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4/4/2002

Programs

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose

IN FLUX
7pm - 10pm
Free to members; $5 non-members
The San Jose Museum of Art presents eclectic, hip programs on the first Friday of every month geared towards San Jose's younger adult audience. The programs take place between the hours of 7pm and 10pm, and feature one of the Museum's current exhibitions, live music, DJs, poetry, performance artists, and other on-the-edge experiences. Funky drinks at a no-host bar, light snacks, hot new art, and engaging gallery activities complement performances. The In Flux program is totally free for Museum members, with a nominal cover for non-members. All attendees receive a "Fluxpass" which is good for free admission to a downtown club later that same night.

Friday, April 5 El Mambo Combo
Dance to hot Latin grooves, salsa and Latin jazz! El Mambo Combo, one of the best bands around, will make an appearance at IN FLUX on April 5. El Mambo Combo has appeared with such stars as Pete Escovedo and Eliados Ochoa of the Buena Vista Social Club, so don't miss this chance to hear them at SJMA! They will start with Latin jazz at 7pm and, beginning at 7:30pm salsa lessons to live music will be offered. After a break, the band will cut loose from 8:30pm until 10pm. Don't miss this great opportunity to heat up the dance floor, practice some new moves, sip a few margaritas to cool off, and tour the galleries! Sponsored by KBRG Radio Romantica

Friday, May 3 Mo'Fone
Enjoy the creative new jazz sounds of Mo'Fone. This unusual combination of two saxophones and drums experiments in the uncharted waters of improvisation and genre mixing. A different take on jazz and funk, the group combines traditional elements of both, but takes them in non-traditional directions. Mo'fone plays many original compositions, as well as New Orleans brass band (without the brass), Jimi Hendrix (without the guitar), and many sounds out of the funk and jazz traditions. Led by drummer Jeremy Steinkoler, Mo'fone also includes Larry De La Cruz and Jim Peterson, who play multiple horns - often at the same time!

Friday, June 7 Sister Sock Show
In celebration of San Jose's Gay Pride Festival, check out the Sister Sock Show. This zany San Francisco-based performance troupe, founded by Sister Dana Van Iquity and Sister Kitty Catalyst, has performed at counter-culture events throughout the Bay Area and beyond. The Sister Sock Show is known for forced audience participation, projectiles and poorly executed narrative (in their own words!). In between performances, dance to the sounds of DJ Pusspuss - disco ball required!
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Shoot! Artists Answer the Questions You've been Dying to Ask.
On four Friday nights in April and May, SJMA will host 2-3 California artists included in SJMA's permanent collection exhibition for a series of lively and revealing gallery discussions. The series is being organized in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition Is the Medium the Message?: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection. Organized as a sequel to Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art in the Permanent Collection, this new exhibition and these gallery talks seek to continue the dialogue with Musuem visitors that began in summer 2001. We will continue to explore the questions and issues raised by our own community - so critical to the understanding of contemporary art - such as the role of beauty, identity, simplicity, materials, and irony in visual culture.

You can email your questions to the Museum in advance at shoot@sjmusart.org, or just bring them with you to the discussion.

Seating is limited and reservations are required for each night, so call now! Priority will be given to SJMA members. Please call (408) 271-6887 to RSVP.

Below is the series schedule:

Friday, April 12, 7 pm
Carrie Ungerman
David Ligare

Friday, April 19, 7pm
Rene de Guzman
Raymond Saunders

Friday, May 17, 7pm
Jim Campbell
Mildred Howard
Larry Sultan

Friday, May 31, 7pm
Michael McMillen
Kim Abeles
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CROSS CHANNELS Performance Series
2pm
Free to members; $5 non-members
Don't miss the launch of the Museum's newest performance series held on the second Sunday of each month! This experimental series will offer a unique blend of music, dance, and theatre, presenting artistic styles ranging from classical to contemporary to experimental. In keeping with the dynamics of the artwork in the galleries, this performance series is meant to stimulate and challenge the visitor, while complimenting the relationship between the visual and performing arts.

Sunday, May 12 An Afternoon of Music for Digits and Fingers
Join Chris Chafe (cello, celletto), together with Joan Benson (clavichord), Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (radio baton) and Mark Applebaum (mousetrap) for a "moving" musical experience. This concert reaches into all corners of the Museum, with computer music in the galleries, a live jam with the Museum installation Oxygen Flute, and performances of new music with very old and very new instruments. Computer-generated music takes many forms in this recital of works created at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

Sunday, June 9 An Afternoon of Strings
Join the South Bay Guitar Society, together with the Mission Chamber Orchestra for an afternoon of strings! Brothers Babak and Pedram Falsafi will begin with a guitar program including Souvenire de Russie by Fernando Sor and selections from La Vida Breve by Manuel de Falla, followed by a performance by a string ensemble from the Mission Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Emily Ray. The two groups will play a concluding piece together, arranged especially for this performance.
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SAN JOSE CENTER FOR POETRY & LITERATURE
2pm - 4pm
Wendel Education Center
Free admission
The San Jose Center for Poetry and Literature hosts a monthly poetry series at the Museum. The series, scheduled on the third Sunday of the month, features poets and writers who are both nationally and locally recognized. An open reading session follows the featured readers.

Sunday, April 21 Phyllis Koestenbaum
Phyllis Koestenbaum is a senior scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. She will read from her new collection, a book of brilliant, quirky, fast-talking prose poems.

Sunday, May 19 Joan Edwards
Joan Edwards is a widely published poet whose work reflects her love of craft,
and her ability to translate life's lessons into art.

Sunday, June 16 Michael Dylan Welch
Michael Dylan Welch is editor of Tundra, the journal of the short poem. He will read with other contributors to the latest issue of the journal.
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SPECIAL EVENT: A Conversation with Gerald Stern
Friday evening, April 26, 7pm
Free admission
With a career spanning over 20 years, Gerald Stern, often applauded as the modern Walt Whitman, has won numerous awards. Some of these include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, The Patterson Poetry Prize, The Lamont Poetry Prize, as well as grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. A resident of New Jersey and the author of ten poetry collections, his most recent book is Last Blue: Poems, (W.W. Norton and Company, 2000).
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SAN JOSE OPERA GUILD LECTURE
Tuesday, April 9
Noon - 1pm
Wendel Education Center
Free admission
How about a little Opera with that Caesar salad? Come enjoy lunch in the Museum cafe and stay for a captivating opera lecture. Larry Hancock will speak on the upcoming performance of Madame Butterfly and principal artists from the production will sing short excerpts. Come early! These highly successful programs, which are co-sponsored by the Museum and the San Jose Opera Guild, have produced standing room only crowds,
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THE IVES QUARTET
Saturday, May 11
2pm - 4pm
$15 general admission, $10 Museum members & seniors, $5 students
Tickets available at the door or by calling (415) 392-4400. Seating is limited

Join us on the afternoon of May 11 when The Ives Quartet presents their last in a series of three concerts. The program, performed by Robin Sharp and Susan Freier (violins), Scott Woolweaver (viola) and Stephen Harrison (cello), will include Thomas Oboe Lee's Seven Jazz Studies, Haydn's Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2, and Benjamin Britten's Quartet No. 3. The Ives Quartet's concert tours have taken them to Europe, Taiwan and throughout the United States.
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Gallery Tours in American Sign Language
Saturdays, April 13, May 11, June 8 at 12:30pm

On the second Saturday of each month at 12:30pm, the public gallery tour will be interpreted in American Sign Language for deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors. All are welcome; no reservations are required. This service is offered free of charge. For more information or accommodations, please contact Elana Hornstein at (408) 521-4001 or at ehornstein@sjmusart.org.

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Touch Tours
During the months of April and May, Touch Tours of the permanent collection will be offered for visitors with vision loss.
This unique opportunity explores contemporary art using multiple senses.
Designed in a two-part format, the program starts with an engaging, tactile gallery tour of works in the permanent collection, complimented by a 90-minute art-making workshop, guided by a local, professional artist.
This program is free of charge and available for adults who are blind or visually impaired, and their companions.
Touch tours are offered by appointment only.
To schedule, please contact Elana Hornstein at (408) 521-4001 or at ehornstein@sjmusart.org.

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