Arnetta is a graduate of San Francisco State University (SFSU), where she received her M.A in Ethnic Studies with an emphasis in Black queer media. She focused mainly on queer communities of color and media after she found a dearth of resources and research that explored, explained, or analyzed their experiences and cultural representations. Arnetta also studied film at Berkeley City College and received and completed a filmmaking fellowship through the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project. There, she found her love for editing. Since then, she has created several short film projects and was featured in an 2012 East Bay Express Article (2012) to discuss her web series project Dyke Central which has been shown at Queer Women of Color Film Festival, Frameline, and other festivals throughout California. She also received a nomination for Best Short at the Spectrum Queer Media festival for her short film, “Triggered” (2013), which explored domestic violence in a lesbian relationship.
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Chauncey is a recent 2015 graduate of San Francisco State University, where she received her B.A. in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in Performance and Play Development. Her first fully written play, “Warped Love Stories” was chosen to premier in the SFSU FALL 2014 Fringe Festival. In the summer of 2015 she stage managed for the Bread and Butter Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's 'As You Like It,’ and assistant stage managed for Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company’s world premiere of CRANE by “How to Get Away With Murder” writer and co-producer JC Lee. In October 2015 she directed the staged reading of "I'm Here, I'm Queer, and I'm Hungry" for the Fringe Goes Long Festival in San Francisco at PianoFight in the Bay area. Chauncey is currently on the editorial board of the international news publication People’s World. Her job description includes being the head of the Social Media department along with being a regular staff writer. When Chauncey isn’t working full time for People’s World she is a writer and producer for The Fallen Production Company and co-host of the radio/podcast The Black Geeks. She believes that art and creativity, in any capacity, should help to reflect the world around us, and be one of the tools to help bring about progressive change. Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, where she spent her high school years at Arts High- a performing arts academy, and graduated second in her class, she has a strong belief in people power. She seeks to make sure that topics that affect working class people, peoples of color, and women are constantly in the spotlight and part of the discussion. Chauncey has a love for writing, directing, content creation, and overall great art that pushes people to think and grow.
Writer, Director, Producer
Arnetta Smith
Producer, Co-Director
Chauncey K. Robinson
Choreographer
Dezi Soley
Dezi Solèy is a prismatic artist dedicated to co-creating uplifting embodiments of ancestral freedom dreams through explorations in spoken word, images & movement. While earning her Bachelor of Arts in Cultural & Regional Studies, Dezi also studied Modern and Improvisational Dance, receiving a Minor in Performing Arts from Prescott College ('13). Since being in the Bay Area Dezi has trained and performed with folkloric Haitian dance companies El Wah Movement and Fal Lakay, and was a member of the South African company Jikelele Dance Theater, with whom she performed in the 2015 SF Ethnic Dance Festival. In addition, Dezi performed two original solo works in the 2014 NQAF and has appeared in numerous ensemble pieces, music videos, commercials & short films since. She currently works as a model & actor (represented by Stars Model Management) and is Project Coordinator for Balance Edutainment, while she continues to create new interdisciplinary offerings. When she is not in front of the camera, in the studio or on stage, Dezi can be found chasing the sun, honoring the Divine Feminine and femmifesting her dreams.
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