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Rockin' & Rollin' Summer Arts
Camp 2009

June  22-July 31

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Music, Dance, Sports, Drama,
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Session 1
June 22 – July 3

Session 2
July 6 - July 17

Session 3
July 20 - 31

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Rehearsals every Tuesday 6:30pm


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Rehearsals every Tuesday
4-6pm


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PREPARATORY STUDIES IN MUSIC -
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New class for 3-5 yrs!

 

 
 

 

 

with
 

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Jazz Poetry Ensemble
UpSurge! is "an ensemble that earns its exclamation point with dynamic performances that capture the soul, humor and off-the-cuff inventiveness of a cascading saxophone solo." (Andrew Gilbert, Contra Costa Times)

 
Friday, July 3, 2009
Showtime: 8:00 PM     
$12 show admission

BBQ will be served at 6:00 PM
$5 food donation requested
 

and special guests

Michael Lange
and Cesar A. Cruz

Actor, director Michael Lange ("The Meeting," "The Ballot or the Bullet") joined by youth wordsmiths Ayinde Webb (drummer FDYE) and Jamani Williams will read excerpts from Frederick Douglass's historic 1852 speech to the Rochester Women's Anti-Slavery Society, "What Is the Fourth of July to the Slave?"   On that day Douglass delivered what is considered to be one of the nineteenth century's greatest orations illuminating the contradiction between American slavery and American freedom.

Opening for UpSurge on Friday, July 3 is a project that UpSurge! founder Raymond Nat Turner has been busy helping cook up. UpSurge and the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music are thrilled to announce the recently formed Frederick Douglass Youth Ensemble (FDYE) under the musical direction of young saxophonist and teacher extraordinaire, Steven Turner. Founding Director of OPC and UpSurge bandmate, trombonist and vocalist Angela Wellman is providing the leadership for the birth and development of this new youth ensemble and OPC faculty and violinist, Sandra Poindexter, is mentoring the string section. FDYE will be performing a couple of UpSurge!standards in addition to their own repertoire.
 

Also sharing the stage will be Cesar A. Preciado-Cruz. Cruz is a Los Angeles and Richmond revolutionary activist and poet. Cruzis celebrating the release of his book Revenge of the 'Illegal Alien': A Mexican Takes on the Empire" Poetry, Short Stories and Political Bullets.

Cesar's sharing the stage is in concert with our theme for this year's Frederick Douglass Day: "Black and Brown Unity!" which is  reflected in the composition of the Frederick Douglass Youth Ensemble. So come out to honor the legacy of Frederick Douglass, hear some great music and words, encourage our next generation of music-makers and wordsmiths and make some history of your own. 

"Although slavery is gone, Douglass's critique remains as relevant as in 1852. But so too does his optimism that the days of empire are over, and that in the modern world abuses cannot permanently be hidden from the light of day. Douglass, not the leaders of a slave-holding republic, was the genuine patriot, who called on his listeners to reclaim the "great principles" of the Declaration from those who had defiled and betrayed them. That is a truly patriotic goal for our own Fourth of July."  Eric Foner

"Fellow citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful Frederick Douglasswail of millions, whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are today rendered more intolerable by the jubilant shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, "may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!" To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs and to chime in with the popular theme would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world."
 

Frederick Douglass
(born into slavery:1818 - died: February 20, 1895)
 


Calendar

 

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FirstFridays
FREE-JAZZ and IMPROV
OPEN STAGE - OPEN MIKE!

7:30 - 10:00 pm
Admission $5
16 & under free

Host: Bill Crossman,pianist 
OPCM Faculty Member

Food and Beverage available

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LIVE JAZZ
Jam Session
EVERY 1st & 3rd MONDAY

THE DOWNTOWN SESSION
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8pm-11pm


8-11pm   Admission $5
FOOD & BEVERAGES
AVAILABLE!

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SONG AND SPOKEN WORD OPEN MIKE

Returns in September 2009

NOT JUST FOR
SINGERS SESSION

with
BRANICE MCKENZIE

vocalist
GLEN PEARSON-piano


7:30-9:30pm $5
Special guests
each session


FOOD & BEVERAGES
AVAILABLE!

 

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