pm until midnight... if you would like to participate in future ATM ART SHOWS, kindly email atm@STARTsoma.com. |
| WHAT ELSE? We have a team of over a hundred people volunteering their time + talents for this show... So buy some tickets + directly support your local creative community! CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS! no surprises. tickets are $15. |
| And for those of you have read this far, kindly CLICK HERE for special secret high-tech marketing stuff that will allow you to bypass the inevitable line at the opening, receive special discounts on NEW ART purchased upstairs at the show, and have an opportunity to win a FREE painting by David DeRosa.... In conjunction with our friends at IPSH.NET, we are going to experiment with the sort of SMS text-message marketing that to date has been used by folks like Jay Z, Nelly, Radiohead, and Madonna, but NEVER for a fundraiser like this! |
|  Thank you! info@STARTsoma.com |
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