“The aftermath of 9/11 is not over.”

Andrea Assaf’s 11Reflections: NYC is a multi-disciplinary performance that centers long overlooked voices in the national conversation on the impact of 9/11. Through music, dance, poetry, and performance, 11Reflections: NYC asks how we commemorate, what happens after, and whose voices are included when we remember.

This special NYC production is the culmination of a multi-year national series of devised works, Eleven Reflections on the Nation, which examines the lasting cultural, political, and personal impacts of the post-9/11 era through performance, poetry, music, testimony, and community dialogue. We invite you to gather with us in community on this deeply significant anniversary, to reflect and share through performance and conversation.

Highlighting the work of SWANA artists Andrea Assaf (2024 Joyce Award), vocalist Lubana Al Quntar (First Arab Opera Singer from Syria), Music Director & violinist Eylem Basaldi (Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon), 11Reflections: NYC also features an exceptional line-up of special guests, including: 9/11 survivor and long-time HERE affiliated artist James Scruggs (2024 Guggenheim Fellow); Emmy-award winning writer, performer, cultural activist, and grassroots educator Kayhan Irani (2016 Obama White House Champion of Change; 2010 Emmy Award-winner); Dancer/Choreographer Nejla Yatkin (2024 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2008 Princess Grace Choreography Fellow); Multi-Instrumentalist Zafer Tawil (featured composer and performer in Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-nominated Rachel Getting Married); and more! Contributing writers also include legendary Palestinian American poets Naomi Shihab Nye (2024 Wallace Stevens Award), Suheir Hammad (2009 American Book Award), Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson (Poet Laureate Emeritus of San Antonio), Lebanese theatre-maker Sahar Assaf, and more. The visual design will feature Video Art by London-based projectionist Eva Auster, who also co-created the digital film version of Eleven Reflections on September by Andrea Assaf (2021 Silk Road Cannes Film Festival: Best Experimental Feature, and 2022 New York International Film Awards: Best Social Justice Film, plus 20 Official Selections).