Fall Down and Get Up, an Evening of Theater Scenes, Songs and Poems with Naomi Newman, October 29

New York, NY, October 18, 2002 - The Ingeborg, Tamara and Yonina Rennert Women in Judaism Forum presents an evening with actress Naomi Newman in "Fall Down and Get Up, an Evening of Theater Scenes, Songs and Poems." The event is organized by the Barnard Center for Research on Women and will take place on Tuesday, October 29, at 7:00 p.m. in the Julius S. Held Lecture Hall, 304 Barnard Hall.

In her poem "Repairing the World," actor and playwright Naomi Newman invites us to imagine the creation of a perfect world: "Think of it, a world without greed / and cruelty and violence." As a founding member and Artistic Director of the San Francisco-based A Traveling Jewish Theatre, Newman has dedicated her career to exploring, with compassion and insight, the different worlds that we live in. In taking the stage as an African-American artist, a mystical Yiddish poet, an eastern European Jewish mother, a gay man, Newman forces us to confront the issues that divide us in order to bring us together.

The event will showcase Newman's work through theater scenes, songs and poems. She will share her remarkable understanding of our shattered world, while reminding us of the power that each of us has to help fix it: "We are the ones who can find the broken shards, / remember how they fit together / and rejoin them."

Contact: Petra Tuomi, Office of Public Affairs, 212-854-7907