Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009
Time: 8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Location: Stokes Auditorium, Haverford College
An Evening with Judith Sloan, Performance/Lecture Transforming Trauma Into Art. Accompanied by percussionist Ken White
Stories of love, hardship, trauma, diversity combining music, poetry, images, and monologues. Sloan will present excerpts from her critically acclaimed collaborative work: Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America and her new work-in-progress Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide, Volume 1.
Crossing the BLVD was created in collaboration with Warren Lehrer, photographer, co-writer, designer with a sound track that includes music by Scott Johnson, Gogol Bordello, Eugene Hutz, Yury Lemeshev, Sergey Ryabstev, produced by Judith Sloan with Sheldon Steiger.
Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide Vol. 1 is a project of EarSay, Inc and is being directed by Michael Dinwiddie, with assistance from Yoni Oppenheim. Soundtrack includes music by Taylor Rivelli, Ken White, David Krakauer, Frank London, Dave Guy, Judith Sloan, produced by Taylor Rivelli, Judith Sloan and Ken White.
Brought to you by the Asian Student Association (ASA) & Amnesty International
Contact: LinKai Jiang ljiang@haverford.edu
Cellphone: 718-3550239
What the Critics Say about Sloan’s previous work:
Crossing the BLVD is a whirlwind tour and love poem of what has often been called the most racially and ethnically diverse county in America. In the tradition of the playwright Anna Deavere Smith, Ms. Sloan regularly performs “Crossing the BLVD” at schools, museums and community events, adopting the personae (and respectfully mimicking the accents) of the varied immigrants whose stories are in the book…
The New York Times, City Room Blog, Sewell Chan
“In listening to what people have to say, Judith Sloan captures the essence of their lives… She is one part Studs Terkel, one part Lily Tomlin, two-parts originality.” The Herald, Bloomington
“Superb! A world view that sees comedy and tragedy as two bones of the same skeleton in the closet.” Sara O’Sullivan The Scotsman, Scotland’s National Newspaper
“[Sloan’s] Denial of the Fittest is highly articulate, funny, intimate, sexy and very frightening.” Thom Dibdin The Stage, London
“Sloan wickedly skewers stereotypes… screws up her face with Lily Tomlin-esque elasticity. Plus, Sloan’s a good juggler.” Evelyn McDonnell The Village Voice
“Sloan challenges U.S. Foreign Policy, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, homophobia, and a host of other issues throughout an amazingly varied series of character-driven monologues.” Ms. Magazine