Climbing PoeTree Presents HURRICAN SEASON At Passage Theatre

Passage Theatre Company will present Alixa and Naima, the groundbreaking Brooklyn-based arts duo known as Climbing PoeTree, in their two-woman show Hurricane Season: the hidden messages in water as part of the 8th Annual Solo Flights Festival for two performances, Thursday, March 25 at 8:00 pm and on Friday, March 26 at 8:00 pm.

With Hurricane Season, One of the first of its kind, this partnership known as Greening: Common Connections, Growing Community, was created to raise awareness about the natural treasures found in New Jersey's urban, suburban and rural areas - and the essential role that communities play in protecting them. By presenting a series of entertaining and educational events we hope to inspire individuals to take action to preserve our fragile environment.

Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, video projection, dance, shadow art, and a sound collage of personal testimonies, Hurricane Season connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the "unnatural disasters" disenfranchised communities are experiencing nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis. Hurricane Season tackles global warming, environmental injustice, policing, prisons, militarization, corporate domination, gentrification, and displacement as they manifest from one gulf to another, with a powerful tale of resistance, resilience, creativity and survival. Rhythmic and uplifting, revealing and deeply moving, Hurricane Season seeks not to captivate audiences, but to liberate them.

Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman have catalyzed over 500 crowds in more than 70 cities from Oakland to Atlanta, Johannesburg to Havana with artists such as Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Danny Glover, The Last Poets, and Dead Prez, traveling in a vegetable-powered car, with a set built of renewable and sustainable materials, and printing on recycled content with vegetable-based ink.

Passage Theatre performs in the historic Mill Hill Playhouse an intimate 100-seat theater in the heart of downtown Trenton adjacent to the beautiful Mill Hill district. Security-guarded on-street parking is available on S. Montgomery St., Ernie Kovacs St., E. Front Street and in the Artworks parking lot.

Tickets for Hurricane Season are $30 for general admission and $10 for students. To reserve tickets, please call (609) 392-0766 or visit online at www.passagetheatre.org

Tickets can also be purchased at the Passage Theatre Office: 219 East Hanover Street in Trenton, Monday through Friday from 10:30am -5:30 pm or at the box office, one hour before each performance at the Mill Hill Playhouse.

For over 20 years, Passage Theatre has developed and showcased new work by emerging and established playwrights. As a key participant in the revitalization of urban Trenton, Passage presents outstanding plays that celebrate experiences common to all and transcend culture and race.

Passage Theatre's mainstage season is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; the Princeton Area Community Foundation; The Bunbury Company; The Times of Trenton; Trenton Marriott at Lafayette Yard; the City of Trenton, Department of Recreation, Natural Resources and Culture; WIMG 1300; Curtis McGraw Foundation; Rose and Louis H. Linowitz Charitable Foundation; The James Kerney Foundation; PNC Bank; and The Garfield Foundation.

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