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William Yang

Shadows

Saturday, MARCH 29 • 8 pm
Spaulding Auditorium
$18 • Dartmouth students $5

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Chinese-Australian photographer and storyteller William Yang weaves an intricate, eloquent account of two Australian communities haunted by the shadows of dispossession: Aboriginals in the Outback and German immigrants interned during both World Wars. Combining an ironically wry monologue that's “unassuming…unsentimental, and…entirely compelling” (The West Australian), with hundreds of photographs projected onto two large screens, Yang creates an art form that's part diary, part documentary. With musician Colin Offord performing a “contemplative, restless…score” (The Sydney Morning Herald), Shadows magnifies moments, capturing faces and places, vestiges of the past and conditions of the present in stills and stories that take us on a profoundly moving journey of persecution and reconciliation.

Contains adult themes.

American Sign Language interpreted.
Part of Class Divide, a three-year Hopkins Center initiative examining social and economic class issues.

This project is made possible in part by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program, a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.