Featuring Stellar Performance Artists and Musicians from your local Indie Scene! All turning out to support Girl Wonder Athletic Productions, a new San Francisco based business, dedicated to supporting independent artists and reflecting the positive impact of artistic expression upon mental and physical health.
Super Indie/Art Rock Groups NN and Her Aquatic Sunrise
Beautiful and supernatural circus feats LionHorse Dance
Carnival games & out of body experiences MuscleActivate.com
Bring your gum and your chapstick for the KISSING booth!
End the night with a Psychedelic-new-wave-electro dance party
Featuring an auction of live painting and past works by local artist Sergio Lopez
…it’s 1979 and David Bowie has summoned you to his cocktail party. Think elegance with experimental flamboyance! Classy / retro cocktail attire with odd affectations and accessories is highly encouraged. It’s NOT a costume party, it’s a ROCKin’ COCKTAIL party – a ROCKTAIL party!!! Dress how you like! Anything goes! I'm just saying, if Bowie invited you, what would you wear?
All guests will receive a $15 gift certificate to online wine shop Bottlenotes.com
Buy Tickets in advance and get bonus game and drink tickets! Go to BROWN PAPER TICKETS.COM
Ticket price ranges from $20 - $100 based on how much you want to support GWaP
Options – The Breakdown:
$20 – Basic – Come enjoy the party!
$25 – Standard – includes 1 carnival ticket
$30 – Mid-range – Includes 2 carnival tickets
$35 – Steppin’ Out – Includes 3 carnival tickets
$40 – Deluxe – Includes 4 carnival tickets
$50 – Makin’ Things Happen – Includes 6 carnival tickets
$75 – Livin’ Large – Includes 9 carnival tickets
$100 – Show me what you got! – Includes 12 carnival tickets and your name in the credits of “Chicken or the Egg”
Party will be run carnival style, with tickets for games and drinks available throughout the night. Drinks and games range from 1-3 carnival tickets
About Girl Wonder Athletic Productions
Girl Wonder Athletic Productions (GWaP) is an online community: a Web-based, Interactive, Multi-media Production company in pre-startup phase. Founder, Candace M. Younghans is building GWaP to reflect the positive impact of artistic expression upon mental and physical health. She is developing an online community in which you come for the art and entertainment, stay to discuss it, become inspired to participate in its creation and utilize the site to pave your own pathway to mental and physical strength and resilience.
It is also a unique platform for independent artists to showcase and potentially generate revenue from their work.
Funds raised at The Experimental Art Rocktail Party will be used to produce the initial pieces of creative content for the site. Both directed by Camille “June” Gregoire, the first is a short film which June wrote, “Chicken or The Egg”, and the second a dance theatre film, “In Their Silence” to be developed in collaboration with Rosannah Riess and Candace M. Younghans.
There are many ways to support Girl Wonder Athletic Productions!!!
Buy tickets to attend the party and come out to have a good time!
Can't make the party? You can still support Girl Wonder Athletic Productions in numerous ways:
Every contribution, no matter the amount, is useful and greatly appreciated.
• $100+ -Supporters of GWaP who give of $100 - $300 will get their name in the “Chicken or the Egg” credits and increase their good karma!
• $300+ -Supporters of GWaP who give above $300 will get their name in both “Chicken or the Egg” and “In Their Silence” and increase their good karma!
• $500+ - The highest two donations above $500 will get a cameo appearance in “Chicken or the Egg” and their names in the credits as a friend of GWaP
Offer Business services to GWaP
Volunteer to help us find and secure filming locations
• Fast food joint
• A medical clinic (community or hospital)
• An apartment building with multiple units facing the street
Join the GWaP community to learn about and participate in future events and productions
“Chicken or the Egg”
“Chicken or the Egg” is a darkly flamboyant apocalyptic tale about the fine line between creation and destruction. It’s the story of a cautious but disgruntled fast food worker, Mary, who finally gives in to the American dream and the pervading belief that there is an inherent benevolence in “trusting your gut”. As things around her begin to unravel, she becomes certain that, as suspected, her gut has quite literally been co-opted and she is faced with a perplexing choice. If the Coen Brothers were to remake Rosemary’s Baby infuse it with modern political and economic anxieties and let it steep with soulful contemporary gospel music it might look something like this. This will be the 3rd film which Camille has teamed with the talented Director of Photography, Satsuki Mirashuge. To see some of their work check them out on Vimeo.
“In Their Silence”
This dance theatre film will expand upon a piece Candace choreographed for the stage in 2002. That piece, called “In Her Silence”, gives the audience a voyeuristic view into one young woman’s psyche as she prepares for bed and struggles to reconcile herself to her body. The film will take this concept further and explore the internal world (internal dialogue, thoughts and dreams) of multiple residents in a housing complex, each when they are home alone. Highlighting the things we rarely share with others, the things we remain silent about, most of the story will be expressed through physicality and music with text used sparingly.
About the filmmaker
Camille and Candace met studying choreography at San Francisco State University and connected instantly over their interests in storytelling and the arts as powerful catalysts to the wellness of a society.
Camille June Gregoire is a San Francisco based writer/director. Raised in Texas, Italy, Hawaii and San Francisco she has always been fascinated with the co-mingling and clash of divergent world views and their effect on the individual’s struggle within a fragmented modern world. She sets out to draw audiences into the colorful psychological realities of her characters and to create cinematic worlds which marry both a gritty familiarity and a surreal psychological potency.
Camille grew interested in storytelling while studying choreography and photo journalism at San Francisco State University, where she crafted award winning dances. Determined to translate her visceral visual sensibility to film, she began making short films and set out to obtain a technical understanding of filmmaking. For the last several years she has worked professionally as a camera assistant on shorts, commercials, music videos and features and has produced and assistant directed documentary, commercial and indie projects.
The bands
Her Aquatic Sunrise
This group was formed by Joe Miller specifically for The Experimental Art Rocktail Party. They will combine euro-latin lounge sounds of 1960’s films with the epic sounds of late 70’s early 80’s art rock including David Bowie covers and some original works by Joe Miller – a sneak preview of his rock opera “Telibus Nubius and the Organ Lust”. The group is comprised of musicians from local indie bands: Joe Miller of the bands The Lovely Public and Mark Matos and Os Beaches; Grant Goodrich of Battlehooch; David Nichols of Battlehooch; Matt Adams of The Blank Tapes; and Joe Lewis, also a member of Mark Matos and Os Beaches and the owner of the sweet venue Blue Six Acoustic Room.
In the landscape of lo-fi romanticism, geek chic, and irony, Nero Nava (formerly of barbarasteele) returns with a stripped down rock and roll coup d'etat called NN (pronounced "enne enne"). Influenced by drunken punk poets, and the theatricality of class, NN comes for your mind through your body. With an aesthetic palette that recalls "The Lost Generation", NN is forward thinking and classic at once. Rock and Roll for the high and low brow. If you miss Rock and Roll with sexuality, angst, showmanship and a story, this one's for you.
Beautiful and freakish circus feats
Aerial Rope by Rosannah Riess
Hand balancing by Kathy Pullen
Bamboo Pole Act by Faeble Keivman
About the silent art auction
Sergio Lopez will be painting pieces during the party which you can bid on even before they are completed! His completed works will be exhibited throughout the venue and open for silent bid, as well. To see his work and those that he’ll be showing at the party go to his website: www.themainloop.com
About the musical director for the Experimental Art Rocktail Party
Joe Miller helped create the group The Lovely Public and Syd’s Last Trip a tribute to Syd Barret. He plays with numerous groups around town including Subimage, Mark Matos and Os Beaches, Quinn Deveaux and Pope of Yes. A chameleon of a drummer, Joe can play anything from Psychedelic Rock to Jazz to Blue Grass. His core interests lie in art rock and he is currently composing a rock opera entitled "Telibus Nubius and the Organ Lust", a future project for GWaP. Thanks to Joe, Candace has some damn good musicians rallying for the cause. Thx Joe!
Thanks to all Merchants and artists who’ve contributed PRIZES, time & energy or resources to the event.
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Sensuously delicious Vietnamese and Thai appetizers will be served compliments of the outrageously profound
Three Papayas
You can win a table for four to Teatro Zinzanni! A $500 value!!!
Set along San Francisco’s historic waterfront, Teatro ZinZanni is a bewitching evening of European Cabaret and Cirque, Divas and Madmen, Spectacle and Sensuality with Live Music and a Gourmet Five-Course Dinner – set in the nightclub of your dreams!
“If I were to invent my own nightclub, it would be pretty much like Teatro ZinZanni. One of the few evenings that is completely worth the money.”
– Pat Craig, Contra Costa Times
“Magnificent! – you’ll never have a better evening!”
– Jerry Friedman, KGO Radio.
You can win a four day camper-van rental! A $200 value! at
