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The Bay Area All Stars held a performance workshop on Saturday,
April 2 and an All Stars Talent Show on Saturday, April 16th
at Oakland Technical High School. Sixty-six performers (22
acts) participated in the show as 200 parents, grandparents,
siblings, neighbors and other community members cheered them
on.
Bay Area All Stars Talent Show at Oakland Tech
Phat Friends Off the Hizzle Standing, from left:
Michael Lange, Eddy Lopez, Jr., Ellen Ritchie, BACIC President Joyce Dattner, Zondre,
Debbie Zetzer, Jacqueline Rushing, Tiffany Patterson, Kai King. Seated from
left: Amani Barnes, Luis Garcia, Flaca Hendren.
On May 18, the Bay Area Center for Independent Culture (BACIC) held its first
Phat Friends Off the Hizzle dinner benefit raising
$30,000 for the Bay Area All Stars. Held at Scott's Seafood
Restaurant in Oakland, Phat included an awards ceremony. The
awards process is one where young people solicit, interview
and nominate adults who have made a difference in the lives
of young people. The Youth Selection Committee was co-chaired
by Eddy Lopez, Jr. and Kai King. Youth Selection Committee
members Amani Barnes, Luis Garcia, and Flaca Hendren presented
the evening’s awards to Zondre’, host of Oakland’s cable TV
show Off Tha Hook; Jacqueline Rushing, Executive Director
of the Young Scholars Program in San Francisco; Debbie Zetzer,
a special education teacher’s aide at T.R. Pollicita Middle
School in Daly City; Tiffany Patterson, YMCA-Embarcadero;
Ellen Ritchie, Program Coordinator with YouthCares Partners
in Learning, and Michael Lange, Facility Manager at Oakland’s
Malonga Casquelord Center for the Arts and the Henry J. Kaiser
Convention Center. If you would like to nominate a caring
adult for a 2006 Phat Friend Award, contact Eddy Lopez, Jr.
at 415-986-2565.
If you live in the San
Francisco/Oakland Bay Area and you're between the ages of 5 and 25 and like to
perform, contact Elouise Joseph at 415-986-2565 to learn more about the All
Stars or to sign up for the next audition. If you are 13 or older and would
like to work backstage or help staff an event, contact Caroline Donnola, All
Stars Volunteer and Operations Manager, at 415-986-2565.
BACIC’s Developing Community Theatre (DCT) is gearing up
for an evening of theatre on July 16th at CounterPulse, a
trendy new performance space in San Francisco. The event
will feature a reading of the play Mr. Hirsch Died Yesterday,
written by the Castillo Theatre’s Artistic Director, Fred
Newman. For DCT ticket information, contact Caroline Donnola
at 415-986-2565.
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