Free Local Sirens Concert at The Parks at 5M (SF)
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Event Details
Submitted by the Event Organizer
This special Local Sirens show centers on healing and reawakening from the pandemic through community and music. It will be a concert of engaging, therapeutic performances by local artists Maya Songbird, Oakland’s Wildchoir, Joyous Dawn, and DJ ariB.
Audience members will hear songs from Maya Songbird’s coming-of-age album (recorded at WAM’s studios), and be encouraged to connect with each other through dance. Songbird mixes Disco, Electro, Pop, and Funk to make her own out-of-this-world sound, influenced by being raised in the colorful and historic Castro District in San Francisco.
Wildchoir, whose work is centered on addressing and healing racial and environmental injustice through song and community togetherness, is a diverse group of vocalists, artists, activists, educators, healers, and community organizers who join together in big harmony. They will invite the audience to actively participate in their songs by singing and using their collective choir of voices to uplift one another.
Joyous Dawn a singer-songwriter, will offer nature-inspired melodies as a balm for our souls, and local Bay Area and Iranian-American artist, DJ ariB will be opening and closing the show performing club music with influences from Middle Eastern, Latin, and Afro beats.
We are also excited to partner with 5M Park for the concert, and Kultivate Labs to bring free food to this community event from our neighbors at Kapwa Gardens down the block. Kapwa is the Filipino spiritual belief of interconnectedness, a recognition of a shared identity, an inner self, shared with others.
How better to connect to the community than through music, song, dance, and food?
All your go-to Bay Area Ube vendors will be at the Yum Yams: Ube Meets Matcha festival!
Guests who RSVP will receive a voucher code for YumYam tokens to be redeemed for Ube and Matcha goodies. Vouchers are limited and will be distributed first come, first served.
Guests who RSVP will receive a voucher code for YumYam tokens to be redeemed for Ube and Matcha goodies. Vouchers are limited and will be distributed first come, first served.
- DATE: Saturday, May 13
- TIME: 1 pm – 4 pm
- LOCATION: 5M Parks at Minna & Mary St. Location. 44 Mary St. San Francisco CA
- FREE – ALL AGES
- RSVP: https://wam.rocks/localsirensmay13
Parking is limited. We advise arriving by public transportation or rideshare service. We also encourage a picnic blanket for seating and layers for windy/foggy weather. Public park rules apply.
About WAM’s Local Sirens Series
WAM’s Local Sirens: Performance Series is a free, all-ages performance series that features exceptional BIPOC Bay Area women and gender-expansive musicians and performers. Local Sirens supports artists creating new and innovative work that is representative of the diverse communities of the Bay Area. To date, Local Sirens has presented the work of 75+ local women and gender-expansive artists, reaching over 7,500 attendees at venues including The Rickshaw Stop, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and El Rio.
About Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST)
Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST) is a community-centered real estate organization committed to ensuring artists and cultural workers can stay anchored where they create. Founded in 2013, CAST works in deep partnership with communities across the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly communities that have endured systemic oppression and historical underinvestment. CAST models new ways to secure and steward affordable, inclusive spaces for creative and cultural expression by applying real estate financing tools and structural models in innovative ways, building community knowledge and agency, and creating and holding space for visioning and arts activation. Its programs and services have helped arts organizations like CounterPulse and Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco build pathways to ownership, enabled artists to secure long-term affordable leases, and created dedicated spaces for cultural connection and exchange. For more information, visit cast-sf.org and see what upcoming events are happening at 447minna.com. Follow @CASTSF on Instagram & Twitter and @SFCAST on Facebook.
This special edition of Local Sirens is made possible thanks to a generous grant from the California Arts Council and the Impact Grants program, which supports collaborative projects that center artists and artistic practice in responding to issues facing California at this time, including the pervasive social, political, and economic inequalities experienced by those communities most vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Local Sirens is also made possible thanks in part to grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the Fleishhacker Foundation, and the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: FREE*
