A community benefit concert for Power to the Dreamers and Friends of Noise ft. Samuel Eisen-Meyers & The Joyful Noise, Edna Vazquez, and special guest performances by Sarah Brahim and Mia O'Connor-Smith

Sponsored by XRAY.FM

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Power to the Dreamers (formerly We the Dreamers) organizes creative spaces for undocumented people to share their experiences and foster outlets for dialogue, healing, and understanding within undocumented and documented communities.

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Friends of Noise Friends of Noise seeks to foster healing and growth for the creative youth in our community via the arts by hosting professional development workshops and inclusive all age concerts that provide live performance opportunities for youth artist and hands on experience for emerging youth sound engineers.

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Artists:

Samuel Eisen-Meyers & The Joyful Noise
http://samuelem.com/

Edna Vazquez
http://ednavazquez.com/

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Sarah Brahim

Sarah Brahim is a movement artist passionate about creating meaningful work with artists of varying mediums. She grew up studying, choreographing, performing, and teaching jazz, contemporary, ballet, and tap. She studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and in 2016 she graduated from London Contemporary Dance School. Currently she is producing and creating work on the themes of culture, identity, borders, belonging, language, loss, and home.

Mia O'Connor-Smith

Mia O'Connor-Smith is a multidisciplinary experimental artist, born & currently based in Portland, Oregon. She started an arts platform known as DUG/ Deep Underground that expanded her creative community, experience and the need for more ways to express. Mia currently teaches & takes dance classes, performs and collaborates with family like The Sun Ra Arkestra, Brown Calculus, Omari Jazz, Akela Jaffi, Alexandria Saleem, Uriah Boyd, The Ah Ra Dance Ensemble, Rejoice!, SebeKan and more to come.