Black Lives Matter San Diego ART EVENT 6/19

From Adam Parrocha, City College alumnus:

“Take your broken heart and turn it into art.” - Carrie Fisher

In this difficult time, please consider directing your creative energies into creating art as an ally for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Please SHARE the attachment with your students, friends, children and artistic colleagues to encourage their participation as an ally for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Next Friday we aim to place the art along the Cabrillo/ Laurel Street Bridge in Balboa Park before joining in a sit-in/sing-in along Park Blvd and President’s Way (mindful of social distancing!) at 4pm.

If you cannot join us in person:

-consider driving through the park and dropping the art off along the bridge. Volunteers will be present!

-share your art next Friday on your social media platforms with #artists4blacklives

-donate: ebonimuse@gmail.com or Venmo: @ebonimuse (indicate: A4BL)

Thank you for considering and standing in solidarity with our friends and colleagues.

-Adam

Fall 2020 at City College Theatre

Hello--we hope that this message finds everyone safe and healthy during these unsettling and unprecedented times.

As of now, the San Diego Community College District has not been able to say definitively what to expect for Fall 2020. We know that every class that can move online will be taught online. We still do not know whether we will be meeting in person for any classes.

This impacts Drama, as many of our classes are hands-on. We have had to do some juggling of our schedule, and we wanted to share with you some changes we have in store for the fall.

It is very likely that Urinetown will be completely postponed until Spring 2021. We would need to meet in person to be able to rehearse and produce the show, and it is doubtful we will have that opportunity. Professor Kate Neff Stone will be directing and producing the David Ives comedy Mere Mortals. It may be rehearsed and performed completely online, or it may be a hybrid of some kind. Please check in with her at  kstone@sdccd.edu with your questions.

We will be adding some exciting classes to the fall schedule:

• Intermediate Playwriting, DRAM 118, will be offered for the first time. If you've already taken DRAM 108, Beginning Playwriting and you want to continue with your writing, here's your opportunity. It will be completely online.
• Scene Painting (Beginning and Intermediate) will offered. This usually only runs in the spring, but it will run this fall. It is a 12-week class that begins September 14. Days/times: MW 4:20 - 7:00
• Acting for Film and Television, DRAM 119, is returning! This class hasn't been offered since Spring 2017. If we're permitted to be on campus, it will be taught in the television studio. Days/times: MW 10:05 - 12:35. Otherwise it will be completely online.

Unfortunately, we have had to cancel a few classes:

• DRAM 124, Makeup for the Stage
• DRAM 134, Beginning Voice for Actors
• DRAM 143, Beginning Costuming
• DRAM 243C, Technical Theatre Practicum-Scenic (the class that builds the float for the MLK parade in January) 

We will be offering 124, 134, and 143 in Spring 2021, and we plan to run 243C in Intersession. If you need any of these classes in the FALL semester to graduate, please contact Katie Rodda ASAP at krodda@sdccd.edu.

In the next week or so, we'll be letting everyone know exactly what classes are being offered and who is teaching them. We thank you for your patience--we miss being on campus and look forward to SEEING you all soon.

A statement from San Diego City College Theatre

The Dramatic Arts Program at San Diego City College stands in solidarity with the people of San Diego, especially the Black community, during this heartbreaking and challenging time. We are saddened and outraged by the inequality and violence perpetrated toward people of color in our city and around the world. 

Black Lives Matter.

Theatre is an art that is unapologetically centered on the human story and cannot ignore human injustice and suffering. It is a space of shared imagination, where we can relive and rethink our past while we envision new possibilities for the future.

At City College Dramatic Arts, we are committed not only to telling these stories, but also to standing with those who fight against injustice, inequality, and hatred in all of its forms.

We are listening. We believe in you. And we stand with you.

City College students transfering to universities!

City College Theatre is delighted to congratulate our students who are leaving City and beginning their study at universities!

Luis Sherlinee (Chicago, Heathers) and Robert Delacy (To Kill a Mockingbird, plus stage manager for the New Play Festival 2017) are beginning at San Diego State University, and Emily Bucher (Just Like Us, plus crew for numerous shows) will start at CSU Long Beach.

Luis Sherlinee in Heathers The Musical

Emily Bucher in The Vagina Monologues

Robert Delacy in To Kill a Mockingbird

We will miss you, but we wish you all the best! Come back to visit!