Rights of Passage: July 17th benefit unites one fabulous performer with two fabulous organizations

Thursday, July 10, 2008

July 17th benefit unites one fabulous performer with two fabulous organizations

Connie Champagne brings her astonishing vocal talents to the music made famous by the great Dusty Springfield, a perfect pairing of singer and songs. The July 17th performance is a benefit for the Camp Sister Spirit Folk School in southern Mississippi, that we've written about before on this blog, and Shanti LIFELINES Breast Cancer Program. Tickets for this performance only are pay-what-you-wish, but dig deep for these two wonderful organizations.

Audiences who only know the effervescent Ms. Champagne as an interpreter of Judy Garland will discover a new brand of bubbly in Brand New Me-Connie Champagne sings the Dusty Springfield Songbook. The show is directed by F. Allen Sawyer with musical direction by Joe Collins.

The show is at the New Conservatory Theatre Center, 25 Van Ness Ave., Lower Lobby, San Francisco. Pay-what-you-wish tickets are only available at the New Conservatory box office one hour prior to the performance on a first-come first-served basis.

To learn more about Camp Sister Spirit, vist their website at:
http://www.campsisterspirit.com/

To learn more about Shanti LIFELINES visit: http://www.shanti.org/breastcancer_index.html

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What is Rights of Passage?

Rights of Passage is a new play about courage and love. About people all over the world who want to be who they are and why that simple concept is not always so simple to make real. The play is both personal and universal as it illuminates the lives of LGBT people from different cultures and backgrounds. The storytelling style of the play is based on the ageless performance techniques found on the Indonesian island of Bali; these same theatrical techniques, in somewhat different forms, also represent cultures throughout the world. Monologues, scenes, puppetry, masks, and dance will bring the play’s stories to life. Rights of Passage has been developed through extensive research, hundreds of interviews, and the unyielding support of LGBT citizens and activists around the world. Rights of Passage will have its world premiere at The New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco, beginning its run on August 17, 2012.

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Project Background

In the summer of 2007 we began our research for Rights of Passage, a new play project for The New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco http://www.nctcsf.org/. At the same time, The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) http://www.iglhrc.org/ in New York enthusiastically offered their support to the development of the play. Their assistance ignited our relationships with the vast international LGBT human rights network . ILGHRC continues as a primary guiding force for Rights of Passage, as does the work of Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/ and Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/

The themes in Rights of Passage are based upon the Yogyakarta Principles http://www.yogyakartaprinciples.org/ a set of international principles relating to sexual orientation and gender identity. This document is a universal guide to human rights which affirm binding international legal standards with which all States must comply. They promise a different future where all people born free and equal in dignity and rights can fulfill that precious birthright.

Thanks to the power of the internet we are able to reach out to LGBT organizations, individuals, and our allies around the globe. We have also traveled traveled througout the US, Europe, Canada, Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia conducting research for the play. Our future travel plans will take us to the Middle East, Africa, China, South America and the Ukraine.

Rights of Passage is supported in part by The James Hormel Small Change Foundation and the generosity of individual donors world wide. We welcome new sponsors at http://www.nctcsf.org/donation