Two Artists Staged a Musical About Forced Migration, and Other Great Work From Europe

Cleveland Artist to Transform Vintage Bus into Museum of the Great Migration

Cleveland-based artist Robert Louis Brandon Edwards is repurposing a 1947 Greyhound bus salvaged from a Pennsylvania junkyard to serve as a museum commemorating the Great Migration. Beginning in about 1910 and ending around 1970, the mass movement saw millions of Black Americans leave the rural South for northern cities, where they hoped to begin new […]

Two Artists Staged a Musical About Forced Migration, and Other Great Work From Europe

It’s difficult to find words for “Foreign Root.” Created by Ukrainian musician Ivan Dorn and Latvian director Andzej Gavriss, it draws from the creators’ experiences of displacement to hold a mirror up to the people whose suffering is livestreamed before our eyes. There are currently about 123 million migrants—forcibly displaced people—to date. There will be more as viable land grows scarce. They could, one day, be us or our kids, if they’re not…