Poets Underground, a San Diego-based LLC and non-profit, creates and fosters healthy inclusive communities through the arts. Their outreach programs and curated events elevate voices, spark creativity, and promote mental wellness. This spring, Poets Underground transforms the airport into a stage for storytelling and connection. The Great Poetic Baggage Exchange invites travelers to engage in conversations centered around five travel-inspired themes: Adventure, Baggage, Connection, Checkpoint, and Rise. These discussions will inspire original poems—shared with passengers as spoken word, written word, and visual poetry—creating surprising and delightful artistic encounters. Select works will be featured in culminating airport performances and compiled into an anthology, preserving these creative exchanges and the spirit of travel in poetic form.
DrumatiX, a bi-coastal creative percussion company, fuses tap dance, body percussion, and drumming with technology and clowning, to deliver dynamic, interactive shows and workshops. Through their residency moveSound, their mission is to craft inclusive art by welcoming audiences into the present moment through use of their senses and travel experience. They ultimately explore how we hear, move through, and perceive the world around us.
Like the traveling lines of musical notation, the flight path moves people. Through the Performing Arts Residency, artist Margaret Noble will present a series of audio visual works designed to ignite, delight, and reframe the airport experience. Inspired by Brian Eno’s seminal work
Blindspot Collective develops radically inclusive programming that cultivates new work, emerging artists, and diverse audiences. Founded in 2017 by Blake McCarty and Catherine Hanna Schrock, the company has collaborated with La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Diversionary Theatre, UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance, and other community partners to produce work at the intersection of advocacy, education, and entertainment. The company has received acclaim for its original performances, which served over 6,500 students last year and previously won the Dunn-Rankin Award for New Work and the Audience Favorite Award from the San Diego International Fringe Festival.
Kristina Wong Projects is a performance art collective consisting of internationally renowned performance artist Kristina Wong, playwright and actor Samuel Valdez, and poet and DJ Kuttin Kandi. During their six-month residency, they will be creating The Standby Room, exploring stories of waiting, anticipation, and redemption. This “pop-up” waiting room will be constructed out of sewn fabric and filled with hand-written stories collected from travelers. The group is exploring the airport as a transitional space that bridges past and future, where engagement is fleeting. The Standby Room offers a fun, visually captivating and immersive experience for passengers to tell stories of what is on the other end of their travels.
transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project empowers youth to mobilize social change through dance and performance in underserved San Diego communities.
transcenDANCE youth go through intensive technical dance theater training and personal exploration by way of leadership development, community-building activities, and service projects with the ultimate goal of creating dynamic performances that synthesize their artistic strengths while addressing complex social issues that impact their community. transcenDANCE youth performers share these inspiring performances with a greater audience to provoke community engagement with dance and social issues facing youth.
Fern Street Circus serves families and transforms neighborhoods through the performance and teaching of circus arts. It is known for transcending barriers between people of varying cultures and languages, combining physical and theatrical skills, and merging the magnificent and the everyday.
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