SF Opera’s ‘Innocence’ Reckons with the Long Reach and Lingering Effects of Gun Violence

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The highly-anticipated opera “Innocence” has made its American premiere in San Francisco. At the heart of the story is a mass shooting at an international school, and the grief and trauma of the event that lingers a decade later. We’ll talk about the San Francisco Opera production and discuss a new mapping project showing a dramatic increase in the number of Americans living in close proximity to fatal gun violence and what it means for our communities. Guests: Tinisch Hollins, executive director, Californians for Safety and Justice; co-founder, SF Black Wall Street; vice chair, SF African-Americans Reparations Advisory Committee Matthew Shilvock, general director, San Francisco Opera Shaila Dewan, National Criminal Justice Correspondent, New York Times Ryan Marchand, director, San Francisco Opera's Department of Diversity, Equity and Community Gabe Meline, senior editor, KQED Arts and Culture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.1	From KQED.
0:37.1	The From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:48.6	The San Francisco opera debuted a new and hotly anticipated show last week called Innocence.
0:54.8	The opera revolves around a shooting at an international school and the grief and trauma that linger a decade after the event.
1:02.3	We'll talk about the production, as well as the community initiatives that spun out of it,
1:07.0	because innocence arrives at a moment in the United States in which more and more people are living in close proximity
1:13.3	to the tragedies of gun violence.
1:15.2	Why? And what can we do about it?
1:17.3	That's all coming up next, right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. It is a sad fact of modern life that gun violence is so, so widespread. And as we'll hear in this show,
1:46.5	gun violence has spread geographically through our cities to putting more people into proximity
1:51.3	with this particular kind of trauma. In this setting, the San Francisco Opera has staged a new
1:57.2	production, the American premiere of the opera Innocence.
2:01.4	And here to discuss what the opera offers to our area and our moment, we're joined by
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