[BHS etree] PTSA: Embracing Diversity Films Next Showing April 12

[bhs at idiom.com]

contact: Kay Weinstein [kayweinstein at yahoo.com]

Embracing Diversity Films and Albany High School PTA
present Episode 1 of "The New Americans" on Tuesday
April 12 at 7 p.m. at Albany High School, 603 Key Route
Blvd. in Albany. Enter through the main doors on Key
Route Blvd., turn left and walk down the hall to Room
109 on the right. Please arrive early as space is
limited. Admission is free and donations are welcome.
Audience members are invited to participate in a
facilitated discussion following the screening.

The recent PBS series, "The New Americans," follows a
diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave
their home and families behind and learn what it means
to be Americans in the 21st century. From the
producers and director of "Hoop Dreams," "The New
Americans" captures the lives of contemporary
immigrants in all their complexities. The series
portrays ordinary people, engaged in day-to-day
struggles of earning a living, raising a family, and
leading productive lives, while struggling with
differences of race, language, and culture.

Episode 1 of "The New Americans" is titled "Domenican
Baseball Players." The Domenican Republic supplies
more players to Major League Baseball than any other
country outside the U.S. Since the Los Angeles Dodgers
built Campo Las Palmas here in 1976, two dozen other
U.S. teams have opened their own facilities as well.
Baseball is everything to these young men who dream of
playing in Dodger Stadium. The very real prospect of
making it in the U.S. Major Leagues is almost a curse;
the pressure on the player is enormous.

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