July 2012
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Give it up! For Kafka!
penamerican:
Happy birthday to our beloved Franz, writer of many axes for the frozen seas inside us, if you know what we’re saying. Do you know about Give It Up, Peter Kruper’s comic adaptation of nine Kafka stories? It’s an axe in its own right, folks.
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TURKEY: PEN INTERNATIONAL TO OBSERVE KCK TRIAL →
penamerican:
Ragip Zarakolu: facing trial in Turkey
PEN International Vice President, Eugene Schoulgin, and Deputy Director, Sara Whyatt, will be observing alongside members of PEN Turkey as the second Union of Communities in Kurdistan (Koma Civaken Kurdistan – KCK) trials get underway in Istanbul on…
June 2012
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Brooklyn open studio artist registration open... →
Did you know Brooklyn is home to more artists than anywhere else in the United States, making it one of the world’s capitals of creativity? Are you a Brooklyn artist or do you know someone who is? Artist registration for GO is open now, but closes in just two days; the deadline for artist registration is this Friday, June 29, 2012. GO: a community-curated open studio project is an...
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“Due to police violence against protesters for social justice, and other violent...”
– Etgar Keret, Alex Epstein, Orly Castel-Bloom, Dov Alfon and Yaheli Sobol on boycotting the White Nights festival in Israel
Artists boycott TA’s ‘White Night’ events - Israel Culture, Ynetnews
(via penamerican)
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“We are dismayed at the conviction of Eskinder Nega. The evidence presented in...”
– PEN President Peter Godwin on Ethiopian Journalist Eskinder Nega’s conviction (via penamerican)
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Airport Life: Learning things →
airportlife:
It’s summertime, so naturally, I’ve been clocking an insane amount of internet time. But also, since I have no concrete plans of returning to school, I figured I might as well do something productive every once in a while so my brain doesn’t start decaying. I’ve started compiling a list of…
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Doug Liman on Reckoning with Torture →
penamerican:
Today is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman talks to ABC News about why he needs the voices of everyday American for his new documentary film project, Reckoning with Torture.
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