Jerome Joseph Gentes and Magic Theatre present Indigenous Magic, an art series by and for Native Americans and their allies at Fort Mason Center For Art & Culture. Jerome Joseph Gentes (Standing Rock Lakota and Fort Belknap A’aninin) created and hosts the event. Indigenous Magic supports musicians, singers, poets, playwrights, prose writers, scriptwriters, painters, sculptors, animators, sound artists, dancers, and more.

F*gs and Friends theater company presents a “Theatre of the Oppressed” workshop on Monday, February 26, 2024, 6:30 p.m. Gather with organizations, collectives, and artists sharing like-minded goals in arts practice and activism. Theatre of the Oppressed is a practice coined by Brazilian practitioner Augusto Boal. Boal was inspired by famed literature, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Boal’s techniques use theater as a means of promoting social and political change in alignment originally with radical-left politics and later with diversified ideology.

In “Theatre of the Oppressed,” the audience becomes active, such that as “spect-actors” they explore, show, analyse, and transform the reality in which they are living. Using the theater-form Augusto Boal worked to engage community and discussions. The program is facilitated by theater founders, Mylo Cardona and Oli Naimi.

From the company:

We are a political education and activation cabaret series and theater troupe in Oakland. Many people know us as Fags and Friends! We use performance art as a medium for cultural organizing. We are building for our next cabaret series, it will focus on the theme of land back as it relates to indigenous groups in the Bay Area and Palestine. We are working with UC Berkeley’s Latinx Research Center and the Tribunal Freedom Archives to organize the research of revolutionary movements and practice inter-connection.

The workshop is a lab experiment in theater practice and themes related to a land-back as it relates to indigenous groups in the Bay Area and Palestine. The group is working with the University of California–Berkeley’s Latinx Research Center and the Tribunal Freedom Archives to organize the research of revolutionary movements and demonstrate how they are all connected.

The Indigenous Magic series seeks artists to anchor the evening events. Indigenous Magic is always free to all, a family event, and open to new and existing allies and audiences of Native/indigenous peoples. Artists are welcome whether their medium makes use of traditional indigenous/Native forms or not, and whether or not the medium is intrinsically performative or not.

Visit Indigenous Magic in the Magic Theatre Lobby in Building D, Third Floor, on Monday, February 26, 2024, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Free Admission (Please register in advance)