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Map Mission Festival

Spectra-Ball
held same night as King & Queen Contest

Join your festival to the Bay Area's oldest neighborhood in the Merry Month of May. Book your venue or make one of your own. Planning by these groups including www.carnavalsf.com goes on year round.
Join Carnaval San Francisco 2008 for its 30th anniversary celebration!

May Mission Festivals

This excellent May festival has always maintained a strong Mission presence in many ways including production and politics. The careful nurturing has brought it many key producing partnerships. The 2007 4th Annual San Francisco International Arts Festival now bursting upon the scene with performances fall over the city.sfiaf.org/

The 5 Mission venues:

Brava Theater Center, 2789 24th Street,
Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street (corner Mission)
Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St,
The Women’s Building, 3543 18th St,
Project Artaud Theater, 450 Florida Street,

Also deserving special mention as frequent collaborators with the vibrant multicultural arts of the Inner Mission

African American Arts & Culture Complex, 762 Fulton St, San Francisco, 94102
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), 685 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, 701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103

ARTworkSF Gallery, 2861 California St, San Francisco, CA 94115
Artworks SF Studio, 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
Grace Cathedral, 1100 California St, San Francisco, CA 94108
Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, 94102
San Francisco City Hall, One Dr. Carlton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102
San Francisco International Airport, International Terminal Ticketing Area
San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin St, San Francisco, 94102
Union Square, intersection of Geary, Powell, Post and Stockton streets, San Francisco, CA 94102


The Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival 2007	May 10th - May 20th - 12 venues -11th year - new for 2007 "Dance: Mavericks" mcmf.org

MCMAF founder Jeff Ray surveys the dream and the damage Attempting to please and showcase the many, radically varied, wild, and woolly musicians and artists who participate in the festival is part of the MCMAF mission - along with presenting a lineup that's made of 80 percent local emerging creators
A jolly good Vincent Gallo taps into his musical wellspring he's raved rather than ranted, giving himself over to rapture while rapping
After years of homelessness and substance addiction, the Chamber Strings' Kevin Junior returns So where has he been the past six years? "I got kidnapped by aliens, basically,"
The Dilettantes take love to the streets they also draw deeply from the Haight's '60s musical legacy.... particularly their constant reference point: love.
With Buy Hidden Persuaders, I Am Spoonbender continue to remove our veils from the wizards of esoteric musical realism
Gary Higgins: Redheaded stranger "What do you intend to do young man? / Where do you intend to go?
Ich bin Kevin Blechdom
Gowns connect this world and the next "I've had a lot of strange experiences, real or imaginary."
All that glitters just may be Sugar and Gold set on making dance-oriented music that was inclusive, countering the snobbish in-crowd ethos of Bay Area hipster groups
Finding refuge in the Harbours "Basically I'm just trying to get everything out so I can sleep at night,"
SFBG.com's selected picks at the Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival

Spectra Ball

Join us to celebrate the "Creative Spectrum under one Roof" as Artsfest presents the 4th Annual Spectra Ball '07 and Silent Auction on March 31st at the Regency Center.

Spectra Ball '07 is a dynamic creative spectacle that brings together the entire spectrum of the arts with a multi-cultural array of performances of music, theater, dance, circus, spoken word, fashion and visual art installations, all on one glorious night with a crowd of thousands. Below find the incredible list of over 50 individual and group performances and more than 60 visual artists installations and silent auction participants that will make this an unforgettable experience for art lovers.

Proceeds benefit Artsfest to support Artsfest 2007, the Bay Area’s Fourth Annual
Celebration of the Arts (May 3 – 28) which presents 100+ dazzling exhibits,
performances and arts-related events throughout the Bay Area.

Tickets: ($50 Standard, $100 VIP)

Purchase Tickets: click here

Sponsors
Spectra Ball ’07 is sponsored by California Closets, Bud Light, Energy 92.7,
The Examiner, SF Bay Guardian, KGO-TV, SF Station.com, Marin Magazine,
BART, Chancellor Hotel, Jungle 8, and InTicketing.

Thanks to all of them for their support.

Spectra Ball ’07: The Creative Spectrum Under One Roof

Akosua (Ghanaian-American Songwriter)

ALBINO! (12-piece AfroBeat Extravaganza)

Alex Theory Live! (Live Electronic Dance)

Allison Lovejoy (Accordion/Piano Starling)
Bad Unkl Sista (Fashion)

Berkeley SLAM! Poets (Slam Poetry)

Blane Lyon (Funk, Soul and Conscious Groove)

Blue Bone Express (New Orleans Brass Band)

Brass Menazeri (Balkan Brass Band)

CaroLuna (Opera Diva)

Chief Sonne Reyne (Native Chant)

Circus Metropolus (Karnival Klown Show)

Cohen (GypsyPop)

Deborah Crooks (Intimate/Edgy Acoustic)

Deborah Eliezer (Grand Ballroom Emcee)

DJ Delachaux (Neo-Burlesque)

DJ Kashia (Infectious Urban Groove)

DJ Natural Sphere (World Breaks Techno)

El Papachango (Latin Breaks)

Eliyahu Sills & Qadim (Mystical Near-East Music)

Elizabeth Strong & Mira Betz (Bellydance)

Emeryville Taiko (Taiko Drum ensemble)

Fou Fou Ha! (Cartoon Dance)

Geralyn Gendreau (Ecstatic Poetry)

Goddess Alchemy Project (Dub Hip Hop)

Hot Pink Feathers (Carnavale meets Cabaret)
Jamie "Sparkaluscious" Luv & Vikki "FireSpice" Friedman

(Super Swingin Spectra Hoopers)

J9 of Xeno (Trapeze)

Jill Tracy (Sultry Piano Chanteuse)

Kevin O (Emcee)

Kingfish & Eddie's Hubba-Hubba Revue (Comedy & Burlesque)

Kwisp (Holographic Video Synthesizer)

Liberation Movement featuring Resurrector (Heavyweight Dub Champion) & Jillian Ann (Primal Experimental Dubtronica)

Loyd Family Players (Sideways Samba Troupe)

Mark Growden (Avante Singer Songwriter)

Miranda Caroligne (Fashion)
Miss Rosie

Mythic System (A Harmonic Archtypal Metapoetic Experience)

MoRockin Project (Moroccan/Jazz/Funk)

Paradise 2012 (Live Visual Projections)

Pele's Tears (Fusion, Poetry 'n Dance)

Shamanic Cheerleaders (Divine Pep)

Singing Bear (Acoustic Roots Music)

Soulati & Infinite (Tag-Team Beatbox)

Steve "Shea" Sisgold (Inspirational Singer/Songwriter/Emcee)

The Genie w/ Eah (Guitar Beatbox)

The Human Revolution (Acoustic World Fusion)

The Nekyia (Sexy Sublime Dance & Music)

The Sonando Project (Afro-Cuban jazz)

Tim Fox (Guitarra Latinoamericana)

Tippy Canoe & Mikie Lee Prasad (Old-Timey Pop)

Vau de Vire Society (Avante Aerial Cabaret)

VonStilt Family (Circus)

Spectra Ball '07 Visual Artists Installations
and Silent Auction Participants

  Aaron Landman                   Alanna Spence                   Allysun Ladybug Sparrowhawk
  Amir Salamat                       Amy Wright                         Andrew Jones
  Ann Simms                           Annie Galvin                     Art Hazelwood
  Avelynn Mitra                        Benjamin Turner                 Caroyl La Barge
  Charli Ornett                          Christian Davies                Clay Chollar
  Daniel Grant                          Danyol                                 Dennis Parlante
Emily keyishian                     Glen VarnHagen                Itsik Hazan
John Jenkins                         John Whitmarsh                  Joseph Battiato
Karen Gutfreund                    Leonardas Surgaila           Lindy Kehoe
Marcia N. Kent                      Mardi Storm                       Mari Marks
Marina Shterenberg              Mark Henson                      Melissa Chow
Metalman Ed                        Monika Steiner                   Monique passicot
Mr. Rogers                             Natasha Dikareva              Nena St. Louis
Nicolo Sertorio                      Ori Gerstel                           Pamela Merory Dernham
Peter Max Lawrence             Pierre Riche                       Rachael L. Jablo
Rachel Lyra Hospodar          Raymond Difley                  Rebecca Shortle
Rena Buchgraber                  Robert Reed                       Sara Cole
Seth Armstrong                     Shawna Peterson               Spencer Brown
Stephen Hayes                     Steven Allen                         Stuart Sheldon
Taiko Fujimura                      Tantra Bensko                     Tara L. Shorey
Taylor Tschider                     Timothy Rose                       Troy Ziel
Vera Costa                            Walter Funk                          Wendy Lowengrub