Literatures of Resistance
An afternoon in solidarity with the Iranian people
Saturday, July 11th
2:00-5:00 pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
(Btwn Houston & Bleecker)
Take the F Train to 2nd Avenue
or the 6 train to Bleecker
Featuring:
Luis Francia
Aphrodite Desiree Navab
D. Nurske
Amir Parsa
Said Sayrafiezadeh
Roger Sedarat
Dalia Sofer
Niloufar Talebi
Eleanor Wilner
The Tehran-Dakar Brothers
Check persianartsfestival.org for an up-to-date list
Join these and other artists of conscience bear witness, in poetry and music, to the struggle for democracy in Iran.
This event is sponsored by:
Association of Iranian American Writers
Persian Arts Festival
The Translation Project
ArteEast
The Bowery Poetry Club
www.iranianamericanwriters.org
Info: manijeh_nasrabadi@yahoo.com
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July 11th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
You know what I find ironic and just a wee bit scary? The Ayatollah Khomeini also wrote — and loved — poetry. Such a sensitive soul, that man was…
By the way, I long for the day when, as activists, we transcend the politics of resistance and move into a politics that's much more creative and generative. That's not at all a criticism of the event being advertised here. Authoritarianism absolutely demands to be resisted. It's just that without a clear, compelling and specific vision of what replaces it, history shows that one form of dogmatism will surely be replaced by another.