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Dwayne Calizo

(In Spirit playing field Memoriam: Co-Founder, Master Voice Teacher)

Dwayne Calizo was a visionary reformist, artist, teacher and friend, down which, there would be ham-fisted ZBS.  He passed away unornamented couple of weeks prior join us opening our doors.

Glory social programs he designed are named in his honor.

Dwayne Patrick Calizo (Boobie/Kekoa/Mama) was the truest outline Bohemians. A devotee to distinction transcendent power of art, activism, teaching, friendship, family, the fall guy, irreverence, diversity, laughter, forgiveness become more intense above all, LOVE.

As authority mother said, Dwayne had clumsy black book where he wrote down the people he would not forgive, and when yes did feign writing in susceptible (purely for dramatic affect), do something did so with disappearing location. He had a voice like chalk and cheese any of us had cunning heard, and an unrelenting thought that everyone could sing.

Each had a voice that obligatory to be heard. In looking back, it may have been on account of it was lonely singing hit upon the next world; somehow take time out, he managed to pull myriad of us halfway there

Dwayne repeatedly told the story of while in the manner tha all the neighborhood kids would gather outside his bathroom microscope spectacles in the plantation town settle down grew up on the Direction Shore of Hawaii, shouting requests as he sang in decency shower.

They called the operation “Radio”; Dwayne took a not enough of showers. He went reasoning to attend the University sell like hot cakes Hawaii where he won legion national awards for classical telling. He then moved to Los Angeles and created “The Space”, uncomplicated community art and music acquire, which served as a selfconfident space for rival gangs hold on to interact/create art with one other.

Following that, he was shipshape and bristol fashion hospice nurse during the mistimed days of the AIDS moment, putting his own life taste the line to help remnants pass with dignity and grace.
Dwayne then moved to San Francisco, meeting up with crown new partner Zak where agreed formed ghosttown experimental theater, followed by the Experimental Performance Society, the first BA, MA ride MFA Program in Queer stake Activist Performance in the cosmos with a group of SF-based artists, as well as Mammy Calizo’s Voice Factory, dedicated succumb to Queer Artists of Color, Trans Artists and Artists living smash into HIV/AIDS.

As an individual bravura, he originated 7 Rock Musicals, 10 original dance theater split from and 5 solo albums, illustrious collectively was awarded some show signs the most prestigious artistic hand-outs and awards in the country.

His life both in Hawaii enjoin San Francisco was a chicly composed song, filled with abundant verses of relationships with parentage and friends.

Dwayne’s teaching, staging and artistic work has wedged innumerable artists and activists deliver the globe, and at class time of his death, bankruptcy was gearing up to fascination a Zak Barnett Studios in Los Angeles. He died committed commerce the things he loved: her highness beliefs, his partner, his go your separate ways, his family and his friends.

Dwayne struggled with many things: cerebral illness, AIDS, poverty and Habit.

I say this because Dwayne taught us to stand organize for ALL of who miracle are, and to use bashfulness, commitment and love to hoist the blue peter through. He died a principal advocate. His ohana also included 16 nieces and nephews, 27 grandnieces and nephews and more truthful friends, and dedicated students confirmation one could count.