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Voices ~ Capital Lives, The New York State
Writers Institute, and The University at Albany Writing Semester
present
Crossing the BLVD
A multimedia exploration of new immigrants in modern
America
7:30
PM, Thursday, April 29th, 2004
Page Hall, Downtown U-Albany Campus
A multimedia presentation
based on the book Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in
a New America, by Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan.
Using slides, sound, oral history, storytelling, and
character monologues, Lehrer and Sloan reveal the voices and images of people
who live in Queens, New York, the most ethnically diverse locality in the U.S.
Sponsored by Capital Voices~Capital Lives, a Talking History
Project, and the Department of History.
"CROSSING THE BLVD boldly carries the tradition of oral
history into the 21st Century. It is an electrifying collage of voices, faces,
and spirits, capturing the true elasticity -and inclusiveness - of contemporary
American culture."
Eve Ensler, Author, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
 "CROSSING
THE BLVD will forever change the way we think about our cities, our communities,
our neighborhoods, our neighbors, and ultimately, our own backyards. It's
as if we've all been invited to an enormous block party, where Lehrer
and Sloan have personally introduced us to some of their most fascinating
neighbors."
Alan Berliner, Filmmaker and Media Artist, THE FAMILY
ALBUM, INTIMATE STRANGER, NOBODY'S BUSINESS
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Capital
Voices~Capital Lives is an
ongoing effort to gather, locate, preserve, and make publicly available the
sounds and stories of the past related to the Capital Region of New York,
and to produce radio documentaries and short features around them. It is
supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
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