Burning Libraries: Stories from the New Ellis Island

ALICE Arts presents Burning Libraries: Stories from the New Ellis Island, an original performance work that brings to life 35 immigrant stories—from Yemen to Guatemala and from Vietnam to East Texas—through music, dance, aerial arts, puppetry, and video effects. Drawn from over 400 oral history interviews, they are verbatim accounts of ordinary people overcoming extraordinary challenges of war, poverty and prejudice in their quest for a better life for themselves and their families. The stories are sometimes harrowing, sometimes sublime, always compelling. They are, in a real sense, America's new Ellis Island stories.

In a time of rampant xenophobia and thinly veiled racism, 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.

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Entertainment

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• jazz
• mime
• inspirational
• bossa nova
• widescreen
• broadway
• blues
• theater
• music
• performance
• dance
• storytelling aerial
• arts

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