Marketing, PR & Technology VP at LA Opera. Gender & racial balance. If you think that money trumps the environment, try holding your breath as you count it.
“We are moral agents, responsible for our decisions even if we can’t fully escape the matrix in which we make them,” @jbouie writes. “And yet so much of the conversation about the modern Republican Party assumes the opposite.” https://t.co/WycY2gm3s2
In 1807, Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar, was stolen from Senegal & sold into slavery in America. He left behind an autobiography written in Arabic.
To mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition, a thread on the remarkable story of Omar…
Very fun to do an interview in the Chinese Garden at @TheHuntington about the upcoming @LAOpera production of ON GOLD MOUNTAIN. Could there be a more beautiful spot for nature and music?
@MichaelBGowans1@Fly_Sistah@tressiemcphd It’s been a while, but I had a bank call me to verify that I had indeed written a $400 check to a Black man because he was trying to cash it. He had ID, business cards, etc. Awful.
Iconic poetry meets striking film & music in a new #LAOperaOnNow Digital Short, “We Hold These Truths.” Premiering on @laopera's Facebook and YouTube Friday, March 4, @tamar_kali and @dreamhampton bring to life the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay.
Get Out has officially hit the silver screen like never before: in DTLA's favorite gothic palace, with live musical accompaniment. Experience Jordan Peele's masterpiece of modern horror @theatre_acedtla w/us all Halloween weekend: https://t.co/xwXuEiKp9c.
📷: Paul Viapiano
It’s time to meet the haunting musical voices in "Get Out." Tia Simone and Ronald O’Hannon from the @DC6Singers are taking over our Instagram ahead of our Halloween residency at @theatre_acedtla. Tune in tomorrow as they bring you behind the scenes of this brilliant production.