EMME YA: EXPEDITION
Winner
2 WAVE Awards / ACM West
for Best Film and Best Experimental Production
Winner
Nominated
PREMIERED IN 2022
LIVE Performances and via Zoom Webinar
7:30pm – 8:30pm
Friday, November 18
Saturday, November 19
- Film Premiere of EMME YA: Expedition
- Fundraiser for our new space in Downtown SF
- All ages welcome to the webinar and postshow Q&A
Directed and Conceived by Raissa Simpson
Film and Editing by Jabreel Green
Soundscape and Music Composition by jamil nasim
Camera: Anthony Green and David Flores
Artists: Jeremy Brooks Ashley Gayle, Erik Raymond Lee, Terrence Paschal, Patrick Secrease, Ameia Smith, Danielle Smith
TUNNEL • PARK • SANTA CRUZ • OCEAN BEACH
STORYLINE
About EMME YA (256=11×23 E.Q) / EXPEDITION
We find ourselves at the final expedition for our weary Afronauts who have traveled light years to find EMME YA, the black planet. In the African Dogon tribe of Mali, EMME YA is a black planet with two suns in the Sirius binary star-system. No one knows where the mysterious Dogon people’s cosmology and mathematics came from but one thing is true, they had prescient knowledge of our solar and planetary star system. The expedition began in San Francisco’s SOMA and Mission Districts and later went on to Santa Cruz, Ca. This final performance sends our Earthlings back to their ancestral home and on to new and undiscovered Black futurity.
DEBUT
at 447 Minna Street between 5th & 6th Streets
August 21 & 22, 2021
TOUR
SF Bay Area Theater Company’s New Roots Festival 2022
UC Santa Cruz SURGE Festival 2022
FILM
EMME YA: The Final Expedition
November 18 & 19, 2022
