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Interruption! Benefit Performance at South Oxford Space

Where

South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY
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When

Sun, November 6, 2016
6:00 pm

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Citizen Arts and Education in partnership with Seed Artists is holding a benefit performance on November 6, 2016 at South Oxford in Brooklyn, NY, to directly support our April 2017 work-in-progress showing of INTERRUPTION! at BRIClab. It will include music composed by Rob Reddy and performed by members of the INTERRUPTION! orchestra as well as recitations by Oliver Lake of his original poetry and an invigorating discussion of the project and its origins.

INTERRUPTION! is a cross-genre performance project that meditates on some of the key issues facing the United States today, including voting rights, economic inequality, and racial injustice. Co-created by Rob Reddy, Oliver Lake, and Meg Araneo, INTERRUPTION! was inspired by a July 2015 sermon by the esteemed Rev. William Barber II, President of the NC NAACP and co-organizer of North Carolina's powerful Moral Mondays Movement. INTERRUPTION! directly engages Barber's powerful ideas through its dramaturgical integration of Rob Reddy's original compositions with a libretto by Oliver Lake....

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