Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff
The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (SFSYO) and its Music Director Donato Cabrera, host the sixth Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival (BAYOF) at Davies Symphony Hall.
The El Camino Youth Symphony, Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra, Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Young People’s Symphony Orchestra join the SFS Youth Orchestra in a benefit concert for underserved youth. Each of the ensembles takes a turn performing on the stage, showcasing five of the Bay Area’s most prominent youth orchestras, 500 young musicians in total. The concert concludes with a piece by the “Festival Orchestra” made up of selected musicians from all five ensembles and led by Festival Orchestra Director Alasdair Neale.
On Sunday, January 17 at 3 p.m. Tickets: $70 reserved seating, $25 general admission, half price for 17 and under in general admission only.
Tickets are available at sfsymphony.org, by phone at 415-864-6000, and at the Davies Symphony Hall Box Office, on Grove Street between Van Ness Avenue and Franklin Street in San Francisco.
Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo
Starring Ric Salinas of Culture Clash
A Richmond Premiere
PLACAS: The Most Dangerous Tattoo, the celebrated play by Paul S. Flores, will make its Richmond debut on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016. Performances take place at East Bay Center for the Performing Arts Iron Triangle Theater.
Directed by the Latino Theater Company’s Fidel Gómez, PLACAS (barrio slang for body tattoos) is a bilingual tale of fathers and sons, transformation and redemption that illuminates one man’s determination to reunite his family after surviving civil war in El Salvador, immigration, deportation, prison and street violence. PLACAS stars Ric Salinas, a founding member of the critically acclaimed performance group Culture Clash, as Fausto “Placas” Carbajal, a Salvadoran immigrant who tries to reclaim his family while letting go of his gangbanger past.
Flores interviewed more than 100 gang members, parents and intervention workers in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and El Salvador to develop material for the script.
Salinas’ role of Fausto is loosely based on the experiences of ex-gang member Alex Sánchez, founder of the Los Angeles-based violence prevention non-profit Homies Unidos.
Starring Ricardo Salinas, with Zilah Mendoza, Xavi Moreno, Sarita Ocón, Eric Aviles, Emiliano Torres, Edgar Barboza
Thursday-Sunday January 21-24, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, 339 11th St, Richmond, California 94801, $15 in advance; $15 at the door ($5 off discount for students and groups). For info call 510-234-5624, 415-399-9554 or visit www.placas.org.
