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DESCRIPTION:Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5, 7:30 pm; Friday, April 11, 7:30 pm 
 and Saturday, April 12, 2 pm and 7:30 pm; Sunday, April 13, 5 pm\n\nThe 
 nationally acclaimed model of youth arts and violence prevention 
 organizations, Oakland-based Destiny Arts Center, celebrates its 25th 
 anniversary with the world premiere of IMPACT.  IMPACT is a 
 movement/theater production created by the young artists of the Destiny 
 Arts Youth Performance Company in collaboration with Artistic Directors 
 Sarah Crowell and Rashidi Omari with Destiny Arts Center staff and alumni 
 as well as acclaimed performing arts professionals, most notably Evelyn 
 Thomas of the contemporary dance company, Nuba Dance Theater 
 (www.nubadancetheater.org) and Amelia Rudolph of the aerial dance company, 
 Bandaloop (www.bandaloop.org), both internationally recognized artistic 
 directors and choreographers.  \n\nIMPACT is a full-length work featuring a 
 cast of 42 talented youth ages 9 to 18 who perform a scintillating 
 combination of hip-hop, modern and aerial dance, theater, spoken word, rap 
 and song, accompanied by powerful video backdrop art. This year's 21st 
 annual production takes you on a journey into the visionary minds of a 
 generation of young people bombarded with a staggering amount of 
 information that could either make them numb or spur them into action.  
 This group has chosen to wake up and take a stand around issues that have 
 powerful impact on themselves, their communities and their world - 
 environmental destruction, unhealthy food and water, negative attitudes 
 about their bodies, and violence of all kinds.  The group takes on these 
 intense social issues with appropriate seriousness, but also with a wildly 
 sophisticated sense of humor. They tackle issues of low self-esteem in a 
 scene called The Monster in the Mirror, issues of local and global poverty 
 in a scene called Cultural Demise, and environmental issues in a scene 
 called the Plastic Bag Vampire.  The work will make you cry and it will 
 also make you laugh.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/12/18752482.php
SUMMARY:Premiere of IMPACT performed by Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company
LOCATION:Odell Johnson Theater at Laney College\n900 Fallon Street\nOakland, CA 
 94607\n\nhttp://www.laney.edu/wp/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/12/18752482.php
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