The Imagine-a-Nation of Lala Child
Play One of "A Star Called Love; The Freedom Stories of Lala"
Dates & Times:
Fri, May 27, 8pm
Fri, June 3, 8pm NEW!
Fri, June 10, 8pm NEW!
Tickets: $15 ($12 Advance/Student/Senior)
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Location: Pacific Cultural Center
1307 Seabright Ave (at Broadway), Santa Cruz
Welcome to 1890 Lovely, Kansas, a drought-stricken all-negro town, where a Chinese man rides a dust storm into ten year old Lala’s home, wins her Mammalu’s heart, and spurs the gossipy shock of everybody else.
The Education of Lala Girl
Play Two of "A Star Called Love; The Freedom Stories of Lala"
Dates & Times:
Sat, May 28, 2pm
Sat, June 4, 2pm NEW!
Sat, June 11, 2pm NEW!
Tickets: $15 ($12 Advance/Student/Senior)
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Location: Pacific Cultural Center
1307 Seabright Ave (at Broadway), Santa Cruz
Fourteen year old Lala turns her whole world around when Lijah James opens ‘a window unto God’ and together they leap full-force into love and mysticism, riding spirit into (and out) of conflict with their entire Baptist town.
The Emancipation of Lala
Play Three of "A Star Called Love; The Freedom Stories of Lala"
Dates & Times:
Sat, May 28, 8pm
Sat, June 4, 8pm NEW!
Sat, June 11, 8pm NEW!
Tickets: $15 ($12 Advance/Student/Senior)
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Location: Pacific Cultural Center
1307 Seabright Ave (at Broadway), Santa Cruz
Visionary, powerful, eighteen year old Lala crashes into tragedy and emerges on a great spiritual adventure seeking freedom and love through the ghost towns, trains, brothels, and prisons of the 1898 American West. (Show is 2.5 hours with an intermission. No late entry is permitted)
WORKSHOPS
Change Your Story to Change the World
Dance / Theater / Life Workshop with Rivera Sun Cook
Sun, May 29, 2-4pm
Sliding Scale $10-$30 register now
Location: Pacific Cultural Center
1307 Seabright Ave (at Broadway), Santa Cruz
The Improvised Earth, and what you can do to save it!
We create this life and this world, our problems and our potentials. Learn to become a conscious participant in the most common and natural, creative artistic process; life! Develop tools and skills for dropping the story, changing your life, and inspiring ripples of change that effect the entire planet! Wear loose comfortable clothes, bring a notebook.
Playwriting Workshop
with Rivera Sun Cook
Sun, June 5, 1-4pm
Sliding Scale $45 register now
Location: Pacific Cultural Center
1307 Seabright Ave (at Broadway), Santa Cruz
Rhythm, poetry, prose, monologues, dialogue, description... tap into the inner muse, find a message, voice, characters, learn to play in the playwright’s world.Intended to empower, develop, and strengthen your playwriting voice. Beginners welcome.
Bring writing device (paper, pen, laptop, typewriter if preferred).
World Cafe - Share, Discuss, Deepen
Sun, June 12, 1-3pm
FREE or by Donation
Location: Pacific Cultural Center
1307 Seabright Ave (at Broadway), Santa Cruz
Come explore the Themes, Concepts & Ideas of "A Star Called Love; The Freedom Stories of Lala". We invite you to join us for tea and snacks with the company of fellow thinkers as we explore more deeply the social, spiritual and thematic philosophy of the Lala plays in this World Cafe, round-table style afternoon of discussion.
Playwright/Performer Rivera Sun and discussion leaders Corrina McFarlane and Hina Pendle will help us take this adventure one step further! For more info please email:
info@risingsundancetheater.com or call (831) 421-9160