PARTY PEOPLE - Excerpts Performed by UNIVERSES

Thu, Apr 26, 2018 from 7pm - 8:30pm

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UNIVERSES, the award-winning ensemble known for their fusion of theater, poetry, jazz, hip-hop, politics, down home blues and Spanish boleros, present an explosive work about the complicated legacies of the original Black Panther Party and the Young Lords Org/Party.   Created based on dozens of interviews with members of these ground-breaking, society-changing groups. PARTY PEOPLE imagines a present-day reunion at an art opening curated by two young counter culturalists; but the curators themselves have complex relationships with the Party members, who fought injustice and provided free food and medical care for their communities—often at the expense of the people who loved them most. Old wounds and generational divides collide in this astonishing, multi-media theatrical event about the price of being a revolutionary, and what it means for those who come after.

 

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Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute

104 17th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98144