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Virtual - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o | The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi
Tue, December 1, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
Register for the event here . In conversation with Ketu H. Katrak, Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, and author of the forthcoming book Jay Pather, Performance, and Spatial Politics in South Africa Acclaimed Kenyan scholar and writer Ngũgĩ wa…
Monday Poets: An Ode to Unity & Dissent
Mon, December 7, 2020
3:26 P.M.
Virtual Program
In this season of uprisings, cries for justice, and calls for unity, Philadelphia Poet Laureate Trapeta B. Mayson and Youth Poet Laureate Mia Concepcion organized nine Philly poets to write a collaborative " Ode to Unity and Dissent. " The poets each wrote and recorded their own verses…
Katherine May | Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Thu, December 10, 2020
6:00 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
Register for the event here In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning broadcaster and journalist Katherine May ’s fiction and memoirs include The Electricity of Every Living Thing , Burning Out, a nd No-Stress Meditation . She was also the editor of The Best,…
VIRTUAL - George Saunders | A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Masterclass on Writing, Reading, and Life
Mon, January 18, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Details to come.
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. Details to…