Don’t Miss Events at PEN World Voices
United Against Hate
(https://worldvoices.pen.org/session/united-against-hate/)
01 MAY 2017, 7:00 PM — 8:30 PM
THE COOPER UNION GREAT HALL 7 EAST 7TH STREET, NEW YORK
Voices in the arts rally against hate, with performances, readings, and conversations from Patti Smith with her daughter Jesse Paris Smith, Ani DiFranco, Marlon James, Colum McCann, Suphala, Andrew Solomon and Salman Rushdie.
Power of the Arts: From Propaganda to Free Speech (https://worldvoices.pen.org/session/power-of-the-arts-from-propaganda-to-free-speech/)
02 MAY 2017, 7:30 PM
ROULETTE, 509 ATLANTIC AVE
As freedom of speech in the arts, journalism and other mediums face significant challenges today, this event will explore the historic power of the arts in challenging power and promoting free speech. Using the prism of Shakespeare, we will consider the various ways his work has been used throughout the centuries to channel dissent or used as propaganda and how the arts allow for greater freedoms of speech in our societies in the UK and US today. In partnership with Index on Censorship, this event will feature readings by 2016 Forward Prize winner and Trinidadian-British poet Vahni Capildeo and a panel discussion with renowned theatre director Dominic Dromgoole. This program is part of Shakespeare Lives, a global program celebrating the continuing resonance of Shakespeare around the world led by the British Council and the GREAT Britain Campaign. The global program officially ended in 2016, but some activities will continue in the USA and worldwide in 2017.
Water as Weapon (https://worldvoices.pen.org/session/water-as-weapon/)
03 MAY 2017, 7:00 PM-8:30 PM
AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSE, 39 ELDRIDGE STREET
From Standing Rock to the Niger Delta to Gaza, access to clean, safe water is at the center of conflicts that will shape the world’s future. A conversation with Native American writer Natalie Diaz, Polish Journalist and historian Filip Springer, U.S. novelist Claire Vaye Watkins and Mohammad Saba’aneh.
With support from the Polish Cultural Institute New York.
Feminizm Po-Russki: Three Writers on Women in Modern Russia
04 MAY 2017, 7:00 PM-8:30 PM
161A CHRYSTIE STREET
Three Russian women writers, from different genres and generations, consider gender, power, and creative freedom in their country, where feminism can also be a dirty word. With Elena Chizhova, Elena Kostyuchenko, and Galina Rymbu. Moderated by Sana Krasikov.
The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture (https://worldvoices.pen.org/session/arthur-miller-lecture-masha-gesson-and-samantha-bee/)
07 MAY 2017, 6:00 PM
COOPER UNION, THE GREAT HALL, 7 EAST 7TH STREET
Named for the former PEN president and fierce defender of the freedom of expression, the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture is a defining event of the PEN World Voices Festival. This year’s lecture will be two-part: leading Russian and American journalist and author Masha Gessen will give a short lecture followed by a longer conversation with Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.
