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Playlist: Judith Sloan's Portfolio

Judith Sloan Credit: photo by Warren Lehrer
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They Lied

From Judith Sloan | Part of the Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America series | 02:24

Born in Poland, Joanna Pittner thought she was only visiting America for a vacation.

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Crossing-cd-coverfor_web_small Quirky personal narrative of a teenage girl talking about her arrival in America from Poland and the tension caused when she discovered that her parents lied to get her on the plane.

Names

From Judith Sloan | Part of the Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America series | 04:07

Seven people from six different countries tell stories about their names. Produced by Judith Sloan

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Crossing-cd-coverfor_web_small What's in a name? A journey, a history, the story of countries, cultures, and lives. Judith Sloan edited stories and thoughts from seven different people talking about their names. Tellers come from China, Austria, Barbados, Togo, Nigeria, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Incantations

From Judith Sloan | 03:37

A musical sound rich mix of people praying in multiple languages. All recorded in Queens, New York.

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46 Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer traveled around the world by trekking the streets of their own backyard, the 112 square miles of the borough of Queens, New York, home to the largest mix of immigrants and refugees in the United States. Sloan gathered the sounds of people praying in different neighborhoods, in churches, mosques, synagogues, in apartments, at public gatherings and in private moments who come from Togo, China, Haiti, Nigeria, Queens, Romania, even North Carolina! One of fourteen sound stations accompanying a traveling exhibition of photographs, sounds and stories: Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America.