Z Space

Urban Jazz Dance Company presents:

GentriDeafcation: Echoes of Houselessness in The Bay

November 10 - 12, 2023 on Z Space’s Steindler Stage

Urban Jazz Dance Company presents GentriDeafcation: Echoes of Houselessness in the Bay. Antoine Hunter/Urban Jazz Dance Company (African, Indigenous, Deaf, Disabled, choreographer) created a one hour and ten minutes raw, compelling work on what it means to be “Houseless in the Bay.” The work presents true stories pulling from interviews with Deaf and Disabled folks experiencing homelessness in the Bay Area.

Performers will use sign language, spoken text, dance (modern, contemporary, and jazz), film, music and silence to look at the lives of Deaf houseless folks: What does it mean to be a Deaf person with no house and/or living in the streets? What about stories of DeafDisabled women of color? In these interdisciplinary works, we explore the tension, perspectives and assumptions of the general public towards unhoused folks. GentriDeafcation: Echoes of Houselessness in the Bay is intended for both Hearing and Deaf audiences. Saturday’s performance will be followed by a Q & A Panel joined by representatives from local human agency service organizations who serve these populations. Urban Jazz Dance Company's mission through this panel is to educate audiences about the exponential risk of homelessness in our communities in the Bay Area where homelessness is already a growing crisis. Where can you go if you become houseless? See this show to find out! All performances and the panel will be ASL interpreted. Saturday’s performance and panel will also have live captions!

Show Schedule

Friday November 10th, 7:30 PM
Saturday November 11th, 7:30 PM - Followed by Panel Discussion (see above for details). This performance and panel will have live captions.
Sunday November 12th, 2 PM

All performances and the panel will be ASL interpreted.

Video length: 4 minutes

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Opening slide: UJDC flyer with a purple, sky blue background and an image of dancers on stage to the left. From top to bottom in wrap around yellow text: “Urban Jazz Dance Company Presents: GentriDeafcation: Echoes of Houselessness in the Bay. Nov 10-12, Fri & Sat: 7:30PM, Sun: 2PM. Z Space, 450 Florida St, San Francisco, CA 94110. Sliding scale tickets $15-$40.” In white text: “Panel: Saturday after the Show.” In yellow text below: “Ticket link: zspace.org/urbanjazzdancecompany.” Top right corner are Access logos for Captions and ASL Interpreted, with text “Saturday'' under CC and “All shows” under Interpreter logo. A strip of teal-blue color that displays 10 organization logos listed from left to right: ZELLERBACH Family Foundation, GRANTS FOR THE ARTS, URBAN JAZZ DANCE COMPANY, Glide Memorial Church, KENNETH RAININ Foundation, INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS, Hamilton Families, DeafHope, FLEISHHACKER FOUNDATION, FORD Foundation, and San Francisco Arts Commission.

Video description: April Scott, an Afro-American female wears in her short, tight-curl black hair, a pair of long, thin oval-silver with yellow stripe earrings, neutral gloss lips, and a long-sleeved pink top. She sits, looking at a camera with a blue background.

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April: Hi! We are excited to inform you that Urban Jazz Dance Company will have a home season performance hosted by Director Mr. Antoine Hunter, Purple Fire Crow. He invites all community members to attend. It will be November 10th-12th 2023, at Z Space. Their address is 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, in person. On Friday and Saturday, there is an evening show at 7:30PM. It's also on Sunday afternoon at 2PM. Tickets will be offered on a sliding scale from $15 to $40 making it affordable for our community. Grab your tickets online here: zspace.org/urbanjazzdancecompany. The performance is a full-length production of "GentriDeafcation: Echoes of Houselessness in the Bay," covering Deaf stories in the Bay Area. The houseless population has increased 43% since 2019, that's a huge jump! Do you want to know more? Come and join us to watch and learn true stories, and how we can advocate and come together as a community. There will be a panel following the show on Saturday night to learn more about unhoused folks, the local organizations that serve them, and how we, community, can support to make a change. ASL interpreters will be provided for all performances and the panel. Plus, Z Space is wheelchair accessible. There is parking near Z Space. It is also located near Muni bus lines 9, 27, & 33,  and it is walking distance from the 16th and Mission BART train stop. We also have booths in the lobby to connect with our community partner organizations such as Glide Memorial Church, Hamilton Families, DeafHope, and more. Please grab your ticket and save the date, November 10th-12th. I will see you, touch you, be with you there!

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Closing Slide: UJDC flyer with a purple, sky blue background and an image of dancers on stage to the left. From top to bottom in wrap around yellow text: “Urban Jazz Dance Company Presents: GentriDeafcation: Echoes of Houselessness in the Bay. Nov 10-12, Fri & Sat: 7:30PM, Sun: 2PM. Z Space, 450 Florida St, San Francisco, CA 94110. Sliding scale tickets $15-$40.” In white text: “Panel: Saturday after the Show.” In yellow text below: “Ticket link: zspace.org/urbanjazzdancecompany.” Top right corner are Access logos for Captions and ASL Interpreted, with text “Saturday'' under CC and “All shows” under Interpreter logo. A strip of teal-blue color that displays 10 organization logos listed from left to right: ZELLERBACH Family Foundation, GRANTS FOR THE ARTS, URBAN JAZZ DANCE COMPANY, Glide Memorial Church, KENNETH RAININ Foundation, INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS, Hamilton Families, DeafHope, FLEISHHACKER FOUNDATION, FORD Foundation, and San Francisco Arts Commission.

Closing Slide 2: Within a gray background appears yellow text: “Vlog produced by Urban Jazz Dance Company Access Services. Vlogger: April Scott.” To the right is the Urban Jazz Dance Company logo featuring Antoine Hunter, Purple Fire Crow posing in a passe releve, with his head facing his raised left arm in a right angle. His right arm is out in a high V. To the right of Antoine in bold black text: “URBAN JAZZ” and regular black text, “DANCE COMPANY.” Beneath the text and right of the pose are shades of purple and gold in a half moon shape. 

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