Brasarte presents:
Once again, this February 27 and 28 Brasarte brings to the Bay Area a centuries old trans-oceanic, magical celebration: the Yemanja Arts Festival. Yemanja is mother of salt waters, goddess of the sea, giver of life, and patron of fishermen. This celebration originates from Yoruban traditions carried from West Africa to the Americas, but it is now embraced by migrants and travelers throughout the world who, having crossed the oceans in search for a better life, regard Yemaya as their protector. With this festival Brasarte also honors Black History Month as it is believed that Yemaya traveled on slave ships with the African diaspora.
This celebration offers a unique opportunity for healing across cultures and races, a chance to reach out, share and celebrate with each other. Participants will immerse themselves in joyous Brazilian music, dance, food and drinks in a beautifully decorated space filled with baskets, flowers, soaps, perfumes, sea shells, inspired in gifts traditionally offered to Yemanja.
Drummers, musicians, dancers and singers from Latin America and the United States will invoke the goddess mother, her healing beauty, and her generous and protective spirit. This years show features the Damasceno Dance Collective, the Curumis Childrens Dance Troupe, renown choreographers from Brazil and Cuba Luiz Badaro, Tania Santiago and Cheo Rojas, and guest singer from Bahia, Dandara Odara. As well as works by local artists Tika Morgan and Stephanie Emmanuel Engel.
Brazilian appetizers and bar featuring our famous caipirinhas.
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Made possible with support by the Lakeshore Foundation and the San Francisco Foundation
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COST/TICKETS/REGISTRATION:
$20 in advance, $22 @ door.
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MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.Brasarte.com
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 510-528-1958
Contact: Conceicao Damasceno
12 midnight to 7pm, Casa de Cultura 1901 San Pablo Ave
Jennifer Ashworth and Tania Mandzy in Flotow's "Martha."
Among the great delights of the Bay Ares musical scene is Pocket Opera, which has spent nearly 40 years presenting mainstream operatic repertoire in intimate and wonderfully engaging productions. The company draws on some of the best of local singers, but its main attraction is its founder and guiding spirit, the irrepressible Donald Pippin.
It is Pippin who creates the brilliantly clear and witty English translations; dozens of them, that help bring the operas to life. It is Pippin who, at 90, presides over performances from the piano and provides the spoken interludes that are twice as enjoyable as any recitative.
The company's 39th season gets under way this weekend with "Martha", an opera once phenomenally popular but now rarely performed. It continues with offerings by Verdi, Handel, Leoncavallo, von Suppé and Offenbach.--Joshua Kosman
2pm to 5pm, Hillside Club 2286 Cedar Street
$25-$58. 642-9988. [email protected]
3pm, Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley campus
Nielsen, Schnittke, and Beethoven. $48. 642-9988. [email protected]
3pm, Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley campus
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (arr. Simon)
Renowned Bay Area soprano Christine Brandes ("Earthy and affecting... magnificent" -NY Times) makes her SFCO debut in a very special performance of Mahler's Fourth Symphony. Klaus Simon's beautiful 2007 chamber arrangement for 14 players brings out the intimacy of this heavenly piece without sacrificing any of its power. This program will begin with a guided tour of this complex score, wherein conductor Benjamin Simon and the orchestra reveal its secrets and bring listeners into Mahler's imaginative "sound world," followed by a complete performance of this 55-minute work.
No tickets or reservations, seating is first-come first-served. Doors open 45 minutes before concert time. SFCO members receive priority entrance & priority seating.
http://www.thesfco.org/events/mainstage/
3pm to 5pm, First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way
Don't miss the exciting young Telegraph Quartet, 2014 Grand Prize winners in the prestigious international Fischoff Chamber Music Competition!
Program:
Mozart Quartet in E-flat Major, K428
Kirchner String Quartet No. 1
Dvorak String Quartet in A-flat Major, Op. 105
About Telegraph Quartet:
Eric Chin, violin
Joseph Maile, violin
Pei-Ling Lin, viola
Jeremiah Shaw, cello
The members of the quartet are graduates of top conservatories and universities including the Juilliard School, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Rice University, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Collectively they have performed in concert halls and music festivals across the U.S. including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington D.C., the Hartt School at University of Hartford, Music at Gretna, Art Center Chamber Music Concerts in Teaneck NJ, and internationally from Shanghai and Taiwan to Tijuana. The quartet is dedicated to educating and inspiring the next generation of musicians.
Crowden presents chamber music to the public with Sundays @ Four, our series of low-cost, informal concerts featuring distinguished chamber musicians.
Artists speak about each work and share their personal observations and inspirations in these intimate concerts,
Free "Meet-the-Artists" reception following the concert.
Tickets: $25 general admission, $20 seniors/students 18+, and free for children under 18.
4pm to 5pm, Crowden Music Center 1474 Rose Street
Carnatic @ Berkeley Arts Festival
South Indian music gets re-upped.
Original songs along traditional lines
+ improvisations backed by tambura drone lutes
& mridangam double drum.
$12 -20
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"A dream...passionate, knowledgeable, mindblowing."
- Asian Art Museum (SF)
4pm to 6pm, 2133 University Ave.
$20 adv / $22 door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
7pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States