SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts • Saving Art from Extinction
975 Howard Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco • 415 885 4006 • Look for the red door!
SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts • Saving Art from Extinction |
975 Howard Street @ 6th Street, San Francisco • 415 885 4006 • Look for the red door! |
"The Garage is the kind of tiny, funky, out-of-the-way theater we all thought wouldn't be able to survive the dealings of cutthroat real estate moguls...fortunately SAFEhouse, failed to buy into the pessimism...The Garage presents edgy new work that should satisfy any aficionado wanting to take the pulse of the city." Bay Guardian |
• April and more • |
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April 1 Thurs • 8pm The Garage New Play Series, Kirk Johnson, Creative Director Homo Apocalyptus a new play by Dean Poyner
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April 3 • 8pm • $10-$20 Spontaneous Combustion is a 24-hour event, exhibiting creativity with impromptu collaboration and the artist’s capacity to endure, culminating in one evening of performance. Curated by Alicia Ohs and Yvette Choy, Spontaneous Combustion will see multiple artistic mediums converge and flourish, and explore how creative practice can grow or decay given natural human limits. Local artists who have nurtured their own varying art forms, from music and voice, to dance and theatre, to video and illustration, are brought together to contribute their creativity and practice. The artists are introduced to one another for the first time 24-hours prior to the public staging of Spontaneous Combustion, at which point, the artists are left to gestate a new evening length work that debuts the following night! Come join us on Saturday night and see what explodes! |
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April 8-9 • 8pm • $10-$20
Prove You're Not a Robot interactive experiments in Fear-Art-Love by Sadie Lune with special guest Lula Mae Day Prove You're Not a Robot is a lo-tech performance art installation collaborative conspiracy between Sadie Lune and Lula Mae Day. An investigation into mutual and consensual revelation; we'll share an evolving succession of explicit playground games, expository interviews, improvisational trances and of course, treats. |
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Using the 'availabilist' aesthetic of found objects from everyday life, the whole rigmarole will snake through the physical space of the Garage theater as it progressively delves deeper into the artists' manifestations of curiosity, vulnerability, neurosis, transcendence, and ultimately the blessed beast of huge love. Take a trip with us through five layers of mutating dynamics between artist and audience, from spectacle to choose your own adventure. Wander through the dissonance of exterior perceptions and interior landscapes. Hold our hands while we pull the covers off of shame, sexuality, and faith. Roll up your sleeves while we grapple with depression, hypocrisy, and intimacy. Prepare for a catch and release while we try to get a handle on time, boundaries, and compassion. For weeks before the public performance the artists will engage in multifaceted symbiotic ritual focusing on practices of commitment including cohabitation, sober altered states, physical attachment and co-dependent sensory deprivation, you know, the works. part of the ongoing project Teaching Myself to Love • artists website Here |
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April 15-18 |
April 15-16 • 8pm • $10-$20 features contemporary choreography by David Herrera Performance Co., MOVE: the company, Day Schildkret, Dance Continuum SF, FACT/SF, Michael Velez, Labayen Dance/SF, SF Moving Men, Jose Navarrette. |
April 17-18 • 8pm • $10-$20 features improvisation by Kegan Marling, Dance Theater/Shannon, Andrew Ward, Rajendra Serber, Jorge De Hoyos and Folawole |
April 25 • 4pm • $10 Bitten in the Basement • Curated by Christine Cali The Garage’s monthly program of acoustic music and improvisational movement features new choreography, live music and a chill atmosphere with snacks and cheap drinks. |
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May 2 Sun • 8pm • Tickets $8, Drinks $5 Makeup Mutiny presents Get your groove on...while checking out performances by some of the hottest emerging choreographers in the Bay Area. Following the performances, mingle, promote your gigs and get your party on while DJ’s play in our underground den of debauchery. First Sunday of every month. • Contact Samantha Giron |
| May 4-5 Tues-Wed • 8pm • Dance Ceres • artists website Here |
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May 27-29, Thu-Sat • 8:00pm • $25 or $20 in advance for limited time Buy tickets Here or 800-838-3006 Queer Cultural Center & The Garage's AIRspace program presents
This morning I lost my homework and the dog ate my gender. Other-wise is a letter to Sunny’s family come to life on the stage, exposing his emotions and experiences as a transgender person. Animated creatures whisk us into worlds of magic as Sunny explores boy tits, being honest with one’s family, learning to fly and getting comfortable with contradictions and not knowing. As funny as it is moving, Other-wise is a testament to the courage it takes to be true to oneself. Warning: you will only understand this show if you are human & born on planet earth. If you’ve ever tried to fit into other people’s expectations or been worried someone wouldn’t understand or be proud of you, then this story is also about you. artists website Here Photo credit: (m)-elly nio |
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June 4-26 SF Moving Men & Christine Cali & Co More info Here |
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