Mirrors in Every Corner: Thu, Feb 25 – Sun, Mar 2

Living Word Project — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:34:33 +0000

Thu, Feb 25 – Sun, Mar 21 | 8pm – 10pm | $25 – $15 (Thursdays are Pay-What-You-Can)

From Intersection’s acclaimed resident theatre company Campo Santo and The Living Word Project (the resident theater company of Youth Speaks) comes the world premiere of Mirrors In Every Corner, written by emerging playwright Chinaka Hodge. This genre breaking and strikingly original theatre work chronicles an Oakland-based African American family alternately in the present and in 1988 after the mother gives birth to a Caucasian baby. Examining how race is lived in and through the body, this world premiere play attempts to unearth the reality and the fictive construction of race – what makes someone black, what is blackness, what is family, and what is lineage- as a family grapples with the issues of race and identity in contemporary America. The play is directed by performance innovator and the Living Word Project’s Artistic Director Marc Bamuthi Joseph; and features Daveed Diggs, Margo Hall, Dwight Huntsman and Traci Tolmaire; with a score by composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire;and a dual visual art installation and scenic design by artist Evan Bissell; and a collaborative team of Alejandro Acosta, Ray Diaz, Ben Fisher, Tanya Orellana, Joan Osato, Kate Purnell,and Ricky Saenz.

LOCATION

Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

MORE INFORMATION

www.theintersection.org
(415) 626-2787 x109

LINKS

www.ambroseakinmusire.com
February 10, 2010

Innovators: Stepping Up
October 1, 2007 – By Derk Richardson, Smithsonian.com

Even as he travels the world, dancer and hip-hopper Marc Bamuthi Joseph has stayed close to his musical roots.

Chinaka Hodge performs at Spoken City, October 10th, 2006
January 29, 2010

Chinaka Hodge performs at Spoken City, October 10th, 2006

Chinaka Hodge Website: FOR GIRLS WITH HIPS. AND ALLIES WITH OR WITHOUT THEM.
January 29, 2010

Chinaka Hodge’s Official Website

IN THE NEWS

White Girl in the Mirror
February 17, 2010 – Rachel Swan, East Bay Express

LIFE is LIVING

Living Word Project — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:37:47 +0000

LIFE is LIVING is a national campaign that uses a new form of green spoken story telling — one that represents the diverse and changing perspectives on what it means to be environmentally just. Life is worth living, and Living is Green.

This campaign seeks to inspire people to take the value they see in their LIFE, and establish it powerfully as a new voice to define what it means to be logistically and psychologically included in the new, clean and green economies.

See more at www.livingisliving.org

War: The One Drop Rule

Living Word Project — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:41:41 +0000

War Peace: The One Drop Rule, a youth driven hip hop theater piece that imagines the Bay Area as a potential war zone in a time of protracted drought. Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, War Peace is collaboratively written and performed by Chinaka Hodge, Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs, and Nico Cary with choreography by Emmy Award winning tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith.