The internationally celebrated Quijerema is a performing arts quartet that celebrates the cultures of the Americas through original music, poetry and multi-media art installations. Quijeremá “renders a whole constellation of South American rhythms into a jazz idiom … cueca from Chile, tango from Argentina, waltz at its most Latin, landó from Peru, joropo from Venezuela, and huaino from the Andes.” Quijerema has been involved with the Red Poppy Art House for many years and scored the soundtrack for the documentary film ¡Pablo Neruda!¡Presente!.

As part of their BAN 5 residency, the Red Poppy Art House (RPAH) explores the power that small spaces hold as vibrant centers where artists gather, create and make their home. Conceived as an on-site neighborhood experiment in cultural innovation, the RPAH acts as a meeting ground for artists of all disciplines, while engaging the complex social and economic issues of the arts landscape. In YBCA’s Room for Big Ideas (RBI), the Art House presents a month-long program of artists spanning disciplines and musical traditions of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, joining the traditional to the contemporary, and exploring the ways in which design and arrangement of physical space invariably come to represent, if not impose, our values in material form.

This Public Program is supported by a generous grant from The Wallace Foundation.