My Journey Yours: Immigrant Stories

Saturday, March 16, 2024

• 2:00pm

• 7:00pm

Multicultural Arts Center (East Cambridge, MA)

My Journey Yours focuses on the music and stories of immigrants: the songs they bring from their homelands and their experiences of starting a new life in a new country. This multilingual program features works by immigrant composers and writers. “La Frontera'' by Judith Shatin, sets to music a poem by an undocumented immigrant youth held in an American maximum-security detention center. In “N-400 Erasure Song,” Melissa Dunphy reshapes text from the N-400, the application form to apply for US citizenship. “Finding a Home” by Sydney Guillaume blends English and Haitian Creole to express the anguish that comes from feeling out of place, while also celebrating the homes we have found and the ones we have yet to discover. The concert concludes with songs from several of the immigrant communities of Boston.