A New Play about Race and Immigration Written and Performed by Ariel Luckey
Directed by Susannah Martin, Music by Lila Sklar, Dramaturgy by Corey Fischer
Featuring Dan Cantrell (accordion), eO (trumpet/production), Jessica Ivry (cello), Lila Sklar (violin) and Valentino (percussion)
Layering theater, dance, spoken word and a live score of hip hop, Klezmer and Mexican folk music, Amnesia tells the story of a young man who retraces his family’s migration from a small village in Eastern Europe through New York’s Lower East Side to Phoenix, Arizona, only to find that the violence his family fled cannot be so easily forgotten.
The performance on Saturday the 17th will be followed by a post-show dialogue with Rabbi David Cooper from Kehilla Community Synagogue, Patricia Contreras Flores from East Bay Alliance for A Sustainable Economy and Sophia Lanza-Weil from Bend the Arc.
$18-$25
12 midnight, 3105 Shattuck Avenue
Pianist Jerry Kuderna plays from classics to the newest compositions.
12 noon to 1:30pm, 2133 University Ave.
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center. $23 advance / $25 door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street
Half of Half
Album-release event for MONOTONE, debut full-length from Oakland-based Half of Half. A rock and multimedia quartet, performances involve a mixture of electronic and acoustic music (jazz, pop, rock, found sounds, noise, live looping, and vocal harmony) often with synced video projection. Half of Half is John Bliss (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Reina Lam (vocals), Leonard Emma (bass, guitar), and Rob Ewing (drums, keyboard, bass) Preview MONOTONE here: http://halfofhalftheband.bandcamp.com/releases
8pm to 11:30pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck & Oxford
Annual Benefit for Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters and Earth First! Funky Nixons, Gary Gates Band, Curly. $10 Student and Advance; $12 Day of show. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
8:30pm, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Avenue