PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL
April 16 – April 22
Join more than 165 writers and artists representing over 50 nationalities as they gather in New York for the 2018 PEN World Voices Festival: Resist and Reimagine. Ideas will spark your imagination and words will inspire you to act. At this moment of great division, come together for conversations, debates, readings and workshops to take a collective step toward a more just world.
Featured Events
Resist and Reimagine: Opening Night in Three Acts
16 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:45 pm
Hosted by The Cooper Union Office of Continuing Education and Public Programs
The Great Hall | The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street (between Third and Fourth Avenues) New York, NY 10003
7 East 7th Street (between Third and Fourth Avenues) New York, NY 10003
Sean Penn in conversation with Jon Lee Anderson
17 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:00 pm
Sean Penn never ceases to surprise us. Twice the winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor (for Milk and Mystic River), he is also renowned for his filmmaking, his humanitarian work in post-hurricane Haiti and New Orleans, his ground-breaking work as a journalist, and now, his debut as a novelist. Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff is a darkly funny... Read More
St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague, Brooklyn, NY 11201
157 Montague, Brooklyn, NY 11201
The M Word: No Country for Young Muslim Women
18 Apr 2018
5:00 pm
In many western countries, being Muslim, young, and female brings with it a particularly heavy burden. Amani Al-Khatahtbeh and Yassmin Abdel-Magied talk about how to survive in cultures that hate them.
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Where Do We Go From Here?
20 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Fifty years ago this month, America lost its moral lodestar when Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. In his final book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (1967), Dr. King examined the direction of the Civil Rights Movement and the need for social and economic justice, as well as an end to... Read More
Brooklyn Museum Auditorium
200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238
200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238
An Evening with Roxane Gay
20 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
In this keynote event of the Festival, Roxane Gay engages with today’s big subjects, including #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, body size, and feminism.
THE GREAT HALL | THE COOPER UNION
7 East 7th Street (between Third and Fourth Avenues) New York, NY 10003
7 East 7th Street (between Third and Fourth Avenues) New York, NY 10003
The Wonder of R.J. Palacio
21 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:00 pm
RJ Palacio of the bestselling "Wonder", a series of books and now a major-motion picture, talks about how embracing our differences and celebrating others is the path towards a brighter future.
The Great Hall | The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street (between Third and Fourth Avenues) New York, NY 10003
7 East 7th Street (between Third and Fourth Avenues) New York, NY 10003
Hillary Rodham Clinton:
The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture
22 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
A hallmark of each PEN World Voices Festival, this year’s Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture features Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton on the role of free speech in sustaining a healthy democracy. Celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie joins Secretary Clinton after the lecture for a conversation between two of the world’s strongest advocates for women and girls... Read More
THE GREAT HALL | THE COOPER UNION
7 EAST 7TH STREET (BETWEEN THIRD AND FOURTH AVENUES) NEW YORK, NY 10003
7 EAST 7TH STREET (BETWEEN THIRD AND FOURTH AVENUES) NEW YORK, NY 10003
Private Screening: Hillary Rodham Clinton: The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture
22 Apr 2018
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Named for playwright Arthur Miller, a fierce advocate for free expression and longtime leader of PEN, the annual lecture is a hallmark of the World Voices Festival.
Cooper Union Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave between 6th & 7th) New York, NY 10003
41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave between 6th & 7th) New York, NY 10003
