In H.O.L.Y. CITY, Sammay Dizon and company investigate what it means to cultivate "sanctuary" in the sanctuary city of San Francisco/Yelamu. It takes an uncomfortably intimate look at the violence against people of color and how we keep ourselves/one another "safe."
In H.O.L.Y. CITY, Sammay Dizon and company investigate what it means to cultivate "sanctuary" in the sanctuary city of San Francisco/Yelamu. It takes an uncomfortably intimate look at the violence against people of color and how we keep ourselves/one another "safe."
Music of the Actualized Child, Embodiment Project's evening-length work through ODC Theater Resident Artist Commissions, interweaves street dance, documentary theater, live song, and video art to engage a critical conversation around the school-to-prison pipeline, childhood trauma, race, and healing.
June 9: 6pm Free, pre-performance film screening of Healing Justice
Music of the Actualized Child, Embodiment Project's evening-length work through ODC Theater Resident Artist Commissions, interweaves street dance, documentary theater, live song, and video art to engage a critical conversation around the school-to-prison pipeline, childhood trauma, race, and healing.
June 8: Post-performance panel
Music of the Actualized Child, Embodiment Project's evening-length work through ODC Theater Resident Artist Commissions, interweaves street dance, documentary theater, live song, and video art to engage a critical conversation around the school-to-prison pipeline, childhood trauma, race, and healing.
June 7: Post-performance panel and reception
This work-in-progress showing of We.Here.Now- She Lives is a movement-based inquiry into the complex layers of celebration, grief, tenderness, and untimely loss of the Black women/femmes who fight for Black power and liberation. This sharing is the culmination of my 12-week residency at SAFEhouse Arts.
We.Here.Now is supported by SAFEhouse Arts, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Social Good Fund, and by the contributions of a large community of EarthChild Performance patrons.
*Denotes an EarthChild Performance event.
This work-in-progress showing of We.Here.Now- She Lives is a movement-based inquiry into the complex layers of celebration, grief, tenderness, and untimely loss of the Black women/femmes who fight for Black power and liberation. This sharing is the culmination of my 12-week residency at SAFEhouse Arts.
We.Here.Now is supported by SAFEhouse Arts, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Social Good Fund, and by the contributions of a large community of EarthChild Performance patrons.
*Denotes an EarthChild Performance event.
A 10-minute excerpt of Sammay Dizon's H.O.L.Y. City will be shared as part of the New Strands Festival 2018.
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