Queens in Manhattan, Crossing the BLVD & It Can Happen Here – One Night Only
Monday July 8, 7 pm, New York Institute of Technology Auditorium on Broadway 1871 Broadway between 61st and 62nd Streets New York, NY 10023
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New York Institute of Technology, School of Interdisciplinary Studies & Education
presents a multimedia theatrical performance of Crossing the BLVD followed by short excerpts from Sloan’s new work IT CAN HAPPEN HERE. Judith Sloan and guest actors in an evening of stories about migration, refuge and finding home.
Featured performers include:
Judith Sloan, Vick Krishna, Bianca Vitali, Sasha Boykin,
Maria Sofia Hernandez, Meah Pace and Prince Jones
“…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 The Vagina Monologues
As immigration policy is hotly debated around the country, Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America presents the 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.