Women’s Audio Mission (WAM) presents Local Sirens at the Parks at 5M, featuring performances by Maya Songbird, Oakland’s Wildchoir, Joyous Dawn, and DJ ariB.
FREE - ALL AGES
Parking is limited. We advise you arrive by public transportation or rideshare service.
We also encourage a picnic blanket for seating and layers for windy/foggy weather.
Public park rules apply.
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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.
About the Artists
MAYA SONGBIRD
MAYA SONGBIRD is the next electric superstar. 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 SF. Themes of liberation, self-love, feminism, and empowerment permeate the artist’s extensive and diverse discography.
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WILDCHOIR
WILDCHOIR formerly “Thrive Choir”, was born to sing the music for the revolution. Based in Oakland, California, they are a diverse group of vocalists, artists, activists, educators, healers, and community organizers who join together in big harmony. They celebrate the confluence of their many cultures & identities, including african-american, latinx, asian-american, native american, middle-eastern, immigrant, jewish, & queer. Their music illuminates the joy, pain, and beauty of what it means to be human in this time of systemic transformation.
They have performed with grammy-award winning and nationally-acclaimed artists for social change including Esperanza Spaulding, Rising Appalachia, Climbing Poetree & MaMuse. They have shared the stage with progressive heroes of our time, such as Bernie Sanders, Ericka Huggins, Joanna Macy, and Fania Davis. Their music has inspired thousands at marches, conferences and festivals across California, most recently at Bioneers, Lightning in a Bottle, Institute for Noetic Sciences, the North America Permaculture Convergence, the Women's March, & the Rise for Climate March.
Wildchoir originated as “Thrive Choir”, and spent its first years as the musical voice of Thrive East Bay and the global Thrive Network. Thrive is a community and movement devoted to love in action by building equitable systems where we can flourish as individuals, as communities, and as a planet. Wildchoir is forever grateful to the Thrive Network for their support and collaboration.
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JOYOUS DAWN
is a singer-songwriter, nature lover, facilitator and educator. They are a founding member of Wildchoir (fka Thrive Choir) in Oakland, CA, and facilitate a Queer Songwriting class. Joyous delights in cultivating healing spaces to build community, sing together, and kindle creativity.
Joyous will offer sweet nature-inspired melodies with acoustic guitar and voice, as balm for the heart & soul. They recently released their debut single, a heart inspired healing song for tending to the nervous system “I Am Enough”. You can listen to the song and follow their journey at Joyousdawn.com.
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DJ ariB
is a queer Iranian-American artist; DJ, dancer, and musician providing high BPM club sounds with influences from Middle Eastern, Latin, and Afro beats. Catch DJ ariB spinning at clubs and DIY venues across the Bay Area playing techno, footwork, drum & bass, hip hop, house, and more.
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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.
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.
GET READY FOR UBE & MATCHA PARADISE
A box of assorted ube treats from San Francisco's Buko Bakes—one of 23 vendors who will be on hand at this year's Yum Yams festival. (Past vendor, Buko Bakes)
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.
"Yum Yams is a celebration of all things Ube. Ube is a distinct Pilipino flavor with an equally distinct look. Made from boiled, mashed purple yams, its slightly nutty and vanilla taste can be found in an array of yummy sweet and savory foods, which we celebrate at Yum Yams!
For the 4th edition of our festival, we are celebrating AAPI Heritage month by joining forces with Japantown’s KOHO SF to feature the wonder-full world of matcha inspired treats.
Kapwa Gardens is excited to partner with our neighborhood partner’s WAM to create a delicious and sonically lifted block party." - Kapwa Gardens
Additional Vendor Location: 967 Mission St. San Francisco, CA, 94103
Food Trucks will be available from 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Please follow @kapwagardens and @kultivatelabs on social for more event updates.
Watch this video for last year's recap, and a taste of what to look forward to!