Thu, Sep 4, 2008, 5–8 pm • YBCA
FREE with gallery admission

Join us as we celebrate the opening of Galleon Trade: Bay Area Now 5 Edition, a collaborative project for Bay Area Now 5 guest-curated by Jenifer Wofford.

Galleon Trade builds international bridges between the Bay Area and other cities on the globe through a process of exchange and dialog. Taking the historic Acapulco-Manila galleon route as a metaphor of origin, the Galleon Trade exhibitions seek to create new routes of cultural exchange along old routes of commerce and trade. Galleon Trade I brought work by twelve California artists to three galleries in Metro Manila, Philippines in summer 2007. Galleon Trade: Bay Area Now 5 Edition addresses the deeply transnational ties between the Bay Area and the Philippines by pairing artists from both places. It features work by local artists Jaime Cortez, Megan Wilson, Johanna Poethig, Gina Osterloh and Christine Wong Yap, all of whom went to Manila with the project in 2007, and met many local artists. Their work is in conversation with the work of five artists from Manila: Poklong Anading, Norberto Roldan, Maria Taniguchi, Yason Banal, and MM Yu.

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The Red Poppy Art House Annex
Opening Night Featuring Quijerema
Thu, Sep 4, 6 pm • Room for Big Ideas (RBI)
$15 regular / $10 YBCA Members (includes gallery admission)

The internationally celebrated Quijerema is a performing arts quartet that celebrates the cultures of the Americas through original music, poetry and multi-media art installations. Quijeremá "renders a whole constellation of South American rhythms into a jazz idiom … cueca from Chile, tango from Argentina, waltz at its most Latin, landó from Peru, joropo from Venezuela, and huaino from the Andes." Quijerema has been involved with the Red Poppy Art House for many years and scored the soundtrack for the documentary film ¡Pablo Neruda!¡Presente!.

As part of their BAN 5 residency, the Red Poppy Art House (RPAH) explores the power that small spaces hold as vibrant centers where artists gather, create and make their home. Conceived as an on-site neighborhood experiment in cultural innovation, the RPAH acts as a meeting ground for artists of all disciplines, while engaging the complex social and economic issues of the arts landscape. In YBCA's Room for Big Ideas (RBI), the Art House presents a month-long program of artists spanning disciplines and musical traditions of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, joining the traditional to the contemporary, and exploring the ways in which design and arrangement of physical space invariably come to represent, if not impose, our values in material form.