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One Imagination empowers the current and next generation of leaders through written and oral expression. As a collective based in the Long Beach/South Bay area, we believe that through conscious artistic programming, community education and outreach, and leadership development, we can cultivate a world free of hatred, ignorance, injustice, inequality, and oppression.





Saturday, November 20, 2010

OUR WORD IS OUR WEAPON: A Creative and Critical Response to Bullying, Suicide, and the Difficulties Faced by Queer Youth



Because it only "gets better" when we do something about it.

Highways Performance Space - Artistic Director Leo Garcia presents

OUR WORD IS OUR WEAPON
A Creative and Critical Response to Bullying, Suicide, and the Difficulties Faced by Queer Youth

Produced by One Imagination, a social justice arts collective
Directed by Carina Clemente

When David's poetry outs him at school, the bullies take their harassment and abuse to the next level. Even the support of his best friends, Gina and Melanie, is not enough to stave off his feelings of depression and hopelessness. With homophobic parents who don't understand and no adults to intervene, David turns to what he, and so many gay youth, believe is their only option: suicide. But David is given a second chance and finds the love and support he needs to courageously empower himself and take his life in a new direction.

ONE NIGHT ONLY! -- Sunday, December 5th
Performance starts at 7:30PM
Highways Performance Space and Gallery
at the 18th Street Arts Center
1651 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404
$15 Regular | $10 Students*
Ticket Customer Service: 310-315-1459
Purchase Tickets Online @ highwaysperformance.org


Featuring: Lucas Hardeman, Courtney Klink, Cree Lee, Sumiko Braun, Timothy “Big Brother” Cheung, Andres Ruiz, Kayla De Los Reyes, Arie Dunkelberger, and Violet Guardado


If you care about the lives of youth, if you want to understand the struggles youth face, if you want to change the way things are, then you don't want to miss this show.



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