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Immigrants' Theatre Project
Marcy Arlin, Artistic Director
and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum
present
Mango Lassi

a refreshing Summer Salon
with New Voices from SALAAM
directed and curated by Geeta Citygirl
featuring

Kayhan Irani (excerpts from her show We've Come Undone)
We Don't Need no Water and Inexistence

Chee Malabar from Himalayan Project
with guest DJ Disctraction (Nitin Mukul)
Postcards from Paradise
Capital C
Medley Mix- from The Middle Passage CD

Jungli aka Tasneem A. Nanji
Nuclear song - inspired by the Narmada Dam project in INDIA & the book Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy.
The Heist - a song relevant to Muslim women's plight of freedom and justice.. all over the world.

Aladdin's original theater piece reflects on the NYC Immigrant experience from the perspective of a Bangladeshi-American.

Tahani Salah's original poetry with a teen spark to ignite a revolution.

Geeta Citygirl reading from her new play, All in the Family at 704.

Lower East Side Tenement Theater
97 Orchard Street
between Broome & Delancey
Lower East Side, Manhattan, NYC
Admission $6.00
$5.00 for Museum members

Reservations highly recommended:
212-431-0233 x 440
http://www.tenement.org

Subway directions to 97 Orchard Street:
F to Delancey Street or
J, M, or Z to Essex Street.

Walk two blocks away from the Williamsburg Bridge (west) to Orchard Street, turn left and walk one block south to Broome Street.

MANGO LASSI is part of the series American Dreams V: Plays about NYC & the Immigrant Experience.
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A note from Geeta Citygirl:
Theater, hip-hop, music, spoken word & poetry represent SALAAM Theatre...  Join us as we participate in the Immigrants' Theatre Project's AMERICAN DREAMS V series (this is our 2nd year in this festival).  And celebrate our inclusion in the select list of 'ethnic' theater companies in this week's cover story in Backstage.  We're in the company of such inspirational theatre folks (Pan Asian Rep, NAATCO, Ma-Yi, New Federal, INTAR, Nuyorican, Irish Arts, Puerto Rican Traveling, Repertorio Espanol, Ujamaa, etc...) and want to thank each of them and the many others for paving a path for people like me and SALAAM Theatre.  We vow to continue to celebrate South Asian American artistic excellence while challenging stereotypes and breaking negative images while showcasing all creative disciplines and all peoples in the spirit of progressive solidarity!  See you soon.
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Immigrants' Theatre Project presents professional theatre about the immigrant experience to develop intercultural understanding through the universality of individual immigrant lives.  Since its founding in 1988 by Marcy Arlin, ITP has presented over 70 new plays from over 60 nations and ethnicities.  ITP sponsored Aurorae Khoo's play Double Auntie Waltz (2000 Kennedy Center Fund), and won 1995 Vineyard SPACE Fund Grant.  ITP presents workshops in the public schools, NYC libraries and universities.  The Festival, Unexpected Journeys, featured plays by women from Armenia, Turkey, Nigeria, Egypt, Australia, the U.S. (cf April 2002, American Theatre).

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum's mission is to promote tolerance and historical perspective through the presentation and interpretation of the variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan's Lower East Side, a gateway to America.   The Lower East Side Tenement Museum was chartered in 1988. The heart of the Museum is the tenement at 97 Orchard Street. Located on Manhattan's Lower East Side, 97 Orchard was home to an estimated 7,000 people from over 20 nations from 1863 to 1935. In 1998, President Clinton and the United States Congress designated the Museum a National Historic Area affiliated with the National Park Service. 97 Orchard Street had been named a National Historic Landmark and a featured property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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SALAAM Theatre is a not-for-profit professional multidisciplinary theatre company celebrating South Asian American artistic excellence through creative risk-taking and experimentation that challenges all boundaries, connects all peoples and links all the arts in the spirit of progressive solidarity.

Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
SALAAM  Theatre (South Asian League of Artists in AMerica)
http://www.SALAAMtheatre.org