Movement Without Borders

Sat Oct 02 2021 at 11:00 am to 06:30 pm

Judson Memorial Church | New York

Judson Memorial Church - New York City
Publisher/HostJudson Memorial Church - New York City
Movement Without Borders
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Dancers, musicians, filmmakers, poets, and advocates will gather in community around the urgent issue of humanizing our immigration system.
About this Event

Judson Memorial Church and S/C Projects present

Movement Without Borders: A Day of Performance to Celebrate New York Immigration Coalition, UnLocal, and Gente Unida

Saturday, October 2, 2021, 11 AM – 6:30 PM

Judson Memorial Church, New York

“Because of the transient nature of human life, migration is the starting point for everybody.” —(Mohsin Hamid)

On Saturday, October 2, 2021, dancers, musicians, filmmakers, poets, and immigration advocates will gather in community at Judson Memorial Church around the urgent issue of humanizing our immigration system.

Movement Without Borders: A Day of Performance to Celebrate New York Immigration Coalition, UnLocal, and Gente Unida—three dynamic organizations that create support systems for those navigating the immigration system—will take place from 11am to 6:30pm at Judson Memorial Church. It is a day of performance and arts events with a reach that surpasses boundaries.

Conceived, directed, and produced by dance maker Richard Colton, in collaboration with Judson Memorial Church, performers will include dancer/choreographers Mariana Valencia, Ernesto Breton/Rudy Perez, Jimena Paz, Francisco Cordova, Horacio Macuacua, Francesca Harper, Edivaldo Ernesto, and Shamel Pitts/TRIBE, multidisciplinary artist Emilio Rojas, and drummer/composer Antonio Sánchez Band with Thana Alexa, Jordan Peters, Carmen Staaf, Noam Wiesenberg, and poet Jonathan Mendoza.

Among the speakers will be Pulitzer Prize-winning author Margo Jefferson, poet Claudia Rankine and The Racial Imaginary Institute; Gina Belafonte, Executive Director, Sankofa; visual artist Xaviera Simmons; Enrique Morones, founder of Border Angels, Founder/Director of Gente Unida; members of UnLocal with filmmaker Adelita Husni-Bey; members of New York Immigration Coalition; Roger H. Brown, former president of Berklee College of Music; Reverend Micah Bucey of Judson Memorial Church, and music producer/activist Raoul Roach.

The event will also include Adelita Husni-Bey’s film Chiron, introduced by Husni-Bey; and the border photojournalism of Tish Lampert will be presented in a new film collaboration with Emilio Rojas and poet Sibani Sen.

The event is free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $20. Program subject to change.

Judson Memorial Church is located at 55 Washington Square South (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets) in Manhattan.

For further information about the day’s events, the organizations, and bios of all performers and speakers, visit https://www.movementwithoutborders.com.

In compliance with NYC mandates, all persons must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination in order to be onsite. Masks will be required for visitors inside the venue at all times.

Movement Without Borders has received major support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art: Building Bridges Program.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, New York, United States

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