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Resident Companies

Resident companies make The Flight Deck their home for a year or more to produce, rehearse, work and play while helping co-create the community and serve on a governing council. 

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Ragged Wing Ensemble  Host Company

Founded in 2004, Ragged Wing Ensemble’s mission is to catalyze a deep cultural shift where artistic action is at the center of vital social change. We aim to connect artists and audiences through the ritual of live performance, exploring universal questions that span the ancient and contemporary. We engage in the study and practice of Ensemble, collaboratively creating new, interdisciplinary works and activating the next generation of artistically engaged citizens. 


For more information please visit Ragged Wing Ensemble.


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Lower Bottom Playaz  Resident Company

The Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc, Est. 1999, are Oakland's premiere North American African Theater Troupe. Though the creation, production, and presentation of theater in the tradition of the Black Arts continuum, the troupe  dedicates itself to the excavation and critical examination of the conditions of North American inner cites and the lives of inner city inhabitants.The Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc, purposefully use performance as a way of increasing social awareness, and to stimulate, celebrate and enhance understanding of ourselves and others through the shared experience of live theater. The troupe is currently engaged in staging The American Century Cycle by August Wilson in chronological order of the decades presented in The Cycle.


Visit the Lower Bottom Playaz for more information.

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  • ABOUT
    • Ragged Wing Ensemble
    • The Art of Leaving >
      • FAQs
    • Launch Pad
    • Resident Companies
    • Kalm Korner Pop-up
  • THE VENUE
  • CONTACT