PEN America:

May 10, 2023

A conversation with Amir Soltani, Tala Madani, Crystal Bayat, Nazanin Noroozi, and Nesar Mohammadi

Part of the PEN America World Voices Festival 2023 collection

Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard
Los Angeles

How are artists, writers, and activists mobilizing and participating in the struggle for human rights and gender justice around the world? What are the regional and global ramifications of this feminist revolution? How have the words “Women, Life, Freedom” helped define a movement and inspire action and allyship? To answer these questions, and discuss the very real risks artists take when addressing them in their work, writer, filmmaker, and human rights activist Amir Soltani will moderate a conversation with Afghani women’s rights activist Crystal Bayat, award-winning visual artist Tala Madani, Iranian poet-in-exile Nesar Mohammadi, and multimedia artist and member of the Art/Culture/Action collective Nazanin Noroozi. The program will be co-presented by The Skirball Cultural Center, and will be followed by a reception.

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