Event:
Live Performance – Fighting for Democracy: Who is the
“We” in “We the People”
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PDF flyer.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Performance
Times:
11:00 am
11:00 am
Warner
Bros. Theater
Closest
Metro: Federal Triangle
Free
and open to the public.
No tickets or reservations required.
No tickets or reservations required.
America is a story that
is being written everyday in the lives of its people. What is the story? And
what do we learn from it?
In conjunction with the
exhibition, I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American
Story, currently on view at the National Museum of American
History, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center presents “Fighting
for Democracy: Who is the ‘We in ‘We the People’?” This compelling stage
performance created by the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and
produced collaboratively with Philadelphia’s premier theater artists, explores
the themes of civil rights and democracy through the perspectives of seven
diverse individuals whose lives and communities were forever changed by World
War II. Fighting for Democracy reveals how World War II was a pivotal
time in developing a broader understanding of our nation and its people.
Each 35-minute
performance will include a post-show discussion with the audience and artists.
Credits
The Smithsonian Asian
Pacific American Center presents Fighting for Democracy, an original
performance by the National Constitution Center in partnership
with the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, an educational
program of the Japanese American National Museum funded in
part by the U.S. Army Center of Military History.
The National
Constitution Center in Philadelphia is a hands-on museum, national town hall,
and civic education headquarters celebrating the United States Constitution and
the story of “We the People.” Learn more at constitutioncenter.org
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