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Join us between 2 PM and 5:30 PM for a pre-theater production, audio / movement centric experience featuring phenomenal artistry and unique sound, story, and musical scapes! Look forward Joyous healing family dance off to bring us into the late afternoon with La Tour Soul, back from yAyA’s curated gallery exhibition community engagement 2023, hosted by MA Series production. Snowflake Calvert (she/her) is a Yaqui and Tzotzil Two-Spirit artist, dancer, drag performer, event host, entrepreneur, and filmmaker. Her artistry is a platform for activism, notably within the LGBTQ+ community. She nurtured talent as owner of The Dance Zone Studio, co-produces Seeds and Sequins, collaborates with The TRY Project, and serves on the boards of SADC and Stance on Dance Magazine. Her filmmaking includes "Chaac + Yum," and she is working on the dance project Neanderthal Land Acknowledgement.
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Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Roco Córdova is a vocalist, composer, producer and improviser based in the San Francisco Bay Area. They possess a B.Mus. in Composition from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music and an M.A. in Composition from Mills College in Oakland, California. Cordova's work fuses diverse influences with electronic media, chance operations, gradual processes, noise, improvisation, and timbral techniques of composition. Voice is at the core of their practice: they weave together extended techniques like throat singing, overtone singing, falsetto, and vocal percussion into live performances that edge between ritual and happening. Their voice, augmented by technology, becomes atemporal: colliding past and future into the eternal present.
La Tour Soul is a San Francisco family funk and soul band featuring Con Funk Shun bass player Pop “LT” La Tour along with his wife Tati and daughters, Sitsa and Frédérique. They play all original old school music for dancing and falling in love.
Jesse Bliss (Writer/Director/Executive Producer/ Founding Artistic Director of The Roost and Wings Project) is an international playwright, director, producer, actress, poetess and veteran arts educator. System impacted, Bliss has been facilitating theatre and writing workshops in prisons over two decades. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from California Institute of Integral Studies and a teaching credential in Arts, Media and Entertainment. Her work has been produced around the world at venues such as the United Nations, Off-Broadway, Edinburgh Festival, Hollywood Fringe Festival, Traxx at Union Station, Lincoln Heights Jail, S.P.A.R.C at the Old Jail in Venice, The Last Bookstore, King Eddy Saloon, The Rosenthal Theater at Inner-City Arts, CASA 0101 Theater, Theatre of Note, Occidental College, UCSC, UCLA, and California Institute of Integral Studies to name a few. Her plays ROOTS AND WINGS, DIAMONDS, TREE OF FIRE, A RECORD OF LIGHT, and NIGHT FLOWER have had a significant impact for both artists and audiences. She is a featured artist in Kate Crash’s LA WOMEN, LOOK WHAT SHE DID, Yahoo News' SHINE, and an Emmy Award® Nominated segment on Spotlight Arts, Standup for the Arts Documentaries. Her writing workshops for incarcerated girls inspired her celebrated graphic chapbook, in collaboration with Alfie Numeric, I LOVE MYSELF GOLDEN, loved on both sides of the walls. Her groundbreaking trilogy, written by BIPOC women writers, includes MATRIARCH, WOMEN AT WORK, and LUMINOUS STREETS: A DTLA Theatrical Tour exploring matters of women’s survival and pursuit of justice, have been met with enormous appreciation. Bliss is Co-Producer and Co-Host of KPFK 90.7’s THINK OUTSIDE THE CAGE, a radio program exploring all matters of mass incarceration. Jesse Bliss, Executive Producer, Writer and Director and THE JOY RIDE, said: “My inspiration in writing THE JOY RIDE was to explore a collective catharsis for four close friends going through serious challenges related to our times. From Kenzi, a man who was incarcerated in prison for three decades trying to create a new life, to Rafael, a dancer struggling with Long COVID, to Yasmine, a childless dreamer and English teacher who just escaped a detrimental relationship, to Lina, a single mother fighting to build a good life who longs to have free time. The characters are universal, deeply connecting audience members to their journey in overcoming obstacles they face in their own lives, both internally and externally.” Bliss continued, “THE JOY RIDE is a multi-disciplinary show performed, in true RAW style, by a cohesive ensemble that delivers a message, embracing joy as an act of political warfare. During a time where people are separated from one another, losing jobs, facing a deadly pandemic and an age-old racist government/societal structure that deals in violence---among other adverse dynamics, THE JOY RIDE offers audiences a healing transcendence, opportunity for connection and expression of solidarity.”
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
3036 24th Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94110