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Catapulta!
TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE AT BRAVA THEATER! BOX OFFICE OPENS AT 7PM.
Art and Health--with or without papers
THE STORY:*
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For the past three years, SF-based physician and musician Rupa Marya has been traveling with her band the April Fishes down to Tijuana and into youth detention centers here in the Bay Area to learn about the human impact of US anti-immigration policies. These trips were fueled by her work at UCSF where Rupa met countless patients who sought medical attention late in their disease process for fear of deportation. Understanding that a particularly vulnerable patient population in San Francisco is the undocumented immigrant who is too afraid to come to the doctor, Rupa set out with her band to learn more about the stories of these people and to try to find a way to dispel their fear around using the health care services that are available to them safely in San Francisco.
Over the past year, while Rupa & the April Fishes have been touring worldwide with their boundary-busting music which has gained them a strong international following, Bay Area immigration raids have left some Latino immigrants afraid to take their children to school or to go to the doctor. Turning their attention homeward, the band decided to focus their creative energies on a small population that has enormous impact in our citythe undocumented Latino immigrants.
In the fall of 2008, Rupa was awarded a grant by the SF Arts Commission to bring her inquiry of these issues to a deeper level giving birth of Catapulta! The band traveled with photographer Lars Howlett in April 2009 from Tijuana to Texasalong the borderinterviewing people along the way and gathering research for this project. The result is a multimedia arts project coupled with public health outreach, aimed at informing people in San Francisco (documented and undocumented) about accessing health care in San Francisco.
Catapulta! is a one hour performance of new music by Rupa & the April Fishes, scoring stories culled from the bands trip along the US-Mexico border performed by longtime collaborators, the Pan-American circus group Malamaa, along with documentary photographs by Lars Howlett, choreography by Sara Shelton Mann and sculpture by Carlos Cartagena. This will be an evening chronicling the tribuations and celebrating the courage of those who have made the journey or perished along the way. Bridging together many groups from many different artistic and cultural backgrounds for a common purpose, this projects impact is sure to be felt by many communities in San Francisco.
During both evenings performances, a street-ready flyer clearly describing how San Francisco residents can reach health care services regardless of immigration status will be distributed and a table will be staffed by a physician and immigration lawyer who can help answer questions about access to health care for the particularly vulnerable undocumented people in our community. This flyer will be launched at the time of Catapulta! and has been a joint collaboration with Centro Legal de La Raza, UCSF and SFGH Newcomers Health Program.
Forging a link between the powerful outreach of art with the practical outreach of health care information, Catapulta! hopes to be a tool to inform, celebrate as well as empower our local community, those of us with and without papers.
Rupa & the April Fishes are Marcus Cohen (trumpet), Isabel Douglass (accordion), Aaron Kierbel (drums), Safa Shokrai (upright bass) and Rupa (guitar/voice).
This project is funded by the generous support of the SF Arts Commission's Cultural Equity Grant and is fiscally sponsored by counterPULSE.
*50 free tickets available each night at the box office to undocumented people*
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LocationBrava Theater
2781 24th St
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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