Saturday, June 1st at 7PM and Saturday, June 2nd at 4PM
Soul of The City follows a storyteller who has no more stories to tell. Her husband is sick, her boy has moved away, and nobody is buying the stories she's trying to tell. Pursued by demons and haunted by ghosts, the storyteller embarks on a journey to find the soul of San Francisco. This multimedia music drama is a ritual performance. Rooted in traditional Japanese theater and music and infused with contemporary spoken word and Asian American Jazz, Soul of The City reveals the divine in us all.
The audience is invited to dress in celebratory attire and will gather in the garden to put prayers, photographs or talisman on the Soul of The City sacred tree. A Buddhist priest will bless us with a purification ceremony and willing participants will be given temple bells to call the ancestors. We will then go inside the theater. The audience will witness a ritual performance of jazz, storytelling, and poetry that is accompanied by photographs and images of Brenda's family in San Francisco since the 1800's. At the conclusion of the performance we will return to the garden for refreshments, renewed, recharged and inspired to carry on.
Performers: Brenda Wong Aoki (story), devorah major (poetry), Mark Izu (bass & sho), Mas Koga (saxophone, flutes, keyboard), Shoko Hikage (vocals & koto) Kenneth Nash (vocals & percussion), Jimi Nakagawa (taiko & traps), Sara Sithi-Amnuai (trumpet & electronics), Raychel Hatch (dancer), Ki'Shae Qetlah (dancer), KK Aoki Izu (dancer)
Creative Team Brenda Wong Aoki, Artistic Director Mas Koga, Music Director Lydia Tanji, Costume Design Kate Boyd, Lighting Design Wendy Slick, Multimedia Direction Emiko Omori, Filmmaker/dramaturg Andi Wong, Digital Collage & Images Olivia Ting and Mark Shigenaga, Multimedia Contributors Hiroko Tsunetsuga, Ikebana Installation Artist Jocelyn Fabello, Production Management
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