The Last Supper Party

An Evening of Poetry and Music with Paul Flores, Rita Lackey and Loa Niumeitolu
Curated by Kimi Sugioka
At Temo's Cafe
Open Microphone to Follow

Date(s) & Time(s): Sat. April 5, 6:00pm
Duration: 90 minutes w/ intermission
Location: Temo’s Cafe 3000 24th St, SF, CA 94110

Ticket Information
Entry Free - Donations accepted.
Reservations Mandatory.
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Oakland Public Conservatory of Music & Jazz in the Neighborhood present Live at OPC! feat. a host of musicians from the Bay Area & Beyond.

Join us Friday April 22, 2022 at 7 pm (PDT) for a special concert.

Oakland Public Conservatory of Music presents composer/pianist Jon Jang and his ensemble in collaboration with spoken word artist Paul S. Flores for a performance of CAGES: A Way to Interrogate History* at the OPC on Friday April 22, at 7pm. This new work uniquely interrogates the histories of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) through music and spoken word.

The Jon Jangtet features

Hitomi Oba, tenor saxophone, Nick DePinna, trombone, Jon Jang, piano; Gary Brown, double bass, Deszon Claiborne, multiple percussion.

In-person tix-$20 at the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music

3445 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, CA, 94608 | Masks, proof of vaccination & Valid Photo ID required.

Livestream $10 on Bandcamp. Click here to purchase.

ABOUT JON JANG

Composer Jon Jang became the first American born Chinese to compose a symphonic work that honors Chinese American history. Commissioned by the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra and Oakland East Bay Symphony, Jon Jang composed The Chinese American Symphony which pays tribute to the Chinese immigrant laborers who built the first transcontinental railroad in United States.

For nearly four decades, composer and pianist Jon Jang give a musical voice to a history that has been silent. A majority of his works represents a chronology of Chinese American history in San Francisco such as Island: The Immigrant Suite No. 2 for the Kronos Quartet.

Pianist/composer Jon Jang has collaborated and recorded with Max Roach, James Newton and David Murray. Jang’s ensembles have toured at major concert halls and music festivals in Europe, China, Canada, United States and South Africa, four months after the election to end apartheid in April 1994. Jang’s latest recording, The Pledge of Black Asian Allegiance, pays tribute to Malcolm X, Yuri Kochiyama and to Black Lives Matter. In 1987 in San Francisco, Jon Jang and saxophonist Francis Wong co-founded Asian Improv aRts where their mission statement is to support new directions in music by Asian Americans.

Jon Jang website

ABOUT LIVE! at OPC

Live! at OPC is a new Livestream concert series at the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music produced in collaboration with Jazz in the Neighborhood. The concerts will feature a host of musicians from the Bay Area and beyond. One hundred percent of the ticket revenue benefits the OPC's youth programs that provide free music education for Black and Brown youth of Oakland.

Angela M. Wellman, Founding Director

Jazz in the Neighborhood is proud to help support the vital mission of the Oakland Public Conservatory. We are excited about working together on more projects moving forward.

Mario Guarneri, Founder and Artistic Director

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BRAVA! Presents:

La Lengua Teatro En Español Production

Performed reading: “ La Muerte y La Doncella ” by Ariel Dorfman

Saturday, June 20, 2020

5PM (PDT)/8PM (EDT)

LIVE STREAM ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/177803467006875/

Brava Theater + La Lengua Theater

ONE SHOW ONLY A performed reading in Spanish with English subtitles.

Running time: 90 minutes with two 10 minute intermissions.

TICKETS: Tickets are $15 suggested donation ( with a pay-what-you-can option ). Proceeds from ticket

sales go to the artists behind the work as well as to Brava!, making it possible for this, and other

works, to have a future once Brava Theater Center reopens. If you are viewing with two or more

people, please consider adjusting your ticket price accordingly.

WARNING: This play contains language and violence. PG-13.

LOCATION: ONLINE

To view the Live Stream, all you have to do is FOLLOW, LIKE, OR SUBSCRIBE to these social media

platforms and then tune in to the page at the time of the event:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4F-VukNCntrur_fv4gQlIg

Facebook: Brava Theater or La Lengua Theater

ABOUT THE PLAY

LA MUERTE Y LA DONCELLA (Death and the Maiden)

‘A mirror in which it is still difficult to look’

Clarín

‘An eminently political text and, at the same time, loaded with suspense’

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It has been years since Paulina was kidnapped and kept as a political prisoner. She suffered at the

hands of a man whose face she never saw but whose memory grips her still in a secret terror. The

military dictatorship that plagued her country (Chile, or Argentina, or El Salvador?) has just fallen, and

nothing is certain. When an unexpected visitor arrives at the secluded beach house she shares now

with her husband, Paulina is convinced this stranger is her tormentor and confronts her deepest fears in

search of that long-sought-after justice.

“ Death and the Maiden ” by Ariel Dorfman is the most produced Latin American play in the history of

theater and has become a classic on the dichotomies of justice/ forgiveness and memory/forgetfulness.

The playwright has set out to explore a question seldom asked aloud: "How can the oppressors and

the oppressed cohabit the same land, share the same table?". A question that is still as valid today

as when Dorfman wrote this work.

The piece addresses, in Ariel Dorfman’s words, "the mythic theme of a woman who seeks retribution

and seeks to do what society will not do for her […] But it's also about truth and memory and how you

could tell that truth”.

Cast: Ben Ortega, Virginia Blanco, Francisco Rodriguez

Stage Directions: Deborah Cortez

Director: Roberto Varea

Creative Team: Deborah Cortez, Paul S. Flores, Virginia Blanco

Sound Design: David Molina drmsound.com

Graphic Design/ Illustrator: Feras Khagani ferask.daportfolio.com

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Ariel Dorfman, a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Literature at Duke, is a Chilean-American novelist

and playwright. His works include the Laurence Olivier award-winning play Death and the Maiden

(which will be revived next year on Broadway), and numerous books, including, most recently, of the

children’s story The Rabbits’ Rebellion (2020) and a novel, Cautivos (2020) about Cervantes’s life in jail

in Seville.

ABOUT LA LENGUA THEATER

Founded in 2019 by Virginia Blanco, La Lengua Teatro en Español/La Lengua Theater is an emerging

company that creates spaces for theater in Spanish, sharing its immense diversity and wealth, in order

to empower the Spanish-speaking community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more about us at

www.lalengua.org

ABOUT ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE AT BRAVA!

Brava! for Women in the Arts fosters the artistic expression of women, people of color, LGBTQIA

community, and other underrepresented artists. Through its residency program, Brava! supports the

professional development and creative work of directors, actors, dancers, musicians, visual artists, and

designers, providing space for creation, assistance with grant writing and fiscal sponsorship, and the

support of Brava's marketing and technical staff. In return, these artists continue to generate excellent

art, mentor youth in Brava’s education programs and contribute to the artistic life of the 24th Street

corridor in San Francisco.

CAST & CREW BIOS

BEN ORTEGA (Roberto Miranda) is back at La Lengua after playing Santiago in our first show, a

staged reading of Anna in the Tropics . He has been recently seen as Winston Smith in Los Altos

Stage’s production of Michael Gene Sullivan’s adaptation of George Orwell’s “ 1984 ”. Ben’s favorite

roles include Johnny in “ Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune ”, Felix Ungar in “ The Odd Couple ”,

George Hay in “ Moon Over Buffalo ”, Picasso in “ Picasso at the Lapin Agile ”, Yvan in “ Art ”, Daniel

Kaffee in “ A Few Good Men ”, Verdecchia/Wideload in the one-man show " Fronteras Americanas ",

Molina in “ Kiss of the Spider Woman ”, Buddy in “ Thunderbabe ”, Allan Felix in “ Play It Again, Sam ”, and

George in “ Same Time, Next Year ”. Ben studied acting at UCLA and privately with Lisa Chess. Ben is

also a stand-up comedian and has performed in numerous clubs on both coasts.

VIRGINIA BLANCO (Paulina Salas/Co-producer) Actor and theater-maker. Originally from Argentina,

she was a founding member of Drakma Grupo Teatral. Back in her country, she has performed in

Spanish in both classic and contemporary plays. Regional credits include Orinda Starlight Village

Players, Ubuntu Theater Project, Shelton Theatre, TheatreFirst, Theatre of Yugen, The Cutting Ball

Theater, and Anton's Well Theater Company, along with several staged readings with Brava Studio

Sessions and 3 Girls Theatre. Her last performance was a reading of the new play La Paloma by

Alejandra Rivas at the Aurora Theater. Her local acting training is from Studio ACT, BerkREP Theatre

School, and Shakespeare & Company. She studied Communications at Universidad de Buenos Aires

and has worked as a journalist and editor for several written media platforms. Virginia is the Founding

Artistic Director of La Lengua. virginiamblanco.com

DEBORAH CORTEZ (Stage Manager/ Assistant Producer) was born in Argentina but spent most of her

youth in Peru. Deborah relocated to the US in late 1998. Her theatre work goes back to 1996 with her

debut on the Stage in Peter Pan , playing Captain Hook’s ship keeper. Deborah is a Bay Area actress,

singer, producer, and director. She’s worked in many plays as well as films and commercials. Some of

her recent works are Josefa ( Convoy 31000 ), Lucy ( Strange Ladies ), Theseus ( A Midsummer Night’s

Dream ), Olivia ( Twelfth Night ), Jean ( Dead Man Cell Phone ) and many more. Film credits include: No

Quiero Verte , One Long Day , Drops of Sunshine , Drunk Theatre and many more. Deborah’s Producing

credits are: Drunk Theatre -Bread and Butter and Titus Andronicus with Theatre Lunatico, in which she

is now a Core Member. To learn more about Deborah: deborahcortezactor.wixsite.com/website

PAUL FLORES (Subtitles/Co-producer) Writer and Producer. He started making spoken word as a

Youth Speaks y Los Delicados founding member in 1996. In 2001 he debuted in Cuba, while he was

working al Centro Cultural La Peña, and since then he has been performing frequently in La Habana,

México and El Salvador. His work approaches immigrant stories with all their complexity, from violence

-forced migration, gang life, the war, incarceration, divided families- until cross-generational

relationships and the struggle to preserve cultural values. His most recent shows were " On the Hill: I

Am Alex Nieto " (which gathered San Franciscan communities that had been divided by gentrification

and police violence), and " Tenemos Iré/We Have Iré ,” premiered in 2019 at Yerba Buena Center for the

Arts, San Francisco. Flores is an associated Theater Professor at the University of San Francisco.

http://paulsflores.art/

ROBERTO VAREA (Director) This is his second work at La Lengua, after our inaugural production of

Ana en el Trópico . His creative work includes directing world premieres of works by Migdalia Cruz, José

Rivera and Cherríe Moraga, as well as founding community-based companies such as El Teatro

Jornalero! and Secos & Mojados. His research work focuses on live performance as a means of

resistance and peacebuilding in the context of social conflict and state violence. His writing includes the

two-volume anthology Acting Together-Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict, and

publications in numerous journals in the US, Cuba, and the UK among others. He teaches at the

University of San Francisco, where he is founding faculty of the Performing Arts & Social Justice and

Critical Diversity Studies Programs, and he directs the Latin American Studies Program and the Center

for Latinx Studies in the Americas (CELASA).

Paul S. Flores performs his solo show "You're Gonna Cry"

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Paul Flores will present excerpts from “On The Hill” based on interviews, dialogue, writing, theater, music and movement conducted with the Loco Bloco youth ensemble about Alex Nieto’s recent murder at the hands of San Francisco Police Department and how it impacts youth and their communities.

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Poet, playwright, and spoken word artist Paul Flores explores the intersections of urban culture, hip-hop, and transnational identity. His performance projects have taken him from HBO’s “Def Poetry” to Cuba, Mexico, and El Salvador. San Francisco Weekly named him “Best Politically Active Hip-Hop Performance Artist” and KQED honored him as a “Latino Heritage Local Hero” for his work in theater and youth development. Recently named a 2015 Doris Duke Artist, Flores is a Theater professor at the University of San Francisco.

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Site-Acts

Spoken Word featuring Paul S. Flores, Aimee Suzara, Do D.A.T.

More info: http://www.ybca.org/ban7

Spoken Word featuring Willie Perdomo, Patricia Smith, and Paul S. Flores, with special guests

For more information, contact Fish Vargas at samuel@browercenter.org