Adrian AriasAdrian Arias is a visual artist, poet, performer, curator, activist, and cultural promoter, who brings together multidisciplinary artists in the San Francisco Bay Area to engage in community projects with messages of social justice, racial equality, limate change, peace, beauty, health, and hope. He has participated in international poetry performances, including the poetic Nights of Struga, Macedonia, winning the prize for the best poem of the festival, and is one of the founders and creators of MAPP (Mission Arts Performance Project). He is also creator of festivals, such as: VideoFest, Luna Negra, and ILLUSION show. During this pandemic (2020-2021), Adrian has been commissioned to create a series of pieces related to both the BLM movement and his personal vision of freedom. This includes BLM on the pavement of the Petaluma Regional Library and the altar dedicated to George Floyd in Somarts, among others. Adrian uses his dreams as creative initiatives, which he makes come true in performances and community projects. Emeritus Poet Laureate of SF, Jack Hirschman, called Arias, "the ever brilliantly inventive poet of the gesturing Word." Read More Read Less