UNREIN Preview Friday 7pm

UNREIN Performance Saturday 7pm

UNREIN Performance Sunday 5pm

UNREIN is a collaborative, process oriented, movement-based piece with seven performers. Length is approximately one hour with no intermission. Currently presented in a multi-media format, much of it was initially explored at Farallone Farms Ranch in Montara, CA.

We dream into it, living the question: Are we Gunk, Grace, both, neither? What do our wounds ask of us? We untangle knots, a safety network of trash, excavating and conjuring new shapes. We lay in heaps, puddles.  We are a herd, restless then asleep. We overlay elements to make a whole. 

It’s that time of the year to show your gratitude to someone special in your life and what a great way to gift distinctive work of original art created by important artists of the Bay Area and beyond. The lineup includes Gustavo Ramos Rivera, Javier Manrique, Juan Fuentes, Sergio Nates, Victor Cartagena, ArtSpace SF and Sin Título Gallery. The artworks consist of prints such as lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, monotypes, linocuts, giclée, silkscreen and drawings. There will also be paintings in small to medium size formats. Expect to discover contemporary artworks and some Mexican Masters works.

Saturday and Sunday, 11 am to 5pm .

Performances by:

Helen Wicks

Glamputee

Erin Yen

July 26 & 27. 2024

7:30PM

Space 124 at Project Artaud, 401 Alabama St. SF

Sandia Sexton’s performance arts collective El Circo Dia collaborates with Benjy Young’s aerial arts collective Vertigone, to create a stunning and mind bending site specific performance of 9 KInds of Accidents. Featuring Artistic Direction and Choreography by Sandia Sexton and Set Design, Lighting Design, and Rigging by Benjy Young.

9 Kind of Accidents is a journey through the entire life cycle of an inquisitive being, addressing the enthusiasm of being alive and the fragility of life itself.

El Circo Dia is an aerial theater collective that cultivates working relationships between dancers, musicians, and theater tech artists based in the San Francisco Bay Area. El Circo Dia seeks to maximize a collective voice to create productions that serve as a launching point for meaningful, socially-relevant conversations.

Sandia is an accomplished Aerial Artist, Coach, and Performance Art Director, and skillfully walks the line between stunt woman, fine artist, teacher, and business owner.

Benjy Young is a filmmaker, master rigger, sculptor, and theater director. He was a founding member of Theater Artaud in 1973 and is now Artistic Director of Vertigone Aerial Theater.

The SandiaCircus youth residency program provides a one of a kind experience for local aerial artists ages 6 - 18, wanting to expand their performance skills and experiences. This exciting aerial arts residency provides one month of skill building for excelling at acrobatic training, aerial choreography, staging technique for site-specific theater, storytelling workshops for script creation, costuming and set design.

Each day includes a gentle warm-up, flexibility and strength training, lessons in aerial mechanics and acrobatic technique, apparatus play, and scheduled free times that allow students to interpret the knowledge within their own bodies.

*This residency concluded with a live performance! Click the link to “Run Away with the Circus!”. We hope you enjoy the show.

Script Writing Classes provided by Stephanie Baker

Rapelling and Stilt Walking Classes, Rigging and Lighting Design provided by Benjy Young

Make-Up Classes provided by Maggie Powers

Artistic Director, Sandia Sexton

SandiaCircus is a non-corporate, locally owned organization providing advanced Pre-Professional Youth Programming that could otherwise be cost prohibitive. Our one-of-a-kind concentrated youth programming gives students the time and attention needed to specialized on the advanced skillet needed to present their hard-earned achievements in a professional theater, in front of a live audience.

"Tokens became a kind of stepping back to the essence of theater, a creation of art from the panorama of human experience." -Alan Rich, California Magazine

In the wake of COVID, a call has come to revive TOKENS: A PLAY ON THE PLAGUE to speak to a new generation about the tragedy of loss and the cosmic luck of survival. Written by David Schein, with music composed and arranged by Candace Natvig English and Schein, TOKENS took the Bay Area by storm in 1985 with its polyrhythmic music, haunting choral songs, interactive staging, ecstatic dance and brilliant physical acting.

Now, the writer, David Schein, and original director, Robert Ernst, invite you to a reading/singing revival that tells the story of the production and its modern day potential for stage and screen.

This showcase aims to inspire producers and supporters to bring TOKENS to a national or international audience.

Please join us for the reading/singing revival showcase on April 24th and 25th, 2024 at 7:30pm at SPACE 124 in Project Artaud at 401 Alabama Street., San Francisco, CA.

Reserve your seat now at https://tokensrevival.eventbrite.com/ You can visit www.tokensaplayontheplague.com for more information.

Mission Artists 2024 Spring Open Studios

at Project Artaud

401 Alabama St. San Francisco

April 13 + 14

Noon to 6:00PM

Participating Artists:

Stephanie Baker

Sandy Calvo

Phil Deal

E. Dale Erickson

David Fought

Rafael Gaytán

Wendy Way Gilmore

Qorey Golob

Todd Hanson

Suzanne Mailloux

Vero Majano

Javier Manrique

Geralyn Montano

Kari Orvik

Alon Picker

Bern Rauch

Don Ross

John Sullivan

Susan Sullivan

Ricky Weisbroth

Experiments in Motion! 
An evening of dance featuring new works by choreographers and arts leaders Rebecca Fitton, Cherie Hill, and Hope Mohr on the theme of embodying shared leadership.

This event forms part of B.L.A.'s multi-year dance initiative Dancing Distributed Leadership. Read below to learn more about the artists forthcoming premieres, venue & program accessibility, and volunteer opportunities for this event.
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March 22-23, 8 PM
March 24, 2 PM
SPACE 124 (401 Alabama Street, SF)
$10-$50, sliding scale

El Circo Dia’s Refuge; A Ballad for the Renting Class is a site-specific aerial dance that brings the urgent conversation about San Francisco’s housing crisis to the stage, questioning what it means when our city’s long established residents have been evicted. We aim to draw awareness to the psychological repercussions of losing our home, and the need for a deeper social justice approach in sheltering San Francisco’s most vulnerable citizens.

 By official record when this piece was written in 2016, 8,600 tenants across the city had received formal eviction notices, at a rate higher than any other period in over a decade. The use of the Ellis Act alone had quadrupled between 2011 and 2016, evicting thousands of individuals who established San Francisco’s cultural, artistic and politically diverse society.

 As a means of both advocacy and validation, Refuge aims to honor the experience of those who have been forced to move and to engage with our personal relationship to shelter.

El Circo Dia is an aerial theater collective that cultivates working relationships between dancers, musicians, and theater tech artists based in the San Francisco Bay Area. El Circo Dia seeks to maximize a collective voice, to create productions that serve as a launching point for meaningful, socially-relevant conversations.

Featuring an original score by Shaina Evoniuk and scenic projections by animator Buddy Giguere, aerial dancers Sandia Sexton, Azraa Muhammad, Helen Wicks and actors Katelyn Hanes, Vesper Synd, and Conrad Chen will tell a story of the unexpected loss of what many believed to be certain: Their Home.

Rigging and lighting design by Benjy Young

Project Artaud’s Studio 124, offers deep significance for this production because of its 49-year legacy of providing sustainable housing to local artists. The studio's location in the Mission District and its proximity to San Francisco’s current eviction crisis adds poignancy to the production’s content while it's physical range for site specific rigging design is paramount for our aerial staging.