February 27: Salon! You’re On!

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Eth-Noh-Tec presents
Salon! You’re On!
Saturday, February 27 at 7:00pm

Brian Shapiro
Performance artist, spins the musical tale “33 Minutes” and more, in collaboration with Parisian electronic musicians Etienne Pons and Olivier Soubra.

Kamikaze Theory
San Francisco sketch comedy group, fun and friendly like the cocktail shooter, strategic like a military attack – smart and sassy, experimental and edgy, and all-around, well, hilarious.

Work Tales Labor Drama Workshop
Oral history theater production about the titanic 2004 San Francisco hotel workers strike and lockout, the storm-tossed autumn of 2004.

Vintage Sax Quartet
Jazz standards, ragtime, classical music and movie themes. Crafted on early 20th Century saxophones, the quartet conjures a classic sound, both vintage and timeless.

977 South Van Ness Ave
between 20th and 21st Streets
near 24th Street Bart & Muni
San Francisco, 94110
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Donation: $5-$15
New: all Alumni Salon Artists are free.

We invite you to bring a dish to share with the new artists and community.

 

A Wonderful January Salon!

This past weekend we had another wonderful Salon! You’re On! at the Eth-Noh-Tec Studio. Powerful storytelling (Jerry Falek), poetic Coney Island photo memoirs and songs (Gary Lapow), vocal loop sound weavings and social messages (Irina Rivkin), satirical political theater (Mimi Motoyoshi and the Makeshift Players), and of course Eth-Noh-Tec, kinetic storytelling theater.

The Crowd Enjoyed...the performances, the food, and community dialogues as they engaged with questions, insights and inspirations, sparked by the artistry of the guest performers. As we are in full swing with our fifth season of the salons, it is clear that all of us, especially in these uncertain times need to feel strengthened by our humanity. The recession, the horrors abroad, and uneasy questions about our society… we hunger for deeper meaning in life: “Who are we as human beings, if we cannot reach out to one another?

How can we make a difference in world where each us can easily feel so small and insignificant? How can we ‘connect’ and feel a part of something positive?”.

To this we say, “Think Global, Act Local, Be Compassionate!: Create! Communicate! Celebrate our deepest passions for the Love of Life!”. For those of you who have been to our Salon series, thank you for co-creating this with us.

Perhaps this little bit of inspiration can fuel the “light” in you to carry on “out there” in the community. For those who have yet to come to our studio- we invite you to attend (Our next salons are: Feb 27, Mar. 13, Apr. 10, May 15, June 5). Be a part of this “light”… help spark it in others.

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Salon! You’re On! Jan 23, 2010

Salon Jan 23, 2010

Eth-Noh-Tec presents
Salon! You’re On!
Saturday, January 23 at 7:00pm

Jerry Falek, Storyteller/Conflict Resolution Activist
Irina Rivkin, Vocal Live Looper
Gary Lapow, Songwriter/Photo Projections
Mimi’s Makeshift Players, Theater Troupe

977 South Van Ness Ave
between 20th and 21st Streets
near 24th Street Bart & Muni
San Francisco, 94110
Map of Our Location

Donation: $5-$15
New: all Alumni Salon Artists are free.

We invite you to bring a dish to share with the new artists and community.

 

Eth-Noh-Tec Winter Newsletter

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Read our Newsletter in PDF format.

 

Green Grow the Teachers!

Call Out for Teachers in San Francisco
Eth-Noh-Tec is looking for 5-6 San Francisco teachers who have a passionate commitment to positively impacting global climate change to help heal our planet. Teachers will act as consultants to help Eth-Noh-Tec with their exciting project Green Grows the Story: Empowering our Youth, Healing our Planet.
Storytelling, Curriculum & Activism
Come alive with story writing and performance by the students. (for more in-depth info on project visit www.ethnohtec.org and click onto Green Grows the Story).

Get Together!
(3-4 meetings: between January – April). We need teachers:
2 elementary teachers
2 middle school teachers
1-2 high school teachers.
Gift for Students or School: Each teacher will receive a $100 certificate from Office Depot or art store and a FREE storytelling concert from Eth-Noh-Tec for their school. Each teacher will provide their own classroom for dialogue with Nancy and Robert that will help us further develop our Green Grows the Story project.

How to Apply:
1) a paragraph why you’re interested and what you’ve already been doing about Global Climate Change
2)  your name, phone number and email address, and…
3) the name of the school you’re teaching in and grade level. Thank you so much.

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12/12: Salon! You’re On!

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Eth-Noh-Tec presents Salon! You’re On

Featuring

Monica Bhatnagar, Indian American Actor & Dancer
Canyon Sam, Author “Sky Train, Tibetan Women on the Edge of History”
Anita Margrill, Award-winning California Public Artist
Duc Nguyen, Emmy Award-winning Vietnamese American Filmmaker
Pavitra Eshwar, Indian American Carnatic Violinist

Details:
Saturday, December 12 – 7:00 pm

977 South Van Ness Ave
between 20th & 21st Streets
San Francisco, CA 94110

Donation: $5-$15
New: all Alumni Salon Artists are free.

We invite you to bring a dish to share with the new artists and community.

Mark your calendar for future salons on Dec. 12, Jan 23, Feb 27, Mar. 13, Apr. 10, May 15, Jun 5.

 

Eth-Noh-Tec’s Seattle Show Last Night

We’re almost finished with our creative retreat this month. Hopefully we’ll keep the momentum up and continue creating new works. Last night, took a break from our writing and illustrating and drove down to perform in Seattle at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center. It was an evening of our favorite Asian Ghost Stories. Since it’s been a while since we’ve performed them we rehearsed a bit (mostly rememorizing old scripts) and through it into the Eth-Noh-Tec mix: movement theater, interlocking dialogue and lots of audience participation.

Besides doing some of our standard duet ghosts stories “New Ghost” and “Dirtball” (both Chinese tales) we did a few of our solo stories as well. Nancy performed “Silk Worm”, a Chinese folk tale with several renditions, this one being the darker psychological version of a young woman, a broken promise, the haunting spirit of a betrayed horse and the origin of “silk”. Robert brought out a eerie story from Tibet, “The Talking Corpse”- the tale of a journey to bring back a corpse from the land of the dead. The young protahnist is warned “do not talk to the talking corpse”. Of course since it’s a spooky tale… what do you think he did? We had several members of the audience, first timers to storytelling, quite surprized at the theatrical and artistic quality of the show, “I’d like to come to see more storytelling events”, one admirer confessed.

If any of you are in SF early next month, be sure to come to the Eth-Noh-Tec studio on Nov. 7, at 7pm. We’re launching our Salon! You’re ON! event, now in it’s FIFTH SEASON! Check out the website.

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Welcome to Our 5th Season of Salon! You’re On!

Salon! You're On! November

Eth-Noh-Tec presents San Francisco’s most eclectic blend of art, artists, and conversations with the  community that loves them!  This season, the salon series promises to illuminate the brightest creators found amongst our community.  The alchemy will be magical!: a Hawaiian choir, vocal loop artist, a fabric artist, a Brooklyn born songwriter, a public art creator, circus artists, and dozens of other painters, poets, playwrights, and storytellers.  They are here for you!  Come and enjoy their work, and engage in the post-presentation conversation about why and how they serve their community, the diverse peoples of the SF Bay Area.

Here are the artists of our very first salon this season:

Salon_20091107_Genny_LimGenny Lim (Playwright & Poet) is a native San Franciscan poet and playwright. She is the author of the award winning play, Paper Angels, performed in the U.S., Canada and China, author of two collections of poetry, a book of plays and ISLAND;  Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940. Genny has been featured in poetry festivals in Naples, Italy (2009) Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina (2007) and Caracas, Venezuela (2005) Where is Tibet? is her newest multimedia performance play, which will be presented as a work-in-progress at CounterPULSE, Dec. 5-6, 2009.

Salon_20091107_Tsering_BawaTsering Dorjee (Bawa) (Musician, Dancer), born in Toe Bawa (Nyari region) in the western part of Tibet.  In 1986, he is admitted at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, Dharamsala. India. He then graduated in Tibetan music, opera and sacred/monastic dance in 1994.  He had completed his Master degree in 2000. He had also taught at the TIPA as an arts instructor. He had his credit on extensive research conducted in arts and culture.  He tour worldwide to perform Tibetan arts and acted in numerous films including the year 2000 Oscar nominated film- ‘Himalaya’.

Salon_20091107_Judy_KajiwaraJudith Kajiwara (Butoh Dancer)
has created for several decades in the SF Bay Area with such notable performances as “The Ballad of Machiko” paying homage to the Issei pioneer women of Livingston, California, where Kajiwara grew up.  Other recent performance titles such as  “AD:  The Final Fantasy” (2004) were performed for the Sacred Dance Guild Festival 2007,  Berkeley, CA.  Honor’s Kajiwara’s mother, Martha, who transitioned with Alzheimer’s Disease. The piece draws from Martha lived in a worry-free, timeless space of eternal youth and childhood in her final years and urges everyone to find whatever fantasy brings them closer to joy and spirit.

Salon_20091107_Doris_FeylingDoris Feyling (Storyteller) works as  the resident storyteller at a public school in San Francisco. She tells stories at assisted living facilities, nursery schools, and  after-school programs. She tells folktales, fairy tales, and scary stories from around the world. She is a featured teller at the “Fairy Festival”  and the “Blueberry Festival” in Maine each summer. Doris has been described as “bringing magic into the classroom. She has an infinite talent for using the spoken word to weave tales”… (Jean Robertson, principal Grattan School)

Salon_20091107_Leon_SunLeon Sun (Painter & Poet): In this whimsical collection of paintings and poems, San Francisco artist Leon Sun shares little snippets of insight and wisdom arising from life with his Siberian Husky, Nikki.  In Buddhism, dharma means universal transcendent turh, the way of all things. “Taking refuge in the dharma” means to live in truth. One pursues this way of life through study, meditation, guidance by a teacher and in engaging with a community of fellow seekers and practitioners.  My dog and I form a micro community of our own.  We teach each other things as we journey through the world.  His name is Nikki.

Details:
Saturday, November 7
5:30 pm – Special art exhibition and gallery reception
7:00 pm – Salon performances

977 South Van Ness Ave
between 20th & 21st Streets
San Francisco, CA 94110

Donation: $5-$15
New: all Alumni Salon Artists are free.

We invite you to bring a dish to share with the new artists and community.

Mark your calendar for future salons on Dec. 12, Jan 23, Feb 27, Mar. 13, Apr. 10, May 15, Jun 5.

 

Island Times

Hawaii was soooo Hawaii! Balmy caressing breezes, swaying palm trees, blue sky and blue ocean, and that wonderful Aloha spirit – Aloha spirit meaning warm and welcoming, kind and taking time, heart first, mouth later.

Jeff and Dominique Gere’s NSN Regional Storytelling conference was wonderful! So much work they put into it, and it showed. The workshops were informative, some fun as well. We met new and old friends and storytellers as well as were blown away with some island talent. In particular was See, a Shakespearean-like rapper/poet, and Kealoha, a rapper/storyteller – young and full of energy, creativity and inventiveness.

Sherry Norfolk, Lani Petersen, and Margaret Read-McDonald delivered really fine keynotes.

Robert and I stayed at Board Member Ric Trimillos’ Waikiki condo – lucky us, and while Robert was on bicycle, Nancy, after a too-big bike, traded in for a 3 wheel electric scooter! Felt like a really old woman toodling along the canal to the conference! But the open air under morning and night skies was so lovely! And the ground was flat!

Now we are preparing for the last minute details for our 3rd Orcas Island Storyfest Aug.4-8! Right now, Robert is painting the water tank at a major cross-road to advertise the festival! We’ve invited Motoko, Eshu Bumpus and Olga Loya to perform. Also Doug Banner, Antoinetter Botsford, Kelvin Saxton and Annaliese Kamola from Washington are performing in the festival. Good times, good community, good tellers, good food and loads of donations from the community always makes this island festival special. Wish you were here!!