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The Latehomecoming: Literature to Life Workshop

  • In this intimate workshop led by teaching artist Aurea Tomeski, participants will discuss questions of home, identity, and belonging. Actor Gaosong Heu will perform excerpts from The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang as a means of exploring the themes of immigration in the memoir.

    Attendees will have the opportunity to reflect through small discussions and writing prompts.

  • Tickets include happy hour, house tours, and garden viewing.

    First twenty registrants also receive complimentary tickets to the full performance of The Latehomecomer at the Kupferberg Center for the Arts on Friday, May 5 at 8PM.

    $15/per person | $10/students and VO members.

    Limited spots available.

  • Based on the memoir The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang, © 2008, published by Coffee House Press. Performed by Gaosong Heu

    Adapted by Aurea Tomeski & Elise Thoron. Directed by Elise Thoron

    For more about Literature to Life’s arts and literacy programs, please contact Lisa Beth Vettoso at Literature to Life: lisa.v@literaturetolife.org or learn more online at www.literaturetolife.org.

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