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Judith Sloan/Performance Stories of Migration, Refuge and Finding Home
Judith Sloan is a masterful actor/dialectician and a sublime sound artist. She performs an evening of stories of migration, refuge and finding home with excerpts from Crossing the BLVD and Yo Miss!(accompanied by Andrew Griffin on viola.) As immigration As immigration policy is hotly debated around the country in terms of national and cultural security, Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America presents the very human stories of why immigrants and refugees have migrated to the US and what their experiences have been since they came here pre- and post-9/11. Based on Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan's critically acclaimed book, actor/writer/documentary artist Judith Sloan "channels" many of the people that the couple interviewed. In Yo Miss! Sloan belends her gifts as a world of immigrant teenas dances before our eyes in a fusion of theatre, radio, poetry and music. She is accompanied with live music by virtuoso Andrew Griffin on viola. Yo Miss! is a testament to the pluck, ingenuity and creativity of those who dedicate their lives to connecting with refugees of today teaching artists, human rights activists, teachers and social workers -- who, like Sloan, find themselves in the midst of cultural collisions that become a catalyst for transformation. Her empathy and perceptiveness have the potential to inspire much-needed understanding amid the inflammatory rhetoric that outweighs reason in our current electoral season.
Presented by the New York Institute of Technology, School of Education
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LocationThe Auditorium on Broadway (at the NY Institute of Technology) (View)
1871 Broadway, between 61st & 62nd Street, just north of Columbus Circle
New York, NY 10023
United States
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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