SPC: An Evening with !X Ethnic Theatre (Click photo to enlarge)
First they will click their name out, then they perform. This group from Sacramento City College is fast becoming famous in the valley, taking their performances from the classroom to stages that vary from Lunas to the California legistlature. On Monday, March 30 they peformed at the Sacramento Poetry Center, a performance dedicated to Oak Park. Their basic message was that there is more to Oak Park than the ghetto images of violence, drug dealing and poverty. There are people there with dreams, aspirations, ambition. There is talent and the celebration of life. The group mixed music, poetry and theater in solo and collaborative performances that kept the audience captivated. The question and answer session at the end gave the performers a chance to explain their art and what it means to them. Most of the performers said that when they enrolled in the ethnic theater workshop at SCC, they were new to poetry and performance and they now felt that they could pursue the art further. Here a...