About Different Ships, Same Boat

Through powerful spoken word, music and song, Different Ships, Same Boat unfolds through a series of chapters — each curating moving, real-world stories to explore a facet of the ways we risk, live, love and laugh. Literary performer Regie Gibson and composer/storycatcher Guy Mendilow introduce each chapter, guiding audiences with podcast-like narration, at turns humorous, poignant or poetic, over an evocative musical score. With stories from WWII Hungary to modern small towns and cities in the US, along with music and song spanning lyrical American Blues to Ottoman Jewish cantigas in the endangered language of Ladino,  Different Ships, Same Boat offers a stirring exploration of the joys, tensions and complexities of who we are, and who we wish to be, to ourselves and to each other.

Different Ships, Same Boat is for audiences that crave an artistic performance of captivating music and stories drawn from real circumstances, told from different perspectives and in often surprising ways. It is a moving, well-crafted, multifaceted experience connecting audiences to histories, perspectives, and experiences that may be both familiar and different from their own.

Purpose

Through crafting a moving, multifaceted experience, Different Ships, Same Boat stirs human connection. Connection drives curiosity. And  curiosity, genuinely and generously explored, can build an understanding of how the other has come to see what they see, believe what they believe and know what they know. Different Ships, Same Boat operates with the conviction that neither agreement nor common ground is necessary; that in fact friction can be generative. What is vital is that we are humans worthy of being heard and understood.