Different Ships, Same Boat
Sun, Jun 14
|The Amato Center for Performing Arts
It’s rare that we get a chance to reflect on the trials and tribulations faced by our ancestors and their journey from their homeland to America. Sponsored by Melanie Levesque, "Different Ships, Same Boat" offers us this experience through music and spoken word.
Time & Location
Jun 14, 2026, 5:00 PM
The Amato Center for Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon St, Milford, NH 03055, USA
About the event
Different Ships, Same Boat is an interactive, multidisciplinary performance combining powerful spoken word, music and song to explore the multifaceted ways Americans risk, live, love and laugh. Unfolding through a series of chapters — each curating real world stories — MA Poet Laureate & former Poetry Slam Champion Regie Gibson and composer/storycatcher Guy Mendilow guide audiences with podcast-like narration, at turns humorous, poignant or poetic, over an evocative musical score. With stories from small towns, cities and ports of entry, along with music spanning lyrical American Blues and songs from older homes from which today’s Americans came (e.g. Ottoman Jews from present-day Greece and Hungary), Different Ships, Same Boat offers a stirring exploration of the joys, tensions and complexities of who we are and who we wish to be.
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