ABOUT THE EVENT: Improv for Justice is the inaugural fundraising event of the Young Professionals’ Committee for Human Rights under the auspices of CJA. Hosted at the Shelton Theater in downtown San Francisco, the event will take place on Wednesday, December 10th in celebration of International Human Rights Day. We will kick things off at 7pm with cocktails and a dazzling array of raffle items before a feature performance by San Francisco’s own Lombard Street Experiment (7 time winner of the Bay Area Theatersports Cave Match competition). With a focus on storytelling in musical theater style, this long-form improvisational theater troupe works from the energy of audience suggestions to create protagonists situated in defining San Francisco neighborhoods. Drawing on audience ideas and input, Improv for Justice will be a fully improvised romp through the professional lives of a local group of human rights activists. The evening will commence with an introduction by Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, co-founder of the Performing Arts and Social Justice Program, at the University of San Francisco and committee member of Theater Without Borders and Artists in Distress Services of free Dimensional.
ABOUT CJA: The Center for Justice and Accountability is a San Francisco-based human rights organization dedicated to ending torture and other severe human rights abuses around the world and advancing the rights of survivors to seek truth, justice and redress. CJA pursues litigation to hold perpetrators individually accountable for human rights abuses, develop human rights law, and advance the rule of law in countries transitioning from abuses.
ABOUT YPCHR: The Young Professionals’ Committee for Human Rights is a passionate group of young professionals dedicated to promoting the work of CJA and engaging the next generation of human rights advocates. The Committee’s speaker series, Drink + Think, takes place three times a year and hosts talks with internationally acclaimed experts on numerous topics within the field of human rights, in friendly and informal happy-hour settings at various corporate headquarters throughout San Francisco.
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ABOUT CJA: The Center for Justice and Accountability is a San Francisco-based human rights organization dedicated to ending torture and other severe human rights abuses around the world and advancing the rights of survivors to seek truth, justice and redress. CJA pursues litigation to hold perpetrators individually accountable for human rights abuses, develop human rights law, and advance the rule of law in countries transitioning from abuses.
ABOUT YPCHR: The Young Professionals’ Committee for Human Rights is a passionate group of young professionals dedicated to promoting the work of CJA and engaging the next generation of human rights advocates. The Committee’s speaker series, Drink + Think, takes place three times a year and hosts talks with internationally acclaimed experts on numerous topics within the field of human rights, in friendly and informal happy-hour settings at various corporate headquarters throughout San Francisco.
ABOUT THE EVENT: Improv for Justice is the inaugural fundraising event of the Young Professionals’ Committee for Human Rights under the auspices of CJA. Hosted at the Shelton Theater in downtown San Francisco, the event will take place on Wednesday, December 10th in celebration of International Human Rights Day. We will kick things off at 7pm with cocktails and a dazzling array of raffle items before a feature performance by San Francisco’s own Lombard Street Experiment (7 time winner of the Bay Area Theatersports Cave Match competition). With a focus on storytelling in musical theater style, this long-form improvisational theater troupe works from the energy of audience suggestions to create protagonists situated in defining San Francisco neighborhoods. Drawing on audience ideas and input, Improv for Justice will be a fully improvised romp through the professional lives of a local group of human rights activists. The evening will commence with an introduction by Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, co-founder of the Performing Arts and Social Justice Program, at the University of San Francisco and committee member of Theater Without Borders and Artists in Distress Services of free Dimensional.
ABOUT CJA: The Center for Justice and Accountability is a San Francisco-based human rights organization dedicated to ending torture and other severe human rights abuses around the world and advancing the rights of survivors to seek truth, justice and redress. CJA pursues litigation to hold perpetrators individually accountable for human rights abuses, develop human rights law, and advance the rule of law in countries transitioning from abuses.
ABOUT YPCHR: The Young Professionals’ Committee for Human Rights is a passionate group of young professionals dedicated to promoting the work of CJA and engaging the next generation of human rights advocates. The Committee’s speaker series, Drink + Think, takes place three times a year and hosts talks with internationally acclaimed experts on numerous topics within the field of human rights, in friendly and informal happy-hour settings at various corporate headquarters throughout San Francisco.
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ABOUT CJA: The Center for Justice and Accountability is a San Francisco-based human rights organization dedicated to ending torture and other severe human rights abuses around the world and advancing the rights of survivors to seek truth, justice and redress. CJA pursues litigation to hold perpetrators individually accountable for human rights abuses, develop human rights law, and advance the rule of law in countries transitioning from abuses.
ABOUT YPCHR: The Young Professionals’ Committee for Human Rights is a passionate group of young professionals dedicated to promoting the work of CJA and engaging the next generation of human rights advocates. The Committee’s speaker series, Drink + Think, takes place three times a year and hosts talks with internationally acclaimed experts on numerous topics within the field of human rights, in friendly and informal happy-hour settings at various corporate headquarters throughout San Francisco.
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