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SUMMARY:Ultra American: A Patriot Act Written and Performed by Azhar Usman in Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Famed comedian\, Azhar Usman\, takes to the stage with this brutally honest\, unflinching one-man show. Ultra American: A Patriot Act explores the tensions and paradoxes surrounding the double consciousness of American Muslims living in an ever-polarizing world.\n\n \n\nPerformances:\n\n \t09/24/2016  4:00 - 5:30 PM\n \t09/25/2016 4:00 - 5:30 PM\n\n \n\nAn Artistic Statement from Azhar Usman\n\n \n\nUltra American: A Patriot Act is the result of many years of wondering and wandering all over the planet\, trying to make sense of my own existence in a seemingly insane world–a world full of contradictions\, paradoxes\, and fundamental incongruences.\n\n \n\nFor the past four decades\, I have been negotiating a set of competing identities inside myself: Indian\, American\, Muslim. What does it mean to be an Indian? An American? A Muslim? In the modern world\, no less\, where even the questions seem problematic\, because I never felt like any of those labels really fit\, not as nouns anyway. Perhaps as adjectives. To be Indian is\, in a sense\, different than calling oneself “an Indian.” Just as being American is a universe away from calling oneself “an American.”\n\n \n\nUltra American: A Patriot Act is a modest attempt to push back\, to explore the above-stated\, macro/global themes through micro/local examples\, in an attempt to make sense of it all. Armed with nothing but personal stories\, reflections\, jokes\, and funny one-liners\, it is the most ambitious creative project of my career.\n\n \n\nIt is a tall order\, no doubt. But alas\, what choice does an artist have other than to toss a pebble into the ocean\, hoping and praying that perhaps it can cause a ripple that will reach the other side of the world? It is a task that should properly be considered next to impossible. But as my standup idol and mentor\, Dave Chappelle\, taught me: “Next to impossible is the precursor to dope.”
URL:http://magazine.arablounge.com/event/ultra-american-a-patriot-act-written-and-performed-by-azhar-usman-in-chicago-9/
LOCATION:77 W. Washington St.\, Chicago\, IL\, 60602\, United States
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