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EarSay is an artist-driven non-profit arts organization dedicated to nurturing and portraying stories of the uncelebrated. Our projects bridge the divide between documentary and expressive forms in books, exhibitions, on stage, in sound & electronic media. We are committed to fostering understanding across all cultures and generations through artistic productions and education. We bring our work to theaters, museums, schools, festivals, and universities.
Performance in Blue Hill, ME
Saturday August 15, 7pm. Blue Hill. BETWEEN A LAUGH AND A HARD PLACE A Benefit for WERU Community Radio and EarSay Advance Tickets Recommended: TIX HERE
Judith Sloan, Najla Said, Jonathan Lethem, Warren Lehrer, Andy Teirstein perform in an evening where stories, music, and conversation meet at the intersection of humor and heartbreak.
Sloan and Said will perform an excerpt from their new work exploring how their Jewish and Palestinian American backgrounds shaped their identities and friendship. Lethem and Lehrer each read from new and forthcoming books. Playing multiple instruments, Teirstein performs folk tunes and songs of freedom.
Community Radio station WERU (and others like it across the USA) have lost ALL their federal CPB funding this year and for the foreseeable future. EarSay, a community arts organization has also lost its NEA and other potential federal funding. Help preserve arts and information and have a fabulous evening.
New BOOK Spring 2026
Letter Box: The Geometry of Loss a new Artist Book $35 PLUS SHIPPING AND HANDLING
LETTER BOX: The Geometry of Loss is a deeply moving and beautiful book that addresses how a person can deal with personal loss, feel the bottomless pain, yet manage to move on. Written by former New York Times reporter Rick Black, it is the story of a young man’s coming to grips with the unexpected death of his mother from cancer. The sparse poetic prose—which consists of only a few words per page—is choreographed for the stage of the page by visual literature pioneer Warren Lehrer. His typographic setting gives delicate and surprising form to the interior, emotional and metaphorical underpinnings of Black’s words. Together, the writing and visuals create an impactful and distinctively cinematic book experience that can help readers of all ages process their own loss.
Thanks to the New York State Council on the Arts for support of this project.
Video: Warren Lehrer talks us through Jericho’s Daughter Artist Book
This is Not a Drill – Coming in 2026
Judith Sloan and Andrew Griffin Artist Commissioning Grants from NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts)
Coming in 2026: A new project of music and theatre focused on Climate Crisis called This Is Not A Drill. We are interviewing people not only about the science but on how they feel about climate issues, and what they are doing. What kind of actions are you taking? We have been interviewing people of many ages, races and cultural backgrounds and from various parts of the world. If you are interesting in being interviewed please email us judith at earsay.org
