"If a person dies without his or her story being told, it's like a library burning down." (attribution unknown)
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Grand Prize Winner of 510Arts.com "World Culture in the East Bay" Watch a 10 Minute Excerpt ALICE Arts presents Burning Libraries: Stories from the New Ellis Island, a transportive, theatrical spectacle that soars with aerial magic, haunting sound, dance, puppetry and video effects. Burning Libraries travels from a Yemenite kitchen to a Vietnamese refugee boat and from a Mexican desert to a Liberian campfire. In a time of rampant xenophobia and thinly veiled racism, Burning Libraries tells over 30 real-life tales of ordinary people from immigrant communities. Culled from over 400 oral history interviews over a five-year period, the stories are sometimes harrowing, sometimes sublime, always compelling. Burning Libraries celebrates the ability of the human spirit to take flight and is a visceral reminder that we have all come to America as travelers from some other place and time. Eloquent...seamlessly flowing...beautifully executed...joyful ...makes us all a bit wiser. SF Chronicle. Read the full Review Support ALICE by clicking on the Donate button! |
