POSTPONED: Sunday’s Concert by No-No Boy Project at Darien Library

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The No-No Boy concert previously scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 25 at Darien Library has been postponed to a date to be determined. The reason: One of the performers came down with the flu.

The concert had been originally scheduled for 5 to 6 p.m. Darien Library announced the postponement late Friday night on Facebook and on Twitter. Here’s the Facebook announcement:

  • Tomorrow’s performance of the No-No Boy Project has been postponed. One of the performers has come down with the dreaded flu. We’ll let you know when the concert has been rescheduled. Be well, Darien!

Here’s a description of the No-No Boy Project from Darien Library:

The No-No Boy Project is a multimedia concert featuring the music of singer/songwriter Julian Saporiti.

Inspired by his doctoral research at Brown University, as well as his experiences growing up as the son of a Vietnamese refugee in Tennessee, Saporiti’s original songs, interwoven amongst stories he has collected through the years, are performed against a backdrop of projections displaying archival photographs and films.

No-No Boy creates an immersive experience which shines a light on diverse but interconnected histories: WWII Japanese Incarceration, southeast Asian refugees, and kids in middle-America making sense of hyphenated identities.

Saporiti is joined on stage by singer Erin Aoyama, a fellow Brown PhD student, and Darien native, whose participation in the project is deeply personal, as her grandmother was incarcerated at Heart Mountain, one of the ten Japanese American concentration camps.

Through music, storytelling and visuals, the No-No Boy concert brings often obscured American histories to audiences in a unique and captivating way. At the core of this project, is a message which dozens of camp survivors have asked Saporiti to relay to his audiences, “DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN.”

Refreshments will be served.

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