Solo Shows
Artists are listed in alphabetical order.
Alex Conde
Piano Jazz Flamenco
Date(s) & Time(s): Sunday, June 11, 6:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2781 24th St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: BRAVA Cabaret
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28
Spanish virtuoso pianist Alex Conde presents ''jazz and flamenco'' solo piano concert full of energy and sensitivity. A repertory of original compositions and arrangements of T Monk and B. Powell compositions in Latin Jazz Clave
Alive & Well Productions / Annie Kahane
Meeting #7
Date(s) & Time(s): Friday, June 16, 9:00 PM, Saturday, June 17, 8:00 PM
Duration: 50 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 401 Alabama St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Joe Goode Annex
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $18, Advance: $21, Door: $24
A one-woman show created and performed by dance theater artist Annie Kahane, with projections by filmmaker Ethan Alesch. An orientation-leader welcomes the audience to a parody PowerPoint presentation, as if they are extraterrestrials who have just arrived on planet earth.
Chris Carlsson
A Mission History of Urban Food Production
Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday, June 17, 1:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Theatre of Yugen
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28
Discover the northeast Mission's remarkable history of industrial food production. Including the buildings repurposed during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 70s that led to today's organic food abundance. The tour starts at the old American Can Company (today's Project Artaud) and ends at one of the neighborhood's most inspiring pandemic responses: the Mission Food Hub at Alabama and 19th Street.
Clyde Leland
A Musical Benefit for Jewish Voice for Peace - Bay Area Chapter
Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday, June 10, 4:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2781 24th St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: BRAVA Studio
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28
Award-winning singer-songwriter with guitar and banjo playing original songs that are sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes political, and often memorable.
David Kleinberg
He Wants to Run
Date(s) & Time(s): Friday, June 9, 6:30 PM, Sunday, June 11, 2:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Theatre of Yugen
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $15, Advance: $20, Door: $22
"He Wants to Run" is David Kleinberg's story of a guy who hates running and dogs, and how he ended up running with his neighbor's dog for 13 years in Cloverdale and what Butler teaches David about living and dying.
Dee Spencer
The BluesFem Project: Smile Orange
Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday, June 17, 5:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2781 24th St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: BRAVA Cabaret
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28
A musical experience arranged and directed by jazz luminary, Dee Spencer, combining the 1976 film, Smile Orange with a live performance of the soundtrack composed by trombonist Melba Liston (1926–1999). Blending soul, R&B, jazz, pop and blues with traditional Jamaican sounds, it is Dee’s homage to Liston and author Trevor D. Rhone (1940–2009).
Guta Galli
Cup of Tea
Date(s) & Time(s): Thursday, June 15, 8:00 PM, Saturday, June 17, 9:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2781 24th St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: BRAVA Studio
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28
Galli revisits her 2015 video-performance that questions laws that place boundaries on women's sexuality, caregiving and workplaces. Now bearing the body of a mother, she returns to the art scene and questions why the systemic oppression of women is still so prevalent and rape culture so widespread.
Jason Bayani
Locus of Control
Date(s) & Time(s): Friday, June 9, 8:30 PM, Saturday, June 10, 5:30 PM
Duration: 75 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Theatre of Yugen
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28
"Locus of Control" explores the complicated, sometimes fragmented experience of the Filipinx-American background and identity. Setting himself behind a DJ booth, Bayani seamlessly moves between poetry, storytelling, music and video taking the audience through his family’s history of migration viewed through both a historic and intensely personal lens.
Jessica Fudim
Venomous
Date(s) & Time(s): Thursday, June 15, 8:00 PM, Saturday, June 17, 3:30 PM
Duration: 90 minutes with intermission
Location: 401 Alabama St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Joe Goode Annex
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28
This performance is part of a shared bill with: Steamroller Dance Company
Her tale is more than 2,000 years old, but what would Medusa say if she could speak for herself? Jessica Fudim’s dance-theater solo, combines contemporary movement, storybook tableaus, and unabashed party dancing—playing between whimsy and darkness—as she moves Medusa’s story beyond that of a monster.
Lisa A Frias
Gratitude
Date(s) & Time(s): Thursday, June 8, 8:00 PM, Saturday, June 10, 8:45 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Theatre of Yugen
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28
“Gratitude” is a cloth of hidden scars, liminal spaces and unexpected wings. From working all night restaurants and mental health agencies to over two decades in the classroom. From close calls and pitfalls, love stories and activism, to prayers, recovering and laughing.
Sha Sha Higby
The Powdered Sea
Date(s) & Time(s): Friday, June 9, 7:00 PM, Sunday, June 11, 2:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2781 24th St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: BRAVA Studio
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28
Micro puppets depict serene forests of animals and birds followed by a stylized battle of demons of fire. After being extinguished by the oceans, the sky opens and it begins to snow. Fishes search through the remains for flying souls. What is to happen next?…as this ornate Giant watches over.
