Skywatchers, EastSide Arts Alliance, and NAKA Dance Theater present:

Towards Opulence
the Opera

PERFORMANCES:
Friday, February 7 at 7pm
Saturday, February 8 at 3pm (ASL interpretation)
Sunday, February 9 at 3pm (Audio description provided, Haptic Tour at 2pm)

LOCATION:
Eastside Cultural Center 2277 International Blvd. Oakland

TICKETS:
To celebrate EastSide’s 25th Anniversary tickets are free, but reservations are required.

ABOUT:
Towards Opulence, the Opera is part of an ongoing act of creative resistance and imaginative reclamation. Skywatchers believe that Tenderloin residents, and other marginalized people, are the truth tellers of our society, akin to the mythical Cassandras. By breathing life into often overlooked or discredited truths, we remember our interdependence and expose the roots of power and oppression. Towards Opulence invites us to conjure and claim our most audacious and glorious selves and step into a future where we truly belong to each other.

Created by Skywatchers and Choral Director Melanie DeMore
with Jennifer Johns and Valerie Troutt
Guest performers Peekaboo, Maya Nixon, Frances Sedayao

ACCESSIBILITY:
Eastside Arts Alliance is wheelchair accessible.

ASL Interpretation offered on Saturday, Feb 8 only

Live Audio Description and Haptic Access Tours by Gravity Access Services for visually-impaired audience members on Sunday Feb 9 only. Haptic tour begins at 2 pm.

For audience members who are blind or low vision, listening devices are issued which transmit a trained describer’s description of what is happening on stage during pauses in dialogue.

The 2 pm haptic access tour (20-30 minutes) is a live pre-show tour that allows patrons to experience—through touch and their own movement—the space, performers, costumes and objects in addition to key movement elements in the performance.

Haptic Tour and audio description headset reservations:
To reserve a headset for audio description, please select RSVP w/ Audio Description Headset Reservation on EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../towards-opulence-the-opera... . Or call the EastSide Arts Alliance Box Office, MWF 11-5pm - 510-533-6629.

Photo credit: Deirdre Visser

Skywatchers Ensemble is supported in part by EastSide Arts Alliance, National Endowment for the Arts, SF Grants for the Arts, SF Arts Commission, California Arts Council, Zellerbach Family Foundation