SFBATCO presents
New Roots Theatre Festival 2022
3 days. 8 projects. 20 performances.
October 14-16, 2022
Fri - Sun
With a special kickoff event Oct 13th!
Reservations, Masks & Vax Required
The New Roots Theatre Festival is an arts festival that celebrates the development of new work and centers BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ voices.
Festival offerings will range from staged readings to fully memorized workshop productions. SFBATCO is hosting a Kick-Off Celebration and Fundraiser on October 13th featuring Grammy-nominated Artist and Activist Ryan Nicole as Master of Ceremonies, and a guest appearance by San Francisco Poet Laureate Tonge Eisen-Martin.
This year’s festival will feature eight original projects, three of which are produced by SFBATCO and 5 of which are produced by other “Legacy” companies: Crowded Fire Theater Company, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Dimensions Dance Theater, African Arts Academy, and SF Recovery Theatre.
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TICKETS
SINGLE TICKET
PRICING:
Early Bird Ticket (code: EARLY) $8
Standard Ticket $20
Student/Senior Ticket $10
SFBATCO Supporter Ticket $40
MULTI-SHOW FESTIVAL PACKAGES
PRICING:
STANDARD PRICE
2 Show Package $35
3 Show Package $40
STUDENT / SENIOR PRICE
2 Show Package $20
3 Show Package $27
The three SFBATCO productions in the 2022 festival are:
Sign My Name to Freedom: The Unheard Songs of Betty Reid Soskin, which explores the life and music of Bay Area legend and America’s oldest living park ranger Betty Reid Soskin;
Every Saturday Night, which takes audiences on a trip back to San Francisco’s Fillmore District in the 1950s, where Ardella runs the neighborhood’s hottest after-hours club out of her basement;
The Day the Sky Turned Orange, a theatrical concept album that examines the events of September 9th, 2020, when the sky across Northern California appeared a troubling shade of amber.
The five Legacy Company presentations
range from plays to musicals to dance performances. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is producing Halie, a new musical exploring the life and times of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of gospel song and civil rights activist, produced by Lorraine Hansberry.
Crowded Fire Theater presents Kaleidoscope, which follows the story of an industrious engineer, Ervin, who creates a machine that lets him relive his memories of growing up among a found family that is queer, brown, and unabashedly resilient.
SF Recovery Theatre presents Reflections n Black 2022, exploring the scenes and stories that reveal the real causes and harsh impact of the exodus of African Americans from San Francisco over the past five decades;
Dimensions Dance Theater presents ruminations. [re]visited., a powerful performance of movement and poetry traversing moments in time, in body memories, in fever dreams; expressing resilience, grief, loss, and hope in being...black, woman, mother, child;
African Arts Academy presents The Legend of Zaouli, based on an oral history that traces the story of a beautiful dancer whose spirit becomes the embodiment of excellence and mastery in traditional West African Dance.
COVID-19 PROTOCOLS
All audiences, company members, and volunteers must provide proof of full vaccination & matching photo ID or a proof of a negative COVID test taken within 48 hours of arrival in order to enter the venue.
All company members and performers are regularly tested for COVID-19
Patrons are required to wear KN95 or N95 masks at all times when inside the Brava.
Air filtration devices are activated in all rehearsal and performance spaces.