February 5, 2007 @ 12:11 am
Call for Submissions - HHTF 2007
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Hip-Hop Theater Festival Insiders:
The new year brings much for us to look forward to at The Hip-Hop
Theater Festival. This spring launches our 2007 Hip-Hop Theater Festival
season, with relevant and vital work presented in Chicago, the San
Francisco Bay Area, New York City and Washington, D.C. This year,
you’ll see many familiar names and faces bringing their work to full
fruition. We’re excited and proud of the growth and development of
these pieces, and we couldn’t have done it without the support of
the Hip-Hop Theater Festival community. Thank you! Below are the 2007
Festival dates, so mark your calendars now!
In the meantime, HHTF continues to work in New York City public schools,
and HHTF On-Tour brings contemporary Hip-Hop theater to cities all
over the country. Please read below for Jerry Quickley’s Live from
the Front tour dates, and how you can submit you work for HHTF 2007.
It’s unmistakable. The Hip-Hop Theater Festival is about to explode.
Hold on and stay tuned, and as always, visit us at www.hiphoptheaterfest.org.
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Hip-Hop Theater Festival Call for Submissions
The
Hip-Hop Theater Festival is now accepting submissions for its upcoming
festival season. We are seeking ensemble plays, solo works,
dance-theater and inter-disciplinary theater works. We are accepting
works for consideration for our festivals in: New York, The Bay Area,
Chicago, and Washington D.C.
For an application and complete guidelines, please email submissions@hiphoptheaterfest
Dates Announced for Hip-Hop Theater Festival 2007
Chicago
May 1 - May 5, 2007
Museum of Contemporary Arts and Columbia College
After a tremendously successful inaugural launch in May 2006, HHTF
returns to Chicago in 2007 with Jerry Quickley’s Live from the Front,
directed by Reg E. Gaines. The Chicago festival will also present
a new works reading series featuring local theater companies and solo
artists.
San Francisco Bay Area
May 10 - May 20, 2007
La Pena Cultural Center and YBCA Theater
HHTF will build on its partnerships with two local Bay Area organizations:
Youth Speaks and La Pena Cultural Center. The anchor work in the Festival
is Representa! The New World of Hip-Hop by playwright/performance
artist Paul Flores. Additional works presented in the Bay Area include
Jerry Quickley’s Live from the Front, and a new work by the Suicide
Kings, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph.
New York City
June 5 - June 10, 2007
Dance Theater Workshop
The New York Festival will present the premiere of oLive Dance Theater’s
Brotherly Love, which is being developed as part of HHTF’s Critical
Breaks Workshop Series. The Festival will also include a week-long
staged reading series featuring local as well as national artists.
Finally, HHTF is collaborating with 651 Arts and Dance Theater Workshop
to support their Premiere Presentation of Marc Bamuthi’s Joseph’s
Scourge, directed by HHTF’s Artistic Director Kamilah Forbes.
Washington, D.C.
July 9 - July 14, 2007
The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and The Studio Theatre
The Washington, D.C. Festival will open with the D.C. premiere of
Jerry Quickley’s Live from the Front. The D.C. Festival will include
an extensive staged reading series featuring Washington, D.C.-based
artists, and several solo and ensemble pieces. Outreach efforts will
target the Southeast and Northeast D.C., two historically underserved
areas of the city, to engage local youth with workshops and arrange
for them to attend the Festival at both the Kennedy Center and Studio
Theatre. HHTF’s collaboration with the D.C. Commission on the Arts
and Humanities allows free admission for all events to the Washington,
D.C. Hip-Hop Theater Festival.
On the Outs on Showtime
ON THE OUTS is a provocative, hard-hitting look at three young girls
from the same neighborhood who make all the wrong choices for reasons
even they don’t understand. A fictional hip-hop film based on real
stories of girls from the streets and juvenile jail who lent their
voices and unique stories to the filmmakers, ON THE OUTS represents
girls everywhere who struggle with all of the highs and lows of teenage
life in an inner-city world that makes its own rules. Screened at
Hip-Hop Theater Festivals and film festivals across the nation, this
award-winning film is not to be missed.
When to see On the Outs
Showtime: Saturday, Jan 20 10 PM
Showtime Showcase: Sunday, Jan 21 11 PM
Showtime Too: Monday, Jan 22 10 PM
Showtime Showcase: Wednesday, Jan 24 11 PM
Showtime: Thursday, Jan 25 9:30 PM
For more information on On the Outs, visit www.ontheouts.com
Live from the Front by Jerry Quickley
Don’t miss your chance to witness award-winning poet, storyteller
and political activist Jerry Quickley in his compelling if not enraging
work of Hip-Hop theater, Live from the Front. This one-man show brings
us to Iraq in the days before and during “shock and awe”
to cover the then-pending war for KPFK and the Pacifica Radio Network.
He brings that unique insight to Live from the Front, combining music,
poetry, video and powerful performance style to tell the story of
his travels to, and ultimate expulsion from, Iraq at the beginning
of this conflict.
Live from the Front
Written and Performed by Jerry Quickley
DATES:
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7 PM & 9:20 PM
Hopkins Center Loew Auditorium
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
http://hop.dartmouth.edu/2006
The 7 PM event is SOLD OUT to the public.
Tickets are still available to Dartmouth Students only..
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 8 PM
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
http://livelyarts.stanford.edu
Saturday, April 14, 2007
The Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.warhol.org
Friday, May 11 & Saturday, May 12, 2007 8 PM
Yerba Buena Center for Arts, San Francisco, CA
http://www.ybca.org/b_ybca.html
Hip-Hop Theater Festival
57 Thames Street. #4B
Brooklyn, New York 11237
clyde@hiphoptheaterfest.org
http://www.hiphoptheaterfest
Founded in 2000, The Hip-Hop Theater Festival continues to invigorate
the fields of theater and Hip-Hop by: nurturing the creation of innovative
work within the Hip-Hop aesthetic; presenting and touring American
and international artists whose work addresses the issues relevant
to the Hip-Hop generation; and serving young, urban communities through
outreach and education that celebrates contemporary language and culture.
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