Artistic Director’s Notes: It is a great privilege to share this work, The People’s Palace, with you. The process for getting here has been extremely complex and challenging, but with the creative brilliance of an exceptional artistic team and the gracious support of City Hall staff, we have finally brought this installation to life. I extend my heartfelt gratitude to my dear friend Wayne Hazzard, whose 40-year loving friendship and unwavering belief in this project provided the wind under my sails. “…we have to understand that imagination shapes the world and so those of us who have been oppressed by how others imagine the world, the supremacists, the patriarchs, the war mongers, the capitalists, we have to imagine something so compelling that it moves us beyond and out of the compliance with our own entrapment in these systems that do not love us.” adrienne maree brown The phrase The People’s Palace was coined by Mayor “Sunny Jim” Rolph who, in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake, envisioned a magnificent new building that would restore a sense of
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