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Michael Tisserand
By Paul Demko
Published on November 21, 2007
Sugarcane Academy is a slim, eloquent portrait of families grasping for a slice of normalcy amid the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina. Michael Tisserand, former editor of New Orleans weekly The Gambit, evacuates with family and friends to rural Louisiana. Facing a bleak, uncertain future, they create a makeshift one-room schoolhouse in New Iberia for their children. A displaced Crescent City teacher is recruited to lead the humble effort. The kids dub the school Sugarcane Academy in honor of their new surroundings. It becomes a symbol of hope and perseverance in the midst of overwhelming devastation and dysfunction. Tisserand eventually branches out from his own family’s experience to explore other impromptu schools created to teach the children of the Katrina diaspora. Also the author of The Kingdom of Zydeco, Tisserand will be joined by local New Orleans jazz combo Southside Aces. Free. 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612.822.4611.
Sun. Nov. 25, 7:00 p.m.
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