Ithaca City of Asylum
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New Officers for ICOA’s Board
Ithaca City of Asylum (ICOA) has elected four new officers for its board of directors. For the 2012-2013 year Dan Renfrow will serve as chair of the board, with Bridget Meeds as vice chair, Kathleen Gemmell as secretary, and David…
Read MoreICOA Participated in Arcades Project’s “The Poem of Display”
ICOA participated in the Arcades Project on Friday, May 4, in the Historic McCormick-Cowdry House at 408 E. State Street in downtown Ithaca. The biannual Arcades Project is a curated event featuring artists, designers, and independent presses. The event coincided…
Read MoreICOA Board Member Publishes Book About South Africa
ICOA Board member Catherine Taylor has a new book being published on May 1. Taylor’s book, entitled Apart, grew out of Taylor’s memories of visiting her family in South Africa as a child and her later curiosity about her (white)…
Read MoreICOA Celebrates the Life and Work of Polish Poet, Czeslaw Milosz
Ithaca City of Asylum recently co-sponsored two events characterized as “Memories of Milosz” to celebrate the life and work of the Nobel Prize winning poet, Czeslaw Milosz. Milosz lived for many years in the United States while he was in…
Read MoreNew Video Offers Portraits of ICOA Writers
In September 2008, Shaun Poust, then a freshman at Ithaca College, volunteered to help out with ICOA’s Voices of Freedom event, which that year welcomed the group’s new writer-in-residence, Irakli Kakabadze. Something about the work of ICOA and Irakli Kakabadze’s…
Read MoreFar From Home
Both Sarah Mkhonza (Swaziland), ICOA’s resident writer from 2006-08, and Irakli Kakabadze (Republic of Georgia), our resident writer from 2008-2011, participated in the December 8 book launch for Far From Home, an anthology of poetry by some of Ithaca’s resident…
Read MoreCelebrating with Center for Transformative Action
On Oct. 23, ICOA joined other partners in helping to celebrate the Center for Transformative Action’s 40th anniversary. The event, which took place at the Greater Ithaca Activies Center, included a talk by Anke Wessels, executive director of CTA, and…
Read MoreICOA’s “Voices of Freedom” Featured Exiled Burmese Writer Khet Mar
This year Ithaca City of Asylum’s “Voices of Freedom” event, held annually to observe Banned books/Freedom to Read Week, featured exiled Burmese writer and activist Khet Mar. The program was co-sponsored and hosted by the Tompkins County Public Library. Khet…
Read MoreICOA Elects New Officers, 2011-2012
Ithaca City of Asylum (ICOA) board of directors has elected new officers for 2011-2012. ICOA is a community organization that provides sanctuary to writers whose works are suppressed, whose lives are threatened, whose cultures are vanishing, or whose languages are…
Read MoreCommemorating Ten Years of Giving Voice to Freedom
On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, Ithaca City of Asylum (ICOA) has published the brochure Ithaca City of Asylum: Celebrating Ten Years of Giving Voice to Freedom. The brochure is a retrospective of ICOA’s work supporting writers who face…
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