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DESCRIPTION:Fri-Sat, March 25-26, 7:30pm; Fri, April 1, 7:30 pm, Sat, April 2 at 2 pm 
 and 7:30 pm; Sun, April 3 at 2 pm\n\nThe internationally regarded model of 
 youth arts and violence prevention organizations, Destiny Arts Center in 
 Oakland, will present the world premiere of "Free: Voices from Beyond the 
 Curbside", a movement/theater work created by the young artists of the 
 Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company. Created in collaboration with 
 Artistic Directors Sarah Crowell and Rashidi Omari, the full-length work 
 features hip-hop dance and music, theater, spoken word, modern dance, 
 aerial dance, video backdrop art, vocalists and a cast of 45 talented youth 
 ages 7 to 19. "Free" asks the many nuances of questions about where we 
 belong-and how we evolve our identities amid tumultuous times--in our 
 cultures and society. A special benefit performance to support the Raising 
 the Roof Campaign is scheduled for March 26, including performance ticket, 
 reserved seating and post-performance dessert reception to meet the 
 artists.\n\nDestiny Artistic Director Sarah Crowell describes "Free": "This 
 year's original production explores what it means to be free in all the 
 senses of the word. And what it means NOT to be free. The show opens with a 
 tableau of a few students scattered between discarded furniture and other 
 household items left on the side of the road with handwritten signs taped 
 to them marked "FREE". The young artists dig deep into intimate personal 
 issues that affect them and their communities from pressure to have sex and 
 drugs to how they feel about stereotypes that limit them in boxes of race, 
 gender, sexual orientation and body shape. Then they use the lens of the 
 personal to explore social and political issues from climate change to the 
 plight of the public educational system. They touch typical teenage issues 
 of searching for meaning and belonging and make them ageless and universal 
 by connecting them to global issues that affect us all."\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/19/18672500.php
SUMMARY:Destiny Arts Center Presents 'Free: Voices From Beyond the Curbside'
LOCATION:Laney College Theater\n900 Fallon Street\nOakland, CA 
 94607\n\nhttp://www.laney.peralta.edu/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/02/19/18672500.php
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