The Bicoastal Im/migrant Experience in America
A humanities project exploring the stories behind the im/migration experiences of peoples on the move to and within the Americas.
East80West is a constellation of humanities-based, creative projects which take Bergen Community College’s 2023-2024 Common Read selection A Map Is Only One Story by Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary as a point of departure. Each of these collaborative, interdisciplinary, and interconnected projects places the experiences of ordinary people at the center and in so doing they highlight the extraordinary. Focusing on the theme of arrival and departure, migration and immigration, the projects add depth and breadth to Bergen County’s rich history while also mapping cultural throughways that connect the region, the world, and everyone in it.
Project Elements:
- Arrivals/Departures Exhibition – Curated by Cece Carpio and Tim Blunk at Gallery Bergen.
- More Than One Story, Oral History Project – coordinated by Christine Eubank and Leigh Jonaitis
- More Than One Story Verbatim Theater – Written and directed by Christine Eubank and Leigh Jonaitis
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