Event Title:

Organization:

  Performing Arts

  Oakland

Start Date:

  3/19/2010

End Date:

  3/27/2010

Start Time:

  7:30 PM

End Time:

  9:30 PM

Event Info: 

  Friday, March 19 & Saturday, March 20th at 7:30 pm, Sunday, March 21st at 2:00 pm AND Friday, March 26th at 7:30pm and Saturday, March 27th at 2:00pm and 7:30pm

The internationally regarded model of youth arts and violence prevention organizations, Destiny Arts Center in Oakland, marks the beginning of its third decade as a creative community epicenter with the world premiere of "Asylum," a movement/theater work created by the young artists of the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company. Created in collaboration Artistic Directors Sarah Crowell and Rashidi Omari and acclaimed Bay Area performing arts professionals, the full-length work features hip-hop dance and music, theater, spoken word, modern dance, aerial dance, video backdrop art, rap and a cast of 40 talented youth ages 7 to 18. "Asylum" frames the current state of world affairs as a circus turned inside out, where heroes are questionable and villains run free. It is a powerful glimpse into how young Americans see the state of the world and what can be done about it. A special benefit performance to support the Raising the Roof Campaign is scheduled for Saturday, March 20, priced at $50 including performance ticket, reserved seating and post-performance dessert reception to meet the artists.

Artistic Director Sarah Crowell describes Asylum: "The lights come up on an old-fashioned circus ringleader in top hat and tails who welcomes the audience to a madhouse, where everything is flipped, and the asylum for do-gooders who have been caught doing good. It is a place where the heroes are all questionable and the villains run free, and where less money is spent on schools than on jails. The ringleader escorts the audience into a place where a group of unlikely superheroes are locked up with their powers taken away by a gaggle of sinister villains that you just might recognize. The piece is at once thought provoking and entertaining, a modern day superhero story with a twist."

http://www.destinyarts.org

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Submitted by FullCalendar Event Promotion

Location:

  Laney College Theater

Room:

Address:

  900 Fallon Street

Phone:

  510-597-1619

City:

  Oakland

State/Province:

  CA