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Urban Healing: Stop the Killing, Start the Healing
April 14, 2010


Urban Healing Tour 2010
A Project By Colored Ink & Yardi Entertainment, Inc.
April 2010

in this issue
:: We Need Your Help
:: Our Supporters!
:: Online Giving Opportunities

Business partners, Cassandra A. Henderson, Founder & CEO of Yardi Entertainment, Inc. (UHT Director) and Javier Reyes, Artistic Director of Colored Ink (UHT Producer)


Dear Friends,

The production of the Urban Healing Tour is well underway.  Please be sure to read the entire e-mail as there is a lot of great information provided.


Just this year we have completed principle photography for the production, we have held a dynamic day-long Actor's Retreat, completed our cast & Crew photo shoot, completed our first promotional video, and have had 3 performances of the beginning of our show in both San Francisco and the east bay!  The Urban Healing Tour Trailer and Promotional video for this project can be viewed on Vimeo by clicking below:


View Trailer            View Promo Video


ATTENTION: We are excited to officially announce to you that the Urban Healing Tour will have its San Francisco debut on Friday, May 7, 2010 at San Francisco General Hospital's Carr Auditorium.  The Show times will be 12:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m.


We are showing off our live stage multimedia production and looking to get feedback and support from the community.  In addition, through these performances, we are advertising our show for educational leaders (i.e., school board members, officials, principals, teachers, etcl), college administrators, coordinators, correctional facility staff/directors, and other organizational and community base organizational leaders and institutions who may be interested in partnering, sponsoring, and/or bringing our production to their organizations.


This, by far, has been Colored Ink's most dynamic cast and production team yet.  We are excited to show the community the type of talent we have assembled to artistically tackle a topic as sensitive as gun violence.


If you are interested in attending a performance, please let us now ASAP so that we can reserve your seat.  SEATING IS LIMITED.  Thank you again, and we look forward to seeing you in the upcoming months!


Sincerely,


Javier Reyes                                                           Cassandra A. Henderson

Producer, Urban Healing Tour                                 Director, Urban Healing Tour

Artistic Director, Colored Ink                                    Founder & CEO, Yardi Entertainment, Inc.

Stage Cast

            

TOP ROW (left to right): 
Channita Pack "MIDDLE WORLD"; Christopher Borgzinner "STREET PROPHET"; Doug Corbin "STREET MAN"; Jamar Scot "STREET MAN" SECOND ROW (left to right):  Frances Moore "ELDER"; Jay Lopez "DEVON JOHNSON"; Leah Taylor "STREET WOMAN"; Marc G "ELDER" THIRD ROW (left to right):  Maria Fe Picar "MIDDLE WORLD"; Valentina Rose "STREET WOMAN"; Timal Mcken "STREET MAN" PHOTOS UNAVAILABLE FOR: Tyrus Rainer "DEVON JOHNSON"; Mike Jones, STAGE MANAGER/AD; Tenika Blue, STAGE MANAGER/AD  
We Need Your Help...
How you can be a part of the movement

As can be imagined with a production of this size seeking to tour both locally and nationally, our budget reflects the various needs of this project.  This project needs your help. 


We are looking for help in areas of production as well as financial support.  We are actively seeking investors, sponsors, "Angels" and funding to support our endeavor as well as any resources that will assist us in securing national locations/booking performance spaces, equipment for lighting, video/production, catering costumes, music, set design, construction, marketing/promotions, etc.

We are seeking volunteers to help with administrative duties, ushers, grips, projectionist, lighting operator, live performance sound mixer, and a post production video and sound editor.

Below please find other needs for our set, and our performance needs to open the show in the east bay:

Set Needs
  • 3-4 wooden cubes 3ft x 3ft
  • 3 flats 4ft x 8 ft
  • 1 small platform 1ft (h) x 4ft (w) x 4ft (l)
  • Flat Paint (no gloss preferred) orange, red, brown, green, yellow, black, white
  • Spray Paint (varlous colors i.e. purple, pink, orange, yellow lime green)
Performace Needs
  • Theatre with seating (in exchange for split proceeds
  • Lighting grid
  • 2 lighting trees
  • Signage (i.e., posters, playbills, postcard fliers, Step & Repeat)
  • Red Carpet (6x13 or around this size)
  • Velvet Rope and stands (13+ft)
  • Black Curtains
  • 8 Walkie Talkies
  • 6-10 C-Stands
  • 4 Fog Machines & Liquid
We welcome all support gracefully and gratefully and sincerely hope to add you to our list of supporters, collaborators and sponsors.

URBAN HEALING TOUR SUPPORTERS:
Current partners, collaborators, and sponsosrs











 
Online Giving
How to make an online donation to the Urban Healing Tour...



If you would like to give a monetary donation to the Urban Healing Tour, please feel free to pay by check or online by clicking the "Donate Now" button below.



Please be sure that ALL donations:

1. Are made payable to "INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS" (Intersection for the Arts is the 501c3 Fiscal Sponsor for Colored Ink, the producing company of the Urban Healing Tour. All donations to this project are tax deductible)

2. Specify that your gift is for COLORED INK (Please specify this on the "memo/for" line on your check or on the drop down menu online to ensure that your funds are used for this production and NOT the Intersection general fund).
 
For more information on Intersection for the Arts please visit: www.theintersection.org

Thank you for taking the time to read, respond, support us and donate your time, talents and/or treasures.  We wish the best success to you in all of your endeavors and are eager to support you in as many ways as we can.




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