July 19, 2015, Sunday - Home Street Home Minneapolis at the Guthrie

Time:  7:00pm

Location:  The Guthrie, Dowling Studio, 818 S 2nd Street

St. Stephen's Human Services and the Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association present
Home Street Home Minneapolis
written by the zAmya Theater Troupe with playwright Josef Evans
directed by Maren Ward

Discussion to follow performance

Downtown 2025 is a plan to increase livability in Downtown Minneapolis including goals to add 35,000 more residential units, redesign Nicollet Mall, build a new Vikings stadium and end street homelessness. In service of this goal, zAmya Theater Project of St. Stephen's Human Services partnered with the Downtown 2025 Committee to End Street Homelessness to interview people who live, work, play and pray downtown about how homelessness affects their lives. These interviews inspired Home Street Home Minneapolis -- a play about home and homelessness downtown.

Meet street musician Zeke Cooper at the Done (being homeless) Brothers Coffee Shop for a tour around the heart of the city, eavesdropping on Security Guards in the Skyway, church-goers at a downtown church, residents in family shelters, people who live on the street and in luxury condos and Mayor Linda Carter. Listen in as characters share experiences and change each other's lives. Presented in zAmya's signature style blending original music, comedy and ... the truth!

The zAmya Theater Project is a program of St. Stephen's Human Services and is in its 11th year as a company devoted to ending homelessness through the tools of community-based theater making. Our productions are created and performed by a troupe of actors who've experienced homelessness including a professional comedian, a jazz singer, and an award-winning visual artist. Led by Maren Ward, co-founder of Bedlam Theatre, zAmya has produced over a dozen full-length and many short productions -- enlightening, educating and entertaining audiences all over the Twin Cities and beyond.

This presentation is sponsored by the Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association. DMNA supports programs working to end people's homelessness in downtown Minneapolis.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

The tickets are free and available at the Guthrie Box Office.  Please join us!  There are only 200 tickets available and we hope they go quickly.  Please tell your friends and neighbors!