FACT “Family Celebration” – featuring Daroca’s Curious Journey & Jazz Hands for Autism
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Due to overwhelming popular demand, The Strindberg Laboratory’s “Jails to Jobs Program” and FACT are proud to bring back their very popular show, Daroca’s Curious Journey, a fantastical play about a circus troupe’s madness when they arrive at a magical bus stop. The play is 30 minutes of original stories, dances, songs and plenty of mayhem! The play will be the centerpiece of FACT’s Summer Family “Celebration of Abilities” that will involve music, movement, and camaraderie, along with education and advocacy about the autism spectrum and other developmental disabilities.
To round out the event, our friends at Jazz Hands for Autism will present a rousing musical celebration of talents and abilities.
The play is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. This is the first collaboration with the TSL “Jails to Jobs program” and FACT. The show is created and performed by young autistic adults; it’s co-director and costume designer are persons who have previously been incarcerated and have turned their lives around. Come out to witness this extraordinary performance supporting a great cause that shows that people from all walks of life can work together to produce something that is worth celebrating!!
When: Saturday, August 13, 2016, 2:oopm (show starts at 3:00pm)
Where: Founders Church, 3281 W. 6th St. Los Angeles 90020
What: Re-mounting of the popular play “Duroca’s Curious Journey” along with a performance by Jazz Hands for Autism, along with an art show, food trucks, cooking demonstration, special guests, caricatures, information, camaraderie, and support for FACT’s GAP (Generating All Possibilities) Program
Why: Have fun, meet other parents and youth succeeding in lives with differing abilities, learn the latest on resources and strategies for living a full life, support the GAP program that empowers youth on the spectrum all year long.
Parking: there is street parking but we do encourage you to take the Metro to the Wilshire/Vermont station (Red and Purple lines). Show us your fare card and receive a crisp $2 bill!
About Strindberg
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The Strindberg Laboratory is a non-profit organization that offers theatre workshops as a transformative tool to cope with financial, physical, emotional and social challenges. We focus on creating professional theater productions with our local community and our theater members. This allows us to build a creative dialogue about social realities that can be shared with the greater community. Visit our website.
About FACT
FACT Family, Adult & Child Therapies is a 5013(c) non-profit organization providing individualized and affordable mental health services that support our clients throughout their entire lifespan while concurrently supporting clients to reach their full potential, develop meaningful relationships with family and friends, and be successful contributors to society. The performance features actors from the GAP Program a community integration program for young adults that helps them find employment opportunities, access higher education, live more independently and develop meaningful relationships within the community. Visit our website and join us on Facebook.
About Jazz Hands for Autism
Jazz Hands For Autism is a talent advocacy group for musicians with autism. Our mission is to provide platforms and seek avenues where musically inclined individuals on the autism spectrum can express and explore their talents. We are tirelessly working to nurture the inner musician of our students by providing them with the resources they need to with connect to an audience of people through their musical passions and talents. By doing so, our students are equipped with confidence, a sense of meaning and belonging and some friends along the way. They are also able to become contributing members of society and make a career doing what they love to do! We have 2 primary programs through which we pursue our mission: The Jazz Hands Concert Series, a Twice-A-Year year curated concert series and the Jazz Hands Musicians Academy, a vocational and integrated employment program for aspiring musicians on the autism spectrum.
For More Information and tickets, visit www.fact-daroca.eventbrite.com.
Thanks to our underwriters for this event (join the list by clicking HERE):
Linda Andron Ostrow
Kurt Swanson and Marc Haupert
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