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The Emigré Writer’s Place in America: Escaping Censorship and Adjusting to Freedom
Consequence Magazine invites you to celebrate the release of a new issue! We'll be hosting a panel discussion and reception. The Emigré Writer’s Place in America: Escaping Censorship and Adjusting to Freedom Featuring Marjorie Agosín, Ha Jin, Shahriar Mandanipour, and moderator Alexandra Marshall Literature provides every culture with its moral compass and when a repressive regime denies freedom of expression it damages its own society as well as the writer who could repair it. Forced to either silence themselves or escape, émigré writers face new hardships…
Find out more »The Emigré Writer’s Place in America: Escaping Censorship and Adjusting to Freedom
Consequence Magazine invites you to celebrate the release of a new issue! We'll be hosting a panel discussion and reception. The Emigré Writer’s Place in America: Escaping Censorship and Adjusting to Freedom Featuring Marjorie Agosín, Ha Jin, Shahriar Mandanipour, and moderator Alexandra Marshall Literature provides every culture with its moral compass and when a repressive regime denies freedom of expression it damages its own society as well as the writer who could repair it. Forced to either silence themselves or escape, émigré writers face new hardships…
Find out more »The Emigré Writer’s Place in America: Escaping Censorship and Adjusting to Freedom
Consequence Magazine invites you to celebrate the release of a new issue! We'll be hosting a panel discussion and reception. The Emigré Writer’s Place in America: Escaping Censorship and Adjusting to Freedom Featuring Marjorie Agosín, Ha Jin, Shahriar Mandanipour, and moderator Alexandra Marshall Literature provides every culture with its moral compass and when a repressive regime denies freedom of expression it damages its own society as well as the writer who could repair it. Forced to either silence themselves or escape, émigré writers face new hardships…
Find out more »The Emigré Writer’s Place in America: Escaping Censorship and Adjusting to Freedom
Consequence Magazine invites you to celebrate the release of a new issue! We'll be hosting a panel discussion and reception. The Emigré Writer’s Place in America: Escaping Censorship and Adjusting to Freedom Featuring Marjorie Agosín, Ha Jin, Shahriar Mandanipour, and moderator Alexandra Marshall Literature provides every culture with its moral compass and when a repressive regime denies freedom of expression it damages its own society as well as the writer who could repair it. Forced to either silence themselves or escape, émigré writers face new hardships…
Find out more »CONSEQUENCE MAGAZINE – CROSSING BORDERS: THE WRITER AND THE ARTIST / ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
Consequence Magazine invites you to join us for a panel discussion about the ability of art and literature to address and respond to the spectrum of realities in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Literature and the arts engage the core of our humanity at once emotionally and intellectually. The conversation we have with a painting, a story, or a poem can surprise and enlighten us. The author’s words, the artist’s images, create unique ways to see what confronts us—from outside and from within.…
Find out more »MSNBC’s Chris Hayes at Old South Church
Join Emmy Award–winning MSNBC news anchor CHRIS HAYES for a panel discussion on inequality in America and his latest book, A Colony in a Nation. Hayes, who also authored the New York Times bestselling book Twilight of the Elites, will be joined in conversation by Emerson College's JABARI ASIM and Suffolk University Law School's FRANK RUDY COOPER. WBUR's ANTHONY BROOKS will moderate the evening's conversation. Event begins at 6:00PM. Doors will open at 5:00. This ticketed event is sponsored by Harvard Book…
Find out more »ARUNDHATI ROY – Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Novel
The long awaited follow-up to The God of Small Things is here. Join ARUNDHATI ROY at Old South Church for a reading from her first novel in twenty years. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes its readers on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. It is an aching love story and a character driven remonstration, a…
Find out more »HYSTERIA: Boston at Old South Church
Hystria is an immersive Halloween experience of ghost stories and dances inspired by women who were shut away after being diagnosed with HYSTERIA. Placed in the famous, historical Old South Church in Boston, this project will raise funds for The Lucas Flint Memorial Scholarship at Emerson College for a student in need majoring in Visual Media Arts. This performance will include Emerson College students performing alongside NPC company members and assisting in crew and admin support positions. This gives young…
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.