BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18454293 SEQUENCE:18473459 CREATED:20071017T002700Z DESCRIPTION:GROUNDED? Festival\nWeek 1: November 15-17\n\nSuicide Kings\nIn Spite of Everything\nThe spoken word trio explores through poetry, vaudeville, and\nconfession how a rebel heir of Scientology, a Jew who used to run with\nNazi's and an immigrant punk rocker end up teaching poetry in our\nPublic Schools?! This show is about to go on tour after their smash\nperformances at this year's Hip Hop Theatre Festival. Catch it this\nlast time before it leaves.\n\nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\nSpecial excerpt preview of the break/s\nBe among the few to experience an excerpt from one of the most\nanticipated new works coming out of the Bay Area. Joseph's multimedia\njourney through verse, contemporary dance and video interweaves his\npersonal story with the history of hip-hop.\n\nTHREE NIGHTS ONLY!\nNovember 15, 16 & 17 $10-$25 Thursday, Friday & Saturday @ 8pm\nThursdays are Pay What You Can Performances\nLocation: Intersection for the Arts\n446 Valencia Street btw 15th and 16th Street\nSan Francisco, CA\n\nTo make reservations for any of these performances, visit us online at\nwww.theintersection.org or call us at 415-626-3311\n____________________________________\n\nGROUNDED? Festival\nWeek 2: November 23-25 (Friday through Sunday)\n\nChinaka Hodge, iLL-Literacy, Michelle Mush Lee & Jason Mateo & Brothers Keeper\nNew Works in the Mix\nA spoken word show that promises to rock a crowd? Yes! This week of\nnew works highlights the deep roster of Living Word artists, many of\nthem Youth Speaks staff members. These shows - some being heard for\nthe first time - will bring you spoken word art in production. This\nunique fusion of spoken word with elements of hip-hop, experimental\ntheatre, and visual arts is performed by some of this generation's\nmost exhilarating young poets.\n\nTHREE NIGHTS ONLY!\nNovember 23, 24 & 25 $10-$25 Friday, Saturday & Sunday @ 8pm\nSunday is a Pay What You Can Performance\nLocation: Intersection for the Arts\n446 Valencia Street btw 15th and 16th Street\nSan Francisco, CA\n\nTo make reservations for any of these performances, visit us online at\nwww.theintersection.org or call us at 415-626-3311\n_____________________________________\n\nGROUNDED? Festival\nWeek 3: November 29- December 1\n\nCarlos Aguirre, Tommy Shepherd, Dan Wolf & Radio Active\nThree actors and MC's from the Hip Hop group Felonious along with\nRadio Active each create solo theatre pieces\n\nCarlos Aguirre The Tell Tale Heart\nA freestyle story, rap and sonic journey into the terror of the tell\ntale heart as created and performed by MC Infinite with text, loop\nstation and beats.\n\nTommy Shepherd The MF in ME\nThe longtime Hybrid Project pillar and Campo Santo actor creates his\nfirst solo show, telling the story of how he follows the beats inside\nhim and reacts to the rhythms around him.\n\nDan Wolf Angry Black White Boy, from the book by Adam Mansbach\nInspired by the book The New York Times Book Review says "captures\nvividly the inhuman sadism inherent to racial violence," this solo\nwork grabs white guilt and racism in a chokehold.\n\nRadio Active She's Alive\nNew first time theatrical work from the groundbreaking hip-hop MC and\nbeatboxer whose work has rocked crowds across the globe both as part\nof the band Spearhead and as a solo act.\n\nTHREE NIGHTS ONLY!\nNovember 29 & 30 & December 1 $10-$25 Thursday, Friday & Saturday @ 8pm\nThursdays are Pay What You Can Performances\nLocation: Intersection for the Arts\n446 Valencia Street btw 15th and 16th Street\nSan Francisco, CA\n\nTo make reservations for any of these performances, visit us online at\nwww.theintersection.org or call us at 415-626-3311\n\n___________________________________________\n\nGROUNDED? Festival\nWeek 4: December 6-8\n\nDenis Johnson\nEverything Has Been Arranged\nA new theatre piece created by Resident Theatre Company Campo Santo\nand Sean San José from the story The Small Boys? Unit from Johnson?s\nbook Seek\n\nTHREE NIGHTS ONLY!\nDecember 6, 7 & 8 $10-$25 Thursday, Friday & Saturday @ 8pm\nThursdays are Pay What You Can Performances\nLocation: Intersection for the Arts\n446 Valencia Street btw 15th and 16th Street\nSan Francisco, CA\n\nDirected by SEAN SAN JOSE\nFeaturing Michael Cheng, Robert Hampton, Ryan Peters and Paul Santiago\n\nDenis Johnson was assigned by The New Yorker to track down and meet\nthe dictator Charles Taylor during the height of the civil wars in\nLiberia. The assignment, relived here, culminated in Johnson being led\nto one of infamous and horrifying "Small Boys' Units" - armies of\nyoung boys trained and armed for war.\n\nThis evening will also feature a performance of unpublished interviews\non the Sudan civil wars culled by the newest publishing imprint from\nMcSweeney's, Voice of Witness.\n\nTo make reservations for any of these performances, visit us online at\nwww.theintersection.org or call us at 415-626-3311\n______________________________________\n\nGROUNDED? Festival\nWeek 5: December 13-15\n\nVendela Vida\nlet the northern lights erase your name\nA new theatre piece created by Resident Theatre Company Campo Santo\nand Sean San Jose from Vida's novel.\n\nTHREE NIGHTS ONLY!\nDecember 13, 14 & 15 $10-$25 Thursday, Friday & Saturday @ 8pm\nThursdays are Pay What You Can Performances\nLocation: Intersection for the Arts\n446 Valencia Street btw 15th and 16th Street\nSan Francisco, CA\n\nDirected by DANNY SCHEIE\nFeaturing Maria Candelaria, Kalli Jonsson, Marc Pinate, Nora El\nSamahy, Brian Yates Sharber, Jonsen Vitug\n\nThis brand new piece from the Co-Editor/Founder of The Believer is\nbased on the novel of which the New York Times says, "maybe there\naren't any other books that walk this very fine line between high-camp\ncomedy and the lyrical seriousness?"\n\nTo make reservations for any of these performances, visit us online at\nwww.theintersection.org or call us at 415-626-3311\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/16/18454293.php SUMMARY:Grounded? Week One - Suicide Kings, Marc Bamuthi Joseph LOCATION:446 Valencia St.\nBtw 15th and 16th Sts\nSan Francisco, Ca 94103 URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/16/18454293.php DTSTART:20071116T040000Z DTEND:20071116T060000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR