FirstPerson Magazine builds community amongst artists, musicians, filmmakers, and designers. A cross - platform publication that is informed and accessible, we produce events to support artists and integrate scenes. Here's a list of what's up and where we've been. Hope to meet you there, Humanists!
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August 24th Levi's Edible Schoolyard Luncheon with Alice Waters
@ Maiden Lane & Grant St., San Francisco
We're working again with Adam Katz and Levi's to book a snazzy jazz band for their Alice Water's luncheon. It's a family affair, as I found out Nicole is preparing the delightful boxed lunches whom I worked with on the Mount Eerie show last May. Chef, Leif Hedendal, is also helping out whom I've been working closely with on the upcoming "Radical Foods" issue for First Person. Email us to get updates as we're planning events to coincide with the launch and a video for our subscriber list with behind the scenes info on artists and contributors.
July 15th What the Heck Fest
@ Anacortes, Washington "Publishing Fair"
We're off to this mysterious island off of Washington state for the 10th annual music festival curated and produced by our new friend, Phil Elverum from the band Mount Eerie. We were so pumped on him and his show here in San Francisco (see below), that we decided to come to his festival in Washington. A few weeks later, his lovely wife invited First Person Magazine to come rep at a table for their first ever publishing fair. When I booked the hotel, the concierge asked if we were coming up for "Shipwreck Day". Apparently, the fair coincides with a weekend where the entire town turns into a flea market. Jon's making a letterpress poster for us to bring up... so here we come!
May 26th 8pm Mount Eerie / Little Wings / NK / Key Losers
@ SF Brightworks 1960 Bryant @ 18th St.
All ages. 6pm - 9:30pm $10 admission. Special letterpress posters. Treats.
Because First Person is a community driven publication for artists, we decided to form an official non-profit called Living Arts Fund to expand our activities in the public realm. We are working with the City of San Francisco and grants to culminate all our programming efforts into commissions that are meaningful and take bigger risks. This Mount Eerie show took about 5 months of planning and thanks to friends and fans for their support, this show is happening in a very special environment. You can buy a suggested advanced ticket under our other site's "Exhibitions & Programming". Ticket sales have reached word as far as Sweden and Florida, and we hope to share this experience with all our readers. So, take a chance and listen to Mount Eerie if you never have, because those who know are fans for life. And 20% of the door goes to this great new school and its future.
May 13th - July 22nd "Welcome to the New Old Times" Collage exhibition @ LAF Salon
251 Onondaga Ave SF
We're pleased to invite a mix of artists who work in various disciplines to explore the concept of collage: a writer, a musician, an artist / DJ, a painter, graphic designer, video artist, renaissance man and minimalist + installation duo. Exploring the definition of collage to mean more than just glue on paper, we now have a wasteland of tools and approaches to art and these works together form an assemblage that even Picasso and Braque would approve of.
Featuring:
Dave Muller / Brian Roettinger / Laurie Reid + Ben Echeverria / Kyoung Kim / Charlie Callahan / Jim Winters / Abdi Taslimi / Jacinto Astiazaran / Evan Caminiti
Ongoing music performance throughout the evening by Camp Follower's Jonathan Grothman. DJ Charlie Callahan aka Sleepless Knight. The show is upstairs to allow a salon style environment for discussion and easy breathing. Please make an appointment for viewing at info@livingartsfund.com.
April 8th Pigeon Dealers: Variety Show @Berkeley Museum
For our 3rd L@TE program installment we are proud to present an evening of getting outside the norm.
I've been really enjoying a lot of comedy lately from Ricky Gervais' "Idiot Abroad" show with Steve Merchant, to Louis CK's HBO series which spawned me into seeking out SF's comedy scene. Going to a benefit function for The LAB, I found Chris Thayer who will be the Berkeley Museum's first stand up comedian, as told to me by Director, Lawrence Rinder. And I am pumped!
The night is named after Mark Leckey's soundsystem art originally. Living in London, I had the pleasure of going to Mark's DJ nights at the Russian Pub and experiencing London street festivals. For this evening, I envisioned a sort of soap box revolution based around the common man.
I invited LA based artist Dave Muller to DJ, being a fan of his music influenced visual art and hearing about his "Three Day Weekenders". SF artist David Enos to show his stop animation films of Leonard Cohen, Jim Morrison and few others. And the local band, Bronze, who is taking the name of the show one step further and "tarring and feathering" themselves during their live performance.
Join us for an evening unlike any other. This isn't a going out to dinner affair. Or sitting in a pub with some mates. It's getting out of the doldrums to present art as something entertaining and fun and off the walls.
Muller's "Sgt. Pepper Chopped and Screwed" is on display as part of the Berkeley Museum's "Abstract Now and Then" show and I believe tonight will be an exciting abstraction of life, hobbyism, and thrill of the grill.
$7. All ages. 6:30 - 9pm
Press: SF Bay Guardian by Johnny Ray Huston
Mar 4th First Person Magazine curates @ Berkeley Art Museum
Unknown Origins
Inspired by Patti Smith's book, "Just Kids" and the energy of 80's downtown NY, our next installment is a blitzkrieg of sounds that struck me like her St. Mark's first show, from:
Kevin Greenspon - A Los Angeles electronic artist who intricately carves sounds.
Vholtz - San Francisco free jazz megagroup featuring Randy Lee Sutherland, Matt & Jon Grothman, Daron Key, Inca Ore (TBC), and Misha Poleshchuk. Sax, drums, 3 guitars that rip off each other.
Hubble - Brooklyn based Ben Greenberg from Z's is making an original quadrophonic wall of sound.
DJ Bezoar Formations - one half of SF new drone sounds from Sudden Oak.
$7, starts @ 6:30pm - 9pm
Feb 11th First Person Magazine curates @ Berkeley Art Museum
First Person Magazine presents 3 evenings for BAM's L@TE program.
Brontez was posting about his dance workshops open to the public at his warehouse live space, so I asked him to send me a DVD of the work as I knew my friend Gary was shooting them on super 8. A kind of black power panther vibe meets Maya Deren voodoo, the Brontez Purnell Dance Company brought a flavor of tequila rituals, jesus candles and free expression to the museum. That and about 150 punks in costume and dyed hair. His favorite band au currant Brilliant Colors played and both received awesome reviews from both the SF Chronicle and SF Bay Guardian.
$7, starts @ 6:30pm - 9pm
Press: SF Bay Guardian by Johnny Ray Huston, Editor / SF Gate / SF Weekly
Dec 10th Living ARTS Fund Holiday Party
249 Onondaga Ave SF 94112
We invite you to the preview of the new San Francisco non-profit destination that will begin a new era for SF. Make the trip out to the Excelsior. It feels like the Old Mission of the 90's, where random bakeries, chotchkee shops and taquerias prevail. Here, in our 70's architecture, the garage and retail shop will be transformed into a gallery showroom and event venue.
"It's a Family Affair "
New Art works by: Anna Postigo, Patti P., Scott Hewicker, Ari Salomon
Live Performances by:
NO BRA
Wav Dwgs
La Femme
Visuals by:
Crinolin
$10- 20 sliding scale donation
Press: Artbusiness by Alan Bramburger
Aug 9th First Person Magazine #4 Launch LA @ Family Bookstore
Will Lemon III DJing (Briliant make - up artist credited with clients: Beyonce, Victoria's Secret)
Special Thanks Jessica Trent PR
Jul 17th First Person #4 SF Launch
Levi's Workshop Limited letterpress edition (still available thru our "Issues" page)
Additional silkscreen posters by:
Jim Drain, Ara Peterson & Karl Haendel (also available on our "Editions" page)
Special thanks Ana@ Subrosa, Adam@ Limits of Fun
Press: missionmission.org
June 4th, 2010 First Person Magazine Curates at NOMA
Christian Jankowski
Guy Overfelt
Jonathan Casella
David Enos / Julien Poirier / Marshall Trammell, Randy Lee Sutherland, Jonathan Grothman, Lemon Bear
Feb. 20th, 2010 First Person Magazine Curates at NOMA
Walead Beshty
Patrick Hill
Karl Haendel
Sept. 20th, 2009 First Person Magazine Curates @ Treasure Island Music Festival
"Carnivalesque"
Bruce Conner
Catherine Wagner
Laurie Reid
Paul Shiek
Ara Peterson
Ginna Triplett
Gloria Maximo
Shawn Maximo
Michelle Blade
David Best
Jonathan Casella
"You have great taste." - Founder for Another Planet Entertainment
Mar 16th 2009 First Person in Dubai,United Arab Emirates for Art Dubai
Jun 29th 2009 First Person in Madrid, Spain for De Zines Publication Fair
Jul 8th 2009 First Person Issue #2 Launch SF
Live performances by:
MNDR (from Mark Ronson International)
Raccoons
Myles Cooper w. Chris Owens & JR White (Girls)
May 15th 2009 First Person Magazine #2 Launch NYC @ Santos Party House
Live performance:
Bad Brilliance
DJ's:
Duane Harriot
(Bim Marx)
Scott Mou (Queens)
April 6th 2008, First Person Produces
Bjork's "Wanderlust" film screening in 3D
DJ's
Mi Ami
Steve Summers
Feb 16th, 2008 First Person Magazine Media Sponsor / Producer GIRLS first live show
Girls
Feb 1st, 2008 First Person Magazine Art Auction@ Park Life Gallery
"What It Is"
Rob Halverson
David Wilson
Ginna Triplett
The Thing / Miranda July
Job Piston
Jason Yates
Frank Lyon
Michelle Blade
Erik Seidenglanz
Sept. 15th, 2007, First Person Magazine #1 Launch Party SF on the waterfront
Host MIA
Dj's
Sonic Boom
Lemonade
FirstPerson
Jul 15th, 2006 Betty Nguyen, Curator @Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
"Cosmic Wonder"
James Turrell
Richard Misrach
Terence Koh
Mariko Mori
Yayoi Kusama
Doug Aitken
Banks Violette
Takeshi Murata
Ara Peterson + Jim Drain
Hisham Bharoocha
Sam Gordon
Anna Sew Hoy
Paperrad
Debora Warner
Mike Pare
Mark Borthwick
Hanna Fushihara Aron + David Aron
Musical Guests: Feathers + Soft Circle + Paper Rad
Press: Kenneth Baker, SF Chronicle (*first ever review of YBCA exhibition) / Fecal Face
"Satellite Shop" with:
Mike Pare
Paperrad
Cosmic Wonder
Ara Peterson
Hanna Fushihara Aron
David Aron
Michael Smith
Hisham Bharoocha
Press: Kenneth Baker, SF Chronicle