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Thank you!
Thanks to your generosity, our Spring Campaign raised over $90,000!
Your support will go a long way toward helping Ragged Wing Ensemble and The Flight Deck create a new, better model for arts businesses.
The campaign is over, but you can still show your support. If you think sustainable, meaningful theater is necessary for a healthy and happy world, donate today and help us reach new heights!
Thank you for supporting the arts in Oakland!
Thanks to your generosity, our Spring Campaign raised over $90,000!
Your support will go a long way toward helping Ragged Wing Ensemble and The Flight Deck create a new, better model for arts businesses.
The campaign is over, but you can still show your support. If you think sustainable, meaningful theater is necessary for a healthy and happy world, donate today and help us reach new heights!
Thank you for supporting the arts in Oakland!
Performances and Events
Little Shop of Horrors: A TheaterDance
performed by The Big Open Space (TBOS)
Friday, July 13th & Saturday, July 14th
7:00pm
TICKETS: Cash-only at the door:
$20/adults or $10/youth
TBOS proudly presents a TheaterDance interpretation of Little Shop of Horrors, a delectable sci-fi horror musical with an electrifying 1960s pop/rock score by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. Seymour Krelborn is a meek and dejected assistant at a floral shop who happens upon a strange plant, which he affectionately names “Audrey II” after his crush at the shop. Little does he know that this strange and unusual plant will develop a soulful R&B voice, a potty mouth, and an unquenchable thirst for HUMAN BLOOD. As Audrey II grows bigger and meaner, the carnivorous plant promises limitless fame and fortune to Seymour, as long as he continues providing a fresh supply of blood. Just when it’s too late, Seymour discovers Audrey II’s extra-terrestrial origins and his true drive for world-domination.
performed by The Big Open Space (TBOS)
Friday, July 13th & Saturday, July 14th
7:00pm
TICKETS: Cash-only at the door:
$20/adults or $10/youth
TBOS proudly presents a TheaterDance interpretation of Little Shop of Horrors, a delectable sci-fi horror musical with an electrifying 1960s pop/rock score by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. Seymour Krelborn is a meek and dejected assistant at a floral shop who happens upon a strange plant, which he affectionately names “Audrey II” after his crush at the shop. Little does he know that this strange and unusual plant will develop a soulful R&B voice, a potty mouth, and an unquenchable thirst for HUMAN BLOOD. As Audrey II grows bigger and meaner, the carnivorous plant promises limitless fame and fortune to Seymour, as long as he continues providing a fresh supply of blood. Just when it’s too late, Seymour discovers Audrey II’s extra-terrestrial origins and his true drive for world-domination.
Bay Area Arts Mixer:
A Midsummer's Day BAAM
Sunday, July 15th
2:00pm - 7:00pm
Suggested Donation: $5-$20 at the door
Rock out to local musicians booked back-to-back alongside local artists displaying their work. Indulge in refreshments, build your network and revel in community art making! BAAM was created to bring local artists and musicians together across many platforms for collaboration, creative practice development, and live interaction. Wether you are an artist or an arts supporter, spend your Sunday afternoon with us.
Interested in contributing as an artist or volunteering? Contact tgersbach@cca.edu
A Midsummer's Day BAAM
Sunday, July 15th
2:00pm - 7:00pm
Suggested Donation: $5-$20 at the door
Rock out to local musicians booked back-to-back alongside local artists displaying their work. Indulge in refreshments, build your network and revel in community art making! BAAM was created to bring local artists and musicians together across many platforms for collaboration, creative practice development, and live interaction. Wether you are an artist or an arts supporter, spend your Sunday afternoon with us.
Interested in contributing as an artist or volunteering? Contact tgersbach@cca.edu
One of the most exciting theatrical events in San Francisco Bay Area, the FURY Factory is a national hub for ensemble theater work on the West Coast. Staged every other year by foolsFURY theater company, it features: Main-stage productions of fully crafted works by some of the country's most innovative, exciting theater makers, Raw Materials—staged sections of new works in development, Workshops in creation techniques led by participating artists and other master teachers, as well as panel discussions and more.
Information and tickets at foolsfury.org
Infinite Resistance
30 political plays in 60 liberatory minutes
July 18 – 8:00 pm
July 19 – 8:30 pm
July 21 – 9:00 pm
One of the most exciting theatrical events in San Francisco Bay Area, the FURY Factory is a national hub for ensemble theater work on the West Coast. Staged every other year by foolsFURY theater company, it features: Mainstage productions of fully crafted works by some of the countrys most innovative, exciting theater makers, Raw Materials—staged sections of new works in development, Workshops in creation techniques led by participating artists and other master teachers, as well as panel discussions and more.
Information and tickets at foolsfury.org
30 political plays in 60 liberatory minutes
July 18 – 8:00 pm
July 19 – 8:30 pm
July 21 – 9:00 pm
One of the most exciting theatrical events in San Francisco Bay Area, the FURY Factory is a national hub for ensemble theater work on the West Coast. Staged every other year by foolsFURY theater company, it features: Mainstage productions of fully crafted works by some of the countrys most innovative, exciting theater makers, Raw Materials—staged sections of new works in development, Workshops in creation techniques led by participating artists and other master teachers, as well as panel discussions and more.
Information and tickets at foolsfury.org
(dis)Place[d]
July 19 – 7:00 pm
July 20 – 8:00 pm
July 21 – 7:30 pm
In (dis)Place[d], foolsFURY co-artistic director Debórah Eliezer cracks open the assumptions of her own identity through the story of her father, Edward Ben-Eliezer, an Iraqi Jew born in 1930, a member of the Zionist underground, a refugee, an Israeli spy, and an immigrant to America. The story follows the little-known history and tenuous position of Arab Jews in Baghdad in the years leading up to, during and following World War II. The powerhouse solo performance combines story, movement, music, song, recordings and segments of Edward Ben-Eliezers 2007 video interview with the National Holocaust Organization. Eliezer creates several different characters, including her father at three different ages, her great grandmother, their Iraqi neighbors, historical figures and The Land itself.
July 19 – 7:00 pm
July 20 – 8:00 pm
July 21 – 7:30 pm
In (dis)Place[d], foolsFURY co-artistic director Debórah Eliezer cracks open the assumptions of her own identity through the story of her father, Edward Ben-Eliezer, an Iraqi Jew born in 1930, a member of the Zionist underground, a refugee, an Israeli spy, and an immigrant to America. The story follows the little-known history and tenuous position of Arab Jews in Baghdad in the years leading up to, during and following World War II. The powerhouse solo performance combines story, movement, music, song, recordings and segments of Edward Ben-Eliezers 2007 video interview with the National Holocaust Organization. Eliezer creates several different characters, including her father at three different ages, her great grandmother, their Iraqi neighbors, historical figures and The Land itself.
Duomuzi & The Flight Deck Presents:
Come Out Of The Storm
Inspired by King Lear
at The Flight Deck
Thurs, July 26 – 7:00 pm
Tickets: $20 (Adults); $15 (Seniors/Students)
- BUY TICKETS -
With a burning desire to travel, inspired by the open road, Duomuži, a 3-person international nomadic ensemble company, is premiering its new piece on a road trip across the country.
Come Out Of The Storm. Inspired by King Lear
A fellow wanderer.
It's an equivocal dance of memory in a never-ending storm, of sorts, going over and over what we should have done, rather than what we did. With one actor playing Lear, and the other actor playing everyone else. King Lear in 60 minutes, all original music, script adapted by the company, mostly rehearsed and created via Skype.
Website - www.duomuzi.com
Come Out Of The Storm
Inspired by King Lear
at The Flight Deck
Thurs, July 26 – 7:00 pm
Tickets: $20 (Adults); $15 (Seniors/Students)
- BUY TICKETS -
With a burning desire to travel, inspired by the open road, Duomuži, a 3-person international nomadic ensemble company, is premiering its new piece on a road trip across the country.
Come Out Of The Storm. Inspired by King Lear
A fellow wanderer.
It's an equivocal dance of memory in a never-ending storm, of sorts, going over and over what we should have done, rather than what we did. With one actor playing Lear, and the other actor playing everyone else. King Lear in 60 minutes, all original music, script adapted by the company, mostly rehearsed and created via Skype.
Website - www.duomuzi.com
Duomuzi & The Flight Deck Presents:
Antony & Cleopatra
at The Flight Deck
Thurs, July 26 – 9:00 pm
Tickets: $20 (Adults); $15 (Seniors/Students)
- BUY TICKETS -
The 2-man, 90 minute, stripped-down production of one of Shakespeare’s most epic tragedies is an experience of intimacy & truth. A story of love & the fragility of human relationships, in all of its devastating messiness.
Duomuži’s Antony & Cleopatra premiered August 2016 at The Brick in NYC, toured internationally in London, Cambridge, and Athens, Greece, and in 2017 toured the East Coast of the U.S. from Maine to North Carolina. We have been deepening and refining and re-inventing this production for 3 years now over Skype, in person, and while touring it around the world.
Reviews:
“the performances are so rich, and the direction so razor-sharp and detailed, that this universe feels fully populated.”
“some of the most engaging and innovative Shakespeare that I have seen in years.”
“the men prove that life can be given to characters who, on the page, are entirely lifeless.”
Website - www.duomuzi.com
Antony & Cleopatra
at The Flight Deck
Thurs, July 26 – 9:00 pm
Tickets: $20 (Adults); $15 (Seniors/Students)
- BUY TICKETS -
The 2-man, 90 minute, stripped-down production of one of Shakespeare’s most epic tragedies is an experience of intimacy & truth. A story of love & the fragility of human relationships, in all of its devastating messiness.
Duomuži’s Antony & Cleopatra premiered August 2016 at The Brick in NYC, toured internationally in London, Cambridge, and Athens, Greece, and in 2017 toured the East Coast of the U.S. from Maine to North Carolina. We have been deepening and refining and re-inventing this production for 3 years now over Skype, in person, and while touring it around the world.
Reviews:
“the performances are so rich, and the direction so razor-sharp and detailed, that this universe feels fully populated.”
“some of the most engaging and innovative Shakespeare that I have seen in years.”
“the men prove that life can be given to characters who, on the page, are entirely lifeless.”
Website - www.duomuzi.com
Antoine Hunter's Urban Jazz Dance Company &
DeVinci Deaf Loud Theatre presents:
Muffled Ovarian
Saturday, July 28, 2018
7:00pm
Featuring Amazing Deaf Artists:
Michelle Banks
Joy Elan
Cherie Epsy
And MORE!
An evening with Deaf Theatre artists sharing an original series of scripts of Deaf #metoo, Deaf’s oppression and stories.
Urban Jazz Dance Company houses a formal theatre program called DeVinci Deaf Loud Theatre (DDLT) that gives opportunities to Deaf actors opportunities to perform in the Bay Area. For a consecutive second year, Antoine Hunter will expand his annual festival to two weeks starting with a home season show of Deaf American Sign Language (ASL) THEATRE with his company presented at the Flight Deck in Oakland, California. Director Mr. Hunter will premiere a new work with his company. MUFFLED OVARIAN to present different Deaf women’s experiences of discrimination and abuse. This will be an 1 hour and 10 minute production of a series of true stories and inspired by true stories that occurred to individual women and trans women while they were growing up including scenes of poems, monologues and dialogues.
Other Deaf oppression stories will be shared.
Key highlights of the night will include Mr Hunter’s new theatre work and collaborations Michelle Banks, 2016 Poet of the year, Joy Elan, Cherie Epsy and ADA accessibility for all persons with disabilities or in wheelchairs. This is series 1 of 3 of the Deaf oppression theme followed by part 2 in the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival and part 3 occurring in November at CounterPulse.
ASL Interpreters provided
Hearing and Deaf are welcome.
Tickets: https://bpt.me/3521229
$15 at the Door
$12 online
$6 Youth (under 16)
Babies: FREE
DeVinci Deaf Loud Theatre presents:
Muffled Ovarian
Saturday, July 28, 2018
7:00pm
Featuring Amazing Deaf Artists:
Michelle Banks
Joy Elan
Cherie Epsy
And MORE!
An evening with Deaf Theatre artists sharing an original series of scripts of Deaf #metoo, Deaf’s oppression and stories.
Urban Jazz Dance Company houses a formal theatre program called DeVinci Deaf Loud Theatre (DDLT) that gives opportunities to Deaf actors opportunities to perform in the Bay Area. For a consecutive second year, Antoine Hunter will expand his annual festival to two weeks starting with a home season show of Deaf American Sign Language (ASL) THEATRE with his company presented at the Flight Deck in Oakland, California. Director Mr. Hunter will premiere a new work with his company. MUFFLED OVARIAN to present different Deaf women’s experiences of discrimination and abuse. This will be an 1 hour and 10 minute production of a series of true stories and inspired by true stories that occurred to individual women and trans women while they were growing up including scenes of poems, monologues and dialogues.
Other Deaf oppression stories will be shared.
Key highlights of the night will include Mr Hunter’s new theatre work and collaborations Michelle Banks, 2016 Poet of the year, Joy Elan, Cherie Epsy and ADA accessibility for all persons with disabilities or in wheelchairs. This is series 1 of 3 of the Deaf oppression theme followed by part 2 in the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival and part 3 occurring in November at CounterPulse.
ASL Interpreters provided
Hearing and Deaf are welcome.
Tickets: https://bpt.me/3521229
$15 at the Door
$12 online
$6 Youth (under 16)
Babies: FREE
Life Restoration Ministries
"The Life Experience"
with Pastor Bo Jackson
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.
"The Life Experience"
with Pastor Bo Jackson
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
Omission
by Kelly Lloyd
Created in conversation with
Ragged Wing Ensemble's production of
A Different Long Stretch of Earth
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