Greetings!

Join us Saturday August 15th 
in Blue Hill Maine


A Benefit for WERU Community Radio and EarSay

an evening where stories, music, and conversation 

meet at the intersection of humor and heartbreak featuring


Jonathan Lethem, Judith Sloan, Najla Said, 
 Warren Lehrer, Andy Teirstein

Advance tickets recommended

$25 General / $50 / Donor / $100 Sponsor

Community Radio station WERU (and others like it across the USA) have lost ALL their federal CPB funding this year and for the foreseeable future. EarSay, a community arts organization has also lost its NEA and other potential federal funding. If you're in Maine in August, help preserve arts and information and have a fabulous evening.

Sloan and Said will perform an excerpt from their new work exploring how their Jewish and Palestinian American backgrounds shaped their identities and friendship. Lethem and Lehrer each read from new and forthcoming books. Playing multiple instruments, Teirstein performs folk tunes and songs of freedom.

Coming October 9 
LETTER BOX: The Geometry of Loss

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS, NYC

with Warren Lehrer and Rick Black

Advance Copies Available CLICK HERE

Letter Box: The Geometry of Loss is a deeply moving and beautiful book that addresses how a person can deal with personal loss, feel the bottomless pain, yet manage to move on. Written by former New York Times reporter Rick Black, it is the story of a young man’s coming to grips with the unexpected death of his mother from cancer and other traumatic memories from his years as a reporter in the Middle East. The sparse poetic prose—which consists of only a few words per page—is choreographed for the page by visual literature pioneer Warren Lehrer. His typographic settings give delicate and surprising form to the interior, emotional and metaphorical underpinnings of Black’s words. Together, the writing and visuals create an impactful, beautiful, and distinctively cinematic book experience. Letter Box: The Geometry of Loss is a vehicle for readers of all ages to process their own emotions through a visual and literary odyssey. Health & Wellness/Memoir/Art/Design.

Coming October 28

Imperfect Allies: Children of Opposite Sides

with performers Najla Said and Judith Sloan

directed by Suzanne Agins

Purchase College

Jandon Lecture Series

More details coming soon.

Judith Sloan and Najla Said present a new work-in-progress, Imperfect Allies: Children of Opposite Sides. Through dialogue, memories, historical records, poetry, images, and humor, two women explore how their Jewish-American and Palestinian-American backgrounds have shaped their identities, their friendship, and their understanding of the conflicting narratives over Israel/Palestine. Performances will be followed with an opportunity for audience members to practice the art of listening to one another. 

We are celebrating our 26th year of EarSay, a non-profit organization nurturing and portraying stories of the uncelebrated with multi-media projects that bridge the divide between documentary and expressive forms in books, exhibitions, on stage, in sound & electronic media. We humbly ask for your donation as we are facing funding cuts. One way to contribute is a small amount monthly, ($12, $26 monthly or any amount you choose.)

To make a donation please click on Donate Button or click here.

Please visit our EarSay Shop Page for all our books and music. Proceeds from all sales go to support the work.