Next Generation Now Announces Events at Pen World Voices Festival 2018

By: Apr. 18, 2018
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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.


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