MAY 8-20: HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL, BAY AREA
May 8, 2007 3:16 PM
In six years, the Hip-Hop Theater Festival (HHTF) has grown into an influential outlet showcasing hip-hop performing arts across the country. The Hip-Hop Theater Festival aims to invigorate the fields of theater and hip-hop by nurturing the creation of innovative work within the hip-hop aesthetic.
Schedule of events:
Tuesday, May 8 @ 6:30 p.m.
Total Chaos: Hip-Hop Politics
panel discussion with Jeff Chang, Jerry Quickley, Davey D and others.
YBCA Screening Room, 701 Mission St. @ 3rd Street, San Francisco.
FREE.
www.ybca.org
Wednesday, May 9 @ 8 p.m.
Hip-Hop Theater Festival Kickoff Celebration
featuring Youth Speaks' Brave New Voices College Tour,
La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley.
$10 general admission, $5 students, youth, members and groups.
www.lapena.org
Thursday, May 10 @ 7 p.m.
Rude Boy,
written and performed by Azeem,
Intersection for the Arts, 446 Valencia St., San Francisco.
Admission: $5 - $15 (under 18 free).
www.theintersection.org
Azeem's one-man show tells the story of Johnny Burke, a Jamaican-American night-shift janitor in a small Mexican-owned cardboard box factory. Confronting his troubled past with comic wit and raw conviction, Johnny struggles through the inner-city streets, prisons and asylums he has inhabited in this highly acclaimed work.
Friday, May 11 @ 8 p.m. & Saturday, May 12 @ 8 p.m.
Live from the Front,
written and performed by Jerry Quickley,
YBCA Forum, 701 Mission St. @ 3rd Street, San Francisco.
Admission: $25 general, $21 students and seniors, $19 members.
Unembedded and uncensored, hip-hop spoken-word artist and radio correspondent Jerry Quickley traveled to Iraq in the days before and during "shock and awe." Quickley went to Baghdad and beyond to cover the pending war for KPFK and the Pacifica Radio Network. He brings that unique insight to Live from the Front, which combines music, poetry, video and powerful performance style to tell the story of his travels to and ultimate expulsion from Iraq during the conflict.
Sunday, May 13 @ 6 p.m.
Total Chaos: Hip-Hop Literati
panel discussion with Jeff Chang, Adam Mansbach and others. La Pena Cultural Center. FREE.
Wednesday, May 16 @ 8 p.m.
Bay Shorts—An explosive evening of excerpts and works-in-progress from Bay Area Hip-Hop Theater artists,
featuring headRush and Shanique Scott.
La Pena Cultural Center. Admission: $12 advance, $15 general, $10 students, members and groups.
Thursday, May 17 @ 8 p.m. & Saturday, May 19 @ 8 p.m.
In Spite of Everything,
written and performed by the Suicide Kings. Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph,
Exit on Taylor, 277 Taylor St., San Francisco.
Admission: $12 general, $8 students and groups.
www.sffringe.org
This portrayal of a high school shooting examines the terror of American violence through spoken word, poetry and music. In Spite of Everything is the directorial debut of Marc Bamuthi Joseph.
Friday, May 18 @ 8 p.m., Saturday May 19 @ 2 p.m. & Sunday, May 20 @ 7 p.m.
Representa!
, written and performed by Paul Flores and Julio Cardenas.
Directed by Danny Hoch,
La Pena Cultural Center. Admission: $12 advance, $15 general, $10 students, members and groups.
This is the world premiere of Paul S. Flores' Representa!, starring Flores and Cuban rap artist Julio Cardenas. This bilingual piece, co-commissioned by La Pena Cultural Center and directed by OBIE-award winning actor and playwright Danny Hoch, is an energetic and comedic piece that confronts values mid-sentence and shifts perceptions of identity right before your eyes.
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