The PEN World Voices Festival Returns With Eye on AFRICA 2015 , may 4-10th NYC

The PEN World Voices Festival Returns With Eye on Africa conference is on in NYC ... May 4th -10th  

Here is what I hope to attend  

Be sure to check out the entire program  some events are free and ticketed (RSVP neccessary), Some require a ticket to be purchased,  There are many other events .. these are the ones I hope to attend.

http://worldvoices.pen.org/2015-festival-event-listing/day

Wed 6 PM 
Queer Futures
The Greene Space
44 Charlton Street, New York, NY 10014

Binyavanga Wainaina

Photo by Jerry Riley

The burgeoning African gay rights movement is filled with brave artists and activists. Informative and inspirational, this conversation with prominent African writers will survey today's landscape, challenging preconceived ideas about the broadened role of literature in this historic struggle for human rights.

The venue for this event has changed from that originally advertised. Please note the venue is: The Greene Space at WNYC, 44 Charlton Street, NYC

with Kehinde Bademosi, Zanele Muholi, Binyavanga Wainaina

Thursday  May  6 2015  7:30 PM

Armenian Genocide: A Dark Paradigm
SVA Theatre 23rd st between 8th and 7th
333 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011

Eric Bogosian, Peter Balakian, and Ragıp Zarakolu

Photo by Monique Carboni (of E. Bagosian)

This year, the world commemorates the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, which counted many noted writers and cultural leaders among the dead. A panel discusses this tragedy—a glimpse into the darkest regions of the human soul—and its significance as a “dark paradigm” for later attempts by governments to silence writers and cultural leaders. This event will include readings of the works of Armenian writers killed in 1915.

with: Peter Balakian, Eric Bogosian, Maureen Freely, Nancy Kricorian, Robert Jay Lifton, Ronald Grigor Suny, Ragıp Zarakol

Thursday, May 07, 2015, 3:00pm

Finding Security in Unsafe Passages: United Nations Event about Protecting Journalists’ Safety and Rights

United Nations Headquarters, 46th Street and First Avenue, Conference Room 11, New York, NY, 10017

Karin Deutsch Karlekar

Photo by Sarah Edkins / PEN American Center

Gain an insider’s view of international efforts to promote freedom of the press and to end impunity for crimes against journalists. To mark World Press Freedom Day, this seminar will delve into the wide range of risks journalists face every day. Experts will offer safety tips, share advice for protecting sources and copyrights in all types of media, and address cybersecurity risks.

With H.E. Mr. François Delattre, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, H.E. Mrs. Bénédicte Frankinet, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Nations, Herb Boyd, Susan E. Davis, Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Patrice Keats, Charles Seife, Frank Smyth

Moderated by: Jon Williams

Thursday, May 07, 2015, 6:30pm

Memoir and Memory

Sheen Center Loretto Auditorium, 18 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012

Michael Ondaatje

Photo by Jeff Nolte

Where does memory end and imagination begin? Autobiographical writing has occupied many of the most eloquent minds of our time. A panel of brilliant, envelope-pushing memoirists examines what happens when the most intimate details of a writer’s life become the subject of his or her professional work.

With Michael Ondaatje, Luc Sante, Tracy K. Smith 

Moderated by: A.M. Homes

Friday May 8 6:30

Susan Sontag, Revisited

Crosby Street Hotel Screening Room

Photo by Thomas Leuthard

Passionate and gracefully outspoken, former PEN President Susan Sontag was one of the most important literary and political thinkers of her generation. Four experts, each of whom was inspired by Sontag, consider her inspiring life and towering work and its lasting impact today: Nancy Kates, director-producer of the documentary film Regarding Susan Sontag; cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum; Sigrid Nunez, who penned the memoir Sempre Susan; and Moe Angelos, who wrote and performed the critically acclaimed one-woman play Sontag: Reborn.

with: Moe Angelos, Nancy Kates, Sigrid Nunez, Craig Seligman

Moderated by: Wayne Koestenbaum

Friday, May 08, 2015, 8:30pm

Ninety Minutes, Three Minds

Crosby Street Hotel Screening Room, 79 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012

Adéwálé Àjàdí

Photo by Zino Saro-Wiwa

Moderated by Vanity Fair staff editor Anderson Tepper, these conversations get up close with three top African writers: Adéwálé Àjàdí (Nigeria), activist and author of the hit playAbyssinia; Alain Mabanckou (Republic of the Congo), winner of the coveted French Prix Renaudot in 2006; and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya), whose first novel, Dust, was published to rave reviews last year.

With Adéwálé Àjàdí, Alain Mabanckou, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Moderated by: Anderson Tepper

Saturday, May 09, 2015, 7:30pm

Mona Eltahawy: Headscarves and Hymens
Crosby Street Hotel Screening Room, 79 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012

Mona Eltahawy

Photo by Dirk Eusterbrock

Cairo-based Egyptian writer and activist Mona Eltahawy, a fearless advocate for human rights in her home country and in the Arab world at large, discusses her new book,Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, which rails against what she views as a "toxic mix of culture and religion."

With Mona Eltahawy, Robin Morgan

Sunday, May 10, 2015, 6:00pm
The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Great Hall, The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York, NY 10003

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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. Nigerian-born novelist, 2013 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Festival co-curator Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie joins the luminaries who have commanded the podium, including Colm Tóibín, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Orhan Pamuk, Umberto Eco, Nawal El Saadawi, Wole Soyinka, and Salman Rushdie. A conversation with writer and PEN President Andrew Solomon will follow.

With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Andrew Solomon

Note: this is sold out but a live stream will be available Due to popular demand we’re livestreaming this special event. Join us in the Cooper Union’s state-of-the-art Frederick P. Rose Auditorium for our screening of this occasion as it happens. Seating is limited, so book quickly.

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