Crossing the BLVD

NYIT School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Education presents Judith Sloan and guest actors

Based on Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan’s acclaimed book

Performed by Judith Sloan, Riti Satchdeva, Vitchet Chum David Cale, Ashleigh Awusie

Judith Sloan is a masterful actor/dialectician and a sublime sound artist. She is joined by a multi-racial cast of actors to perform an evening of stories of migration, refuge and finding home with excerpts from Crossing the BLVD and Yo Miss! As immigration 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 United States and what their experiences have been here. Above all, Crossing the BLVD is a celebration of resilient, prismatic character in search of home. In Yo Miss! Sloan blends her gifts as a world of immigrant teens dances before our eyes in a fusion of theatre, radio, poetry and music. Her empathy and perceptiveness have the potential to inspire much-needed understanding amid the inflammatory rhetoric that outweighs in our current political climate.

Monday, July 17, at 7 p.m.

Free to all NYIT students, faculty, and staff
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• “...a whirlwind tour and love poem of what has often been called the most racially and ethnically diverse county in America." - The New York Times
• Winner 2004 Brendan Gill Prize Municipal Art Society of NY
• “Immigrant life as told in the intimate, rich, comic, ironic and sad stories so often seen but not heard in America’s big cities.” - The Washington Post
• “Crossing boldly carries the tradition of oral history into the 21st century. Electrifying!” - Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues

Crossing the BLVD is a project of EarSay, Inc. Visit the website to see more about the work and buy the book.