The Old Globe Arts Engagement

Voces de la Comunidad Sesión #6: Monólogos Guests/Invitados: Jesús Quintero y Kariam Valenzuela

Estamos muy emocionados. ¡Nos vemos pronto! ----- We are very excited. See you soon!

The Poet’s Tree. Tuesday. 5:30 p.m. reg e gaines. Don’t miss it.... reg e gaines is a two time Tony Award nominated playwright and Grammy Award nominated lyricist. He has published four books of poetry, is editor of the 2015 poetry anthology, ‘A Year In Ink’, scored the PBS documentary, ‘Senior Year’, and has served as artistic director of the NYC Downtown Urban Arts Festival since 2007. Recent projects include, director of Connect The Lots, a musical theater summer camp in Camden, New Jersey in 2014, director/ creative writing workshop facilitator of Through The Looking Glass, Center Theater Group, Los Angeles California, 2014-2016, director of Lyricist Fellowship Lab, Teaching Firm of America Charter School, Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn, winter/spring 2017, Is Poetry Theater? workshop facilitator, Bowery Poetry Club, NYC 2018 and writer, director, producer, ‘The 88’, a new musical with music by Calvin Gaines, 2020.

In episode 4, hosts Erika Phillips, James Pillar and Niki Martinez, are joined by guest Eric Maserati-E Abercrombie, Musical Artist, and Formerly Incarcerated Citizen, to explore responding to injustice - especially through music - using William Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale'. We reach the dramatic climax of ‘The Winter’s Tale’ as we enter Hermione’s trial. But what good is saying you’re innocent when you’re only heard as guilty? Our journaling examines the difference b...etween what we know to be true inside ourselves and how we’re perceived. And what better way to respond to injustice in our world than with art that functions as a call to action? Eric Maserati-E Abercrombie thrills us with his music as a response to this moment in the play and in the world. Eric Maserati-E Abercrombie is a music artist, film maker, and justice reform activist. Eric was released from San Quentin State Prison in August of 2019 after serving 9 years in prison. While incarcerated Eric was a part of a restorative justice pilot program currently implemented in San Joaquin county. He was featured several times on the podcast ‘Ear Hustle’. He has also worked as a film maker for a media project in San Quentin State Prison called ‘Firstwatch’, where he and team of incarcerated men created films geared towards humanizing incarcerated people. Since released Eric has spoken at the State Capitol and worked with the Restorative justice organization Re:Store Justice. He was featured in the Emmy nominated Documentary Q-Ball, and did a tour with Antwan Banks Williams performing music and telling his story at schools. Eric is currently a full time professional recording artist and an executive producer of the album tentatively titled The Represent Justice Album, working alongside other formerly incarcerated people and artists such as J. Cole, Common, and Alicia keys. Eric plans to change the world by changing the way people view the world.

Voces de la Comunidad tendrá dos invitados muy especiales: el director, actor y escenógrafo Jesús Quintero, & la actriz y coordinadora de producción, Kariam Valenzuela. ¡Únete a nosotros este lunes para hablar sobre monólogos! Kariam Valenzuela es Egresada de la Licenciatura en Teatro de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Ha participado como actriz en más de quince obras en las que se destacan: Aeropuertático, Opción Múltiple, Barbie Girls. En el área de producci...ón ha desarrollado su trabajo en La Luna te lodirá, La Ardilla Vuela, El Método Grönholm, Drácula y También hay moscas en la luna. Como actriz y coordinadora de producción, ha participado en festivales locales, nacionales e internacionales como Encuentro de Dramaturgia y Teatro Tijuana, Muestra Estatal de Teatro Tijuana y en la FIET, Feria de Teatro Infantil y Juvenil de las Islas Baleares, entre otros. Laboró durante seis años en el Centro Cultural Tijuana (2013-2019) en la Gerencia de Producción Escénica; de 2017 a 2019 realizó la programación, logística y producción de festivales locales, nacionales e internacionales. Actualmente colabora con Tijuana Hace Teatro en diferentes proyectos. Director Fundador de Teatro Las Tablas. Director Ejecutivo de Tijuana Hace Teatro. Con formación en el Centro de Artes Escénicas del Noroeste (INBA), Lic. en Lengua y Literatura (UABC), así como en gestión, producción, artes visuales, diseño escénico, entre otros. Reconocido ampliamente en los escenarios de la región, donde por más de 25 años ha estado al frente del diseño escénico, dirección artística, diseño de multimedia y videomapping; máscaras, atrezo y vestuario, entre otros para propuestas minimalistas hasta espectaculares y de gran formato.

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Next Word Up!’s guest is artist Mason Conrad with San Diego guest Reanne Acasio! What is ‘Battling Monsters’ you may be wondering? Well, let’s just say there will be fangs, monsters, and a lot of fun! Mason Conrad is an actor, poet, sculptor, creator, and fantastical mess. He recently grabbed his MFA from The Old Globe/USD Shiley Graduate Program. You’ve seen him onstage at the Old Globe as Silvius in ‘As You Like It’, Paris in ‘Romeo and Juliet’, and Andrew Aguecheek i...n ‘Twelfth Night’. But more importantly, Conrad loves making and playing with puppets. He watches anime with his breakfast; he holds fake swords and loves making up monologues in his mirror; he loves action figures; and he loves the silliest parts of himself. Reanne Acasio (she/her) is an NYC-based actor and theatre practitioner passionate about inclusivity, diversity, anti-racism, and mental health. Acasio’s regional work includes The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Diego Musical Theatre, The Barn Stage Company, Asian Story Theatre, and OnStage Playhouse. She received her B.S. in Psychology from UC San Diego.

Today on Creative Youth Studio learn how to create art during these challenging times with Dancer and Artivist Anjanette Maraya-Ramey! Anjanette is a first-generation Filipina-American and Founder of Maraya Performing Arts - a new, socially engaged performing arts collective based in Chula Vista, CA. Her choreography has been presented at TEDx San Diego, La Jolla Playhouse, Grossmont College, and DiversionaryT heater. She holds a BFA in Dance & Choreography from CalArts and a MA in Nonprofit Leadership from USD. www.marayaarts.com

Today’s Creative Youth Studio host is Viviana Peji! Catch her talking with Anjanette Maraya-Ramey about creating art during these challenging times. See you at 3:30 p.m. PDT

Are you watching???? Tune in NOW for the epic finale!

Tune in tonight to catch Alyesha Wise dropping some wisdom! Alyesha Wise is a published poet, teaching artist & TEDx speaker from Camden, N.J. Currently residing in LA, she is the co-founder of Spoken Literature Art Movement, an organization providing poetry education and extensive programming for poets - and a teaching artist for Street Poets, Inc., an organization serving juvenile injustice-involved youth with mentorship and arts programming. Alyesha has been featured on platforms and in publications such as OWN TV, Huffington Post, Bustle, Afropunk, PBS, POPSUGAR, Buzzfeed and more. Other collabs include the ACLU of Southern California, The Nantucket Project, Brave New Films and the Google Interstellar Project. Ron Howard once wrote about Alyesha's work, "Very Powerful."

See you at 5:30 p.m. PDT for another great episode of The Poet’s Tree! Then stay for the finale of Thinking Shakespeare Live: Sonnets! at 6:30 p.m. PDT

Tomorrow on Creative Youth Studio learn how to create art during these challenging times with Dancer and Artivist Anjanette Maraya-Ramey!