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New Haven Poet/Activist staging a reading with music and poetry in New York City ( The Brecht Forum)
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Subject: [CTpeace-activists] New Haven Poet/Activist staging a reading with music and poetry in New York City ( The Brecht Forum)


NOT TOO BE MISSED  
An original work  by Paula Panzarella -New Haven Poet/Activist being staged in New York City   Cast is made up of fellow New Haven Activists    
                              Please read and send widely       NOT TOO BE MISSED    

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In 2005, the rights to fair a trial, to organize into unions, to freedom of speech and of assembly are under attack by a government focused on war, anti-immigrant hysteria and the death penalty.  The lessons of history can be a guide in understanding and changing the world. 

Outcry for Justice
Poetry in the Struggle for Freedom of 
Sacco and Vanzetti

created and directed by Paula Panzarella
 
Saturday, August 27, 2005,  7:30 pm
THE BRECHT FORUM
451 West Street (between Bank and Bethune Streets)
New York, NY   10014
 suggested donation: $6, $10, $15 

For tickets, please contact The Brecht Forum
phone: 212-242-4201, e-mail:   mail at brechtforum.org

For further information, please  call 203-562-2798 
or e-mail paulapanzarella at yahoo.com             


Poetry, music and commentary about immigrant rights, war, labor history and the death penalty are incorporated into this two hour dramatic reading about Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrant anarchists and labor leaders who were executed by the State of Massachusetts in 1927 after having a trial marked by prejudice, prosecutorial misconduct, omission of evidence and blatant disregard for the rights of defendants.
Cast: Marlene Buchanan, Joan Cavanagh, Stephen Kobasa, Frank Panzarella, Tony Rosso, Sylvia Forges Ryan, Glenn Stevens and Maggie Testa.  With mandolin and guitar accompaniment.
Outcry for Justice was initially produced in 2002 to mark the 75th anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.  Since its debut performance of March 12, 2002, Outcry for Justice has been enthusiastically embraced.  Performances include Long Wharf Theatre, Gateway Community Technical College, New Haven Colony Historical Society, Trinity College (Hartford), Oddfellows Playhouse (Middletown), and Theater for the New City (New York).
 
Wherever Outcry for Justice is performed, the script is re-written using the history of the particular locale for resource material such as: newspapers from the 1920s, local union records, archives from Italian historical societies and interviews with people whose family members had a connection with the case. The interest in Sacco and Vanzetti remains wide and deep - not only is this case part of Italian American history, but it is also relevant to immigrants from other countries who have encountered the obstacles of racism and classism upon arrival in America.
 
Supporters of this performance include the Phoebe Foundation and the Greater New Haven Labor History Association.

Directions 
 Trains: A, C, E or L to 14th Street and 8th Ave., walk down 8th Ave. to Bethune, turn right, walk west to the Hudson River, turn left.  1, 2, 3 or 9 to 14th Street and 7th Ave., get off at south end of station, walk west on 12th Street to 8th Ave., left to Bethune, turn right, walk west to the River, turn left.


"I sought my liberty in the liberty of all; my happiness in the happiness of all." 


                                                                    -- Bartolomeo Vanzetti
 
 
Paula Panzarella, creator and director of Outcry for Justice: Poetry in the Struggle for Freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti, is a playwright, performance poet, freelance writer, and social justice activist from New Haven, CT.  She is the editor of the three volume anthology "Poems on the Road to Peace: A Collective Tribute to Dr. King" (2002-2004), published by the Yale-Peabody Museum of New Haven, CT), the editor of "Voices Along the River," a poetry anthology published by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection in September, 2001, and the author of "Living from the Heart," her own collection of poetry published in June, 1999.  She has been published in numerous literary journals and newspapers, hosted poetry venues throughout Connecticut, and received NEA funding for the December, 2003 performance of "Back in the Day," a component of "Lifting Voices, Quilting Lives," a New Haven Family Alliance project for inner-city youth.  She is a member of the Artemis Rising women's poetry collective, the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, and the CT Commission on the Arts/Urban Artists Initiative program.  Paula attended Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, for two years and has a BA in English Literature from Lewis and Clark College (Portland, OR).  She is most recently published in the 2004 edition of "War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities."



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