Name: We So Bay
Start: 2020-03-07T12:00:00-08:00
End: 2020-03-07T15:00:00-08:00
Location: Richmond BART Plaza

We So Bay

Youth Speaks

We So Bay creates a large-scale installation that the audience will have to travel with along the BART line.

Richmond BART Plaza

YouthSpeaks Presents“WE SO BAY”Publicly Engaged Storytelling ProjectSaturday, March 7th 2020Richmond BART Plaza, 1600 Nevin Plaza, Richmond What happens when young people are repositioned as authors of culture rather than purveyors of entertainment? What is the impact on an individual and the collective when young people are engaged participants of the arts, activism and creative dissent? On Saturday, March 7th, WE SO BAY turns the spotlight to the next generation of modern day griots and cultural stewards for an afternoon of publicly engaged storytelling and performance art centering the voice and ideas of the next generation. WE SO BAY examines what it is to live, love and survive in the Bay Area from the perspective of young people, whose lives and experiences are shaped by the communities they are brought up in: historically marginalized, often gentrified and always worth fighting for. WE SO BAY ponders the symbiotic relationship between culture and home, creating a larger than life installation that moves audience members from one side of the Bay to the next via Bay Area Rapit Transit. Kicking off at Richmond BART and culminating at San Francisco’s Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, WE SO BAY is the supported by the mentorship work of renown culture bearers Brett Cook, Tongo Eisen Martin, Tomas Riley, brittani sensabaugh, EJ Walls, Mike Lee, “CiCi” Ciera-Jevae Gordon, and Gabe Cortez, under the direction of Sean San José. SCHEDULE: 12 PM Start- Richmond BART, 1600 Nevin Plaza, Richmond, CA B.A.R.T train from Richmond to SF’s Mission District24th and Mission StEnd- Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street, SFWE SO BAY Saturday, March 7th 2020 12-3PM$10, General Admission (Ticket includes BART ticket into the city)All Ages, Wheelchair AccessibleRichmond BART Plaza (Starting Location) 1600 Nevin Plaza, Richmond, CAWe So Bay is a project originally conceived by James Kass, Founder of Youth Speaks, and generously supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation Open Spaces Grant, California Council for the Humanities (CALHUM), the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) and the San Francisco Grants for the Arts/Hotel Tax Fund. Additional support is provided by our friends at RedBay Coffee, Destiny Arts, Bay View Opera House, RYSE, African American Art and Culture Complex, and John O&#x27;Connell High School (SFSUD).

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