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BRAF is supporting The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presentation of the Global Lives Project, a 2007 grant recipient, an innovative video installation representing global diversity.

Working with acclaimed filmmakers, artists and designers, *Global Lives* assembles the realities of everyday life from Lebanon, Serbia, China, India, Japan, Malawi, Indonesia, Brazil, Kazakhstan and San Francisco into an installation by architectural and design visionaries of Sand Studios and Forum.

The opening celebration:

February 26, at YBCA, 7:30-11:30 pm,
(3rd and Howard Streets, San Francisco).

You must RSVP for this free event!

We will be there and hope you will be too!

Prior Posts about Global Lives

Diva Marisa Lenhardt http://www.divamarisa.com raises her beautiful voice for our enjoyment

Jared. Ellen and Aaron

MonkeyBoy and Exact Lee

Actiongrl and Juniper

“the boys” Exact Lee, BRAF Board Member, Paul Buchheit, David Silverman and Chad Lester

LadyBee and Marcia Crosby

Rae Richman, VP Board of Directors and Tomas McCabe, our Executive Director

There are a lot of fun photos out there to share with you, and here are just a few for you to peruse. Lot’s more coming this weekend, watch this space….

Click here to see photos from the PhotoBoof

photos: Timothy Larson and Affinity

Read what my favorite blogger, Civic Center, fabulous photographer and Hayes Valley Neighborhood pundit had to say about Ecstasy on Valentine’s Day. I especially loved that he mentioned that David Best’s Temple on Patricia’s Green was his first blog post, so check out Valentine’s Day Ecstasy on Patricia’s Green, there are other great photos like this one and a local take on the neighborhood.

Thanks Mike….

And don’t forget to join us in celebration of Ecstasy at the opening reception:

February 26, 2010
Patricia’s Green
at Octavia and Hayes Streets
San Francisco, CA
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Prior posts about Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito

photos: Michael Strickland

Crimson said “The head of the sculpture is wrapped in a bag to keep the chains from tangling. When the bag was removed the people watching the install cheered.”

photos: Crimson Rose

photos: Michael Mac Millan

We stopped by to see the artists installing Ecstasy at Patricia’s Green. Crimson Rose, Board Member of the Black Rock Arts Foundation and Michael Mac Millan, one of the Hayes Valley neighbors were there taking photos that we wanted to share with you. We are pretty excited to see this amazing sculpture come to San Francisco.

Join us in celebration of Ecstasy at the opening reception:

February 26, 2010
Patricia’s Green
at Octavia and Hayes Streets
San Francisco, CA
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Dave Schumaker’s Post
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Prior posts about Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito

The Black Rock Arts Foundation is proud to support the installation of Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito’s sculpture Ecstasy at Patricia’s Green in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. This hopeful, figurative work will be on display, free to the public, from February 7, 2010 till June 18, 2010.

First displayed at the Burning Man festival in Nevada in 2008, Ecstasy is one of the eight monumental metal figures of the artists’ masterpiece, Crude Awakening. In Crude Awakening, these eight figures surrounded a 99-foot tall wooden oil derrick in gestures of prostration, worship and exaltation. Alone, Ecstasy embarks on a hopeful journey. Instead of throwing her head back in reverie to the oil derrick, she gazes wistfully into the open sky as she steps forward into an optimistic future, free of dependency on fossil fuel.

Through our Civic Arts Program, BRAF is pleased to further the evolution of this artwork’s message by exposing it to a new audience and community, and to return to the site of Patricia’s Green. In 2005, this location became the site of BRAF’s first public art project.

Working closely with the residents and business owners of the Hayes Valley neighborhood, BRAF established a model of community collaboration towards the curation and installation of public art. These community members continued to work on bringing art into their neighborhood, forming the Hayes Valley Art Coalition. The installation of Ecstasy at Patricia’s Green further affirms the success of this collaboration, and of the model of public, temporary art installation.

Join us in celebration of Ecstasy at the opening reception:

February 26, 2010
Patricia’s Green
at Octavia and Hayes Streets
San Francisco, CA
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Prior posts about Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito

photo: Gary Wilson

Come party with us at Eat Your heART Out! Bring your beloved, bring your kids, bring your Mom and Dad, we want to meet them all! Come celebrate love and art with us!

We always have fun, don’t we? This is Pilar Woodman, a fabulous photographer at the ARTumnal, our most recent fabulous event!

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We are very excited and looking forward to seeing you at our upcoming Valentine’s Day Eat Your heART Out brunch. Whether you are flying solo, duo or want to spend the day with a group of friends and family, come brunch with us! Many super special people are coming from far and wide to attend.

Celebrate your love for art with BRAF with a sumptuous Valentine’s Day brunch in bed, mimosas and bloody marys, fresh brewed coffee by Ritual Coffee Roasters, and LOVEly surprises!

Sunday, February 14, 2010
supperclub sf 657 Harrison Street
11am to 3pm
All-ages; everyone is welcome!

– $0 Children under 5

– $25 Children between 5 and 11 years old

– $75 Adult ticket for Brunch only with cash bar (no reserved seating
– bed seating first come first serve)

– $100 Adult ticket for Brunch with bottomless mimosas/marys at the
bar (no reserved seating – bed seating first come first serve)

– $150 Benefactor Brunch ticket (includes reserved bed seating in your
name at a premium bed location and bottomless mimosas/marys served at
your bed)

BUY YOUR TICKET NOW

Treat yourself and those you love to a sumptuous Valentine’s Day brunch in bed, including fresh fruit salad, interactive omelet and sweet/savory crepe station, croissants, artisan breads, jam and marmalade, cold cuts, fresh brewed coffee station by Ritual CoffeeRoasters, and LOVEly surprises. Wear your jammies or dress to the nines, we have had other events at the Supperclub and we have had a great time.

Enjoy interactive art, music, performances and soaring aerial heARTistry by:

Bad Unkl Sista
Diva Marisa Lenhardt
Kramer (Deep End)
Michael Anthony & the Late Nite Sneaky
Secret Valentine
Smoove (Newsbreakz)
Tamo (Angels of bAss, Space Cowboys)
And more!

+ Visit the Queen of heARTs and make-yer-own Valentine in the DIY heART gallery. And tell Cupid what to do with his arrows.

+ Interactive photography by PhotoBOOF! http://www.photoboof.com

All proceeds help bring interactive art to public places across the globe. So, go ahead! Eat your heART out! …and feed your soul!

artwork: jennybird
photos: CameraGirl
video: Mr Wa

One of our 2008 Grant Recipients Global Lives is up to exciting things.

Last week they had a São Paulo screening of the Global Lives videos that went wonderfully and got some Press.

And in February the Global Lives Project’s World Premiere installation will be on view at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from February 26 – June 20, 2010! The exhibit is part of an artist residency that will evolve over four months. They will be showing, for the first time ever, their series of ten 24-hour videos of daily life from around the planet.

And if you are in San Francisco, don’t miss the opening night celebration February 26! A special event which will include a large-scale installation, great music by DJs Kid Kameleon, Tinker and Chief Boima, drinks, dancing, and an opportunity to meet the Global Lives producers and directors who created the work. RSVP

PRIOR POSTS

Please come and join us at “Eat Your heArt Out”!

All proceeds help bring interactive art topublic places across the globe. So, go ahead! Eat your heART out!…and feed your soul!

artwork: jennybird
photos: CameraGirl