OCTOBER 16 & 17TH 1:30 & 5:30 PM PERFORMANCES Join us at the Brava Theater Center October 16th and 17th for The New Roots Theatre Festival. This two day theatrical experience is produced by The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company (SFBATCO) featuring eight unique performances that celebrate the resilience of the global community in the Bay Area. Founding Artistic Director of AfroSolo Theatre Company, Thomas Robert Simpson, will be performing “San Francisco: Variations on Black Joy, White Supremacy, and Hope!” an original work which portrays an intimate story of self acceptance. When: Saturday, 10/16 & Sunday, 10/17 Time: 1:30 and 5:30 PM Performances Where: Brava Theater Center – Studio Tickets: Block A – $20.00 For more information, visit SFBATCO.org or click on the TICKETS link to purchase tickets. Need ticket-buying assistance? Call 415-484-8566 Tuesday-Friday from 12-4 PM AfroSolo Arts Festival Kicked-Off Its 27th Annual Festival on August 7th with a Free Concert in Yerba Buena GardensThe Arts Festival was presented in collaboration with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival which featured a free Jazz concert with a performance by Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids. We were blessed with a gorgeous San Francisco day, a wonderful audience and fantastic music enjoyed by all. We’d like to thank everyone who attended. Idris Ackamoor is the guiding spirit of the San Francisco performance company Cultural Odyssey, and the founder and artistic director of the storied jazz and world music ensemble Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids. Ackamoor titled his performance “Dream Keepers Awake” in celebration of Mayor London Breed, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisor’s President Shaman Walton, and the entire Board’s historical precedent of reassigning a portion of its Police and Sheriff Departments funds intending to break the cycle of poverty and involvement in the criminal justice system for Black people in San Francisco. Funding from the Dream Keeper Initiative helped to make this event possible in part. For more information, visit #dreamkeeper@sfgov.org. Ralph Remington, San Francisco Arts Commission’s Director of Cultural Affairs (left) with Thomas Robert Simpson holding the “AfroSolo Arts Festival Day” Proclamation. (Photo: Amal Bisharat ) AfroSolo thanks its funders and friends for joining us for the Festival in Yerba Buena Gardens. Need ticket-buying assistance?
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OCTOBER 16 & 17TH 1:30 & 5:30 PM PERFORMANCES Join us at the Brava Theater Center October 16th and 17th for The New Roots Theatre Festival. This two day theatrical experience is produced by The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company (SFBATCO) featuring eight unique performances that celebrate the resilience of the global community in the Bay Area. Founding Artistic Director of AfroSolo Theatre Company, Thomas Robert Simpson, will be performing “San Francisco: Variations on Black Joy, White Supremacy, and Hope!” an original work which portrays an intimate story of self acceptance. When: Saturday, 10/16 & Sunday, 10/17 Time: 1:30 and 5:30 PM Performances Where: Brava Theater Center – Studio Tickets: Block A – $20.00 For more information, visit SFBATCO.org or click on the TICKETS link to purchase tickets. Need ticket-buying assistance? Call 415-484-8566 Tuesday-Friday from 12-4 PM AfroSolo Arts Festival Kicked-Off Its 27th Annual Festival on August 7th with a Free Concert in Yerba Buena GardensThe Arts Festival was presented in collaboration with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival which featured a free Jazz concert with a performance by Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids. We were blessed with a gorgeous San Francisco day, a wonderful audience and fantastic music enjoyed by all. We’d like to thank everyone who attended. Idris Ackamoor is the guiding spirit of the San Francisco performance company Cultural Odyssey, and the founder and artistic director of the storied jazz and world music ensemble Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids. Ackamoor titled his performance “Dream Keepers Awake” in celebration of Mayor London Breed, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisor’s President Shaman Walton, and the entire Board’s historical precedent of reassigning a portion of its Police and Sheriff Departments funds intending to break the cycle of poverty and involvement in the criminal justice system for Black people in San Francisco. Funding from the Dream Keeper Initiative helped to make this event possible in part. For more information, visit #dreamkeeper@sfgov.org. Need ticket-buying assistance?
Call 415-484-8566 Tuesday-Friday from 12-4 PM AFROSOLO ARTS FESTIVAL | PROGRAM TWO: JUNE 17- 20 WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY THOMAS ROBERT SIMPSON Time: 24/7 | Watch on Youtube
An award-winning actor, director, producer, and writer, Mr. Simpson has used AfroSolo’s Community Engagement program to focus on essential issues in the Black community: health, justice, and education.
Time: 24/7 | Watch on Youtube Black Men: Embracing Our Light (BMEOL) explores the Black male experience within the Prison Industrial Complex. Black men have made up a disproportionate number of incarcerated people in the United States and BMEOL provides an opportunity for four men affected by the industry to share their stories and give voice to the experience. “…we are standing in the light: and, if in this light, which is both loving and merciless, we are able to confront ourselves, we are liberated…” — James Baldwin
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