FRIDAY, AUG. 1 at 7:30 P.M.

We’re All We Need: Theatre at Pelican Bay Documentary Premiere

Carlo Theatre (Dell’Arte)

Dell’Arte International is proud to premiere “We’re All We Need: Theatre at Pelican Bay”, a new documentary created in partnership with Malcolm DeSoto showcasing students of Dell’Arte’s long-running Prison Arts Theatre Program at Pelican Bay State Prison.

For nearly ten years, Dell’Arte has worked with incarcerated individuals at Pelican Bay State Prison through its Prison Arts Theatre Program, offering in-person classes, workshops, and performance exchange events that foster self-expression, belonging, and personal growth through ensemble generated creation. The documentary focuses on some of those participants and gives voice to their experiences working together in the creative space to create a show called “The Variety Pack”, performed for an invited audience, and their perspectives on the humanizing impact of artistic expression.

A discussion will follow the film with an opportunity to have your thoughts shared with the participants featured in the film via written feedback. Zines created by program participants featuring their written work (poetry, monologues, and musings) will also be available for purchase as a fundraiser with all proceeds donated to the Pacific Redwoods Missing and Murdered Indigenous People’s Crisis Action fund on their behalf.

Pictured here are program participants (L to R): Gus, Dana, Joaquin, PRC, and Armando

DATES/TIMES

• Friday, Aug. 1 : 7:30-9 p.m.

WHERE

• Carlo Theatre (Dell’Arte)

PRICE

• $15