8:00 pm Happened ChangeHeikki Koskinen - musical improvisation, Tobey Kaplan, poetry, Nan Busse, maker/mover
9:00 pm Matias E.A. - guitar/Ari Brown - trumpetMatias E.A. (guitar) and Ari Brown (trumpet) present a duo collaboration built around shared values of freedom and vulnerability. Ari’s linear dexterity and lyricism meld with Matias’ textural and harmonic sensibility as they explore tonality and timbre in dense dialogues around relational dynamics and mysticism.
NAN BUSSE In addition to creating her own dances/shows, Nan has joined Deborah Hay's SPCP, danced around the world with Danny Nguyen and many other choreographers. Performing (dance and didgeridoo) with musician Joe Lasqo and many fine, new music artists has been a periodic source of joy. Recently a resident fellow at Dorland Mountain Artists’ Colony and creating work for Yugen Theatre in Action, her pieces include “after Frost”, “Hands”, “A Sentence is Inside Itself” (Best of SF Fringe 2016) , and the “Joyce Project” performances that include theatre, sound and movement centered around local history and personal stories.
TOBEY KAPLAN
Itinerant seasoned poet and educator has encouraged creative writing, reading and composition in the SF Bay for over 40 years at several East Bay community colleges and through California Poets in the Schools. She has given poetry readings and literacy/social
change workshops throughout the country. For the past twenty years, she has collaborated with musicians and performers; please find her work in selected anthologies and collections, both paper and digital. Most recently viewed on many open-mic Zoom screens performing her poetry, her honors include an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, resident fellow at Dorland Mountain Artists’ Colony, and a Bay Area Arts Award/New Langton.
HEIKKI KOSKINEN has been featured on several Diasporas Performance Festivals with Nan Busse and Tobey Kaplan playing music with poetry and dance. He is a Finnish musician living in the Bay Area. Before moving to US Heikki was chosen as Finland’s top Jazz trumpet player in Rytmi Magazine polls. Heikki studied music with Charlie Banacos, Jimmy Owens and at Berklee College in Boston and then moved to the Bay Area in 1977, where Heikki has worked as a composer, musician and music educator. He is active in the Finnish community and his main instruments are e-trumpets, tenor recorder and piano among others. His latest collaborative project with composer/musician Rent Romus, Itkuja Suite, invocations on lament, is based on ancient Nordic laments and received a consideration for Grammy nomination in
2024. Heikki’s recent Finnish collaborators have included bassist Teppo Hauta-aho and sax player Mikko Innanen and his Bay Area bands have featured such musicians as Rent Romus, Donald Robinson, Hadley Caliman, Steve Heckman, Mark Levine, Joe Bonner, Bennie Green, Larry Hancock and Michael Spiro. Heikki received Finnish Music Archive’s “Jazz Legend Award” #34 in 2019.
$10-20 Sliding suggested donation(no one turned away for lack of funds)
Cost: $10-20 sliding (no one turned away for lack of fun