Destiny Arts Center is a nonprofit violence prevention, arts education, and cultural center in the heart of Oakland. 

EP has had the opportunity to serve as resident company at Destiny Arts Center since 2015. We’ve held ongoing weekly rehearsals as well as produced four original evening length works at Destiny Arts Center, including a Restorative Practices Festival (2017), and one weeklong dance festival Rennie Harris’s Illadelph Legends of Hip Hop Festival (2015). 

In 2015 EP and Destiny Arts Youth Company partnered on a two year long production to create the multi-generational production Seed Language: A New Identity, directed/choreographed by Sarah Crowell, Rashidi Omari, and Nicole Klaymoon. Destiny Youth embodied vital voices of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Black Panther Party to create a timely conversation on race, privilege, power, healing and the need to act. This included a sold-out nine-show run at Laney College that culminated in another sold-out production at A.C.T. Theater (San Francisco, CA).  

Made possible through the generous support of The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation