Hey fiery folks,

Just wanted to invite you all to come down to Balmy Alley to spin this Sat. night for the Mission Arts Performance Project.

Superchill, super-informal. Just show up with your fuel and toys. Debut performance of Dreamtime Circus also. Deets below:

Part of the Mission Arts Performance Project (MAPP)
Balmy Alley on 24th between Harrison & Folsom

PERFORMANCE:
8:00 Freestyle Fire Dance & Acoustical Jam
(Fire dancers and musicians are welcome to
participate)

9:30 "Between Worlds"
~ The debut performance of the Dreamtime Circus!

10:00 More Fire, Music, and Dancing!

This Saturday we will be down on Balmy Alley on 24th Street between Harrison and Folsom. There's usually
about 10-15 performance venues in a six block area of the Mission. There's everything from photography
installations to live bands to video documentaries to political art to fire performance.

Here's a little bit of information about the concept of M.A.P.P. If you need more info, visit, www.redpoppyarthouse.com.

So MAPP stands for Mission Artists and Performers Project.

The Mission Arts & Performance Project is a bi-monthly collaboration between visual artists, musicians, poets and performers. The MAPP puts art and performance on the street level by using alternative spaces such as private garages, basements, and studios. It's a block party of the arts for inspiring in ourselves, and others, the desire for a creative existence, an ever widening experience of life.

By transforming garages and backyards into mini-galleries MAPP shows how ordinary spaces can be made extra-ordinary to bring people together to share in a diverse experience of fine art and performance. The garages, as they are unpretentious and open to the street, pose the possibility of exposing the arts to a lot of folks who might not ever enter a gallery or theater. This process helps take the art from the margins of our communities to where it may come to be more widely see and understood as a vibrant and vital force necessary to the health of our society. It is our hope that local residents and others attending the MAPP will be inspired to seek expression of their own experiences and feelings through creative means and join in sharing what they have discovered in the MAPP events to come.