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Home > PEN World Voices > 2009 Festival > Festival schedule > Free Events

FREE EVENTS
We're proud to say that most World Voices Festival events are free and open to the public!

FREE EVENTS

The following events are free and open to the public.

Monday, April 27

Conversation: Neil Gaiman & Joshua Wolf Shenk
7:30 p.m.: The Prince Theater, Maryland

Meir Shalev: The State of Israeli Literature
8 p.m.: Columbia University's Altschul Auditorium

Tuesday, April 28

Resonances: Writers on the Great Works
1 p.m.: Baruch College

The Rattapallax/PEN Literary Film Feast

7 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

A Thousand Deaths Plus One
7 p.m.: The Americas Society

Evolution/Revolution in European Arts and Letters
8 p.m.: State University at Albany

Wednesday, April 29

The Inspired Scientist:
A Program for High School Students

10 a.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

The Voyage of the Reader: Using Children’s Books to Create a Lifelong Love of Reading
4:30 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes

Anagrama: Celebrating 40 Years of Independent Publishing in Spain
6 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

Prison Deform
6 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater

Women Translating Women
6:30 p.m.: The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction

Roland Barthes and the Invention of Modernity

6:30 p.m.: La Maison Française of NYU

Thursday, April 30

Personal Evolution, Social Revolution: A Program for High School Students
10 a.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

Jeffrey Sachs: Common Wealth
1 p.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium

Global Voices
1 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

Cod, Orange Groves, and The Last Fish Tale
3 p.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium

Tendencies in Spanish Language Literature
4 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Kathrin Röggla: Modern Day Salarymen
4:30 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

Language in New Forms:
The Work of Andrey Platonov

6 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall

Quiet Revolutions in Storytelling
6 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

Leaps and Bounds, Fits and Starts:
The Evolution of a Children’s Book Writer

6:30 p.m.: Scholastic Auditorium

Kafka in America
6:30 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

Collaborations/Elaborations:
The Music of Daniel Felsenfeld

7 p.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium

Diálogos Isleños: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Reinaldo Arenas and Blai Bonet
8 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall

Friday, May 1

Garden Readings
12:30 p.m.: Deutsches Haus at NYU

Macondo: Imaginary and Real

1 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

The Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction
1 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

Left/Right Literature: The Politics of Taking Up the Pen
1 p.m.: Scandinavia House

What’s Taboo?
3 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

This Critical Moment!
3 p.m.: Scandinavia House

Discovering Unbearable Truths
5 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

Season of Migration to the North:
The Work of Tayeb Salih

6 p.m.: Scandinavia House

Innocence and Guilt:
Domenico Starnone & Antonio Monda

6 p.m.: Instituto Italiano di Cultura

The Language of Fear: A PEN Journal Event
6 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Hall

On the Edge: Writing in Post-Reunified Germany
6 p.m.: Deutsches Haus

Four/Négy
6:30 p.m.: Hungarian Cultural Center

Armin Petras: We Are Camera
8 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater

Saturday, May 2

Tribute to Harold Pinter
11 a.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium

Mark Z. Danielewski and Rick Moody in Conversation
1 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

Standing Before History: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa

1 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall

Writing and Reading Multilingual Haiti
1 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

Where Truth Lies: A Conversation on the Art of Fiction
1 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

Pictures + Words: The New Literature of Graphic Narrative
2 p.m.: The Rose O’Neill Literary House, Maryland

New European Poets
2 p.m.: Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House

Jazz: The Revolution of Beat
2 p.m.: Galapagos Art Space

Writers Who Are Translators
3 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

Enrique Vila-Matas & Paul Auster in Conversation
2:30 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

Frankétienne: Haitian Identity
3 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

Péter Nádas in Conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn
3 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall

Contested Territory
4 p.m.: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library

East–West Storytelling
4:30 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall

On Translation
5 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

Krik? Krak!

5 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française

Death in Spring and The Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda
8 p.m.: Baryshnikov Arts Center

Sunday, May 3

The Pan-European Picnic Redux

1 p.m.: Museum of Modern Art

Faith & Fiction
1 p.m.: powerHouse Arena

The Secret Scripture: Sebastian Barry in Conversation with Roxanne Coady

3 p.m.: powerHouse Arena

Evolution for Children: The Fight Goes On
4:30 p.m.: PowerHouse Arena

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

The following events are free, but please reserve your seats.

Tuesday, April 28

A Thousand Deaths Plus One
7 p.m.: The Americas Society

Wednesday, April 29

The Inspired Scientist: A Program for High School Students
10 a.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

Thursday, April 30

Personal Evolution, Social Revolution: A Program for High School Students
10 a.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York

Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Kathrin Röggla: Modern Day Salarymen
4:30 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

Kafka in America
6:30 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

Friday, May 1

Macondo: Imaginary and Real

1 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

What’s Taboo?
3 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

Discovering Unbearable Truths
5 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum

Saturday, May 2

Death in Spring and The Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda
8 p.m.: Baryshnikov Arts Center
 
 

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