NEXT GENERATION NOW PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL 2018

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NEXT GENERATION NOW
PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL 2018
Saturday, April 21, 2018
at Town Stages, 221 West Broadway, NYC

PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL 2018 will present family-friendly NEXT GENERATION NOW events on Saturday, April 21, 2018 at Town Stages, 221 West Broadway, NYC.

Sokoloff Arts (501c3) joins the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, WNYC, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York State Legislature, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Amazon Crossing, Amazon Literary Partnership, New York Community Trust, and the Embrey Family Foundation in support of the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature at Town Stages.
 
NEXT GENERATION NOW
Show Me How! A Poetry and Collage Presentation
Saturday, April 21, 2018 from 11am-12pm
Tickets: $10, available here: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/10246332
Watch how a poetic picture book gets created, through live collaging! Then hear the writers and illustrators of Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship weigh in on how kids and families can begin deeper conversations around difference, inclusion, and connection. Kids will get to try their own hand as poet and artist, with supplies provided to make personal cut-out collage drawings! With Irene Latham, Charles Waters, Sean Qualls and Selina Alko. Space for this event was sponsored in part by Sokoloff Arts

NEXT GENERATION NOW
Make Some Noise!
Saturday, April 21, 2018 from 11am-1:30pm
Free with RSVP: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/10246356
A hands-on workshop with Kazoo, a new, award-winning print magazine for girls ages 5 to 10 that celebrates them for being strong, smart, fierce and above all, true to themselves. Learn how to combine eye-catching visuals with engaging stories to create lifelike print-magazine features! Led by Kazoo's editor-in-chief, Erin Bried. Space for this event was sponsored in part by Sokoloff Arts

NEXT GENERATION NOW
Storytime: Imagination in Action
Saturday, April 21, 2018 from 12:30pm-1:30pm
Tickets: $5, available here: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/10246334
Bring your kids-babes-in-arms to early elementary-to this fun drop-in storytime featuring progressive read-aloud favorites. We'll tell the history of a protest by the bestselling author of A is for Activist, explore figures who were Young, Gifted, and Black, and share a layered Chinese fairytale retelling of the "The Emperor's New Clothes." Children are encouraged to ask questions after each story, as they (and their parents!) learn how to raise their own voices. A guided dialogue between these popular authors will follow the readings, encouraging audience participation, hosted by Paul Zelinsky, of PEN America's Children's and Young Adult Books Committee. With Innosanto Nagara, Jamia Wilson, and Ying Chang Compestine. Space for this event was sponsored in part by Sokoloff Arts

NEXT GENERATION NOW
Jumbie Defense Lesson
Saturday, April 21, 2018 from 12:30pm-1:30pm
Tickets: $10, available here: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/10246338
Led by the creator of The Jumbies, the fantasy adventure series, participants will be introduced to creatures from Caribbean mythology in an interactive presentation-complete with costumes and props-that gets kids to show off their improv skills. This interactive, jump-right-in workshop introduces the connections between mythical creatures from all over the world, while identifying the unique features of each jumbie that could only have come from the Caribbean. For all ages. Led by: Tracey Baptiste. 
 
PEN America presents the 2018 PEN World Voices Festival: Resist and Reimagine, this year's incarnation of the renowned international literary festival, which will bring together the world's foremost authors and other luminaries at a time when many are turning to literature and the arts not for escapism, but as a guide to navigate contemporary crises. Salman Rushdie founded the festival in the isolationist aftermath of September 11, 2001, to fortify links with the rest of the world; now again the need to connect and draw inspiration from beyond America's borders is pressing. PEN America Festival Director Chip Rolley explains, "For the first time in its history, we are deliberately training the Festival's wide lens on America itself, probing the fissures and inconsistencies in our own culture, alongside those of writers visiting from overseas. We will examine different kinds of resistance-the internal and the external, the political and the personal-and tap into the imagination that is at the core of the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, joining together in a week that reaffirms our faith in the power of the word to transform our society, our politics, and our daily lives." The Festival will unfold across 60+ events in dozens of venues in four of the five New York City boroughs, through April 22, 2018.
 
Funding Credits
Lead sponsorship support is provided by the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment.

Media sponsorship is also provided by WNYC.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding is provided by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Amazon Crossing, Amazon Literary Partnership, New York Community Trust, and the Embrey Family Foundation.

About PEN America
 
PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Our mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible. pen.org
 
About The Village Voice
The Village Voice was founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer, the latter of whom later said in an interview that in helping to create the Voice he wanted to make a "revolutionary" paper that would explore "the Village in all its fire."
 
Over the next six decades, the Voice would go on to produce some of the country's most profound, poignant, and provocative journalism, earning three Pulitzer Prizes, a National Press Foundation Award, the George Polk Award and the Editor & Publisher EPPY Award for Best Overall U.S. Weekly Newspaper Online.

Town Stages (Robin Sokoloff, Executive Director) is located in the heart of Tribeca. TOWN is New York's premier venue to celebrate, collaborate and put on a show.A new female-driven cultural arts institution and venue space, Town Stages is a state-of-the-art, flexible performance and event space that can support the entire lifecycle of New York's hallmark industries. With a stunning 9,000 square foot storefront facility, TOWN provides world-class cultural experiences and opportunities for all: from civic to corporate, tech to theater.With a Mainstage, a Cabaret Lounge, a Gallery, and a multi-use event space with a capacity of 225, Town Stages offers much-needed space and production resources for businesses, arts organizations, and families. TOWN boasts ticketed performances and curated community programing, from performance art to dance to theatre, and is also available for fashion shows, film shoots, weddings, and beyond. For more information, visit www.townstages.com.

Sokoloff Arts (501c3) is an emerging cultural institution providing inspired space, prospective, and opportunity for cutting edge events in all sectors of The Arts, Corporate, Civic, and Cultural life in New York City. Led by a team of women from diverse backgrounds and artistic expressions, Sokoloff Arts works to provide viable and safe space to congregate, strives to promote cross-cultural community engagement, and blends the arts and business to create sustainable solutions to social and financial inequalities. The organization assists young creators with not only space, but resource generation, production, and community. To address the overwhelming demand for hi-tech, flexible, and affordable performance and event space in New York City, Sokoloff Arts has just opened Town Stages in Tribeca. To learn more, visit sokoloffarts.org.
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