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Just a Tiny Piece of Freedom

Stavanger-based ICORN (International Cities of Refuge Network) presents a memorable program celebrating “The Shahrazad – stories for life” project, initiated 5 years ago to promote ICORN, its guest writers, and the freedom of expression and exploring the potentials of spreading the city of asylum/city of refuge idea further into the Americas.

Silence or Exile, a documentary film by Marion Stalens, takes an intimate look at the lives of five exiled writers who, in their pursuit of freedom of speech, have been forced to escape their home countries and build a life from scratch in their new host countries. Through these writers, the film tells a story of a violent, absurd, and unjust world. Four of the five writers profiled in the documentary have strong ties to the ICORN network, and two of the authors – Philo Ikonya and Mana Neyestani – are current guest writers in Oslo and Paris respectively. The other writers include Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador/Iowa City), Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus/Stockholm), and Ma Jian (China/London).

Acclaimed author Anna Funder goes into depth about her novel All That I Am (2012) – about persecuted writers and intellectuals during the Weimar era and World War II. Funder is engaged in the work of ICORN and will speak about responsibilities and challenges to mobilizing solidarity and hospitality towards persecuted writers of today’s world.











When: Mon., Oct. 22, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Where: Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Ave.
212-779-3587
Price: Free
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Stavanger-based ICORN (International Cities of Refuge Network) presents a memorable program celebrating “The Shahrazad – stories for life” project, initiated 5 years ago to promote ICORN, its guest writers, and the freedom of expression and exploring the potentials of spreading the city of asylum/city of refuge idea further into the Americas.

Silence or Exile, a documentary film by Marion Stalens, takes an intimate look at the lives of five exiled writers who, in their pursuit of freedom of speech, have been forced to escape their home countries and build a life from scratch in their new host countries. Through these writers, the film tells a story of a violent, absurd, and unjust world. Four of the five writers profiled in the documentary have strong ties to the ICORN network, and two of the authors – Philo Ikonya and Mana Neyestani – are current guest writers in Oslo and Paris respectively. The other writers include Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador/Iowa City), Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus/Stockholm), and Ma Jian (China/London).

Acclaimed author Anna Funder goes into depth about her novel All That I Am (2012) – about persecuted writers and intellectuals during the Weimar era and World War II. Funder is engaged in the work of ICORN and will speak about responsibilities and challenges to mobilizing solidarity and hospitality towards persecuted writers of today’s world.

Buy tickets/get more info now