An interdisciplinary project that explores Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) Deaf homelessness and Bay Area gentrification. Utilizing American Sign Language (ASL), spoken text, modern/ballet dance, silence and original music composed by local hard of hearing musician, Radha Mehta, this project will educate audiences about the exponential risk of gentrification and homelessness in BIPOC, […]
A live theater experience of Jimbo’s Bop City, an iconic mid-20th century diner and jazz venue where some of the most innovative jazz musicians played in San Francisco and where the movement for racial justice, music and urban planning collided in a dramatic and instructive way. During this immersive theater experience, audiences will explore a […]
Aperformance project celebrating imagination as a powerful form of resistance. Towards Opulence engages San Francisco Tenderloin residents—often living without access to essential services—to envision one’s most opulent self that grows from and feeds community-wide change.
A performance ritual film by artist Sammay Dizon that seeks to de-stigmatize and elevate mental health in the Filipinx diasporic community. Memorya will use a multi-modal approach of movement, song and spoken word to explore ancestral remembering and intergenerational healing.
A multi-media performance piece by jose e. abad and co-choreographers Styles Alexander, Gabriel Christian, Clarissa Dyas and Stephanie Hewet that explores the potentialities of Black life in the Diaspora. The work will be presented at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives.
A series of short films and theatre show that re-envisions Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, placing Shylock at the center as a reflection of the immigrant, working class citizens of our port cities. Using direct address monologues and rap songs, Currency visits the marketplaces of West Oakland, Hong Kong, Managua, Downtown LA, and Venice to […]
A new dance piece by Ramón Ramos Alayo for Alayo Dance Company that incorporates dance, music, video and spoken word. Mouth of a Shark will reflect the dual life of immigrants and the struggle of those who create a new life in a new world, but carry their homeland, however dire, in their heart forever.
A roving, site-specific play in downtown Oakland that explores, questions and breaks down the nuances of intimacy in queer communities. un•rest, written by CurbAlert artists J Shelley Harrison and Emji Saint Spero in collaboration with queer and trans artists of color, imagines a more just and equitable future on a larger scale, one in which […]
A reconstructionist companion play to a forgotten 1868 verse play about the Greek poet of Lesbos, offering renewed relevance to a scarcely-produced classic, penned by a woman about one of history’s first queer icons. Playwright Aimee Suzara’s Sappho investigates the evolution of queer identities across generations and the inheritance of queer narratives across centuries.
A dance-based exploration of the concept of mixed identity as adaptation in the age of climate crisis. Re-Mix will look beyond the binary to cultivate an alternative to the dehumanizing, essentializing and compartmentalizing of identity.
