Ithaca City of Asylum
Providing refuge for persecuted writers and artists
Category: Events
Spring events with ICOA
Ithaca City of Asylum has three events planned for spring 2019. Join us for these collaborations with other literary and human rights organizations: Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 6 p.m. Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College Library: A panel on “Journalism in an…
Read MoreMusic crossing borders
Upon the signing of a January 2017 executive order preventing foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States, “numerous musicians, ensembles, and organizations responded by showcasing art from precisely those places,” the New Yorker points out…
Read MoreExiled writer to speak on women, conflict, and the migrant experience Oct. 4 at Buffalo Street Books
For Kanchana Ugbabe, writing is not just a calling. It is also, she says, “almost a strategy for survival.” Ugbabe will read from her fiction and discuss her life as a South Asian, an expatriate, a woman, a teacher and…
Read MoreIthaca Out Loud
Ithaca City of Asylum (ICOA) will celebrate literacy and freedom of expression and commemorate Banned Books Week 2017 with “Ithaca Out Loud,” an evening of literature and theater, on Wednesday, September 27 at 7:00 p.m. at the Tompkins County…
Read MoreIthaca City of Asylum to Read at Spring Writes Festival
The public is cordially invited to a reading by five writers who are active on the board of Ithaca City of Asylum. The authors will give short readings from their own poetry and prose as part of the Spring Writes…
Read MoreIthaca Out Loud: Ithaca Actors Read Ithaca Authors
Celebrating the freedom to read and write in an entertaining program, “Ithaca Out Loud” showcased the talents of popular local actors reading selections from the works of five nationally recognized local authors. Ithaca City of Asylum and the Tompkins County…
Read MoreNew Play ‘K2’ Stars ICOA Writer-in-Residence
Apart from her teaching and speaking engagements, ICOA Writer-in-Residence Sonali Samarasinghe also began her Ithaca acting debut in April. Samarasinghe was part of the three-member cast of “K2,” Patrick Meyers’s play based on the real-life experience of two American climbers…
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