If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin: Mini-Performance and Community Conversation

Name: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin: Mini-Performance and Community Conversation
Start: 2024-10-05T01:30:00-04:00
Location: Bronx Library Center - NYPL

Schedule

Sat Oct 05 2024 at 01:30 am

UTC-04:00

Location

Bronx Library Center - NYPL | Bronx, NY

Literature to Life presents a selection from their Signature Performance of James Baldwin's novel If Beale Street Could Talk. Narrated by the story's young heroine, it portrays one family’s struggle for justice in a society where institutional discrimination threatens to tear lives apart. The themes of the story continue to resonate powerfully with contemporary audiences from diverse backgrounds.
Performed by Channie Waites
Adapted and directed by Elise Thoron
Literature To Life is a performance-based literacy program that presents professionally staged verbatim adaptations of American literary classics.