Wednesday, November 12
Location: Painted Bride Art Center
230 Vine Street
Philadelphia PA, 19106
The Bride is located on the north edge of Old City, between 2nd and 3rd Streets on Vine.
Time: 8:30-10:30pm
Cost: $15
In the overheated debate about immigration, voices of the immigrants themselves are seldom heard. Underground America changes that with a dramatic reading of oral histories by undocumented immigrants that reveals the harrowing ordeals and heart-rending choices they must make every day.
A discussion follows with a panel of experts who will address the legal, economic and humanitarian issues surrounding the immigration debate.
Panelists:
Pete Orner is editor of the book Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives. As a fiction writer, he has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and the Rome Prize and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is an associate professor at San Francisco State University.
Sarah Paoletti heads up UPenn Law’s Transnational Clinic.
Jaykumar Menon is a human rights lawyer and writer and a fellow at the Center for International Sustainable Development Law at McGill University.
Moderator:
Judith A. Bernstein-Baker is the executive director of HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia.
