JUST DO IT: Benefit show for FIRE @ Calvin Presbyterian, 2/4

To raise funds for FIRE, the Calvin Presbyterian Church is hosting Master Street Theater Company's performance of Once Upon A Hood, a tragic but inspiring story about a young gang leader and drug dealer's spiritual transformation.

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JUST DO IT: Benefit show for FIRE @ Calvin Presbyterian, 2/4

POSTED: Friday, February 3, 2012, 1:30 PM

Filed Under: Arts | Just Do It Theater

Last year, under the direction of Rev. Dr. Curtis A. Jones, Overbrook’s Calvin Presbyterian Church began taking steps to re-direct the lives of former convicts. They created a program, From Incarceration to Re-Entry (FIRE), that helps ex-offenders find fulfilling employment opportunities. The group also works to encourage healthy, positive alternatives to gang life by working with teens and young adults who have grown up around violence and gang-related activities.

To raise funds for their efforts, the church is hosting Master Street Theater Company’s performance of Once Upon A Hood, a tragic but inspiring story about a young gang leader and drug dealer’s spiritual transformation. Written and directed by locals Marilyn Brewington and Wallace Little, the show stars actor John Canada Terrel, who co-starred in Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It and Mo Better Blues & Boomerang.

Feb. 4, 2 p.m., and 7 p.m., $20, Calvin Presbyterian Church, 5931 Master St., 215-772-9325.

(courtney.sexton@citypaper.net) (@NoRelation2Anne)

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