From May 7-11, 2013, Chabot College Theater Arts Presented Emerging Works, an 18 year tradition where students share original plays.

Rachel LaPell, the host of Emerging Works introduced each play and recognized each play writer to the audience.

The show opened with “Cooking” by Tristan Stevenin, which was directed by Robert Christopher. The story follows Tony (Tristan Stevenin), a new hired cook faced with trials with his new job. He is faced with his co-workers initiation process, dealing with his controlling boss, while also falling in love with a fellow employee.

“My favorite part of the play was Cooking’ says, Peter Sayaseng. “I thought it was hilarious, the actors did a great job interacting with each other.”

The second act was a reading written by Andrew Domingues and directed by Rachel LePell. The reading focuses on the character Lorenzo, who is dealt with struggles in his life such as drugs, gangs, family, etc. The students stood on stage while expressing their lines to the crowd.

“Bittersweet” was written by Evan Lopez, and directed by Marc Dellamorte. The story revolves around a family struggling to keep their hope as they wait at the hospital to hear whether or not their son survived from a fatal gun shot wound.

“Tina”, was written and directed by Vince Ogden. The story follows two couples experimenting with drugs and it’s horrible consequences in what resulted as a suicide.

The last act was “Lady Lion and the Lot Lizard” written and directed by Reina Medina Boone. The story follows Lady Lion (Marissa Flores) a truck driver who stumbles upon Rhoda, (Destiny M. Montenegro) a 15-year-old pregnant girl. Along the way, Rhoda gives birth and decides to leave her baby with Lady Lion and Grey Goose (Johnna Joy Murch), a fellow truck driver. Leaving Lady Lion to decided whether to adopt the baby or put it up for adoption.

“You go in and your nervous and other times you go in and you kill it and I think tonight everybody got it and got the work done and killed it”, says DeSean Smith ,who played Big V in Tina.

After the show, the audience had the opportunity to discuss and ask questions  with the writers about their work.

From April 12-13, 2013, Acquired the Fire was held at Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento, Calif.

Doors opened Friday night where the session started off with praise and worship by ATF Live. The band performed several songs, which included the ATF’s theme song “You Won’t Relent”.

“My favorite performance by ATF Live was ‘Open their Eyes,’” says Jaenie Bello. “The song made me realize how there’s so much happening in the world, and how we’re blinded from seeing any of it.”

Mike Guzzardo, the host of ATF spoke throughout the youth conference. His first session topic was the pursuit of life. Guzzardo discussed how the media and social networks motivate this generation. He believes that this generation is running towards the wrong aspects of life. He concluded the first session by expressing no matter what we are in constant pursuit of other things, God will always be at a constant pursuit toward our hearts and lives.

“I found his sessions to be interesting and inspirational,” Jose Miguel Valenzuela says. “The topics he spoke about were thought provoking; it caused me to reflect on how I was living my life and how I will be after his sessions were over.”

The second day started early, as many youth lined up outside the doors of Sleep Train Arena at 7 a.m.

ATF Live once again opened up with their songs and throughout the day showcased an ongoing play about what it means to be a servant of God.

Mike Guzzardo’s second session titled “Friends or Faux” went into detail about how the qualities of friendship can affect your spiritual growth and faith in God.

In the afternoon the bands Rapture Ruckus, Hyland and Hawk Nelson performed their new and popular songs. Throughout every performance many of the youth from the sold out crowd rushed down towards the stage in excitement. Each band that performed at Acquire the Fire had booths where youth got the chance to meet with the band members.  A merchandise stand was also there selling the bands latest CD’s and apparel.

The closing moments of the conference ended with Mike Guzzardo’s last session. Guzzardo talked about the importance of having courage as a strong Christian to reach out to those who are alone and in need.

ATF Live then performed their last set of songs where they had an alter call for those who wanted to open their heart to God.  Many youth were in tears of happiness leaving the arena as they felt the Holy Spirit of God.

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On Thursday, March 21, 2013, the Chabot Art program held their annual Chabot Public Art Open House where everyone was welcome to check out beautiful works of art that was around the Chabot campus. Continue Reading

We’ve came along way since the days of The Flintstones, our new modern prehistoric family is now The Croods.

From DreamWorks Animation studio brings us The Croods, a typical family with a celebrity cast voicing over such as Nicolas Cage as Grug the father, Emma Stone as Eep and Ryan Reynolds as the corky lovable Guy. Continue Reading

 

The 6^th Annual Disposable Film Festival kicked off its world tour when it opened at the historic Castro Theatre on March 21, 2013 in San Francisco with attendees from as far away as France and the Netherlands. Continue Reading

On Friday March 22, 2013, the Golden State Warriors and Lucky Supermarket hosted a fan fest tent event and food drive at the Marina Village Lucky Supermarket in Alameda.

By going to the Alameda Lucky Supermarket and purchasing of a $5 bag of canned goods that will be donated to the Alameda County Community Food Bank, Warriors’ fans had the opportunity to go to the fan fest tent event and meet two Warriors players.

Many Warriors fans attended, as a long line of people waited with their $5 bag of donated goods until they were allowed inside. Fans got to meet and greet forward Carl Landry, the first hour of the event and guard Jarrett Jack in the second hour. A few of the Warrior Girls were on hand as well.

Those who attended were treated with free bratwurst, and live entertainment and music , with Warriors Franco Finn, the Warriors hype man and 99.7 FM. Throughout the event, fans got a chance to win Warrior merchandise through a raffle and win prizes through a roulette wheel. Fans also got to participate in an Oreo cookie stacking contest as well.

As the event was winding down, Jarrett Jack and Tom Morris, store manager of the Alameda Lucky Supermarket presented a large check worth $2,000 to Suzan W. Bateson, the representative and Executive Director of the Alameda County Community Food Bank.

 

On Friday, March 15, 2013, the Oakland Museum of California premiered it’s newest art exhibit “Summoning Ghosts” by Hung Liu. Continue Reading

KCRH 89.9FM’s “Into the Pit” had their metal night and played to a packed crowd at the historic Gilman located at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley on March 8, 2013. Continue Reading

On March 6, 2013, Chabot College Wind Ensemble hosted a concert with a special guest ensemble from the Castro Valley High School Symphonic Band where students and parents alike came to watch this event. The concert was very entertaining and fun event to attend. Continue Reading