The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company (BATCO) presents Death and the Artist: A Latino folktale about how death brings meaning to life
Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff
The show takes place at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts from Friday Oct. 18 through Nov. 3, 2019 (over Halloween and Día de los Muertos). Attendees are invited to don their best costume for our special Halloween night show on October 31st or come dressed in your best Calaca at any performance for a chance to win a special prize.
Adapted from Mercedes Rein & Jorge Curi’s Death and the Blacksmith (El Herrero y la Muerte) by Chilean Playwright and Bay Area resident Carlos Barón, Death and the Artist is directed by BATCO Co-Founder Marcelo Javier.
With Latino culture at the heart of this creative adaptation, BATCO’s musical dramedy juggles past and present conversations around life, death, inequity, and immigration, touching on moral questions we all face.
“Death and The Artist” about immigration, life, death, moral questions & other issues from the heart of the Sanctuary City of San Francisco in the historic Mission District, now facing increasing gentrification.
On Oct. 18-Nov. 3rd, at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street.
Eleventh Annual Tricycle Music Fest Kicks Off October 6
Live Kindie Music at San Francisco Public Library
San Francisco Public Library is rolling on out eleven years of Rock! Play! Learn! with its hit music celebration for children, Tricycle Music Fest. The Library welcomes all families to sing and dance along with us at live performances every weekend in October throughout the City.
Opening the festival is Brooklyn-based band The Pop Ups, sharing their unique rock and roll sound this weekend on Sunday, October 6. Jazzy Ash and the Leaping Lizards bring NOLA to the City by the Bay with music influenced by jazz and the joy of Mardi Gras with two performances in October at the North Beach and Ortega Branches. Bay Area favorites the Alphabet Rockers will drop beats inspiring social justice and youth empowerment at the Excelsior and Richmond Branch Libraries. Lastly, wrapping up the month of October, the Library welcomes Grammy and Emmy-winning group The Lucky Band, playing catchy hits from their newly-nominated Latin Grammy album, Buenos Diaz. The Lucky Band closes our series with a special before-open-hours concert at the Main Library bright and early on Sunday, Oct. 27.
Additionally, Tricycle Music Fest features one very special prize: a tricycle raffle. One lucky concertgoer rides off on a new shiny red tricycle at the end of each show.
Please see the full schedule of events at sfpl.org/tricycle and smcl.org/tricycle.
Zoppé Italian Family Circus – La Nonna
The Zoppé Italian Family Circus welcomes guests into an authentic one-ring circus tent, in Red Morton Park in Redwood City from October 11th through November 3rd for matinee and evening showtimes. For 2019, Zoppé brings a special show honoring women… La Nonna (Grandmother in Italian). This one-ring circus honors the best history of the Old-World Italian tradition and stars Nino the Clown, along with many other thrilling, mostly women-based acts.
History. History is made in moments like these. La Nonna is a special tribute to a past Zoppé matriarch who kept the show alive during the great depression with her tenacity and perseverance. La Nonna celebrates the POWER, BEAUTY, and ELEGANCE of women with a predominately female company of artists. This is a historic show for the greater circus community. Zoppé is at the forefront of what circus has to offer humanity, while pointedly keeping in touch with true circus tradition.
On hundred seventy-seven years and seven generations of the Zoppé Family uphold the love and fun of their uniquely intimate show
