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Staged reading produced by Lit Cleveland is part of 2017 Humanities Fest

suitcase 1.pngWhen Literary Cleveland put out a call for immigration stories by Northeast Ohio writers, the group was flooded with responses, highlighting both the tremendous contributions of immigrants to the region and the importance of this voice to our cultural heritage.

Now many of these powerful stories 鈥 written by immigrants from Syria, Iran, Colombia, Poland, China, Azerbaijan and elsewhere鈥 will be heard in front of a live audience as part of a staged reading produced with 老澳门六合彩开奖记录资料 during the upcoming Cleveland Humanities Festival.

Crossing Borders: Immigrant Narratives will be performed Saturday, March 18th and Sunday, March 19th at 7 pm in the 老澳门六合彩开奖记录资料 Student Center Ballroom at 2121 Euclid Ave, Third Floor. The events are cosponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and 老澳门六合彩开奖记录资料鈥檚 College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.

The staged reading of short essays, fiction and poems is directed by Marc Moritz, who has assembled a cast of professional actors to perform the pieces. The stories in the show are provocative, moving, heart-wrenching and funny. The authors address the emotional journey of crossing borders, both literal and metaphorical, and what it means to be both an immigrant and an American.  

In 鈥淭he Buttonhook Men,鈥 Jill Sell writes about her Czech ancestors鈥 uncertain passage through Ellis Island, which could easily have been rejected. 鈥淔ood and Family,鈥 a piece by Hathaway Brown student Crystal Zhao, tells the story of a second-generation Chinese immigrant bonding with her mother over stories of childhood rebellion. The poem 鈥淕enesis鈥 by Daniel Gray-Kontar addresses the journey of African-Americans from the south to northern cities like Cleveland during the Great Migration.

In the raw 鈥淪truggling to Survive,鈥 Syrian immigrant Bayan Aljbawi writes about leaving her troubled homeland for the U.S., an experience she describes as 鈥渆scaping from one suffering to another: new culture, new country and different language.鈥

鈥淢y husband, my baby and I were lucky,鈥 she concludes. 鈥淭he only question left is this: What about too many others who did not get a chance to do the same?鈥

And in 鈥淎merican Promise,鈥 award-winning novelist and Case Western University professor Thrity Umrigar 鈥 who immigrated here from India over 30 years ago 鈥 confronts the current political climate and asks if the U.S. 鈥渨ill be a country that is as small and narrow as its fears鈥 or 鈥渁s large and glorious as its dreams, as splendid as the hopes of millions of its citizens, immigrant and native born鈥?鈥

The event is free and open to the public but registration is strongly encouraged. For more information, visit .

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