Performance: No-No Boy
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Performance: No-No Boy
March 9, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Free
Sponsored by: Full Spectrum Features
Date: Friday March 9, 2018
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 PM
Location: Sanctuary on Michigan Avenue
Cost: Free – Advance Registration Required
Register: Eventbrite or Facebook
No-No Boy creates an immersive experience which shines a light on diverse but interconnected histories: WWII Japanese Incarceration, southeast Asian refugees, and kids in middle-America making sense of hyphenated identities.
Inspired by his doctoral research at Brown University, as well as his experiences growing up as the son of a Vietnamese refugee in Tennessee, singer/songwriter Julian Saporiti’s original songs are performed against a backdrop of projections displaying archival photographs and films. Saporiti is joined on stage by singer Erin Aoyama, a fellow Brown PhD student whose grandmother was incarcerated in a Japanese-American concentration camp.
In collaboration with Chicago’s Ho Etsu Taiko, Julian and Erin will also perform a brand new live score of Full Spectrum Features‘ narrative short, The Orange Story. The event is FREE. RSVP through Eventbrite or Facebook is required.
