Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide, Vol 1 April 30, 2010

Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide, Vol. 1

A new play
Conceived, written, and performed by Judith Sloan
Directed by Michael Dinwiddie
Music Director Frank London

One Night Only • 7 PM Friday April 30, 2010
at Nuyorican Poets Café, 236 East 3rd Street, Between Ave B & C, New York City

What 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/refugee teenagers and incarcerated youth as they grapple with the cataclysmic global events that shaped them. Through poetry, vivid character portrayals and music, Sloan brings their tales to life along with her own stories that reveal the ripple effects of the Holocaust on her family. Through art, teaching, humor, and pathos, she discovers resilience in the face of tragedy.

Live sound engineer: Luke Santy
dramaturgical support: Warren Lehrer, Yoni Oppenheim, Editha Rosario
including music & sound by Dave Guy, Touré “Southpaw” Harris, Guy Klucevsek, David Krakauer,
Frank London, Taylor Rivelli, Judith Sloan, David Stevens, Immortal Technique, Ken White

$15 adv/$20 door/212.505.8183
To purchase advance tickets on the web:
http://www.nuyorican.org/calendar.php?r=0&eid=477

Yo Miss! Is a project of EarSay
http://www.earsay.org

Proceeds from the Yo Miss! project go to benefit
EarSay’s Youth Education project for immigrant & refugee teenagers

Read about the project in the NY TIMES:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/nyregion/13websloan.html?_r=4&ref=nyregion

Official Website: http://www.earsay.org