IFTA | WHEN: April, 28th, 2 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Ben Goldberg – clarinet; Rob Sudduth – tenor saxophone; David Ewell – bass; Scott Amendola – drums The Ben Goldberg Quartet performs compositions from Ben’s recent projects, including songs from his recently released and highly acclaimed records Subatomic Particle Homesick Blues and Unfold Ordinary Mind.
More+IFTA | WHEN: April 18th, 8 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Terrence Brewer – guitar; Doug Ebert – bass; Rob Rhodes – drums; Michael Coleman – keyboards; Joe Cohen – tenor saxophone Miles Davis, SouLive, and Cream get into a bar fight…it’s the closest imagery that describes the sound of San Francisco based music collective, Citizen Rhythm. It is the music of Mingus, Monk, Miles, and more fused with funk, hard rock, hip-hop, and odd-meter grooves.
More+IFTA | WHEN: March 28th, 8pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: HOWARD WILEY QUARTET: I LOVE THE 80s Howard Wiley brings a new quartet to Intersection performing music influenced by favorite pop hits from the 80s. Howard Wiley’s grandfather, Sam Wiley, played saxophone in Count Basie’s Orchestra, and gave constant advice to the young musician growing up in Hercules, CA.
More+IFTA | WHEN: March 23, 1-3 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Christine Lee’s work sits between sculpture, furniture/woodworking, and installation. Her practice is characterized by an objective to reveal the latent potential of disregarded material. Influenced by the increasingly prevalent theories and practices of materials reclamation, resource conservation, and recycling in contemporary art, Lee is proposing an innovative solution to working with composite wood boards that are free of toxic adhesives and binders, effectively utilizing excess waste, offering a safer alternative to readily available plywood and medium-density fiberboard (commonly called MDF), and creating value to a common, abundant by-product for use by a range of artistic and industrial disciplines.
More+IFTA | WHEN: March 17th, 2 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Les Gwan Jupons play vintage party music from the French, Spanish and English-speaking Caribbean – biguine from Martinique, calypso from Trinidad, cumbia from Colombia, cha-cha and bolero from Cuba. The ensemble, the brainchild of bassist Lisa Mezzacappa and guitarist John Finkbeiner, was born out of both musicians’ love for the music of the Caribbean and vintage sounds of the African Diaspora. Mezzacappa traveled to Guadeloupe more than ten years ago in search of the traditional gwo ka music she had heard on a recording, and later researched jazz in the West Indies as an ethnomusicology graduate student at UC Berkeley. Finkbeiner has long arranged, composed and produced recordings with a homegrown dub reggae band that features…
More+INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS | WHEN: Feb 7th, Opening Reception, 7-9 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St. | Details: Art meets science at Intersection! Intersection for the Arts presents By-product Becomes Product, an innovative cross-disciplinary project using excess wood waste to explore safer alternatives to working with toxic material.
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INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS | WHEN: Jan 19th, 2pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Join Intersection for the Arts for the Determining Domain free Closing Artists’ Talk. Determining Domain is a group exhibition featuring work by seven artists – Bigface, Scott Kildall & Nathaniel Stern, Sanaz Mazinani, Farnaz Shadravan, Stephanie Syjuco,and Scott Tsuchitani. Determining Domain explores complex issues regarding intellectual property and image ownership.
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IFTA | WHEN: Jan 16th, 7-9 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Expanding on themes of Intersections for the Art’s current exhibition, Determining Domain, we are hosting a workshop/tutorial about artists’ rights to creative work, led by intellectual property lawyer Inder Comar. Learn how law affects the art world through practical resources and discussion
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INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS | WHEN: Jan 12th, 7-9 pm | WHERE: 925 Mission St | Details: Follow Me Down, a feature length documentary about music in Louisiana prisons, will be presented at Intersection for the Arts, 925 Mission Street Suite 109, San Francisco at 7:00 PM on Saturday, January 12, 2013, as a benefit for the William James Association Prison Arts Project. A discussion with the filmmaker and former prison music teachers will follow the screening.
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