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Join us for the 2023 World Voices Festival in LA, featuring conversations celebrating the power of literature to transform the world.
Day 1
10 May 2023
7:00 pm
Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles)
Amir Soltani
Nazanin Noroozi
Tala Madani
Nesar Mohammadi
Crystal Bayat
Woman, Life, Freedom: The Role of Art in the Struggle for Human Rights
How are artists, writers, and activists mobilizing and participating in the struggle for human rights and gender justice around the world?
Amir Soltani
Nazanin Noroozi
Tala Madani
Nesar Mohammadi
Crystal Bayat
Day 2
11 May 2023
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
California African American Museum
Leah Thomas
Camille T. Dungy
Earthly Delights: History, Race and Environmental Consciousness
Camille Dungy will read from SOIL and discuss the interconnections between literature, environmental action, history, and culture with Leah Thomas
Leah Thomas
Camille T. Dungy
Day 3
12 May 2023
7:00 pm
James Bridges Theater
Charmaine Craig
John Irving
Stories that Stay: Grief, Legacy, and Sexual Politics in Fiction
Charmaine Craig speaks with John Irving about his interest in gendered power structures, and how his understanding of a writer’s artistic freedom has changed over the course of his decades-long career.
Charmaine Craig
John Irving
Day 4
13 May 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Los Angeles Central Library
Franklin Leonard
Reza Aslan
Jean Guerrero
Writer/Scholar/Target: Online Harassment and the Threat to Free Expression
Join us for a conversation on the polarized climate in the United States, amidst the movement for human rights in Iran, and around the world.
Franklin Leonard
Reza Aslan
Jean Guerrero
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
The Huntington
Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Priyanka Kumar
Eloise Klein Healy
Under a Wild Sky: Conversations with Birds and the Songs of Poets
A celebration of avian life in a stunning setting in the gardens at The Huntington.
Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Priyanka Kumar
Eloise Klein Healy
LA Event Participants
Reza Aslan
Crystal Bayat
Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Charmaine Craig
Camille T. Dungy
Jean Guerrero
John Irving
Eloise Klein Healy
Priyanka Kumar
Franklin Leonard
Tala Madani
Nesar Mohammadi
Nazanin Noroozi
Amir Soltani
Leah Thomas