Aster(ix) @ Alphabet CityReading Series

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8:00-10:00PMALPHABET CITY40 w. North Ave.

free tickets online at: www.alphabetcity.org

Aster(ix) @ Alphabet city

City of Asylum and Aster(ix) share many values and one specific mission: to provide a home to diverse voices. In this unique reading series presented at City of Asylum @Alphabet City, ten women writers will read from their new books. Most of them were born here, but their parents come from different parts of the world. The topics discussed through this series will be dictated by the writers and by your input and interaction. Join us for a series full of fun curated by Dominican-American writer Angie Cruz.

TICKETS

THese EVENTs are FREERegister at alphabetcity.org or by phone at 412.323.0278

LOCATION

Alphabet city®

40 W. North Ave (Between Reddour and Federal)Parking is available in the Federal North garage at 1215 Federal St.

SCHEDULE

8:00-10:00pm10/20 Irina Reyn (Russia) and Idra Novey (Brazil)

11/8 Helena Maria Viramontes (Mexico) and Mary Gaitskill (US)

2/16 Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia) and Geeta Kothari (India)3/16 Patricia Engel (Colombia) and Adriana Ramirez (Colombia/ Mexico)4/13 Edwidge Danticat* (Haiti). *Private event.

City of Asylum creates a thriving community for writers, readers, and neighbors. We provide sanctuary to endangered literary writers, so they can continue to write and their voices are not silenced. We also offer a broad range of literary programs in a variety of community setting to encourage cross-cultural exchange.

Aster(ix) is a play on asterisk, star, splat, a wildcard. It’s the censored and omitted. It’s footnotes and to be continued. (ix) honors Mayan heart-knowing, the alignment with divine will, the torch bearer. We cast lines between the future and the past, the possible and the impossible. We prioritize works by and about women who also work in the margins of their discipline. Supported by the Department of English at University of Pittsburgh.

asterixjournal.com | alphabetcity.org | cityofasylum.org | sampsoniaway.org

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includes q & A