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If you’ve ever wished for a second chance, Safety Not Guaranteed is your story. Featuring original songs by Guster’s Ryan Miller and a book by Broadway mainstay Nick Blaemire, this new indie-rock musical gets inside your head while it cuts straight to your heart.

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Safety Not Guaranteed

Brooklyn Academy of Music

A transdisciplinary opera and creative act of resistance. Born from the vibrant collaboration between composer Jonathan Berger, visual artist Enrico Riley and poet/librettist Vievee Francis, the work responds to the murder of Eric Garner and the ongoing theft of Black life at the hands of the State. Music, text, projected visuals, and movement interweave in a story centered on Garner’s daughter, Erica. Uplifted by a 75-person choir of singers, the project gathers us together as co-conspirers to breathe and keep breathing any way we can.

The Ritual of Breath is the Rite to Resist

Damrosch Park

Newark, NJ. Post-9/11. Two teenagers, brought to America as children, now face an unlikely foe: unexpected, unreciprocated love. Their friendship is no longer enough (for one of them) and their adopted country doesn’t love them back. Pulitzer Prize-winner Martyna Majok brings light to the sacrifices made by DREAMers, lovers and life-long friends in the heartbreaking and hopeful Sanctuary City—a story that fractures and transcends—crossing boundaries, borders and genres in search of a place to call home. 

Lighting Designer

Reza Behjat

Events

Past events

15 - 20 Oct, 2024

Safety Not Guaranteed · Brooklyn Academy of Music

Jul 19, 2024

The Ritual of Breath is the Rite to Resist · The Flea Theater

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