OCCUPY THIS (Jan 2012)
Members of the 99% pick up the mic and lay down the law in this live streamed poetry event hosted by RAW's Jesse Bliss and Writer-Activist Josefina Lopez of Casa 0101.
The Roots and Wings Project has partnered with Quality Collective Producer Peter Woods and Downtown Los Angeles's The Last Bookstore for a site-specific World Premiere of - A Record of Light by RAW found Jesse Bliss.
October 29, 2011 - November 20, 2011
Saturdays and Sundays @ 8:00pm
Reservations via The Last Bookstore: (213) 488-0599
"You don’t come out of this life alive…to know your life’s purpose is to dare to go where it leads…"
The complete sacred knowledge of all human experience is being housed in secret, in a downtown Los Angeles bookstore. Orelia Key, a woman whose spirit moves faster than her body can handle, is determined to access it. On this mission, she encounters denizens of the bookstore - analog people - who in a world of technology, discover the link between body and the substance of the soul.
IGNITE was an evening of music, spoken word and art bringing together the talents of visual artists, actors, spoken word performers, musicians and DJs in support of Tree of Fire, a play written by The Roots and Wings Project founder Jesse Bliss. The evening featured artists such as Mike the Poet, Heriberto Luna, Miriam Glover, Jacques C. Smith, DJ's Sloe POke and Cee Brown and live music from the Tree of Fire score performed by GG of Dakah Hip-Hop Orchestra and, Audio Angel of San Francisco and Fanny Franklin. RAW were honored to hold this event at SPARC (Old Venice Jail): a community-based public art center that has produced, presented and preserved sites of public memory since 1976.
Tree of Fire is a play written by RAW founder Jesse Bliss that has been on its journey since 2009. Excerpts of the piece have been performed at UCLA, Theatre of Note and S.P.A.R.C. @ The Old Jail in Venice, and a full staged reading was presented at the former Lincoln Heights Jail.
Between Fingertips When incarcerated and alone, who knows you are alive? Developed for Central Juvenile Hall in collaboration between writer Jesse Bliss and choreographer Jennifer Chien of San Francisco’s Intersection of the Arts with GG of Dakah Hip-Hop Orchestra, Federico Patino, Moe Irvin of Grey’s Anatomy and Russell G. Jones of the Labrynth Theatre Company of New York. After performing the show for an incarcerated population, the show was brought to the public at Casa 0101 Theatre in Boyle Heights followed by a discussion of The Prison Industrial Complex.
Diamonds is a full-length dance/theater production written by Jesse Bliss and choreographer Amy Campion. Directed by Tony Award Nominee Mary-Joan Negro with additional consultation from dance legend Rennie Harris. Performed at UCLA.
