One Performance Only!

One Performance Only! 

With New Monologues about or in the Voices of Children

  

ASP commissioned African American writers to examine the 419 graves of the anonymous men, women and children who lived in colonial New York and are buried at the African Burial Ground. The writers imagined their lives. These are their..

Unheard Voices 

a monologue play with music

Conceived by Judy Tate  

Written by the ASP Writers' Collective 

Directed by Melissa Maxwell 

 Monday, October 21st, 7pm

  

170 Central Park West @ 77th St.

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 Free For Educators and Students!

RSVP to:

schoolprograms@nyhistory.org

or call (212) 485-9293

Featuring: 

Lynnette Freeman, Larry Floyd, Melissa Murray-Mutch, Devin Haqq

 Original vocals by Aramide Ferguson and Percussion by Baba Don Eaton

Featuring writing by:

Keith Josef Adkins, Dennis Allen II, Joshua Allen, Cassandra Medley, 

Dominique Morisseau,  Harrison Rivers, 

Judy Tate, Alexander Thomas and Cori Thomas

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For more info visit our website:

www.americanslaveryproject.org

The American Slavery Project, Producing Artistic Director, Judy Tate

The American Slavery Project: Unheard Voices is a sponsored project of the Vera Institute of Justice

and is made possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by New York State Council on the Arts and the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 

  

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