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Learning to Speak

  • Under St Marks Theater · New York
  • From USD 28.52
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Learning to Speak
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A part of the Gotham Storytelling Festival
About this Event

How do you connect with your parents when they don't speak English and you're not fluent in their Chinese languages? For Annie, through a family secret.


When Annie learns she's related to Vincent Chin, a man whose 1982 Detroit M**der started an Asian American movement, she seeks out the story, wanting to make something of her family’s legacy. Just as Annie is building the life of teaching and activism she wants, her parents threaten never to talk to her again.


In this storytelling show based on a memoir-in-progress, Annie Tan (NPR's The Moth Radio Hour, PBS’ Stories From The Stage, RISK!) explores what it really means to communicate– maybe in English, Spanish, Mandarin, or Annie’s home languages of Cantonese and Toisan– and make change.

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This production is a part of the Gotham Storytelling Festival.

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Under St Marks Theater, 94 Saint Marks Place, New York, United States

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