About this Event
The People’s Palace is an artistic intervention with City Hall’s Beaux-Arts Roman and Greek iconography. Aerialists and performers will interact with the architecture and large scale projections, transforming these symbols into new, more inclusive narratives that more accurately reflect San Francisco’s diverse and dynamic cultures and community. Through performance, music, storytelling, and immersive technologies, The People’s Palace invites the audience to actively engage these new narratives, to see themselves within the broader context of the city, and to appreciate the richness of diverse perspectives.
Pre-show Haptic Access Tour - 7 PM
Audio described performances at 8 PM and 8:30 PM
You are invited to stay for multiple performances so you can experience your favorite part again. The performance will repeat again at 9 PM, 9:30 PM, and 10 PM, without live audio-description services.
Audio description is a live audio track spoken by a professional audio describer to audience members with visual impairments through a wireless headset system. It provides clear and engaging descriptions of the meaningful visual details of a performance. Haptic access tours (20-30 minutes) are a live pre-show tour that allows patrons to experience—through touch and their own movement— the space, performers, costumes and objects in addition to key movement elements in the performance.
More information at Bay Area Accessible Performances.
It is intended for the audience to move throughout the space during this immersive performance, however some seating (non-fixed, no arms) will be available for patrons with disabilities.
City Hall is an ADA-accessible venue.
Conceived and directed by Joanna Haigood, this work is being developed in collaboration with composer Marcus Shelby, visual artist Mildred Howard, scenic designer Sean Riley, rigging designer David Freitag, design consultant and fabricator Wayne Campbell, lighting designer Krissy Kenny, projection designer Aron Altmark, costume designer Dana Kawano, indigenous culture bearers Gregg Castro and Jonathan Cordero, and performing artists Veronica Blair, Tristan Ching Hartman, Ciarra D’Onofrio, William Brewton Fowler, Jr., Jocelyn Reyes, Nina Sawant, Saharla Vetsch, and The Skywatchers Ensemble.
A co-presentation of Dancers’ Group and ZACCHO Dance Theatre.
Information about where to enter City Hall as well as a digital program will be emailed to you in advance of the performance.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
San Francisco City Hall, 1 Doctor Carlton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco, United States
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