Ithaca City of Asylum
Providing refuge for persecuted writers and artists since 2001
Category: Voices of Freedom
ICOA Hosts “Comedy, Puppets and Fantastical Tales”
“Comedy, Puppets, and Fantastical Tales,” showcasing the work of Russian playwright, filmmaker, author, and puppeteer Arthur Groys, will be held at Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY, on Monday, October 7 at 6:00 p.m. The event is free and open…
Read MoreProminent Nicaraguan dissidents to discuss literature, art, and power
Novelist Sergio Ramirez and cartoonist Pedro X. Molina will explore the power and limits of fiction and other forms of creative expression in an online event on Sunday, October 15, at 2 pm EDT.
Read MoreTurbulent times for political cartoonists
A recent article in the Columbia Journalism Review caught our attention. Writer Sam Thielman describes how political cartoons are, in some ways, the perfect media for our times, delivering their messages swiftly and straight to the gut. But they have…
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…
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