South Asian Youth Action Presents: A Benefit Performance featuring SAYA! Youth and Peeling the Banana

Hosted by the Joseph Papp Public Theatre
In Association with the Asian American Federation of New York andthe Asian American Writers' Workshop

The Manhattan premiere of the collaboration between NYC's only South Asian youth agency and Peeling the Banana, NYC's one-of-a-kind pan-Asian American theater troupe, will reveal it all to you Off-Broadway at The Joseph Papp Public Theatre on Tuesday June 23rd. All proceeds will benefit SAYA's youth center in Elmhurst, Queens.

Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: The Joseph Papp Public Theatre

425 Lafayette Street
Directions: 6 Train to Astor Place or N/R Train to 8th Street

Ticket Donation:
$20 in Advance
$25 Day of Show
$40 VIP (with listing in the program)

To order tickets: Send check or money order direclty to SAYA! at 54-05 Seabury Street, Elmhurst, NY 11373. Please indicate the number of tickets you would like to purchase and specify between the regular or VIP price. A confirmation of your tickets will be mailed to you. Arrive at the theater 20 minutes before show time to pick up your tickets.

For more information please call SAYA! at 718-651-3484.

SOUTH ASIAN YOUTH ACTION (SAYA!), INC. is a nonprofit, community-based organization dedicated to empowering South Asian youth. Our mission is to promote self-esteem, provide opportunites for growth and development and build cultural, social and political awareness among South Asian youth. SAYA! is supported with generous funding from the Asian American Federation of New York, the New York Foundation, and the New York Womenís Foundation. AT&T is SAYA!'s Founding Corporate Sponsor.

PEELING THE BANANA is an Asian American arts collective based in NYC that utilizes autobiography as a depature point for performance, community building and political expression. The New York Times has compared Peeling the Bananaís productions to Ntozake Shange's choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf". Shelby Jiggets, the director of play development for The Public Theater told Newsday that, "I was moved just by being in a room with them". She added that the work touches on issues that affect people regardless of race: issues like relationships beween fathers and sons or between men and women. Peeling the Banana has performed at The Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, New York Film Academy, Los Angeles Highways Performance Space, and has toured over a dozen U.S. cities.

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