WHERE?:
Eth-Noh-Tec Studio
977 South Van Ness
San Francisco, CA 94110
between 2st & 20th Streets
close to 24th Street BART
map »

WHEN?:
Saturday, March 28 – 7pm Show

Admission:
$5-$15 (sliding scale)

Reserve Now! 415-282-8705

Cello Joe & The Midnight Ramblers: Funky, folk, hippy hop earth conscious music…. and a cello, too!

Jane DeCuir: First Nations Singer/ songwriter: “I sing to bring down Heaven, making prayers, the magic of the music”

Eth-Noh-Tec: Kinetic Story Theater: Asian American Storytelling – moving myths with modern messages.

Matthew Abaya: Film Maker: Filipino American filmmaker- personal narratives with Horror and Sci-Fi twists often borrowing motifs from Asian folk lore.

Jim Murdoch: Acoustic, Vocals, FUN! Singer/ Songwriter: from juggling to Jazz, from Flamenco to Appalachian styles.. the Muse Pursues.

SONGWRITING – POETRY – STORYTELLERS – FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY – MUSIC – DANCE – AND MORE!

There’s no other Arts event like this in town: performances,  discussions afterward, communities of creativity in conversation… this is cultural activism.

WHERE?:
Eth-Noh-Tec Studio
977 South Van Ness
San Francisco, CA 94110
between 2st & 20th Streets
close to 24th Street BART
map »

WHEN?:
Saturday, February 21 – 7pm Show

Admission:
$5-$15 (sliding scale)

Reserve Now!
contact@ethnohtec.org
(415) 282-8705

FEATURED ARTISTS:

RUTH FRASER: a world traveler, weaver of wit and wisdom, entwines and envelops our listening with the richness of language and the gifts of the world through storytelling.

VALERIE SOE: an image maker, moving us through thoughts, statements of culture and the challenges of identity as she explores the Asian American experience through her film-work.

GABE JOHAL DOMINGUEZ: whether strumming his guitar or pedaling his bike, he brings alive the message of Green Activism with movin’, groovy and singing. Hearing him, you can’t help but to “Shake Your Peace!”.

BELMONDO: Musician Songwriters Nicholas Ng and Slaven Svetinovic conjured the title for this acoustic pop duo one random evening, inspired by the French Actor, Jean Paul Belmondo. They will share original music with such lyrics as:  ”my body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one i love but my mind holds/not holds the key”

…And, of course, ETH-NOH-TEC will weave moving bodies, telling voices, theatrical stories of ancient Asian myths, metaphors with modern messages!

Celebrating an Era of Change for the New Year

Eth-Noh-Tec’s 4th Season of “Salon! You’re ON!”

January 24, 2009

7:00 pm

At the Eth-Noh-Tec Studio
977 So. Van Ness Ave
SF CA 94110
between 20th & 21st Streets
(close to 24th Street BART)
Donations welcomed

This year kicks off not only an exciting appearance of Eth-Noh-Tec at the Obama Inauguration in DC in January, but also the launch of our 4th season of the beloved salon season.  To start off the series we have many both new and seasoned storytellers, artists, film makers, and musicians.

Pushing Air: live looping solo acapella will delight your musical ears.
Minette Mangahas: calligraphic painting and film making.
Laura Chase-Daquioag: a tale of wonder, a ladder of stars, a talking comet, and a journey of self identity and acceptance as the round faced girl finds friendship with the Moon.
Kristy Lin Billuni: weaves several strands of fairy tales into a modern braid about women.
Kyoko Kikuchi: performing a classic Japanese folk tale of a monk out witting an “Oni”
Jeanne Haynes: takes us through turbulent times, civil rights movement and SF Riots of the 60’s “The Stove is White”.

Once a Pod a Time, Episode Zero

On Day #6 our storytellers went to the Irula Tribal Herb Center.  This NGO is dedicated to the preservation of folk knowledge of the bio-pharmacopoeia of the forest.  Through millennia, the indigenous Irula people learned of the countless herbs and medication found naturally in their environment.  One “hands on” activity included helping to plant several saplings of Rosewood in their orchard.

STORYTELLING! MADE IN THE SHADE! Later on, the Irula women would introduce us to several of their villages where we would be engaging in cultural exchange through story-swapping.

Jeeva Raghunath, local Tamil storyteller was our liaison between two worlds: Americans and Irula tribes-people as we discovered our common ground: STORYTELLING!  It was as we had imagined, listening and telling stories under the shade of a large banyan tree.  Around us were children, teenagers, parents and elders.  Storytelling is alive and well here in rural India!