Tuesday August 19
7:00 at Blue Hill Public Library

5 Parker Point Road
Blue Hill, Maine 04614

co-sponsored by Blue Hill Books & Blue Hill Public Library

 

Join us for an evening with performer/writer Judith Sloan and author/artist Warren Lehrer, featuring excerpts from two decades of book projects that embrace stories of immigration, refuge, recovery, war and peace, finding home and sanity in an out of balance world.

New York and Maine based award-winning artists Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer will present stories from several books, including their collaboration Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America featuring immigrants and refugees reflecting on the good, the ugly, and the unexpected in their stories of crossing oceans, borders, wars, economic hardship and cultural divides; A Life In Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley, Lehrer’s illuminated novel containing 101 books within it. A heartwarming, heart-wrenching and hysterical exploration of one man’s use of books as a means of understanding himself and a half century of American/global events; and Jericho’s Daughter Lehrer’s anti-war, feminist reimagining of the biblical tale of Rahab, the Canaanite “harlot” who lived in a mud hut inside the outer brick wall of Jericho. 

Sloan and Lehrer are co-founders of EarSay, a non-profit dedicated to nurturing and portraying stories of uncelebrated individuals. Over the past 25 years, they have been creating and producing multimedia projects, traveling throughout the U.S. and abroad, in theaters, libraries, universities, festivals and prisons. 

What the critics say: “Crossing the BLVD is a whirlwind tour and love poem of what has often been called the most racially and ethnically diverse county in America.” – Sewell Chan, The New York Times

“Winner of the Ladislav Sutnar Prize for his pioneering work and lifetime achievement in visual literature and design, Warren Lehrer has influenced two generations of designers… When you read one of Lehrer’s books, it tends to feel… like the future.” – Debbie Millman Design Matters

“In Lehrer’s books… words take on thought’s very form, bringing sensory experience to the reader as directly as ink on paper can allow… Once considered too far ahead of his time… Now the times are beginning to catch up to him.” – Julie Lasky, The New York Times Book Review