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SUMMARY:Who Belongs? Stories Against a Narrowing World
DESCRIPTION:PEN America World Voices Festival closing night event!\n\n\nWho Belongs? Stories Against a Narrowing World\nAll PEN World Voices Festival tickets are non-refundable. Please confirm the time and location of your event before finalizing your purchase. \nGlobally\, political and cultural forces are aligning to narrowly define national identities. Surging book bans\, the outlawing of languages\, the erasure of histories from official records\, and the censorship of words increasingly limit who belongs and delineate who is other. Literature subverts that.  \nFor the festival’s closing night event\, PEN America President Dinaw Mengestu will convene prominent international writers to discuss how literature champions a diversity of cultures and reflects the multiple heritages\, customs\, and traditions we all carry. Joining Mengestu in this vital conversation are Tash Aw (The South)\, Susan Choi (Flashlight)\, and Madeleine Thien (The Book of Records).  \nCART caption is provided at this event. Captioning is being provided\, in part\, by a grant from NYSCA/TDF TAP Plus. \n\n\nThe 2026 PEN World Voices Festival is a celebration of world literature and free expression. The 2026 edition will be the 21st World Voices Festival. Over four days\, more than140 writers from over 40 countries will be featured in 40+ engaging talks\, panels\, readings\, and activations in New York City and greater Los Angeles. \nVisit https://pen.org/world-voices-festival/ for more information about the entire festival\, as well as PEN America. \n\n\nACCESSIBILITY:\nJudson Memorial Church is an accessible venue. The back door (243 Thompshon St) has elevator access to the space. \nASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our Box Office team at publicprograms@pen.org by April 15th to request. \nPlease ask a Box Office Attendant or festival representative upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred. \nFor further information on accessibility in this space\, or to make a request\, please contact publicprograms@pen.org
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/who-belongs-stories-against-a-narrowing-world/
LOCATION:Judson Memorial Church\, 55 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:Narrating Palestine: Family\, History\, and Displacement
DESCRIPTION:Explore how Palestinian writers reclaim and preserve histories of dispossession\, memory\, and resistance.\n\n\nNarrating Palestine: Family\, History\, and Displacement\nThis is a free event\, but registration is required. \nWho gets to tell the story of Palestine? For decades\, Palestinian writers\, historians\, and journalists have worked to recover suppressed histories and share narratives of dispossession and exile. \nIn Tareq Baconi’s Fire in Every Direction\, he traces his family’s history of displacement\, from his grandmother fleeing Haifa in 1948 as Israeli militias seized the city\, to their departure from Lebanon during the civil war\, before they ultimately settled in Jordan. Ramzy Baroud’s Before the Flood reflects on Palestinian history and personal stories of his family and their village\, reclaiming Palestinian narratives from distorted portrayals. \nIn conversation with Zaina Arafat (You Exist Too Much)\, Baconi and Baroud will explore the ways Palestinian history is written and remembered\, from family memory and storytelling to political analysis and the fight against erasure.  \n\n\nThe 2026 PEN World Voices Festival is a celebration of world literature and free expression. The 2026 edition will be the 21st World Voices Festival. Over four days\, over 140 writers from over 40 countries will be featured in 40 engaging talks\, panels\, readings\, and activations in New York City and greater Los Angeles. \nVisit https://pen.org/world-voices-festival/ for more information about the entire festival\, as well as PEN America. \n\n\nACCESSIBILITY:\nJudson Memorial Church is an accessible venue. The back door (243 Thompson St) has elevator access to the space. \nASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our Box Office team at publicprograms@pen.org by April 15th to request.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/narrating-palestine-family-history-and-displacement/
LOCATION:Judson Memorial Church\, 55 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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