the choose your contribution ticket tiers are a direct way of financially supporting all artists in our show. your contribution continues the centuries long practice of arts patronage where musicians and poets are valued members of a culture's currency. every drop you pour into our existence is how a wave becomes an ocean.
$25 Booster Ticket
$45 Supporter Ticket
$75 Patron Ticket
$150 Champion Ticket
All tickets are still first come, first served.
If you're experiencing financial hardship and cannot afford to support the artists but would like to attend, please contact us.
**Purchasing tickets to this performance adds you to the wave chamber collective and silvi alcivar's (aka the poetry store) email list. You may opt out at any time.
Doors at 7:30pm.
Event from 8:15-9:45pm with one intermission
While some of the show's music and poetry is prearranged and scripted, for half of the performance none of the performers know what's gonna happen until it's on the page--not even the poet herself! While the quartet plays, and the audience listens, Silvi types then reads the written on-the-spot poem. If you haven't seen this collaboration before, expect an absolutely original experience. The typewriter is another instrument, poetry another line of music.
https://www.wavechambercollective.com
Knocking chamber music tradition off its pedestal by introducing risks, questions, instability, crowds, the unknown - healthy chaotic good. Founded by musicians, in collaboration with a community of artists, for audiences of everyone.
silvi alcivar, poet, @thepoetrystore
https://www.thepoetrystore.net
silvi's work lives in the moment two strangers meet over her red royal typewriter--the anonymity an invitation to speak, the typewriter keys a willing listener. the poetry is almost incidental. the real work is offering what we all want at the core of our humanness--to feel witnessed and connected, present and seen, spontaneous and at play. while best known as an event poet, she's currently collaborating with musicians, classrooms, conferences, and more.
thank you for supporting the livelihood of artists and musicians in san francisco! all proceeds go directly to the musicians and artists. to continue supporting art and the emergence of new experiences, become a patron:
https://www.patreon.com/wavechambercollective and/or
https://www.patreon.com/silvialcivar
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Vaccines, boosters, and masks are strongly encouraged, but are not required as per local Public Health Policy.