{"id":1629,"date":"2014-09-12T07:38:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T07:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freedimensional.org\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2014-09-13T00:28:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T00:28:59","slug":"writing-exile-readings-from-words-without-borders-freedimensional-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fd.artistsafety.net\/2014\/09\/writing-exile-readings-from-words-without-borders-freedimensional-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"“Writing Exile” event – Tuesday, September 16 – 7PM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Words without Borders<\/b>, in collaboration with freeDimensional<\/b> and\u00a0Verso\u00a0Books<\/b>, present a reading from WWB’s\u00a0September issue<\/a>, dedicated to writing exile. The reading aims to draw attention to the voices of writers forced from their homes, and will feature contributors and other special guests reading selections from the issue. To accompany the reading, freeDimensional will present an exhibition of work from contemporary visual artists who use creativity to fight injustice, and have experienced persecution and forced displacement as a result of their artistic practice.<\/p>\n

Featured readers will include\u00a0Israel Centeno, Kayhan Irani, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo,\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0Nathalie Handal.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

The event will also feature the work of visual artists\u00a0 Arahmaiani,\u00a0Zunar,\u00a0Owen Maseko,\u00a0Chaw Ei Thein, Issa Nyaphaga and others. (<\/b>Please note that artwork by Kardash Onnig will not be featured.)<\/p>\n

Free and open to the public. Seating is limited–please RSVP<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers:<\/b><\/p>\n

Israel Centeno<\/b>\u00a0(Caracas, 1958) has published thirteen\u00a0books, mostly novels, but also short fiction and poetry. His books include the novels\u00a0Calletania<\/i>\u00a0(Monte \u00c1vila, 1992; Perif\u00e9rica, 2010),\u00a0Exilio en Bowery<\/i>\u00a0(Troya, 1998; Nuevo Espacio, New Jersey, 2000),\u00a0El Complot<\/i>\u00a0(Alfadil, 2002), and\u00a0Bajo las hojas<\/i>\u00a0(Alfaguara, 2010). He has published two books of short stories:\u00a0El rabo del diablo y otros cuentos<\/i>\u00a0(Eclepsidra, 1993) and\u00a0Criaturas de la noche<\/i>\u00a0(Alfaguara, 2000, 2011). He currently lives, with his wife and two daughters, in Pittsburgh, where until 2013 he has been Exiled Writer in Residence in City of Asylum. Sampsonia Way has published his novel\u00a0The Conspiracy\u00a0<\/i><\/a>in an English translation by Guillermo Parra.<\/p>\n

Nathalie Handal<\/b>\u00a0is the author of numerous books, most recently\u00a0Poet in Andaluc\u00eda<\/i>;\u00a0Love and Strange Horses<\/i>, winner of the 2011 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award; and the W.W. Norton landmark anthology\u00a0Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond<\/i>. Her plays have been produced at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Bush Theatre and Westminster Abbey, London. Her poetry, stories and literary travel articles have appeared in\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/i>,\u00a0Guernica Magazine<\/i>,\u00a0the\u00a0Guardian<\/i>,\u00a0the Nation<\/i>, and other publications. Handal is a Lannan Foundation Fellow, winner of the Alejo Zuloaga Order in Literature 2011, and Honored Finalist for the Gift of Freedom Award, among other honors.<\/p>\n

Kayhan Irani<\/b>\u00a0was born in Bombay, India and was raised on the mean streets of Queens, NYC. She is an Emmy award winner, a Fulbright Fellow and a Theater of the Oppressed trainer.\u00a0 Kayhan loves playing theater games.<\/p>\n

Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo<\/b>\u00a0was born in Havana in 1971 and\u00a0came to the US\u00a0in March 2013.\u00a0In Cuba he published the narratives\u00a0Collage karaoke<\/i>\u00a0(2001),\u00a0Empezar de cero\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0(2001),\u00a0Ipatrias<\/i>\u00a0(2005) and\u00a0Mi nombre es William Saroyan<\/i>\u00a0(2006). His novel,\u00a0Boring Home<\/i>, was censored by the Letras Cubanas publishing house in 2009 and then published by Garamond (Paris, 2009) and El Nacional (Caracas, 2013). In Cuba he was an independent journalist and photographer. He is the webmaster of the blogs\u00a0Lunes de Postrevoluci\u00f3n<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Boring Home Utopics<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the founding editor of the magazine\u00a0Voces<\/i><\/a>. He contributes columns to\u00a0Diario de Cuba<\/i>\u00a0(Madrid, Spain),\u00a0Sampsonia Way\u00a0<\/i>(Pittsburgh, Penn.), and\u00a0El Nacional<\/i>\u00a0(Caracas).\u00a0In 2014 OR Books published his\u00a0anthology of\u00a0new Cuban narrative writing,\u00a0Cuba in Splinters<\/i><\/a>. \u00a0He is a visiting fellow at\u00a0Brown University for the current academic year.\u00a0Restless Books will publish his book of photographs and essays,\u00a0Abandoned Havana<\/i>, this October.<\/p>\n