THURSDAY LUNCHEON SPEAKER | 08-30-2018

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08/30/2018 12:10 PM 08/30/2018 01:30 PM America/Los_Angeles THURSDAY LUNCHEON SPEAKER
Sarah Crowell, Artistic Director of Destiny Arts Center
1736 Franklin Street, California Ballroom (2nd floor), Oakland, CA, 94612

Sarah Crowell, Artistic Director of Destiny Arts Center

THURSDAY LUNCHEON SPEAKER

Thursday, August 30th, 2018 - 12:10pm to 1:30pm
Sarah Crowell has worked at Destiny Arts Center since 1990 as a dance teacher, artistic director, workshop facilitator and program development director, and served as the organization’s executive director from 2002-2007.
 
Sarah has taught dance, theater and violence prevention to youth and educators locally and nationally in schools and community centers since 1990. She directed the dance program at Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco, CA for 3 years, and directed an award-winning hip-hop dance ensemble at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts in Richmond, CA for 5 years. At Destiny Sarah co-founded the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company in 1993, a troupe for teens to co-create original movement/theater productions based on their own experiences. The company now performs for over 20,000 audience members a year at conferences, festivals and other community events.
 
Sarah received 9 California Arts Council Artist in Residency grants for her work at Destiny and a National Endowment for the Arts grant to author a curriculum guide for artists working with teens called Youth on the Move: a teacher’s guidebook to co-creating original movement/theater performances with teens. Sarah is the recipient of 2006 Purple Moon DreamSpeakers award, the 2007 KPFA peace award, the 2011 KPFA Women’s History Month Local Hero award, the 2013 Bay Area Dance Week Dancer’s Choice award, and the 2015 Alameda County Arts Leadership award.  In 2016, Sarah was inducted into the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame and was a finalist for a Tony Award for Excellence in Theater Education.
Thursday
Aug 30, 2018
12:10PM to 1:30PM
1736 Franklin Street
California Ballroom (2nd floor)
Oakland, CA 94612

One block from the 19th Street BART station