Ragged Wing Ensemble, the Flight Deck's host organization, is raising funds for the 2017-18 Season!
Help raise $45,000 by June 30 and fund artists' fees, staff time, and show materials. You can join Ragged Wing Ensemble in the 2017-18 Season as we dream the future together, practicing trust through artistic collaboration.
Visit raggedwing.org/donate for more information, or:
Help raise $45,000 by June 30 and fund artists' fees, staff time, and show materials. You can join Ragged Wing Ensemble in the 2017-18 Season as we dream the future together, practicing trust through artistic collaboration.
Visit raggedwing.org/donate for more information, or:
What's Happening at The Flight Deck
1540 Broadway, Oakland
Up to 20% off your Summer rental?*
We're offering Summer Specials for art, social justice and local-community activities. Click here to view our rates and take a 3D tour of the space. *Certain dates and packages apply. Call The Flight Deck Manager for more information at 510.858.7383.
Performances and Events
July 14th & 15th, 21st & 22nd
Brandon Hughes presents The Absent Father, the Wayward Son
Tickets $20 Adults / $15 Youth
Brandon Hughes' The Absent Father, the Wayward Son is POWERFUL. FUNNY. NECESSARY. David “DayDay” Williams has never seen his father in person, but discovers photos of his father under his mother’s bed affirming their resemblance. This leads David to questioning his worth, resulting in an angry, confused, and wayward life. At seventeen, his mother reveals a secret, driving David to express his feelings about the father he’s never met, and how different his life would’ve been if he had. Laced with multiple characters (played by Hughes), The Absent Father, the Wayward Son is a story about love, repentance, redemption, and forgiveness.
Appropriate for ages 13+. Show run 75 mins.
Brandon Hughes presents The Absent Father, the Wayward Son
Tickets $20 Adults / $15 Youth
Brandon Hughes' The Absent Father, the Wayward Son is POWERFUL. FUNNY. NECESSARY. David “DayDay” Williams has never seen his father in person, but discovers photos of his father under his mother’s bed affirming their resemblance. This leads David to questioning his worth, resulting in an angry, confused, and wayward life. At seventeen, his mother reveals a secret, driving David to express his feelings about the father he’s never met, and how different his life would’ve been if he had. Laced with multiple characters (played by Hughes), The Absent Father, the Wayward Son is a story about love, repentance, redemption, and forgiveness.
Appropriate for ages 13+. Show run 75 mins.
July 23rd at 3pm
Ajuana Black presents Mamahood Wings
Tickets $20 General Admission
Mamahood Wings is a one-woman show about Ajuana Black and her experience as a first-time mom. Simple as that might sound, for the young Ajuana Black, it "simply"was not. It was one of the most challenging and fearful times of her life. Mamahood Wings is a stage performance of Ajuana Black's transparent Journey into motherhood. It's about a nervous young mom who thought she didn't have the fight with herself to fight for her child.But throughout this emotional "mamahood" journey, Ajuana Black learns how the opening gates of motherhood called forth her fierceness, fire, calculated calmness and determine spirit! Mamahood Wings is a testament of the lessons, blessings, and the empowered unfoldment that is born through the journey we call motherhood! Mamahood Wings Take Flight!
Show runs for 2 hours
Ajuana Black presents Mamahood Wings
Tickets $20 General Admission
Mamahood Wings is a one-woman show about Ajuana Black and her experience as a first-time mom. Simple as that might sound, for the young Ajuana Black, it "simply"was not. It was one of the most challenging and fearful times of her life. Mamahood Wings is a stage performance of Ajuana Black's transparent Journey into motherhood. It's about a nervous young mom who thought she didn't have the fight with herself to fight for her child.But throughout this emotional "mamahood" journey, Ajuana Black learns how the opening gates of motherhood called forth her fierceness, fire, calculated calmness and determine spirit! Mamahood Wings is a testament of the lessons, blessings, and the empowered unfoldment that is born through the journey we call motherhood! Mamahood Wings Take Flight!
Show runs for 2 hours
August 11th at 8pm
Silver Moon Poetry presents The Blood Tales
$20 in advance $25 on the door
www.silvermoonpoetry.com/tour
Re-mystifying the most misunderstood phenomena of a woman's body by telling the true tales about our Blood. A raw and elemental theatrical experience with a post-patriarchal poetic script. You’ll be transported to the depth of the mystery carried inside and be called to remember something long forgotten. This hag wants to tell you some tales, some true tales. She speaks with humor and wit the things that have been left unspoken, bringing to consciousness what would otherwise be left to rot in the dark shadows of non-existence. She knows the lost language of earth’s tongue and she's not afraid to speak it. Having toured in the US AND EUROPE, THE BLOOD TALES has been well received as a daring piece of culture changing, soul shaking performance art. The performance will be followed with music by the ever alluring pagan priestess on a guitar, Lucia Lilikoi. You can check out her work here: www.lucialilikoi.com
Appropriate for Adults only. Show run 2 hours.
Silver Moon Poetry presents The Blood Tales
$20 in advance $25 on the door
www.silvermoonpoetry.com/tour
Re-mystifying the most misunderstood phenomena of a woman's body by telling the true tales about our Blood. A raw and elemental theatrical experience with a post-patriarchal poetic script. You’ll be transported to the depth of the mystery carried inside and be called to remember something long forgotten. This hag wants to tell you some tales, some true tales. She speaks with humor and wit the things that have been left unspoken, bringing to consciousness what would otherwise be left to rot in the dark shadows of non-existence. She knows the lost language of earth’s tongue and she's not afraid to speak it. Having toured in the US AND EUROPE, THE BLOOD TALES has been well received as a daring piece of culture changing, soul shaking performance art. The performance will be followed with music by the ever alluring pagan priestess on a guitar, Lucia Lilikoi. You can check out her work here: www.lucialilikoi.com
Appropriate for Adults only. Show run 2 hours.
The Life Experience with Pastor Bo Jackson
Life Restoration Ministries
Every Sunday at 9:15am
Life Restoration Ministries is full of (will be filled with) REAL people with REAL struggles who are being radically changed by a REAL Savior. Life Restorations Ministries are committed to restoring the Mind, the Body, the Spirit, and the Soul through the power of God and His Word.
Life Restoration Ministries
Every Sunday at 9:15am
Life Restoration Ministries is full of (will be filled with) REAL people with REAL struggles who are being radically changed by a REAL Savior. Life Restorations Ministries are committed to restoring the Mind, the Body, the Spirit, and the Soul through the power of God and His Word.
Classes
Association Building Community presents Peace Practices -- Aikido 2.0 and Conflict Done Well
All levels are welcome - Click Here for more Class Information
An RSVP is required. Email administration@abcglobal.net or call, toll free: (866) 236-0346 and leave a message.
Aikido 2.0 introduces language within the physical techniques of the martial art of aikido, so students may practice effective physical self-defense and redirective language at the same time and under pressure. Those who continue learn Martial Nonviolence, which adds elements of improvisation and facilitation to Aikido 2.0 so that practitioners may become conflict professionals, paid instructors in the Peace Practices project, and apply Conflict Done Well in any situation.
If you are ready now to support this work and/or become a member of our training community, please use the PayPal button here. Becoming a member of ABC includes many additional benefits. Click here to learn more.
All levels are welcome - Click Here for more Class Information
An RSVP is required. Email administration@abcglobal.net or call, toll free: (866) 236-0346 and leave a message.
Aikido 2.0 introduces language within the physical techniques of the martial art of aikido, so students may practice effective physical self-defense and redirective language at the same time and under pressure. Those who continue learn Martial Nonviolence, which adds elements of improvisation and facilitation to Aikido 2.0 so that practitioners may become conflict professionals, paid instructors in the Peace Practices project, and apply Conflict Done Well in any situation.
If you are ready now to support this work and/or become a member of our training community, please use the PayPal button here. Becoming a member of ABC includes many additional benefits. Click here to learn more.
Gallery
Concrete Dreaming Spring Gallery Show: EMBRACE/RESIST
June 2-July 30
Gallery Hours: Thursdays and Fridays, noon-5pm
Artists: Kristi Chan, The Degenderettes, Inocente Po Guizar, Marc-Éddy Loriston, Lizzie Poock, Marlene Tobias, and Reggie Wilkins
In our political and social environment, how do we build towards the world we want to see? Ragged Wing Ensemble's Spring Gallery Show features local artists dreaming their desired world.
We change the ground we walk on. CONCRETE DREAMING is the art of imagining from the ground up. What does it take to make dreams solid? Whose dreams get built? Ragged Wing Ensemble looks to the ground for inspiration, examining the foundation of things and the deep necessity for dreams.
June 2-July 30
Gallery Hours: Thursdays and Fridays, noon-5pm
Artists: Kristi Chan, The Degenderettes, Inocente Po Guizar, Marc-Éddy Loriston, Lizzie Poock, Marlene Tobias, and Reggie Wilkins
In our political and social environment, how do we build towards the world we want to see? Ragged Wing Ensemble's Spring Gallery Show features local artists dreaming their desired world.
We change the ground we walk on. CONCRETE DREAMING is the art of imagining from the ground up. What does it take to make dreams solid? Whose dreams get built? Ragged Wing Ensemble looks to the ground for inspiration, examining the foundation of things and the deep necessity for dreams.
Her Resilience: Bringing Solutions Home
Though conversations surrounding community violence and our roles in dismantling societal ills need to take place and have a huge impact when done so in public---nothing changes until solutions are brought into the home and BACK into our private lives. Her Resilience invites you to reflect on your public, outward facing roles in your own communities, and what you can do to bring healing, change and hope into your private realm.
Though conversations surrounding community violence and our roles in dismantling societal ills need to take place and have a huge impact when done so in public---nothing changes until solutions are brought into the home and BACK into our private lives. Her Resilience invites you to reflect on your public, outward facing roles in your own communities, and what you can do to bring healing, change and hope into your private realm.
News
The Flight Deck is one of the 25 finalists that received funding from the Google Impact Challenge: Bay Area. Though the Deck is not up for public vote, we will receive $100,000 from Google.org and support from Google volunteers for The Launch Pad, a project supporting small arts organizations in Oakland to employ underrepresented artists.. You can see the other finalists at g.co/bayareachallenge. We are honored to have Google as our collaborator in helping local artists.
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