Public Reading on Democracy

@New York Live Arts Lobby

Artists will read seminal texts on democracy by such radical visionaries as Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Cesar Chavez, Frederick Douglass, Audre Lorde, Harriet Tubman, Yuri Kochiyama, Gloria Anzaldúa, Berta Cáceres, Grace Lee Boggs, Abraham Lincoln, Harvey Milk, Henry David Thoreau, Alexis de Tocqueville, and others.

APR 19, 4PM

Russell Frederick reading as Medgar Evers
Tamar-kali reading as Ida B. Wells
Aisha Tandiwe-Bell reading as Mamie Till-Mobley
Liza Jessie Peterson reading as Sandra Bland

APR 20, 4PM

Huiying B. Chan reading as Grace Lee Boggs
Moustafa Bayoumi reading as Edward Said
Greg Tate reading as Muhammad Ali
Sonia Guiñansaca reading as Gloria E. Anzaldúa

APR 21, 11:30AM

Madeline Sayet reading as Wilma Mankiller
Andrew Lippa reading as Harvey Milk
Liz Abzug reading as Bella Abzug
Shola Lynch reading as Shirley Chisholm










When: Thu., Apr. 19, 2018 - Sat., Apr. 21, 2018 at 4:00 pm
Where: New York Live Arts
219 W. 19th St.
212-691-6500
Price: Free, $10 suggested donation
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@New York Live Arts Lobby

Artists will read seminal texts on democracy by such radical visionaries as Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Cesar Chavez, Frederick Douglass, Audre Lorde, Harriet Tubman, Yuri Kochiyama, Gloria Anzaldúa, Berta Cáceres, Grace Lee Boggs, Abraham Lincoln, Harvey Milk, Henry David Thoreau, Alexis de Tocqueville, and others.

APR 19, 4PM

Russell Frederick reading as Medgar Evers
Tamar-kali reading as Ida B. Wells
Aisha Tandiwe-Bell reading as Mamie Till-Mobley
Liza Jessie Peterson reading as Sandra Bland

APR 20, 4PM

Huiying B. Chan reading as Grace Lee Boggs
Moustafa Bayoumi reading as Edward Said
Greg Tate reading as Muhammad Ali
Sonia Guiñansaca reading as Gloria E. Anzaldúa

APR 21, 11:30AM

Madeline Sayet reading as Wilma Mankiller
Andrew Lippa reading as Harvey Milk
Liz Abzug reading as Bella Abzug
Shola Lynch reading as Shirley Chisholm
Buy tickets/get more info now