The Commons San Francisco

Theater, Film and Foreclosure

Ack-Act Theater presents 90 minutes of rip-stomping, chest-beating, foreclosures-smashing information and entertainment in its multi-media variety show "Restore the Frontier."

Turning the age on its head, Ack-Act Theater PAYS $5 for every alive, alert, and participating adult who sees this show at your venue--house, club, theater, warehouse, you-name-it! Up to $200!

The Prosper Australia 36 minute film "Real Estate 4 Ransom" kicks off the show, illustrating the role tax policy plays in systemic housing crisis. Next comes live, comic, insightful stage antics that dramatize some of the social and economic challenges which the Occupy Movement has revealed. After that, prepare to briefly play some hands-on, life-sized Monopoly games that bring home  fundamental assumptions underlying social justice issues. And lastly there's Q&A.

Restore the Frontier challenges social justice advocates to think big, and to think outside the ordinary Capital vs. Labor dischotomy.

For 90 minutes of relevant program frolics and hard-thinking experience, bring Restore the Frontier to your place, and pocket the change! $5 to every attendee!

Tell me more about this wacky, unusual offer!

"Ire-ish Clogging Up Wall Street"

AUDITION

Saturday, December 31 in SF

312 Mason St.  San Francisco, CA

(American Youth Hostel)

9-Noon

    Ack-Act Theater needs dancers (with voice) for a January 20 Occupy gig. Attendance of this walking tour constitutes the audition. NOTE: a short, mostly improvised, story interpretation (movement only, no script) routine will be requested during the walk.

    Visit http://www.TheCommonsSF.org for more about us and the walk. NO charge for coming on the walk. Complimentary Chipotle lunch afterward.

THE JANUARY 20 PROGRAM IS A PAID GIG: $50

    MORE GENERALLY:  Singers, circus performers, animal trainers, dancers, even actors are welcome to audition for a place with Ack-Act Theater's newest project, Restore the Frontier.

    One hour of project introduction will be followed by supper and "getting acquainted" conversation. Prime candidates will be invited to a follow-on interview (on another date).

    Performance proposals consonant with the project will be accepted through March 2012 from all audition attendees.

RSVP required

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Bernal Youth Theater is soon moving to its own website! (11/20/11)

Bernal Youth Theater is a young person's opportunity to enjoy the thrill and discipline of theater performance, and to create community by engaging fellow youths and adults in serious conversations about society.

Through workshops and classes, youths build their performance and technical theater skills in fun, playful, and guided ways.

In addition to producing at least two youth plays each year, Bernal Youth Theater encourages and supports participants' development and production of their own work.

Group founder, David Giesen, is a 20 year veteran of grade 3-8 classroom positions (currently in a 3rd-4th grade assignment, teaching at the German-American International School).  He has developed theater programs at several schools, and has brought all his experience to his home neighborhood, Bernal Heights in San Francisco. Please note that youths from any part of San Francisco and beyond are welcome to participate.



"Restore the Frontier"

AUDITIONS

Tuesday, December 20 in SF

Notable House  189 Ellsworth St., one block off of

MUNI 24 Cortland Ave. line

7-9 pm

    Singers, circus performers, animal trainers, dancers, even actors are welcome to audition for a place with Ack-Act Theater's newest project, Restore the Frontier.

    One hour of project introduction will be followed by supper and "getting acquainted" conversation. Prime candidates will be invited to a follow-on interview (on another date).

    Performance proposals consonant with the project will be accepted through March 2012 from all audition attendees.

RSVP required

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Bernal Youth Theater is soon moving to its own website! (11/20/11)

Bernal Youth Theater is a young person's opportunity to enjoy the thrill and discipline of theater performance, and to create community by engaging fellow youths and adults in serious conversations about society.

Through workshops and classes, youths build their performance and technical theater skills in fun, playful, and guided ways.

In addition to producing at least two youth plays each year, Bernal Youth Theater encourages and supports participants' development and production of their own work.

Group founder, David Giesen, is a 20 year veteran of grade 3-8 classroom positions (currently in a 3rd-4th grade assignment, teaching at the German-American International School).  He has developed theater programs at several schools, and has brought all his experience to his home neighborhood, Bernal Heights in San Francisco. Please note that youths from any part of San Francisco and beyond are welcome to participate.

Old business:

"Instant Run-off"

debuts Friday, November 25 in SF

at Fifth and Market,

in front of the

San Francisco Shopping Centre

    Ack-Act Theater nails the crux of the current (and all other) recessions by hammering the norm that Mother Earth/ urban land is properly private property. "Instant Run-off" juxtaposes rain run-off's opportunity cost --rain water could be allowed to seep into the water table, where natural cleansing of street filth could take place--    and instant run-off voting --which arguably leads radical thinking to attenuate as political candidates seek temperate voters' second and third place votes-- with the running off of community-generated land values.

    Why not socialize land values? Instead of letting them disappear into private pockets?

    If Occupy XXX means anything, it must mean the community occupies land rents. Or is occupy an abstraction?

    Intermittent 15 minute performances of "Instant Run-off" from Noon to three pm. Absolutely gratis to passers-by.

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Bernal Youth Theater is soon moving to its own website! (11/20/11)

Bernal Youth Theater is a young person's opportunity to enjoy the thrill and discipline of theater performance, and to create community by engaging fellow youths and adults in serious conversations about society.

Through workshops and classes, youths build their performance and technical theater skills in fun, playful, and guided ways.

In addition to producing at least two youth plays each year, Bernal Youth Theater encourages and supports participants' development and production of their own work.

Group founder, David Giesen, is a 20 year veteran of grade 3-8 classroom positions (currently in a 3rd-4th grade assignment, teaching at the German-American International School).  He has developed theater programs at several schools, and has brought all his experience to his home neighborhood, Bernal Heights in San Francisco. Please note that youths from any part of San Francisco and beyond are welcome to participate.

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Auditions for "Dogs and Coyotes, Baseballs and Rabbits" will take place Saturday, August 27, 3-5 pm at our studio, Notable House, located at 189 Ellsworth St..

"Dogs and Coyotes" is a San Francisco Historical Society sponsored original one-act play about documented events in 1914 San Francisco. It is full of humor, but weighs in on topics still relevant today.

There are parts for four boys and one girl, ages 12-15.

Rehearsals will chiefly be Monday and Wednesday evenings, 7-9 pm in September. Performances will be September 30 and October 1, October 9 and 10.

For more information, call 415-970-9306, or leave a message HERE.