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Judith Sloan’s Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural DivideThursday February 16th, 7:30 PMJoe's Pub425 Lafayette Street, New York NYAdvance tickets, reserved seating. $15 Award-winning playwright and actress Judith Sloan collides with revolutionary rapper Immortal Technique. Part documentary, part music, part poetic autobiography, Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide looks back on…See More

EarSay Benefit Performance, Transforming Trauma Into Art                               Saturday, April 9 ·  8:00pm -  9:30pm New York Society for Ethical Culture West 64th Street (at Central Park West) New York, NYfor more info: http://www.earsay.orgPerformance event hosted by WNYC's Brian Lehrer of the Brian Lehrer show. Honoring playwright/performance artist Deb Margolin, author/activistNinotchka Rosca.As budget cuts are sweeping the city…See More

Loom More SlowlyAn Intimate Viewing/Introduction to COMOTROOVAYSACOMOTROOVASAYSA is a new jewelry sculpture series designed by Joanne Petit-Frere. COMOTROOVAYSA is a project that seeks to reconsider value by repurposing objects and increasing their worth by including them in intricate compositions.Saturday, February 27, 20101:00pm-3:00pm@The Loom100 Thames St./1087 Flushing Ave.Brooklyn, NY 11237www.theloomnyc.comL to Morgan Ave.FREEContact: Nia Evans or…See More

Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide, Volume 1.Conceived, written and performed by Judith SloanDirected by Michael DinwiddieWhat happens when a middle-aged teaching artist survives a near fatal car accident and collides with the oncoming traffic of Hip Hop culture? In Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide, Vol. 1, Judith Sloan remixes stories from twenty years of teaching immigrant and refugee teenagers and incarcerated youth as they grapple with the cataclysmic global events…See More

Tuesday September 15th 2009The East 13th Street Theater136 East 13th Street (between 3rd and 4th Avenues)New York, NY 100037 PM - 9 PMTransforming Trauma Into ArtB E N E F I T P E R F O R M AN C EAn evening of music, poetry, monologues and danceto support EarSay’s work with teenagers from war-zones and workshops in prisonsCo hosted by: Judith Sloan, actor/writer/educator/co-founder EarSayand Mario Murillo, journalist, professor/Hofstra UniversityHonoring our special guests:Anthony Papa, author…See More

Judith Sloan in a work-in-progress performance of Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural DivideDouble bill with Chen Lo and the Liberation FamilyTuesday August 11th, 8 PMBowery Poetry Club308 Bowery (Between Houston and Bleecker)F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker$10 admissionmail@bowerypoetry.com212-614-0505Judith Sloan in Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide, a work-in-progressDouble Bill with Chen Lo and the Liberation FamilyYo Miss! by Judith Sloan is a sometimes funny, sometimes sad,…See More