"As Ming-Trent, who is Black, puts it, America tried to take my life, and somehow a five-hundred-year-old white dude saved it. In the 95-minute performance directed by former Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone, Ming-Trent recounts his eventful and occasionally tragic childhood that left him exiting a Greyhound bus in New York City's Port Authority at age 17 with his mind set on becoming an actor."
"Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was a pioneering conceptual artist and writer born in South Korea, who became well-known in the avant-garde circles of 1970s-'80s San Francisco and New York. For the first time in 25 years Cha's work is getting a just-opened major retrospective, which runs until April 19 at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, where she once worked (back when it was the University Art Museum) as an art handler and film usher."
Jacob Ming-Trent's one-act solo show How Shakespeare Saved My Life premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, directed by Tony Taccone. Ming-Trent, who is Black, recounts an eventful and occasionally tragic childhood, noting that 'America tried to take my life, and somehow a five-hundred-year-old white dude saved it.' The 95-minute performance traces his journey from exiting a Greyhound bus at New York City's Port Authority at age 17 to pursuing acting, and links Shakespearean language to influences like Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive opened Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings, a retrospective of the pioneering conceptual artist and writer returning to the institution where she once worked.
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