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SUMMARY:Crossing the BLVD
DESCRIPTION:Performance of Crossing the BLVD! Discussion to Follow\nOn
 e Night Only\nHost:\nCrossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens i
 n a new America\nType:\nMusic/Arts - Performance\nNetwork:\nGlobal\nDa
 te:\nWednesday, July 15, 2009\nTime:\n7:00pm - 10:00pm\nLocation:\nNew
  York Institute of Technology\nStreet:\n16 West 61 St 11th Floor Audit
 orium\nCity/Town:\nNew York, NY\nPhone:\n2122611529\nEmail:\nrjovin@ny
 it.edu\nDescription\nNew York Institute of Technology School of Educat
 ion presents Judith Sloan in a multi-media performance based on Warren
  Lehrer and Judith Sloan's critically acclaimed book: Crossing the BLV
 D: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America. (W.W. Norton & Co.)\
 n\nDiscussion to follow the performance with some of the people interv
 iewed for the project including Camilo Perdomo from Colombia, and immi
 grant and refugee teenagers, who participate in EarSay's youth arts pr
 ogram including Linkai Jiang and Hadeel al-Hindawi, from Iraq.\n\n\"Im
 migrant life as told in the intimate, rich, comic, ironic and sad stor
 ies so often seen but not\nheard in America’s big cities.\" The Wash
 ington Post\n\n\"Hail, Judith and Warren, for making [Crossing the BLV
 D], a new art worthy of the new America that is quietly and not so qui
 etly being born again out of the lives and imaginations of its newest 
 immigrants. You combine the art of the story-telling, the book, the vi
 sual, and the sound of voices, to create a true Whitmanesque vista of 
 our infant century.\" Andrei Codrescu, poet, novelist, radio commentat
 or.\n\n\"Crossing the BLVD is a remarkably beautiful, lovingly put tog
 ether example of bottom-up journalism.\" Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!\n
 \n$10 General Admission\n$5 students\nReservations necessary: rjovin@n
 yit.edu\n\nFor more information visit http://www.afropunk.com/events/c
 rossing-the-blvd
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LOCATION:New York Institute of Technology - Manhattan Campus
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