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SACRAMENTO'S PREMIER

BLACK
THEATER

Celebration Arts amplifies the rich tapestry of the Black experience through the transformative mediums of theater, music, and dance. Through performance and storytelling, we empower, educate, and celebrate our vibrant culture.

EARLY GIVING BEGINS APRIL 17

SUPPORT CELEBRATION ARTS ON THE BIG DAY OF GIVING

Celebration Arts amplifies the rich tapestry of the Black experience through the transformative mediums of theater, music, and dance.


Through performance and storytelling, we empower, educate, and celebrate our vibrant culture.


Your Big Day of Giving Donations help keep our spotlight bright and provide artists with an inclusive space to learn and shine!


Please open your hearts and your wallets and give now through May 2!


ON SALE NOW

TOPDOG / UNDERDOG

Written By Suzan-Lori Parks

Directed by Melinda Wilson Ramey

June 7 – 30, 2024


Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Drama and a 2023 Tony Award for Best Revival, TOPDOG / UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks will grace the Celebration Arts stage June 7 - 30, 2024.


Melinda Wilson Ramey, one of Sacramento's masterful and innovative directors, leads the production. The stellar cast of this powerful two-person play includes Conrad Crump (SWEAT at City Theater, DIRECT FROM DEATHROW THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS at Celebration Arts) and Donald Lacy III (A RAISIN IN THE SUN at Celebration Arts, DEATH OF A SALESMAN).


TOPDOG/UNDERDOG is an electrifying journey into the complexities of brotherhood and destiny. It tells the story of two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, names given to them as a joke by their father. They are haunted by their past and an obsession with the street con game three-card monte.


Audiences will be thrust into a riveting tale of sibling rivalry, survival, betrayal, and identity. Don't miss out. Secure your tickets now!


ON VIEW

BLACK GIRL MAGIC

ART EXHIBITION

We are incredibly excited to announce a collab with BLACK ARTIST FOUNDRY to bring the BLACK GIRL MAGIC ART EXHIBITION to the community!

For the 2024 Season of Black Girl Magic, our walls have been transformed into an art gallery, and patrons will experience awe-inspiring works from 11 talented Black women artists who call Sacramento home.

We thank
Abayomi Brownfield, Aliyah Sidqe, Beth Consetta Rubel, Michaela Stewart, Nataki Owino, Noelle Tavares, Nia Brown, Omonivie Okhade, Shani Zuberi, Shawntay Gorman, and Tasha Nichole King for sharing their works in a celebration of the Black woman in beauty, strength and complexity.

Stay tuned for more info about the artists and upcoming special events.

In the meantime, grab your tickets for ZORA & LANGSTON and be sure to leave time to explore the gallery and your opportunity to add works for sale to your personal collection!

Image Credits:
Noelle Taveres, “Jerrod: An Ode to Solange,” 2023. Mixed media on canvas, 24”x30.”


Aliyah Sidqe, “Family Portrait,” 2022. Oil on canvas, “16x20.”


Shawntay Gorman, “Asaili Dickson,” 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 36”x36.”

SEE PROGRAM + RECAP

AALIYAH & AMIR'S AWESOME ADVENTURE

CONGRATULATIONS to the 2024 Winter KIDS' Time Companyas they took the stage for their community performance of AALIYAH & AMIR'S AWESOME ADVENTURE!


The kids were immersed in theater, music, and dance from late January through March and were so excited to bring their final performance to the community!


Thank you our KIDS' Time leaders Dr. Elaine Douglas. Mrs. Felicia Bessent, Coach Tam, our parents, volunteers, supporters and patrons!


The next KIDS' Time session begins in September! Sign up for our KIDS' Time Interest List to be the first to know when registration is open! 


2024 SEASON OF

BLACK GIRL MAGIC

JOIN US FOR OUR 2024 CELEBRATION OF BLACK WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS AND DIRECTORS!


FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE / WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF


ZORA & LANGSTON


TOPDOG / UNDERDOG


MUD, RIVER, STONE


CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY


TINKER THE TOY MAKER


Single Tickets go on sale 1/1/24. Secure your seats now by purchasing a 2024 Season/Flex Pass!


A composite graphic that reads Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun Directed by James Ellison III Dec 1 - 24, 2023. The image has an outline of the side profile of a black woman with a house and trees inside the shape.

2024 SEASON OF BLACK GIRL MAGIC SPONSORS

Come join the Celebration!

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PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY

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CA State Assemblymember Kevin McCarty logo

We acknowledge that Celebration Arts resides on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary homelands of the Nisenan and Miwok Nations. The larger Sacramento area and its rivers serve as a gathering place for many local tribes from the surrounding valley and foothills including the Nisenan, Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains Miwok, Patwin Wintun, and the Wilton Rancheria.


We advocate for Indigenous struggles against ongoing settler-colonization.We recognize and acknowledge the labor upon which our waterways, our country, our state, and our facility are built.


We acknowledge the labor inequities that built our country on the bodies of enslaved people, immigrants, migrant and incarcerated workers. We advocate for equitable quality of living conditions for all laborers.We affirm our commitment to these land and labor acknowledgements through our mission to uplift and educate stories, in particular African-American and Black stories, through our work each day.

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