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<![CDATA[SAME BOAT ARTS COLLECTIVE - News]]>Mon, 11 May 2026 09:09:13 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[TERREMOTO/EARTHQUAKE WORKSHOPS]]>Mon, 08 Feb 2021 03:25:49 GMThttps://www.sameboattheater.org/news/terremotoearthquake-workshopsWORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Monday, March 21, 7-830pm PST                           INTO THE PSYCHOANALYTIC JUNGLE
A Brazilian Approach to Writing Plays
about Social and Environmental Justice
A lecture by Dr. Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio of Sao Paolo
To enroll:

Mondays,  March 1 – April 12                                     DEVELOPING THE DIRECTORIAL CONCEPT
                  7-9pm PST in script-based productions
A six-course workshop exploring directing.
coursework will be centered around a
an environmental justice play.
Instructor: Alberto Lomnitz of Mexico City

To enroll: ]]><![CDATA[Teremoto/EarthQuake Performances]]>Mon, 08 Feb 2021 01:20:07 GMThttps://www.sameboattheater.org/news/teremotoearthquake-performancesTeremoto/EarthQuake is a festival of workshops, poems, plays and music by diverse voices of Latin American countries and of Latinx in the U.S., each considering an element - Fire, Air, Earth, Water, Tech or Waste – and how this element gives life to or destroys their world. Plays, monologues, poems, and songs bring us to settings like the underground rivers of Buenos Aires, the waterways of the Amazon, the Brazilian savannah, the streets of Mexico City and a medical waste facility in Vernon, California, introduce us to Mozambican Brazilian, Latinx and Argentine and Venezuelan poets and characters like a Tupi Hades, a Nahuatl fire eater, a burning California redwood, and a Mexican actor stuck in a tree-planting performance gone wrong. Together, the voices of Latin America will bring us into the heart of nature, move us and unite us in finding what is most elemental to our existence. Can the Earth move you? Join the EarthQuake and find out!

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Friday, March 26, 6pm PDT              TERREMOTO/EARTHQUAKE Part I*
Mexico City, Mexico, 7:00 pm CST
New York, USA, 9:00 pm EDT
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10:00 pm ART
São Paulo, Brazil, 10:00 pm BRT

Sunday, March 28, 430pm PDT TERREMOTO/EARTHQUAKE, Part II**
Mexico City, Mexico, 5:30 pm CST
New York, USA, 7:30 pm EDT
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 8:30 pm ART
São Paulo, Brazil, 8:30 pm BRT

Friday, April 9, 6pm PDT                   TERREMOTO/EARTHQUAKE, Part II
Mexico City, Mexico, 8:00 pm CDT
New York, USA, 9:00 pm EDT
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10:00 pm ART
São Paulo, Brazil, 10:00 pm BRT

Sunday, April 11, 430pm PDT TERREMOTO/EARTHQUAKE, Part I
Mexico City, Mexico, 6:30 pm CDT
New York, USA, 7:30 pm EDT
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 8:30 pm ART
São Paulo, Brazil, 8:30 pm BRT

TICKETS AVAILABLE
Tickets for the each of Part I and Part Ii are $15.00 each, either live or recorded for on-demand viewing and are available at
https://tickets.playground-sf.org/TheatreManager/1/tmEvent/tmEvent265.html

*TERREMOTO/EARTHQUAKE SHOW I
WORK                                                                       CREATOR                          DESCRIPTION
Acuario (Aquarium) Sol Schiller                      A multimedia piece exploring the pollution of the sea in
Argentina

Monetofágicos                                                         Thiago Neves                   A Brazilian play about money and garbage

O Sonho Africano/Incomparável   Morgado Mbalate           Mozambic Brazilian poems
Não Sou de Cor, Sou Negra / Africanizando
(The African Dream / Incomparable/
I'm not colored, I'm black / Africanizing)

Dragão de Ferro   Rafael Acevedo A song about forest devastation, animal killings and
(Iron Dragon) w/Aline Lira Native genocide

Y si fuera agua de lluvia?                                        Abigail Jottar                  Accompanied by cellist and sounds, Ms. Jottar tells s
  (And if it were rainwater?) story of how rain harvesting can save Mexico City

Mi Casa (My House) Gloria Garcia Stanley      Bay Area actor will perform her poem and sing a traditional song
La Llorona (The Weeping Woman)

Charismatic Megaflora                                            Linda Amayo-Hassan       Bay Area playwright writes of two brothers who meet
     with an old- growth redwood who has been nearly
   destroyed by the fires.

Everything is Shaking Delbis Cardena                Venezuelan poet and actor performs his own poems.
My Body is Our Body

Green Placenta Iliana Munoz                    A performer is invited to participate in an artistic
   intervention planting 20 trees in a sidewalk in Mexico
  City. It becomes a complete mess.

** TERREMOTO/EARTHQUAKE SHOW II
WORK                                                                       CREATOR                          DESCRIPTION
O Fantasma de Gonçalves Dias                               Rafael Duarte                  On the Maranhao coast of Brazil, an Instagram
(The Ghost of Gonçalves Dias) Oliveira Venancio influencer meets with the ghost of poet
Gonçalves Dias and Anhangá a Tupi Hades,

Casca Raiz Origem e Tempo                                     Adryana Ryal                   A play about Brazilian shamans and herbalists.
(Casca Raiz Origin and Time)

Se uma árvore pudesse falar?                                 Edgar Bueno                    A song taped in the Brazilian “cerrado” (a kind of
(If a tree could speak?)                                                                                     savannah) using instruments made of recycled
  materials.

Corrente Líquida                                                      Diogo Mattos                  A play about the hydric crisis in Amapá (an Amazon
(Net Current) region Brazilian State) and São Paulo

La ciudad de los arroyos invisibles                          Mariana Vily                   A memory play about the flooding of Buenos Aires’
(The City of Invisible Streams) underground waterways

Body Politic   Leticia Duarte A poem written and performed by Bay Area actor

¡Y se hizo la luz! (Let there be light!) Frida Tovar Velazquez Based on a Nahuatl ritual. If a flare falls in the middle of
     the forest and there is no one to extinguish it, does the
   forest actually catch fire?
Biohazardous Wasteland Aaron Higareda An adaptation of T.S. Elliot's The Waste Land from the
     perspective of a Chicano working in a Vernon, CA
     medical waste disposal facility.
All pieces will be in Spanish, Portuguese or English with subtitles]]><![CDATA[Convocatoria Terremoto]]>Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:42:16 GMThttps://www.sameboattheater.org/news/convocatoria-terremotoEarthQuake/Terremoto:
temblores desde el corazón de la naturaleza

El colectivo Same Boat solicita obras cortas y piezas teatrales para EarthQuake/Terremoto: temblores desde el corazón de la naturaleza, un festival internacional via Zoom, de obras en pro de la justicia ambiental. Buscamos obras de teatro que generen consciencia de la manera en que los asuntos ambientales específicos afectan las vidas y las comunidades de las personas menos privilegiadas y poco representadas. El festival busca producir obras que den oportunidad a que se escuchen una diversidad de voces Latinas y de Latinoamérica, con énfasis en artistas poco privilegiados y subrepresentados. Same Boat se encargará de formar los elencos y dirigir las presentaciones.

BUSCAMOS: Libretos de 15-20 minutos de duración, así como piezas cortas (canciones, monólogos, obras sin palabras, títeres, etc.) que puedan ser representadas en vivo vía Zoom y que den una respuesta ponderada y atractiva a una (o más) de las siguientes preguntas:

Si la naturaleza forma parte integral de la identidad cultural de [algún grupo al que pertenezcas], ¿de qué manera la destrucción o alteración de la naturaleza afecta dicha identidad o su capacidad para prosperar.
¿A qué obstáculos se enfrenta tu comunidad en la preservación de maneras ancestrales y sostenibles de convivir con la naturaleza? ¿Cómo se vería una solución latinoamericana?
Elige uno de los siguientes elementos: Fuego, Aire, Tierra, Agua, Tecnología o Basura.
1. ¿De qué manera ese elemento da vida a tu mundo? (Por ejemplo, ¿de qué manera el agua es fuente de vida para tu ciudad/comunidad?)
2. ¿De qué manera puede ese elemento destruir tu mundo?

ESPECIFICACIONES:

Un máximo de cuatro intérpretes por obra.
Las funciones se presentarán en vivo; sin embargo, consideraremos la posibilidad de presentar una pieza grabada dentro del programa. Si cuentas con una pieza grabada que quisieras que consideremos, favor de enviarnos el video de la misma.
Para postular una obra, favor de llenar y enviarnos el formulario que aparece al término de este escrito.

FUNCIONES: Las funciones por Zoom se llevarán a cabo en marzo, 2021. Las funciones serán en vivo y consistirán de varias piezas provenientes de Argentina, Brasil, México y Estados Unidos.  Las y los intérpretes provendrán de dichos países más el Reino Unido.

FECHA DE ENTREGA: Favor de enviar el formulario de aplicación respondido antes del 21 de enero al siguiente correo electrónico: SBTCollective@gmail.com. La selección se llevará a cabo antes del 1 de febrero.
]]><![CDATA[Call for Submissions to EarthQuake Latin America]]>Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:17:20 GMThttps://www.sameboattheater.org/news/call-for-submissions-to-earthquake-latin-americaEarthQuake: Moving Latin America with Our Voices
A Global Zoom Festival

Same Boat Theater Collective is soliciting short plays and theatrical pieces for EarthQuake: Moving Latin America with our Voices, a global Zoom festival of performances to further the cause of environmental justice. We are looking for theater pieces that raise the awareness of how specific environmental issues affect the lives and communities of the underrepresented and underprivileged among us. The festival intends to produce work that gives an opportunity for a diversity of Latin American and Latinx voices to be heard, with an emphasis on underrepresented and underprivileged artists. Same Boat will cast and direct the zoom performances.

Submissions: 15-20 minute scripts, and 2-5 minute songs, monologues and other theatrical works (movement, puppetry, etc.) that can be performed live on Zoom and give thoughtful, engaging responses to one (or more) of the following questions
                  1. If nature is integral to the cultural identity of [a group you identify with, e.g., African
                  Brazillian], how has the destruction or altering of nature affected the people’s identity or ability to thrive?

                  2.What obstacles does your community face in preserving ancestral, sustainable ways of living within nature?
   What does a Latin American Solution look like?

                  3. Consider an element: Fire, Air, Earth, Water, Tech or Waste
                -How does one of these elements give life to your world? (For example, how is water a
                   stream of life in your city/community?)
              -How can one of these elements destroy - your world?

Guidelines for Submission:

Scripts and monologues must be fully production ready and possible to be performed on Zoom.
Scripts must be 15-20 minutes in length
Shorter pieces (songs, monologues, spoken word, movement) must be 2- 5 minutes
Maximum four performers per piece.
While we are looking for work that can be performed live, we will consider presenting video pieces in our livestream productions, such as movement and puppet pieces. For this category, please provide a fully produced video for us to consider.

If the work is a collaboration, please ensure the names of all participants appear on the manuscript.
At the front of the script, please include a cast breakdown with pertinent details about the characters.
Please fill out and submit the application form attached.

Performances: Livestream Zoom performances will take place in March, 2021. The Livestream performance will consist of several pieces by writers from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and the United States, with performers from these countries and the United Kingdom.

Submission Deadline: Please send short piece submissions (written pieces, video or sound recordings) by January 21 to SameBoatTheater@gmail.com. We will make final decisions by
February 1. Final Scripts must be completed by February 22.

Application for
EarthQuake: Moving the Earth with Our Voices

Please supply the following information with your submission.

Name:
Email address:
Phone number:
Where/from whom you learned about EarthQuake:

Title of Work Submitted:
One-sentence description of work:
Cast breakdown:
Any special instructions and names of collaborators:

Please also include a 100- 200 word biography and/or resume (of all co-creators, if applicable) with your submission. If your work is selected, this will be edited into our online program to accompany the production.

This work is offered with the full permission of all participants.

Signature: Date:

Thank you!
Same Boat Theater Collective

]]><![CDATA[Script and New Work Submission Call for EarthQuake]]>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 06:37:55 GMThttps://www.sameboattheater.org/news/script-and-new-work-submission-call-for-earthquakeSame Boat Theater Collective is accepting 10-20 minute scripts and theatrical pieces for EarthQuake: Moving the Earth with Our Voices, a global Zoom festival of performances to further the cause of environmental justice. We are looking for theater pieces that raise the awareness of how specific environmental issues affect the lives and communities of the underrepresented and underprivileged among us. The festival intends to produce work that gives an opportunity for a diversity of voices to be heard, with an emphasis on underrepresented and underprivileged artists. Same Boat will cast and direct the zoom performances. See below for more information and application.

]]><![CDATA[Same Boat Theater Collective Selected for Playground Innovator Incubator]]>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 04:43:36 GMThttps://www.sameboattheater.org/news/same-boat-theater-collective-selected-for-playground-innovator-incubatorSame Boat Theater Collective is delighted to be one of the six teams of Bay Area artists selected as finalists for the inaugural PlayGround Innovator Incubator. The new year-long initiative of Playground SF, the Bay Area's leading incubator of new plays, will provide a comprehensive and integrated suite of more than $50,000 in tools and resources — including fiscal sponsorship, one-on-one mentoring, free and discounted performance and rehearsal space, and co-marketing — in support of the development of six new innovative theatre companies and the launch of their first season.

PlayGround will share the initial results of its incubator at the first annual Innovators Showcase, taking place August 1-25, 2019 at Potrero Stage, PlayGround’s state-of-the-art center for new plays. The showcase will feature two back-to-back world premieres as well as developmental staged readings and other public offerings by the Innovator Incubator teams over the course of the four-week program.

PlayGround Board Member and successful entrepreneur David Steele said, “As Playground marks its 25th anniversary and recognized role as an established incubator for new voices for the stage, we’ve created the Innovator Incubator to foster a new generation of innovative theatre companies and artists. In this way, PlayGround is paying it forward, ensuring the vitality and vibrancy of our field.”

The complete lineup and plans for additional Incubator public programming will be announced in May. PlayGround will open up applications for 2020 participants in September. For more information, visit http://playground-sf.org/incubator.

2019 THEATRE COMPANIES AND TEAMS
Moonrisers Theater Company (Christopher Magee, Michael Magee, Angel Hertslet)
Poltergeist Theatre Project (Brit Lauer, Chris Steele)
Queer Cat Productions (Carson Beker, Nara Dahlbacka, Nicole Jost)
Same Boat Theatre Collective (Lisa Kang, Ellen Koivisto, Bridgette Dutta Portman; additional collective members: Linda Amayo-Hassan, Lynn Aylward, Jerome Joseph Gentes, Scott Munson)
Theatre Cultura (Linda Amayo-Hassan, Janelle Aguirre, Dov Hassan)
The Epic Party Theatre (Richard A. Mosqueda, Nikki Meñez, Alejandro Emmanuel Torres)

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