Created by Deborah Crooks
Time: 3-4pm
Location: 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley CA
Based on a true story about Peregrine Falcons and humans living at the intersection of wild and urban habitats on Oakland’s Fruitvale Bridge, “Flight Lessons” is a two-act, multi-character folk opera exploring themes of home, adaptation and recovery.
The narrative-in-song follows an urban wildlife biologist who monitors the breeding pair of Peregrine Falcons nesting on a bridge and how their lives intersect with the human inhabitants of the neighborhood after one of the birds is shot.
Flight Lessons is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization and the recipient of a Puffin Foundation Grant.