Faculty member Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan are presenting another in their series of
“Crossing the BLVD/Crossing the Cultural Divide” performances. Wednesday September 29, 8 PM at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Queens, NY.

Performance to support Arts and Activism workshops for immigrant teenagers. Hosted by actress/radio producer/co-creator of Crossing the BLVD Judith Sloan, whose multi-character performances combine humor, pathos and a love of the absurd. Featured performers: Lemon Andersen, Tony-award winning Brooklyn-based renaissance and hip-hop artist, creator of the critically acclaimed one man show County of Kings* in which Lemon recounts his troubled childhood and eventual arrival on Broadway as part of Def Poetry Jam; Mahina Movement, a trio of three voices and one guitar mixing folk, rock and rhymes in English, Spanish, and Tongan simmered with indigenous roots and culture; Elise Knudson, cross-disciplinary dance-maker; AKIR, hip-hop educator/producer performing social commentary to an uplifting score and Hasan Salaam, hip hop artist, humanitarian/speaker whose music paints vivid pictures of the commonalities that bind us. A special appearance by a Michael Legaspi, a student from EarSay’s Arts workshops and Justin Hudson, recent Hunter College High School graduate.

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Warren Lehrer lectures about his work on Friday October 22nd, 2010 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 5:15 pm at Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Drive, Free Admission and Open to the Public, Saturday October 23th, workshop with students from the Art Institute

Lehrer talks about his obsessions with capturing the shape of thought, reuniting the pictorial and oral roots of storytelling with the printed word, and bridging documentary and expressive forms. He discusses his pilgrimage with language through art and design into literature, and deconstructs and performs excerpts of his books and multi-media projects including i mean you know, FRENCH FRIES, The Portrait Series, Crossing the BLVD, and his new illuminated novel in progress, The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley: a life in books, which contains 101 books within it. One part artist lecture, one part author reading, one part performance, this presentation is as entertaining as it is informative and thought provoking. Stay posted for times and location.

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