DON'T MISS

descriptions below:

FRIDAY evening, OCTOBER 7, 2005
Scheduling to be arranged, check website for updates

(in alphabetical order)

ABADA-CAPOEIRA SAN FRANCISCO
Website: www.abada.org

Afro-Brazilian martial arts troupe w/Artistic Director Marcia Treidler Cigarro,
Capoeira (pronounced ka-poo-eh-da) is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines dance, music, percussion, song, ritual, self-defense technique, and acrobatics. It is an athletic stream of consciousness. In part it is a dance; a rhythmic dialogue with a partner set to the music of traditional instruments. In part it is a fight; a strategic match of throwing and dodging kicks, sweeps, and defensive movements.

ABADA SF Works to recover, value, preserve and promote Afro-Brazilian culture., including capoeira, music, dance and language. Based in the Mission District, ABADA was founded in 1991 by Mestranda Marcia Treidler and is a vibrant cultural center with an extraordinary free teen and teen leadership program.

Tonight, ABADA will demonstrate by forming a hoda in the street and afterwards, will invite audiences to participate

EXTRA-ACTION MARCHING BAND
Website: www.extra-action.com

No one has ever seen Oakland/San Francisco's Extra Action Marching Band actually march…at least not in a straight line and in the same direction. Instead, the fifteen-to-thirty-five inebriated troubadours ooze, shuffle, loiter, charge, and crawl around embracing their environment and quite frequently their audience. Defying categorization, this mutant lovechild of traditional peripatetic music and ecstatic turmoil consists of a hypnotic drum corps, a heady horn section, and a provocative, uplifting flag squadron that dazzles crowds with their dizzying dances. An Extra Action performance is a bacchanalian, infectiously celebratory, inappropriate, transcendent, freaky spectacle that amuses, arouses, and intoxicates the audience. The flag team alone can stop traffic and often does.

Featuring: Zachary Rukstela, Violet Angel, Tommy Cappel, Simon Cheffins, Jon, Shainker, Shane Clark aka Van Rippen, Mathew Miller aka Mutt Mule, Joshua Bartone, Sean Lee, Josh Schneck, Andy Kuntz, John Lieb, Gabe Pinar, Greg Jones, Suzy Garren, Josh Lindenfelzer, Kathryn Aaker, Greg Stephens, Chad Castillo, Ben Furstenberg, Margaret Hitchcock, Jamie Spreng, Courtney Sexton, Jonathon Selin, R. Wiley Evans , Josh Sirotiak, Megan Stevenson aka Kele Ena Dallas, Kim Fournier, Tanya Aranda, Alex Craven aka Roky Roulette, Danny Starling, Tamara Li, Mira Detz.


DUSTIN FOSNOT, VISUAL ARTIST

Installation of satellites that will circle above Cohen Alley. One satelitte will be outfitted with a pinlight camera that will project aerial perspectives of the alley and what’s happening into the storefront windows of the luggage store annex at 509 ellis street. Fosnot holds an MFA from the SFAI.


“LA MALINCHE”
Solo Flamenco Performance


LSD FUEGO
"DREAMS OF FIRE"
Website: www.lsdfuego.com

If you want it hot or straight up sizzling fire it up with...
Los Sueños del Fuego is a San Francisco based
light & fire arts troupe established in 2003, specializing in group, duet, & theatrical style choreography.
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Regular Crew: Roger Friend (Ro), Jaden Rose Davies (la rosa), Daniel Redella, Mike (Zig Zag), Bridgeet Harrison, Amity Mead, Sexy Bitch, Monica Fine, Alex Lovejoy (Shanti), Dana Kussman, James P. Manley (Pi), Lena Romanyuk (Memeory). Fire Safety: Katie Desmond; Projection: light tech: Dr. Spook; Sound/Music/Technician: DJ Ripple or Trent Wallace.

THERM FIRE SCULPTURES
Website: www.therm.biz

Therm is a collective of artists, technicians, engineers, inventors, metal-workers, and performers dedicated to exploring fire as an artistic medium. THERM creates sculptural forms as instruments that manipulate and shape the flame. Performances are a dynamic and exciting display of color, light, heat, sound and shape. Fire dances, spins, booms, spits, whispers, and charms the audience. other performance groups or create a unique atmosphere for parties and events.

TRUST YOUR STRUGGLE ARTIST COLLECTIVE
www.trustyourstruggle.com
Trust Your Struggle is a collective of visual artists, educators, students, and comrades dedicated to social justice and community activism through the medium of art. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City we work in conjunction with several other collectives and groups to produce art exhibits and community based events.

exhibition inside the Luggage Store Annex at 509 Ellis Street. Opens Friday, October 7, 5pm, see also Saturday...live painting with Trust Your Struggle...


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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2005, 11AM-6PM

500 Ellis Street (btw. Leavenworth and Ellis), SF CA 94109

(in alphabetical order)

BIG BURLESQUE – THE ORIGINAL FAT BOTTOM REVUE
Website: www.bigburlesque.com

"Burlesque dancing is enjoying a renaissance nationwide, but our show has a twist: it is Big Beautiful Burlesque, where all the strippers have sexy, fat bodies, bodies with curves and flesh to tease and tantalize" -- RevaLucian (formerly known as Ms. DeMeanor)


BIG TADOO PUPPET CREW
Email; bigtadoopuppetrew@baylist.net

BIG TADOO PUPPET CREW been creating conscious puppetry since 2002. Combining elements of poetry, song and storytelling, they have brought memorable lessons of sustainability and democracy to the stage, touching the hearts of all ages. They have performed a numerous celebrations and festivals including: Earthday, Health and Harmony, Reggae on the River, In the Street, Carnival and more.


THE BROUN FELLINIS
website: www.brounfellinis.com/

For the last 14 years, the trio called BROUN FELLINIS has been innovating and disseminating their "Brounsoun", a sonic expression inspired by the ancient to future traditions of jazz, funk, Afrocentric Hip Hop, Dub, film music and African/Indian trance sounds. The Fellinis play this NOW music with passion, precision and soul in energetic performances that embrace freedom and structure equally. Out of nowhere, improvised themes and motifs morph into well crafted songs with evocative melodies, exotic harmonies and infectious rhythms. It is a music of the moment reflecting the lives of three exceptional musicians living and creating in the Bay Area, California, featuring Kevin Carnes, drums; David Boyce, saxaphone/spoken word and Kirk Peterson, bass.


JULIA GLANVILLE/DARRYL SMITH (visual artists)

Conceived of by Darryl Smith and Julia Glanville, and built by Glanville, the cobb house is a “lodge for dislodged motions and their artifacts.” Built by hand with at-hand unreachables., an urban earthen structure for reflection in Cohen Alley.

HARUPIN-HA
butoh


inkBoat
Website: www.inkboat.com/

Founded in 1994, inkBoat works in fractured, filmic delicate and decayed environments, existing between humor and horror. Their performance style is a hybrid of traditional and experimental dance and theater forms weaved within Physical Theater and Japanese Butoh Dance.

inkBoat will be performing, “Black Composition 4," , a new dance work in progress directed/choreographed by Shinichi Momo Koga and performed/choreographed by Sherwood Chen, Paige Sorvillo, Isak Immanuel and Iu-Hui Chua.


KITUNDU (ARTIST)
Website: www.kitundu.com

Kitundu will present a shadow installation in the Cobb house in Cohen Alley

A sound/visual artist, graphic designer, composer and
instrument builder, Kitundu employs an interdisciplinary approach to develop
compositions-installations-instruments that blur the boundaries
between media.

LEDOH, butoh performer + KITUNDU
Website: www.saltfarm.org
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Ledoh’s site-specific solo collaborations with composers Reverend Markus Hawkins and Michael Kosacki have electrified audiences in and around San Francisco for over ten years. In 1998 Ledoh founded the Butoh performance collective Salt Farm

Ledoh was born into the Ka-Ren culture indigenous to Burma and Northern Thailand. In Kyoto in 1989, Ledoh discovered Butoh via master performer Katsura Kan, with whom he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to five-star reviews.

LINDY HOP DEMO AND CLASS WITH HEP JEN
Website: http://www.hepjen.com
Website: www.lindyinthepark.com/

Learn the Lindy Hop.

Hep Jen specializes in Lindy Hop, a high-energy form of swing dancing emerging out of Charleston in the late 1920s, and wildly popular throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Jen also teaches Salsa dancing. Hep Jen began her teaching experience in Seattle in 1997, energizing and establishing new venues promoting the growth of Lindy Hop. In recent years, Hep Jen has expanded her teaching throughout the Northwest, California, Western Canada, and Florida. Hep Jen has been based in San Francisco since May 2004. In San Francisco, Hep Jen is now well-known as the regular instructor at Lindy In The Park free dance lessons on Sunday afternoons


MADAME OVARY
Madame Ovary presents puppets, storytelling, puns and performance all day: EGGsplorations that are EGGological, EGGspansive. EGGstatic and EGGlectic.

SAN FRANCISCO GO CLUB
Website: www.sfgoclub.com


SF REC & PARK YOUTH PERFORMERS
Mike and Mike / Jazzy Girls

SAN FRANCISCO CIRCUS CENTER/YOUTH CIRCUS
Website; www.circuscenter.org

Created in 1996 by the School’s master trainer, Lu Yi, to develop the next generation of professional circus artists and to present their work. Drawing on the rich historical and cultural traditions of circus, The San Francisco Youth Circus creates new works that speak to today’s audiences. This year’s company members range in age from 6 to 23. The San Francisco Youth Circus participates in many cultural and community events each year aspiring to represent the spirit and diversity of San Francisco through performance in circus arts.


SISTAZ OF THE UNDERGROUND
EXTRA CREW CREW
contact: Smalls
Website: www.sisterzunderground.com

Sisterz of the Underground is a collective of female expressionists who are building a Hip Hop community in San Francisco and world wide., representing all aspects of Hip Hop: emcees, dj's, breakers, and graffiti artists.

The ladies of the house, all from independent groups, originally came together for Sisterz of the Underground in January 18, 2001

Sisterz of the Underground continues to meet talented female expressionists and has upcoming events. We are also working with the youth doing Hip Hop workshops. We hope to eventually have our own location where low-income girls can practice there Hip Hop expression.

with Sarah Smalls, Cryx, Nurseboogie and Jana Jones.

Packed with live hip hop, soul and breakdancing performances so bring your dancing shoes.

THE SIXTH STREET PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Website: www.sixthstreetphoto.org

Sixth Street photographers will be taking 8x10 poloraid portraits during the 11th annual ITS Festival.

Since 1991, Sixth Street Photography Workshop has provided free photographic training to the homeless and low-income community of San Francisco. For the past five years we have held an on-going beginning photography workshop taught collaboratively by professional photographers and advanced Workshop participants. They recruit participants for their classes from shelters, residential hotels, social service agencies and community organizations.


SOONYANA THE SNAKE DANCER

A Dance Tale by Soonyana and her snake, Princess:
An Urban Empress and her new clothes

Accompanied by rhythmic sewing machines and clad in clothing that has a life of it's own,Soonyana finds herself back in the garden of eden with only a
primal, slithering snake for attire.


TONY SPARKS, MC

Sparks will be MCing this year’s 11th annual ITS Festival.
He has performed stand-up comedy since the dawn of the joke. He's opened for many famous comics long before they were famous (Kim Coles, Chris Rock, Jay Leno). He's written for many comics both now on television and others presenting working the comedy circuit. He's a major fixture in the San Francisco
comedy scene, hosting two incredible rooms the Luggage Store Tuesdays and the Brainwash Cafe/Laundromat in San Francisco every Thursday.

MIRIAM STAHL, VISUAL INTERACTIVE PROJECT
Part II, 1000 bags, to be given away.

MICHAEL SWAINE

AMARA TABOR-SMITH AND CHRISTAL BROWN
(Dancers/choreograpers) 

Tabor-Smith and Brown will perform a new work.

Amara Tabor-Smith is an actress and dancer who began performing in the Bay Area almost 20 years ago. She has worked with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Make-A-Circus, anD toured schools performing folktales with The World of Tales. As a dancer, she has worked with local choreographers such as Ed Mock, Priscilla Regalado, Pearl Ubungen and most recently is a member of The Urban Bush Women Dance Company in NY. Tabor-Smith is an accomplished Capoeirista having studied for the past 12 years with well known masters in San Francisco, New York, and Brazil.

TESSELATION
www.tesselation.com

Tesselation will create a living wall temporary installation in Cohen Alley.
Tesselation is comprised of planners, artists, engineers, and ecologists. We provide the experience and creativity needed to develop comprehensive plans and designs for habitat restoration, sustainable land use, and architecture

TRUST YOUR STRUGGLE, see Friday
live painting in Cohen Alley with Scott LaRock, Tres, Erin Yoshioka, and from
GUIDED MASSES5, Ariel Shepard, Cory Shaw and NAKED SOULS ALLIANCE, Cece Carpio, Darren Villegas and Damon Butler.


TUSSLE
www.tussle.org


ULTRA GYPSY
Website: www.ultragypsy.com

Out of the San Francisco Bay Area, Ultra Gypsy is an innovative belly dance theater company founded in 1996 by visionary dancer and choreographer Jill Parker. They are Gypsies for today's world, wandering in a maze of modernity. They are a myriad of cultures, old and new, picking up what they need and defying binding taboos. They are modern and primitive, urban and tribal, medusa and machine; living, evolving, timeless. They are Ultra Gypsies.

VILLA VILLA COLA
Website: www.villavillacola.com/

At the 11th annual ITS, VILLA VILLA will have a skateboard ramp with demonstrations and lessons, as well as a “skatebooth” in which skate films will be screened.

If you’ve never seen a Pippi Longstocking movie you should do yourself a favor and rent one, but don’t get the cheesy American version–demand the Swedish version. Pippi is about ten years old and lives alone in a house named Villa Villekula. Her father is a pirate and is often away at sea and only makes short visits to bring her gold coins. Because she’s young and lives alone with all of the money she could ever need, she has the freedom and independence that most of us only dream of and wouldn’t know what to do with if we got it. This isn’t a problem for Pippi for she always knows what to do and how to share it. So Villa Villa Cola was derived from the name of Pippi’s house in the spirit of adventure and freedom that we associate with skateboarding.

My twin sister, Nicole and I started Villa Villa Cola in 1996 with a simple eight-page zine that featured the skateboarding talent of Jamie Sinift, the only other girl skater we knew of, and us. We soon exhausted the interest of people in our hometown of San Diego and decided that the world, or at least the United States, needed to know what we were doing. In the middle of summer, we packed a car full of winter sweaters, a stack of zines and our newly created skateboard video. This began our cross-country road trip to spread the word of Villa Villa Cola

Our goal was to inspire every girl in America to skateboard. We made it to Texas without meeting a single girl who wanted to skate or who was even remotely interested. We were right about the need to find other girls who skated, but all wrong about where we would find them. It wasn’t until we returned home to San Diego that we finally met Lori d. a filmmaker, animator, and skateboarder plus Faye Jaime, the best girl skater we had ever seen. Shortly after our uniting with these two, we met Lisa Whitaker, a skateboard videographer and Van Nguyen a skate champion both reigning from Los Angeles. Together we formed a dynamic team of skaters and artists. We believed that our zine and video collaborations would inspire more girls to skateboard, and over the last seven years of working together, they have. But in the beginning they simply opened the door for the chance meeting with girl skaters that we may have never met just wishing they would come our way. Villa Villa Cola has become a place for skateboarders, no matter who they are, to express their creativity and have fun together, which is what we were really looking for in the first place. Our very own Villa Villekula.


WHO'S RHYME IT IS ANYWAY?


ZACCHO DANCE THEATRE – JOANNA HAIGOOD
Website; www.zaccho.org

Performing "Inverted States" on the side of the Senator Hotel.

From the menace of a 10-ton industrial crane to the delicacy of a
butterfly's nesting ground, Zaccho's work explores overlooked and
unseen environments and phenomena.

Zaccho was co-founded in 1980 by Joanna Haigood and Lynda Riemann. In 1983 Joanna Haigood became Artistic Director, guiding Zaccho as it actively provides performances and arts education programs in San Francisco, nationally and internationally. Haigood's work is centered on making dances that use natural, architectural and cultural environments as points of departure for movement and narrative exploration. The dances become extensions of their surroundings, where choreography is developed as a direct response to the physical, cultural, and historical information contained therein. Haigood and the Company conduct research into the history and character of each site, often involving the community in the process

DJs 11am through the day
SAKE 1
PELE
MODEST MARK
INTANGIBLE
TAP 10
WASABIUNO
POLITIK





WHAT The Luggage Store Presents
The 11th Annual “In The Street” Festival

WHEN Friday, October 7, 2005 @ 5-10pm
Saturday, October 8, 2005 @ 11am-6pm

WHO Friday:
ABADA Capoeira, SF, Extra-Action Marching Band, Dustin Fosnot, La Malinche, Los Sueños Del Fuego, Therm Fire Sculptures, Trust Your Struggle Artist Collective

Saturday:
Big Burlesque: The Original Fat Bottom Revue, Big Tadoo Puppet Crew, The Broun Fellinis, Julia Glanville/Darryl Smith, Inkboat, Kitundu, Ledoh (Butoh), Lindy Hop Demo And Class With Hep Jen, Madame Ovary, Radar In The Street, Reconstruction Project, Albert Reyes, San Francisco Go Club, SF Rec & Park Youth Performers, Mike And Mike/Jazzy Girls, San Francisco Youth Circus, Sistaz of The Underground, The Sixth Street Photography Workshop, Soonyana The Snake Dancer, Tony Sparks, Miriam Stahl, Michael Swaine, Amara Tabor-Smith & Christal Brown, Tesselation, Trust Your Struggle Artist Collective with Guided Masses5, Naked Soul Alliance, Tussle, Ultra Gypsy, Villa Villa Cola (women skateboarders), Nicholas Mohanna, Phillip Ross/Marina McDougall, Who's Rhyme Is It Anyway?, Zaccho Dance Theatre/Joanna Haigood with DJs, SAKE !, Pele, Modest Mark, Intangible, Tap 10, Wasabiuno, Politik.

WHERE Cohen Alley (500 block of Ellis Street, between Leavenworth and Hyde Streets), The Tenderloin, San Francisco

COST FREE (Donations Appreciated)

INFO http://www.luggagestores.store or (415) 255-5971


PHOTOS: For High Resolution Photographs, Please Go to: www.mtechweb.org



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