Louis and New York City who have made the commitment to sing together in order to start powerful, uncomfortable, transformative discussions about race and gender-based violence. The singers and musicians featured in this video include educators, students, activists, social workers, members of the faith community, and police officers from St. In this time of violence, outrage, division, and grief, Theater of War Productions is honored to share this virtual offering, performed by the Antigone in Ferguson Choir, directed by composer Phil Woodmore and led by the amazing De-Rance Blaylock graduate of Normandy High School and teacher of Michael Brown. Nathalie Arzu, RISE Project Uptown Program Manger Manasi Garg, National Student Poet, Saratoga, CAĪl-Tabar Hudgins, RISE Project Uptown Coordinator, NYC Using the poem to build bridges and create a vocabulary for talking about the challenges before us and within our homes, Those Winter Sundays aims to foster compassion, understanding, healing, and resilience.įacilitated by Bryan Doerries and Elisa New. The event also featured a recorded reading of Hayden's poem by President Joe Biden, helping frame crucial dialogue between diverse communities about economic hardship, family dynamics, parenting, domestic violence, racism, and American identity during this divided and fractured time.
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This special collaboration between Theater of War Productions and the PBS series Poetry in America presented readings by the actors Bill Murray (Lost in Translation) and Moses Ingram (The Queen’s Gambit) of Robert Hayden's 1960s sonnet “Those Winter Sundays,” as a catalyst for a powerful, guided discussion about the everyday struggle of surviving, thriving, and connecting during this incredibly difficult winter. A NYC paramedic working with FDNY EMS since 2004 and currently a lieutenant with EMS and work out of EMS station 40 in sunset park Brooklyn. Majored in theatre and political science in Brooklyn college. Have lived Montana and California in early 20s and traveled to 90 countries. 42 years old and Born and raised in Brooklyn New York. Dr Gore was raised in Brooklyn, he and his wife reside in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of the borough.Īnthony Almojera, Vice President of the EMS Officers Union. He has also worked in disaster zones in Haiti. He founded the SUNY Downstate Medical Center Minority Medical Student Emergency Medicine (MMSEM) Summer Fellowship - a mentoring program for underrepresented minorities in medicine. He is the founder of the Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) which earned him recognition as a CNN Hero, entry into the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program, and other awards. Robert Gore, has been treating COVID-19 patients as an emergency room attending physician at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County and SUNY Downstate Medical Center (where he is also a faculty member). Jo-Ann has been appointed to the State task force on re-opening New York.ĭr. As you know the Asian American community (here in NY) have some of the lowest infection and death rates from the disease. Jo-Ann has been outspoken about discrimination faced by the Asian American community in the face of COVID 19. The organization was established in 1989 and represents a network of community service agencies including health and human services, education and economic development.
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Jo-Ann Yoo, Executive Director of the Asian-American Federation. VOCAL-NY is a statewide membership organization that focuses on low-income people affected by various social ills. She has been an outspoken critic of the way homeless individuals are treated - or not - and most recently how vulnerable they are during this pandemic. Paulette Soltani, Political Director, VOCAL-NY is recognized for her work across New York City in affordable housing and homelessness. Bryan Doerries facilitates the discussions with panelists: