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Fine Arts Center
11/22/2008 7:00 PM at Shekadii Walaalo!
Bowker Auditorium, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
Cost: Free
Shekadii Walaalo, Sister-Story, is the culminating performance of a multi-year community-based project, featuring the Pioneer Valley’s own Somali community in a vibrant evening of live music, dance, video, poetry and storytelling. Based on the traditional Somali epic form, the Riwad, Shekadii Walaalo illuminates the contemporary experiences of the Somali women and men who are now our neighbors. It is a journey of survival, displacement, and new beginnings: from fleeing a beloved homeland, through war and refugee camps, to resettlement in Massachusetts, and the realities of life as African Muslims in post-9/11 America. These extraordinary stories reveal the power of the human spirit to rise above the worst of human atrocities, and the persistence of love through the greatest of human challenges. This community-based theater production is an original work created by members of the Walaalo! Somali Sisters Collective, in collaboration with professional artists supported by New WORLD Theater.
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