The 11th Annual "In The Street" Festival

Fri, Oct 7 - Sat, Oct 8
Friday 5-10pm & Saturday 11am-6pm
FREE (donations accepted)

The 11th Annual "In The Street" Festival will take place in San
Francisco's Tenderloin District on Cohen Alley (the 500 block of
Ellis Street, between Hyde and Leavenworth), at Luggage Store Annex
at 509 Ellis Street, and The Tenderloin Children's Center Playground
on the evening of Friday, October 7 and during the day on Saturday,
October 8. Presented by the non-profit The Luggage Store (which does
NOT sell luggage), the FREE "In The Street" (ITS) Festival features
over 40 performances and installations by more than 100 artists.

ITS, San Francisco's most innovative street theater festival, presents a
wide range of experimental and traditional performances and uses all
forms of the street, the sidewalks, rooftops, sides of buildings, etc =

in its
presentations and encourages audience participation. This year
features a cross-disciplinary gamut of performers, artists and =

musicians including
dance (belly, butoh, lindy, and hip hop), capoeira, visual arts, circus
performance, women's skateboarding, burlesque, puppetry, fire arts, fire
sculpture, spoken word, and aerial performance art.

The "In The Street Festival" is 100% non-commercial: the admission is
free, and the festival is vendorless. This year's festival is =

dedicated to
world peace and to the memory of Tess Manalo-Ventresca, Tenderloin =

activist
and advocate, who passed away this summer.

Friday:
ABADA Capoeira, Extra-Action Marching Band, Dustin Fosnot, La
Malinche, Los Sue=F1os Del Fuego, Naked Soul Alliance, Therm Fire
Sculptures, Trust Your Struggle Artist Collective


Saturday:
Big Burlesque: The Original Fat Bottom Revue, Big Tadoo Puppet Crew, The
Broun Fellinis, DJ Sake 1 (Local 1200), Harupin Ha (butoh), Inkboat,
Julia Glanville/Darryl Smith, Kitundu, Ledoh (Butoh), Lindy Hop Demo
And Class With Hep Jen, Madame Ovary, Radar In The Street,
Reconstruction Project, Albert Reyes, San Francisco Go Club, SF Rec &
Park Youth Performers, Mike And Mike/Jazzy Girls, San Francisco Youth
Circus, Sistaz of The Underground, The Sixth Street Photography
Workshop, Soonyana The Snake Dancer, Tony Sparks, Miriam Stahl, Amara
Tabor-Smith & Christal Brown, Tesselation, Tussle, Ultra Gypsy, Villa
Villa Cola (women skateboarders), Who's Rhyme Is It Anyway?, Zaccho
Dance Theatre/Joanna Haigood

Venue:

The Luggage Store Gallery & Annex
500 block of Ellis Street, between Hyde and Leavenworth, The Tenderloin
San Francisco

(415) 255-5971

Civic Center BART
MUNI: 19, 27, 31, 38

Additional Info:

(415) 255-5971
http://www.luggagestoregallery.org