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Please feel free to contact Ariel to discuss your particular needs and work out a custom proposal to meet your goals, timetable, and financial situation. skylight@arielluckey.com
Performances/Keynotes  • Workshops • Consulting • Residencies
Performances/Keynotes:
Free Land
Free Land is a dynamic hip hop theater solo show written and performed by Ariel Luckey, directed by Margo Hall and scored by Ryan Luckey. The show follows a young white man’s search for his roots as it takes him from the streets of Oakland to the prairies of Wyoming on an unforgettable journey into the heart of American history. During an interview with his grandfather he learns that their beloved family ranch was actually a Homestead, a free land grant from the government. Haunted by the past, he’s compelled to dig deeper into the history of the land, only to come face to face with the legacy of theft and genocide in the Wild Wild West. Caught between the romantic cowboy tales of his childhood and the devastating reality of what he learns, he grapples with the contradictions in his own life and the possibility for justice and reconciliation. Free Land weaves spoken word poetry, acting, dance and hip hop music into a compelling performance that challenges us to take an unflinching look at the truth buried in the land beneath our feet. www.freelandproject.com
ID Check and Other Poetic Prophecies
Ariel Luckey’s original performance poetry takes you on a journey through love, land, global warming, history, fatherhood, the war in Iraq, relationships, race, spiritual seeking and beyond. His words dance in the crossroads of politics and prayer, ritual and rhythm, where language gives light to live by.
Soul City Skylights Hip Hop Music
With producer and pianist Ryan Luckey, Ariel co-founded the Luckey Brothers and created Soul City Skylights, their first full-length album. Guaranteed to rock a party, club, rally or conference, The Luckey Brothers raise electric lyrics and soulful piano over bumping beats blending party, politics and prayer in holistic hip hop music.
Free Land: Race and Land in America
This provocative keynote starts with an excerpt of Free Land and then reveals the historical and political context in which Free Land occurs. In an articulate and accessible multi-media presentation, Ariel provides background information on the Homestead Act, post-Slavery Reconstruction programs, and the Indian Wars, illustrating how racially discriminatory federal land policies in the 1860s directly established the patterns of land ownership present today. In addition, Ariel offers historical information about the specific location of the keynote address, be it a school campus, conference venue, or community center, challenging audience members to engage with the history of the very land on which they stand. Drawing on lessons from the past, Ariel raises critical questions for our present and future, calling on each of us to grapple with who we are, who we stand with, and what we stand for. This keynote masterfully synthesizes personal experience, family story, and historical context to highlight the connections between race, class, and land in America.
All performances and keynotes can be modified to meet your specific needs.
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Workshops
Free Land: Exposing White Privilege and the Theft of Native Land through Hip Hop Theater
Do you live on stolen Native American land? Did your ancestors Homestead? Do you know the history of the land you live on? Through interactive games, music, theater exercises and group discussions, we will explore our family histories and cultural narratives about who we are, where we live and how we got here. Tracking our families’ footprints across the land and the history of US colonialism and westward expansion, we will examine how they impact where we stand and who we stand with today. We will draw on the lessons and inspiration of our family stories to guide and inform our community activism and to build strategic alliances for social and environmental justice.
Poetry for People Power: The Pen, The Mic and The Movement
This powerful writing and performance workshop offers participants a unique opportunity to develop their voice through interactive writing exercises, group feedback and practice performances. Based on June Jordan’s celebrated Poetry for the People model, this workshop helps participants learn how to craft their poetry into articulate declarations of artistic and community empowerment.
Acting Out Change: Theatre of the Oppressed for Collective Liberation
Based on Brazilian educator and actor Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed world-renowned techniques, this workshop gets participants on their feet, moving around and engaging in dialogue about critical community issues. Starting with a series of games and activities, participants will gain skills in physical expression, reflection and group communication while developing a new theatrical vocabulary. Utilizing Image Theatre, Forum Theatre and Rainbow of Desire techniques, this workshop can build towards creating an ensemble performance piece that invites its audience to step on stage and participate in the acting/action for collective change.
ToxiCity: Art and Organizing for Environmental Justice (Part One)
Do you live in Toxic City? Are you drinking New World Water? From global warming to Katrina, water privatization to poverty, complex social and ecological currents boil within the world’s water issues. Through interactive games, music, discussions and activities, we will navigate the terrain of race, class, gender, water and health to take action and build alliances for social and environmental justice.
New World Water: Art and Organizing for Environmental Justice (Part Two)
Do you live in Toxic City? Are you drinking New World Water? From global warming to Katrina, water privatization to poverty, complex social and ecological currents boil within the world’s water issues. Through interactive games, music, discussions and activities, we will navigate the terrain of race, class, gender, water and health to take action and build alliances for social and environmental justice.
All workshops can be modified to meet your specific needs.
-Workshops can range from:
• 50 minutes to 2.5 hours
• small to large groups
• Junior High to University levels.
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Consulting
Drawing on years of direct experience in social and environmental justice movements, Ariel offers consulting, coaching, trainings, and workshops to increase individual and organizational capacity to challenge oppression and work for community liberation. Based on the New Bridges/TODOS model and his own innovative programming, Ariel facilitates groups through experiential processes that offer effective techniques, skills, and concepts to challenge racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, adultism and other forms of oppression in our personal and professional lives. Ariel often works in collaboration with other leaders from his diverse and dynamic community of facilitators and trainers. He brings passion and commitment to individuals and community groups ready to take action and build alliances for social and environmental justice. *top of page
Residencies
Free Land: Family Stories, Common Ground
This highly interactive and rewarding residency guides participants through a creative process parallel to the creation process of Free Land: gathering powerful stories from our family histories, learning the broader social and political context in which they occurred, making the connections to the land we live on and creating original performance pieces that weave it all together. Through interactive creative writing exercises, theater activities, games, group discussions, and performance workshops, we will craft our personal stories into hip hop theater performances that gives voice to who we are, where we stand and who we stand with.
All residencies can be modified to meet your specific needs.
-Residencies can range from:
• 1 day to 2 weeks
• small to large groups
• Junior High to Adult
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Please feel free to contact Ariel to discuss your particular needs and work out a custom proposal to meet your goals, timetable, and financial situation. skylight@arielluckey.com
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