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Time: May 21, 2010 at 6pm to May 23, 2010 at 7pm
Location: Fox Black Box Theater, Oakland, CA
Street: 530 19th Street
City/State: Oakland, CA
Info/Tickets/Map: http://www.brownpapertickets.…
Event Type: spoken, word, hip-hop
Organized By: HotWaterCornbread
Latest Activity: May 19, 2010
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Written and directed by nationally renowned Spoken Word Hip-Hop Theater Artist Ise Lyfe, "Pistols and Prayers" is a powerful poetic collage of sociopolitical commentary, blended with a glimpse into his coming of age as a man, artist, and advocate for social change. A stage piece based on the newly published self-titled book by one of the nation's greatest young writers, "Pistols and Prayers" is an impressive production accompanied musically by the African-American folk spirituals of internationally renowned artist Melanie Demore, young Master Cellist, Michael Fecskes and radio personality/deejay DC Coleman from KMEL's 106.1FM.
Rising from the streets of Oakland, California, Ise’s writing and delivery is charged by the same set of circumstances that most art spawned from the inner-city: Struggle, Resilience, Survival and Vision…
Guest appearances by Zion-I & 106.1 KMEL's Nikki Thomas!
May 21-May 23, 2010
Fox Black Box Theater
530 19th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
***Special encore presentation after the fast sellout this past March!***
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