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Warren Lehrer, Judith Sloan and Grace Canahuati
Tix $12. Advance TIX recommended, limited seating.
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Video: Warren Lehrer talks us through Jericho’s Daughter Artist Book
Frank London and Judith Sloan’s 1001 Voices: Anthem for a new America will be performed on Sunday December 15 at the Kupferberg Center for the Arts as part of the Queens Choral Society’s Winger Concert.
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A concert designed to inspire peace and unity in challenging times. Haydn’s Nelson Mass, written during a period of strife in Europe, will be followed by Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem, a heartfelt plea for peace that masterfully combines words from the Latin Mass with poetry by Walt Whitman. The concert will conclude with the final anthem from 1001 Voices: A Symphony for a New America, a project of earsay (composer Frank London/ librettist Judith Sloan) which reimagines Emma Lazarus’s famous poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty as an alternative national anthem.
QCCS will be joined by 200+ high school and middle school singers from across the area, offering a vision of harmony and hope for the future.
The video excerpt below is from a 2017 performance which included the animations and projections by Warren Lehrer.
EarSay artists Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer received New York State Council on the Arts Grants through a partnership with City Lore. Sloan for Imperfect Allies, Lehrer for Letter Box
Andy Tierstein received a Support for Artist Grant through EarSay for a new composition.
Imperfect Allies: Children of Opposite Sides
Acclaimed playwrights and performers, Judith Sloan and Najla Said present a new work-in-progress, Imperfect Allies: Children of Opposite Sides, dealing with Israel/Palestine that uses the tools of art and diplomacy to work for justice and peace and an end to the escalation of violence in Palestine, Israel and the region. Through performance, Sloan and Said explore how their Jewish-American and Palestinian-American histories shape them. Imperfect Allies was conceived of several years ago, but came to find a new resonance given the current situation, which has tested many relationships including their own. Sloan and Said, both actors and writers who live in New York City and lost their fathers at young ages are “children of opposite sides.” Sloan and Said come together in this soul-breaking moment to find tangible ways to work together.
Imperfect Allies began in 2019 as a project of EarSay, Inc. began with person dialogues between African-American, Jewish, Indian-American, Queer, and Immigrant artists, produced by Judith Sloan. In October 2023, Sloan and Said came together for this iteration of the project, Imperfect Allies: Children of Opposite Sides.
To find out about upcoming performances and the future of the Imperfect Allies Project
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Najla Said and Judith Sloan on this national call in show with guest host Suzanne Gaber.
Performances:
September 30, NYU Free and Open to the Public
October 15 Department of Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore/Einstein
Judith Sloan and Andrew Griffin Artist Commissioning Grants from NYSCA
(New York State Council on the Arts)
Coming in 2025: 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