Martha Sakellariou: Unlearning Carmen, hosted by the Sunnyvale Youth Philharmonic’s Art + Music Program, is a 2-hour workshop that invites the South Bay community members to engage with the libretto of Carmen as raw material — to extract, fragment, and recompose its language into new constellations of meaning. Through acts of rewriting and re-voicing, the group will explore how words can help shift perspective, alter desire, and challenge the opera’s familiar narrative. The resulting texts will form a collective reimagining of Carmen, projected as a visual backdrop for the orchestra's concert — a chorus of rewritten voices suspended between reading, sound, and silences.
No previous art experience is required!
Saturday October 25 - 4-6pm
Los Altos Community Center - Birch Room
97 Hillview Ave, Los Altos, CA 94022
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Suggested Donation for Supplies:
SYP Members: $10-20
Non-SYP Members: $20-30
Sunnyvale Youth Philharmonic’s Art + Music is a program that bridges performing and visual arts, inviting local and international artists to engage with works inspired by our seasonal repertoire. Last season, Iran-based artist and illustrator Faezeh Meraj shared her interpretation of Sheherazade through dreamlike drawings. The program includes online collaboration with program directors Tatiane Santa Rosa and Rosha Motti, where they discuss the artistic dialogue between the artists’ practice and the orchestra’s musical selections. The program includes visual interventions during our concerts and concludes with a public event at the end of the season.
About Martha Sakellariou
Martha Sakellariou is a Greek-born, California-based visual artist, whose interdisciplinary practice spans multimedia installation, social engagement, and performance. Her work centers on the female experience, tracing identity and memory—both personal and collective—through domestic scenes and diasporic landscapes. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work is held in private and public collections across the United States and Europe. Martha studied music at the Athens Conservatoire, she holds a BA in painting from the Athens School of Fine Arts and an MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art, London. Since 2018, she has been a juried-in artist in residence at the City of Palo Alto's Cubberley Artist Studio Program. www.marthasakellariou.com IG: @marthasakellariou
About Rosha Motti
Rosha Motti is a seasoned UI/UX designer with over 7 years of experience in the vibrant startup ecosystem of Silicon Valley. Throughout my career, I have had the privilege of working with some of the most innovative and dynamic companies in the tech world, crafting user-centered designs that not only solve problems but also delight users. At the SYP, Motti comes as Director of Special Events & Creative Initiatives, guiding the artistic direction of SYP’s special events and creative programming, including our Collaborating Artist Program.
About Tatiane Santa Rosa
Tatiane Schilaro Santa Rosa founded the Sunnyvale Youth Philharmonic with Maestro Alan Anibal in 2024. She is a scholar, writer, educator, and independent curator based in the Bay Area, CA. She has a PhD in Visual Studies from the History of Art and Visual Culture Department at University of California Santa Cruz. Her essays and reviews have been published by Guernica, The Brooklyn Rail, ARTNews, Artcritical, Hyperallergic, LatinxSpaces, and NewCityBrazil. In New York, She was AnnexB Artist Residency’s Creative Director and Curator. As an independent curator, she has organized exhibitions at the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, A.I.R. Gallery, NARS Foundation, and SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York, at the Fundação Pró-Memória in São Paulo, Brazil, and at the ArteActual FLASCO in Quito, Ecuador. She has an MFA from the Art Writing Master’s Degree Program at the School of Visual Arts (NY), and has an MA in Art History from Sotheby’s Institute of Art (NY). Her essay on artist Joiri Minaya appeared in “The Matter of Photography in the Americas” exhibition catalog, published by Stanford Press. She has an MFA from the Art Writing Master’s Degree Program at the School of Visual Arts (NY), and has an MA in Art History from Sotheby’s Institute of Art (NY). She was a 2018-19 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program fellow and assistant editor of the BLUE/AZUL publication. She currently teaches at the University of California Santa Cruz and at the Foothill College.
About the The Sunnyvale Youth Philharmonic (SYP)
SYP is a non-profit youth orchestra that empowers young South Bay Area musicians of all backgrounds through passion-driven classical music education programs. By providing high-quality music education through accessible classroom pedagogy, the SYP programs foster more diverse representation in the classical music field and celebrate our students’ and communities’ unique voices.