Chaw Ei Thein's up coming collaboration with Alliance for New Music-Theatre

This collaborative performance explores the culturally rich artistry and complexity of the long troubled and still struggling Myanmar. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

http://newmusictheatre.org/blog/2012/05/sandaya-burmese-lessons/

What is it like to live in a society where you are muzzled,  where everything you say is overheard and reported on? Told from the perspective of artists, musicians and other performers  who are trying to pursue their art, "Sandaya: Burmese Lessons" is  a musical theater performance that covers twenty years of Burmese  history, including when the military junta clamped down on Burmese  demonstrators killing 10,000 people in 1988 and ending with the Saffron  revolution of 2007. This is the story of a young American pianist who  learns about Burmese society by playing Burmese music. This performance is produced by Alliance for New Music-Theatre,  and it features contemporary performance art and Burmese dance,  drumming and puppetry with American as well as Burmese performers,  who are coming from Yangon.  The work is co-created by Kit Young, composer,  Susan Galbraith, director - scriptwriter, and Chaw Ei Thein, performance artist. SAVE THE DATE ! Sandaya: Burmese Lessons kicks off Radical Transformations the performance series by Alliance for New Music-Theatre  July 11-14,18-21, 2013  Thursday - Sunday evenings 8pm Sunday matinees at - special ‘pay what you can’ preview - 8pm Burmese food on July 11 and at Sunday Matinees  at Atlas Performing Arts Center Click here for TICKETS -For more information, click here Sandaya : Burmese Lessons traces the journey of  a young American pianist as she learns Burmese  language and unique piano style (sandaya).  Her story captures her relationships with  a Burmese performance artist and  U Ko Ko, her piano teacher, as all three become  caught up in the struggle between artistic  expression and tyranny.

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Coming Soon: Tuesday, June 11th at 12 PM PST, 3PM EST

We are pleased to announce our upcoming conference call Forced to Flee: Exiled Voices and Visions for Justice, which we are presenting in collaboration with freeDimensional.
Emotions conveyed and evoked by art and culture can open hearts and minds, heal and transform, build community across difference, and promote peace, equality and justice, advancing positive social change. In Forced to Flee, we will hear refugee artists, artists forced into exile, cultural organizers and their allies talk about how they are using the power of art and culture to amplify the voices and visions of those forced to flee their countries of origin. 


Call presenters:  
Sidd Joag, director of freeDimensionalChaw ei Thein, Burmese Artist and Activist
Erika Berg, founder of Refugee Youth Empowered and curator of Forced to FleeLeilani Chan, performance artists, cultural workers and co-creator of Refugee Nation

The call will be moderated by Todd Lester (Arts-Policy Nexus / Lanchonete.org / Queer Art) and Kathie deNobriga (Arts & Democracy Project).  Andrea Assaf(Art 2 Action) will be a respondent.

Please click here to register and RSVP for this call.