Schedule of Events:

3:00pm - Theme: A Look Back in Time

Hosted by Lula Washington (Co-Founder, Lula Washington Dance Theatre) and Rosie Lee Hooks (Sweet Honey In The Rock)

Vanessa Adams Harris, “Rosa Parks”
This excerpt piece gives a glimpse of the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, Ms. Rosa Parks.

Tashara Gavin-Moorehead, “The Spirit of Jazz”
The Spirit of Jazz is a piece that invites you to remember the roots of jazz and to strive for freedom and liberation.

Hope Levy, “The Connie Converse Universe”
In August of 1974 after turning 50, Connie Converse, the first female modern folk singer-songwriter wrote a cryptic letter to loved ones and mysteriously was never to be seen again.

Melissa Lugo, “For You”
A story that weaves through grief, addiction and the bond between mothers and daughters.

8:00pm - Theme: Unsilenced

Hosted by Kat Kramer (Actor/Producer) and Yvonne Farrow (City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs)

Mayuri Bhandari, “The Anti – Yogi”
This blended show of yoga, dance, live percussion and poetry peels back the yoga mat to reveal the recolonization and commercialism of yoga in the West and nationalization in the East.

Laura Elaine Ellis, “A Black Woman’s Truth”
This poetic dance piece explores the many dimensions of the Black Woman.

Caroline Hawthorne, “The iPhone Arias”
This mezzo-soprano singer recounts her chaotic relationship through a cell phone.

Sigute Miller, “Tragic Magic”
Tragic magic is the story of someone who most of her life tries to balance the good girl versus the party animal in her wild ride from addiction to recovery, and ultimately finds redemption and triumph.

Solo Performance Tickets