ImprovBoston Hosts MONSTERS TO DESTROY A Talk About Refugees

New England's oldest and biggest comedy theater, ImprovBoston hosts Filmmaker and Comedian Ben Tumin for "Monsters To Destroy" (M2D), a talk about refugee resettlement in the United States created in partnership with Human Rights First, Veterans for American Ideals, and other organizations. Weaving together personal narrative and pre-recorded humanizing and humorous interviews, Tumin argues for expanded refugee resettlement on national security grounds on Sunday, July 15th at 7:30pm.

Tumin's connects the struggles and hopes of five young Syrian refugees living in Germany and a retired Marine working in human rights advocacy to his own grandfather, a German-Jewish refugee who fled the Nazis just prior to World War II.

Leading refugee advocacy organizations describe the presentation as moving and informative, noting that the humor "works surprisingly well."

Monsters To Destroy runs Sunday, July 15th at 7:30pm at ImprovBoston at 40 Prospect Street in Cambridge. Tickets are available at https://ibmonsterstodestroy.eventbrite.com.

For over 30 years, ImprovBoston has been New England's leading theater and school dedicated to the art of comedy in all its forms. Voted "Best of Boston" by The Phoenix, The Improper Bostonian, and The Weekly Dig, ImprovBoston performers, teachers and students have included film stars, Emmy Award-winning comedians, and acclaimed producers, directors, musicians and writers. ImprovBoston alumni are featured on Conan, Late Night with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, America's Got Talent, Funniest Wins, Playboy, Last Comic Standing and John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, to name a few. In 2014, the Independent Reviewers of New England honored ImprovBoston with an award recognizing its longstanding contributions to the Boston theater community.

As a nonprofit arts organization, ImprovBoston serves the community through laughter with youth outreach programs, workshops for businesses, scholarships, a national touring company and, of course, performances at its theater complex in Central Square, Cambridge.

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