Event Date: October 25, 2014
Location: Mission @ 17th Street in San Francisco
For more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/799505423439566/
WHAT: We’re still here! Back by popular demand: A DIY organized block party without corporate sponsorship featuring live and DJ music, street performance, film and video projections, and surprises to benefit the neighborhood-based, volunteer-run Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP). Last year’s party attracted over a thousand people to the alley and was acclaimed the party of the year by many in attendance. This year looks to be another great year!
Bands include: Sellassie Blackwell Bochay, Cosmic Toilet, VEX = Ventriloquest Ectoplasmold Xanaxax., Nofauxgiven, Shlurs/Please, Hazard’s Cure, The Younger Lovers, Grandma’s Boyfriend, Dark Materials, Db Leonard, David Starlight, Be Calm Honcho, Loco Tranquilo, Ancient Wing, Russell Butlerr, Hip Hop for Change, Assateague, Thomas Heyman, Sonny Smith
DJs: Cuba & d8
New Murals!
Clarion Alley Mural Project has been a grass roots project from beginning to future. Organized by a handful of individuals who have volunteered thousands of hours with the added generosity of hundreds of community members who’ve committed their time and energy to CAMP since 1992. In a city that is rapidly changing to cater to the one-percent at every level, CAMP is one of the last remaining truly punk venues in San Francisco. The evolution of the project since its beginnings has been one of incredible successes:
1. The initial transformation of the alley to a space filled with murals – color, as well as the City’s first black and white murals with a full range of styles and content – as a collective community effort;
2. Over 700 murals created in the past 2 decades;
3. The Labor Temple Project in the Redstone Building at 16th and Mission that includes a series of labor-inspired murals by Aaron Noble, Rigo 97, @Susane Greene, Sebastiana Pastor, Isis Rodriguez, Chuck Sperry, Barry McGee, Carolyn Castaño, Ruby Neri, John Fadeff, Scott Williams, and Matt Day;
4. International exchange project, Sama-sama/Together through which six artists from SF (Aaron Noble, Andrew Schoultz, Alicia McCarthy, Carolyn Castaño, Carolyn Ryder Cooley, and Megan Wilson) completed a 6-week residency in Yogykarta, Indonesia and 4 artists from Yogykarta (Arie Dyanto, Arya Panjalu, Nano Warsono, and Samuel Indratma) completed an 8-week residency in SF painting murals, installing exhibitions, and participating in public dialogues;
5. The ability of CAMP to support hundreds of artists;
6. CAMP’s ongoing collaborations with our many neighbors and community partners; and
7. CAMP’s active work in support of social, economic, and environmental justice.
Clarion Alley has been an enchanted site of bohemian culture at least as far back as the early sixties when artists like the Cockettes and Terry Riley performed in the same warehouse that the Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) was based in until its demolition in 2001. CAMP was established in October 1992 by a volunteer collective of six North Mission residents: Aaron Noble, Michael O’Connor, Sebastiana Pastor, Rigo 92, Mary Gail Snyder, and Aracely Soriano. Photographer Fiona O’Connor documented CAMP from the beginning. Other members of CAMP over the years include Diego Diaz, Kate Ellis, Permi Gill, Maya Hayuk, Megan Wilson, Andrew Schoultz, Ivy Jeanne McClelland, Jet Martinez, Daniel Doherty, Antonio Roman-Alcala, and CUBA.
Today CAMP’s core organizers include: Megan Wilson, Christopher Statton, Mike Reger, Cuba, Erin Amelia Ruch, Jean Jeanie, Kenshin Tomoshima, José V. Guerra Awe, and Jamila Keba.
CAMP was directly inspired by the mural cluster in Balmy Alley focused on Central American social struggles. CAMP did not choose a single theme however, instead focused on the two goals of social inclusiveness and aesthetic variety. As a result CAMP has produced more than 700 murals on and around Clarion Alley by artists of all ethnicities, ages, and levels of experience, with an emphasis on emerging artists and new styles.
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