Audition!
Rise Up And Shout, a cultural activism project, needs your voice. Are you a young LGBT artist with something to say? A poet screaming for justice? A dancer moving for greater equality? A filmmaker showing the beauty and special gifts that gay people have to give? We need you. Rise Up And Shout brings together young LGBT artists with community elders to create an original dialog: a series of workshops, rehearsals and one-one meetings that results in a unique performance event, a voices of our youth to the community, a welcoming and blessing of the gifts of the next generation. This year’s event is scheduled for March 16, 2013. We need to meet you now, to start the dialog, to begin building the kind of community we want to live in, and to help put your voice out into a world that badly needs it.
Interested? Angry? Creative? Revolutionary?
Set up an audition by filling out our contact form using the category of "Auditions" or calling 323-848-7372.
What We are About
Rise Up And Shout! empowers gay and lesbian youth. Bridging the generation gap between the gay elders leading the community and the gay youth struggling through the coming out process, Rise Up And Shout! brings the two groups together in a year-long mentoring relationship. Through this process, the youth find, develop and finally showcase their unique voices in a performance event.
Rise Up And Shout! began in 2006 when Don Kilhefner, co-founder of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, and Mark Thompson, former editor of The Advocate sat down together to try and figure out a way to reach the thousands of gay and lesbian youth in area schools, many of whom had no contact with the larger gay community. Kilhefner and Thompson put together a team of activists, artists and other leaders to reach out to the youth by bringing community directly to them. Through auditions, one-on-one and group support meetings, education, rehearsals and the production and direction of the performance itself, Rise Up And Shout! helped usher in the next generation of gay and lesbian youth.
For more information about the event please visit the Documentary or About Us page to learn more about the organizers. We will be updating the site with the latest information, but should you have any questions please don't hesitate to Contact Us.
The Barnsdall Gallery Theatre (BGT), home to Rise Up and Shout! is owned and operated by the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affair’s Community Arts Division as a low-priced rental house for live theatre, dance, music, spoken word, lecture, film and special event presentations. The BGT is located at 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, atop Olive Hill in Hollywood in the Barnsdall Art Park complex.