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Wing It: ‘Great Escapes: The Moth in Boston’ brings the art of storytelling to The Wilbur

By Victoria Wasylakon

In its 20 years of nationwide storytelling, The Moth has never had a chance to stagnate.

Spread across 25 cities, the still-growing program prompts strangers to gather and recite their best beat-poetry-esque tales, along with a myriad of other things, including a podcast, education program, and compilation books.

And while the series peppers StorySLAM events around Boston at venues like ONCE Sommerville and Oberon for anyone stop step up to the storytelling plate, the MainStage events are a much rarer commodity, featuring five pre-selected speakers. This Thursday (June 22), “Great Escapes: The Moth in Boston" hits The Wilbur Theatre as one of the series’ near-600 shows planned for this year.

So what's on tap? A lot of personal storytelling from six scheduled performers. Catch up on their backgrounds and bios from the Wilbur below, and hit up the venue's ticket page for more info. Featured Carmen Aguirre photo via The Blue Box.

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Sofia Ali-Khan

Sofia Ali-Khan is a mom, writer, and public interest lawyer. She practiced in the areas of welfare law, community economic development, and language access in Philadelphia, after having fallen in love with legal services as an intern at GBLS in Boston. In 2015, while trying to be a stay-at-home Mom, Sofia wrote the Facebook blog post “Dear Non Muslim Allies.” This accidentally began a new run of writing and activism to counter anti-Muslim bigotry, which is even less well paid than public interest law. Her work has appeared inTricycle, altMuslimah.com, The Stranger, and The Huffington Post. Sofia holds a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and a B.A. in Social Sciences and Gender Studies from the commune otherwise known as New College of Florida. She is Muslim and American, and the proud daughter of Pakistani immigrants.

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