MEET THE COMPOSER SALON, EXHIBIT, and PERFORMANCE WITH AWARD WINNING MULTIMEDIA ARTIST AND PERFORMER AMY SEIDMAN
Kickoff Earthday 2010 with a lively evening of discussion, photographic exhibition, and performance with the award winning multimedia artist Amy Seidman on Wednesday evening April 21, at 5:00 pm. The event is being held at The Green Zebra Eco Action Center at The Crocker Galleria, 40 Sutter Street in San Francisco.
The event begins at 5pm with "Meet The Composer", in which Amy Seidman, recipient of the Meet the Composer Award by the New York Counsel for the Arts, is presenting a free salon discussing the intersection of music, digital media and technology to inspire people around nature and culture.
This is followed at 6:30 with a reception for her photographic exhibition "In Response To That". During the Great LA Clean Up, hundreds of non-profit groups and thousands of volunteers engaged in community activism such as tree plantings and coastal clean-ups. Amy presents a time capsule of The Great LA Clean Up, the grass roots response to the LA Riots in 1993. These images serve as inspiration for us to find solutions to the challenges we currently face. Circumstances brought out the best in people to shift their environment, and reveal the potential of the human spirit to make positive changes in our world.
The Evening's celebration concludes with AmesEla, Amy Seidman's musical incarnation with special guest Eah Herren, Daniel Alvarenga Flores and other musicians, for a unique performance of songs inspired by Nature featuring instruments of the forest. This event is part of AmesEla's "100th Monkey Tour" to experiment with cultural mash ups and merging multiple disciplines.
The Meet The Composer Salon is Free. The Exhibit Reception & Music will be by donation on a sliding scale. Donations will go to the Encanto Project, an Incredible Places project dedicated to preserving Costa Rica's rainforests and the cultures of the people who live in them. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Cost: Free