Arts Hustler

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)><em>ARTS HUSTLER: A STORY OF RESILIENCE</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> is a gripping account of one woman's journey-proving that anything is possible for a determined immigrant armed with a dream.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>This book is for those who:</span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Feel stuck in life and want to take a leap but are held back by fear.</span></li></ul><p></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Are considering immigration or are already adapting to a new country.</span></li></ul><p></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Want to break into New York's art scene.</span></li></ul><p></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Are trying to make sense of a world increasingly divided.</span></li></ul><p></p><ul><li><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Have seen </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Our Class</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> or want to get an inside feel of how theater works in New York.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>After fleeing to New York with two suitcases and two children in the wake of Russia's attack on Ukraine in 2022 Sofia-a celebrated arts producer in her home country-left everything behind at forty-five to rebuild her life from scratch. That leap led her to produce </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Our Class</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> a deeply personal and hauntingly relevant theatrical experience that reflected her own pain and the fractured relationships of a world torn apart by politics and war.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Hailed as one of the best theater productions of 2024 by </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The Wall Street Journal</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Our Class</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> was also praised as artistically ambitious by </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The New York Times</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> and virtuosic by </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Time Out</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>.</span></p>