Sunny Jain's Wild Wild East at The Freight
Schedule
Sun, 13 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA, United States, California 94704 | Berkeley, CA
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Behind its idealism, the American myth of westward expansion has always been an irony-caked parable about what happens when you try to escape the known for the pursuit of new beginnings. The traits we think we’ve spotted in the cowboy — bravery, boldness, a willingness to sacrifice the known for the sake of the better — have always been suspect. But the courage to leave behind a homeland and head west, to boldly step into a new place and declare it home, to survey the scene and try to find your place in it? That’s still around. “The idea of the American cowboy is this romanticized idea that’s just false,” Sunny Jain says plainly. “The immigrant is the current-day cowboy or cowgirl.”
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