COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
Partners | Destiny Arts Center
Destiny Arts Center is a nonprofit violence prevention, arts education and cultural center in the heart of Oakland.
In 2016 EP partnered with Destiny Arts Center (DAC), to create Seed Language: A New Identity, through documentary theater. Destiny Youth embodied vital voices of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Black Panther Party, and the hip hop movement, to create a timely conversation on race, privilege, power, healing and the need to act.
EP partnered with Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company on the multi-generational production Seed Language: A New Identity, sponsored by The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and directed/choreographed by Sarah Crowell, Rashidi Omari, and Nicole Klaymoon. 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).
EP has had the opportunity to serve as resident company at Destiny Arts Center since 2015. EP has held ongoing weekly rehearsals as well as produced four original evening length works at Destiny Arts Center, including a Restorative Justice Festival in 2017.
EP is currently launching a new House Dance Session, ReBearth.