a home for multidisciplinary artists to present work, share resources and practice radical acts of imagination in the heart of downtown Oakland.
What's Happening at The Flight Deck
NEWS

The Flight Deck Welcomes New General Manager!
Chi Chi Okonmah is an established Stage Manager, Event Coordinator, and Arts Administrator who lives and breathes her passion. Chi Chi has worked for several prominent companies and artists in the Bay Area including Dimensions Dance Theater, Nava Dance, The Black Choreographer's Festival, Counterpulse, Rhythm & Motion and Theatre Artaud.
Chi Chi is dedicated to the support and preservation of dance and performing arts. When she’s not teaching, choreographing, directing, or dancing, Chi Chi enjoys working as an active, licensed CA Real Estate Broker committed to educating and supporting her community in building a legacy of wealth through home ownership.
Please join us in welcoming Chi Chi!
Chi Chi Okonmah is an established Stage Manager, Event Coordinator, and Arts Administrator who lives and breathes her passion. Chi Chi has worked for several prominent companies and artists in the Bay Area including Dimensions Dance Theater, Nava Dance, The Black Choreographer's Festival, Counterpulse, Rhythm & Motion and Theatre Artaud.
Chi Chi is dedicated to the support and preservation of dance and performing arts. When she’s not teaching, choreographing, directing, or dancing, Chi Chi enjoys working as an active, licensed CA Real Estate Broker committed to educating and supporting her community in building a legacy of wealth through home ownership.
Please join us in welcoming Chi Chi!
Performances and Events

A Different Long Stretch of Earth
Ragged Wing Ensemble Presents its newest world premiere play
Written by Addie Ulrey in collaboration with Amy Sass
Directed by Artistic Director Amy Sass
April 6 - 28, 2018
The American cowboy. Hero or villain? Casanova or colonizer? Either way, his myth rides on. And in this rural Montana town, everyone must reckon with his long, stooped shadow. But Brucie has other plans. The resident 13-year-old with an appetite for apocalypse is throwing a birthday party. The theme: DOOMSDAY. Be there...or else.
A weekend workshop on Decolonizing Your Nonprofit...a woman who de-taxidermies buffalo heads...the difficulties of romancing a cowboy... A Different Long Stretch of Earth is a play about the American West, and how the mythologies and mindsets of our collective past shape our ability to envision the future. taxidermy. decolonization. kink. apocalypse.
Ragged Wing Ensemble Presents its newest world premiere play
Written by Addie Ulrey in collaboration with Amy Sass
Directed by Artistic Director Amy Sass
April 6 - 28, 2018
The American cowboy. Hero or villain? Casanova or colonizer? Either way, his myth rides on. And in this rural Montana town, everyone must reckon with his long, stooped shadow. But Brucie has other plans. The resident 13-year-old with an appetite for apocalypse is throwing a birthday party. The theme: DOOMSDAY. Be there...or else.
A weekend workshop on Decolonizing Your Nonprofit...a woman who de-taxidermies buffalo heads...the difficulties of romancing a cowboy... A Different Long Stretch of Earth is a play about the American West, and how the mythologies and mindsets of our collective past shape our ability to envision the future. taxidermy. decolonization. kink. apocalypse.

Stagebridge Playwriting Showcase
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
7-9 PM FREE
With instructor and master playwright Anthony Clarvoe
Stagebridge writers have been hard at work creating original short and full-length plays over the course of the last year. Now is your chance to see these plays brought to life by some of the best Bay Area actors and directors... and it's FREE! This showcase features students from our Monday Playwriting and Writing Full-Length Plays classes, and is a great opportunity to support local artists while enjoying a great evening of theater!
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
7-9 PM FREE
With instructor and master playwright Anthony Clarvoe
Stagebridge writers have been hard at work creating original short and full-length plays over the course of the last year. Now is your chance to see these plays brought to life by some of the best Bay Area actors and directors... and it's FREE! This showcase features students from our Monday Playwriting and Writing Full-Length Plays classes, and is a great opportunity to support local artists while enjoying a great evening of theater!

Time Sensitive
Written & Directed by Amy Sass
Performed by Ragged Wing Ensemble
Wed, April 18, 2018
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM @The Flight Deck
$32 - $120 TICKETS HERE
Join us for a reading of TIME SENSITIVE, at The Flight Deck in support of The Borneo Project. Facebook Event here.
A crack is growing.
The shape of time is changing.
Only a few can see it.
This daring play by Amy Sass urgently asks: How do we hold a moment if we constantly crave the next big thing? Explore with us the impact of our perception of time on the decisions we make personally, professionally, and politically. Examine the dilemmas, paralysis, and opportunities we face in a world of technologically accelerated communication, increased connectivity, and dwindling resources.
"Curious beauty...dialogue defying, sumptuously-devised ritual"
-SF Bay Guardian
Written & Directed by Amy Sass
Performed by Ragged Wing Ensemble
Wed, April 18, 2018
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM @The Flight Deck
$32 - $120 TICKETS HERE
Join us for a reading of TIME SENSITIVE, at The Flight Deck in support of The Borneo Project. Facebook Event here.
A crack is growing.
The shape of time is changing.
Only a few can see it.
This daring play by Amy Sass urgently asks: How do we hold a moment if we constantly crave the next big thing? Explore with us the impact of our perception of time on the decisions we make personally, professionally, and politically. Examine the dilemmas, paralysis, and opportunities we face in a world of technologically accelerated communication, increased connectivity, and dwindling resources.
"Curious beauty...dialogue defying, sumptuously-devised ritual"
-SF Bay Guardian

Just Theater 2017/18 New Play Lab Series
EXCERPTS FROM TWO NEW WORKS-IN-PROGRESS ON ONE NIGHT
Monday, April 23, 2018
7:30 PM - FREE - First come, first served
at The Flight Deck
COMMUNITY MEETING TONIGHT
by The Kilbanes
Directed by Susannah Martin
We're ex-military so we know how to avoid detection.
We only travel at night. We're all good shots, of course.
And we've had some moments that were pretty touch and go, but so far so good.
EXCERPTS FROM TWO NEW WORKS-IN-PROGRESS ON ONE NIGHT
Monday, April 23, 2018
7:30 PM - FREE - First come, first served
at The Flight Deck
COMMUNITY MEETING TONIGHT
by The Kilbanes
Directed by Susannah Martin
We're ex-military so we know how to avoid detection.
We only travel at night. We're all good shots, of course.
And we've had some moments that were pretty touch and go, but so far so good.

THIS MUCH I KNOW
by Jonathan Spector
Directed by May Liang
Tell them
just tell them
I'll be gone for a while
possibly forever
it's nothing you did.
by Jonathan Spector
Directed by May Liang
Tell them
just tell them
I'll be gone for a while
possibly forever
it's nothing you did.

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.
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.
Classes

Welcome to Writing Rainbow:
A QT and POC Free School!
Sundays 2-5pm at The Flight Deck
A place to: flex art muscles, break binaries, and experiment in a supportive space for queer and trans people of color and our allies!
Classes are FREE.
Guest teachers to be announced.
To sign up, email celesteklchan@gmail.com with a brief note, including: your name, preferred pronouns, and writing interests.
Thank you to our supporters: CA Arts Council, Queer Cultural Center, and the Flight Deck!

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

Omission
by Kelly Lloyd
Created in conversation with
Ragged Wing Ensemble's production of
A Different Long Stretch of Earth
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