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This week on Open Air, KALW’s radio magazine for the Bay Area Performing Arts in Times of Corona, host David Latulippe catches up with actor, director, Artistic Director of the African-American Shakespeare Company - and now also playwright, L. Peter Callender (pictured), and discusses his recent and upcoming theatrical activities. Plus, Peter Robinson reflects on the passing of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Bay Area theater phenomenon L. Peter Callender is a native of Trinidad, West Indies. As an actor, he has worked professionally for over thirty years, after receiving his formal training at the Juilliard School in New York City; the Webber/Douglas Academy in London, England; and The Tadashi Suzuki Company in Toga-mura, Japan. Callender is an associate artist at the California Shakespeare Theater, and since 2009, has served as Artistic Director of the African-American Theater Company (AASC) in San Francisco.
District 1 OUSD Trustee Sam Davis.
There are high hopes in the community for a newly energized school board as four new members set to take office in January pledging to disentangle the multiple crises facing the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), including shuttered classrooms and COVID-19 enforced distance learning, ongoing threats of austerity-driven budget cuts and state-enforced demands to close more neighborhood schools.
This week, the Oakland Post interviews two new board members, Sam Davis and VanCedric Williams. Last week, the Post published interviews with Mike Hutchinson (D-5) and Clifford Thompson (D-7).
Davis, who represents District 1, worked as a teacher and family outreach coordinator in Oakland schools for 10 years. Originally from Queens, New York, he has lived in Oakland since 2001. He has a son in the 9
Oakland middle school band plays in Pixar s Soul
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Oakland’s connection to Pixar’s ‘Soul’
Oakland Middle School Band Helps Bring Pixar’s ‘Soul’ to Life With … Zack Pitt-Smith, the music director at Edna Brewer Middle School and Kazeem Elebute, Oakland Tech student, discuss their roles. It all started at Yoshi s in Jack London Square
OAKLAND, Calif. - Pixar s newest film, Soul, features the life of a middle school band teacher looking for his big break.
And one Oakland middle school s jazz band got its big break too, playing in this historic film.
Some members of the Edna Brewer Middle School Jazz Band played Things Ain t What They Used to Be in the film after a chance dining experience by Pixar producer Dana Murray who was eating at Yoshi s in Jack London Square.