With two books out this winter, Voice of Witness readers will have plenty of opportunities to hear from Voice of Witness editors, narrators and students in our Education Program. Check out some of our forthcoming events below!
March 16, 2011, 8:00 pm
Voice of Witness at the Virginia Festival of the Book Blue Ridge Mountain Sports, Charlottesville, VA
February 24th. Please click here for more information.
Peter Orner, Hope Deferred Reading DePaul University, Chicago, IL Peter Orner reads from and discusses Hope Deferred. Peter will also be featured on WBEZ Chicago’s Worldview this week – date and time to be announced.
In anticipation of Zimbabwe’s next election, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network delved into voter registration documents, hoping to prevent widespread fraud. The results uncovered by the group were less than promising, showing that up to 1/3 of Zimbabwe’s 5.5 million registered voters were actually deceased. Read more about the group’s findings here.
The future of Zimbabwe’s political system was on the minds of many narrators whose stories are told in our most recent title Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives.To learn more about the book, and to read an excerpt from Zimbabwean political activist Alice’s narrative, just click here.
Peter Orner Reads from HOPE DEFERRED at the Rumpus
Thanks to everyone who came out to this month’s Rumpus, which featured Voice of Witness’ own Peter Orner! It was a great evening with more than 200 people in attendance.
We hope you enjoy the video, below, of Peter’s reading!
Voice of Witness Education Program Students Present Their Work
Interested in learning more about Voice of Witness’ Education Program? There’s no better way to learn about how Voice of Witness is partnering with Facing History and Ourselves to bring socially relevant oral history curricula into Bay Area schools than to see the incredible work produced by the students in our pilot program!
With an incredible presentation of oral history, photography and narrative painting from Oakland’s Envision Academy already completed, there are only a couple of events left that are open to the public. If you’d like to learn more about our educational programming, consider attending one of these events:
Voice of Witness/Facing History and Ourselves Education Program Presentation at Immaculate Conception Academy
January 28, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Immaculate Conception Academy, 3625 24th Street, San Francisco, CA
Eileen O’Kane’s 11th grade students will present their moving podcasts, read from edited work, and talk …
In November, Peter Orner and Annie Holmes read from and discussed our newest title, HopeDeferred, at Stanford University. The talk was the inaugural public event for Stanford’s Human Well-Being and Human Rights Series and we were honored to be invited to help launch the series.
Not able to attend? Check out a video excerpt of their talk to learn more about what Peter and Annie shared with the audience at Stanford.
Stay tuned for more events from Voice of Witness, coming soon!
Join Peter Orner Reads at The Rumpus in San Francisco
Peter Orner will be joining The Rumpus for a night of readings at 7pm on January 10th at the Makeout Room- 3225 22nd St. in San Francisco.
For more information and to buy tickets, just click here.
It is bound to be a great event, featuring readings from Peter Orner, Amber Tamblyn, Andrew Nelson, Derrick Brown and Bucky Sinister.
We hope to see you there!
Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that empowers those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice. Using oral history as a foundation, the series depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. Voice of Witness was founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen, and is the nonprofit division of McSweeney's Books.
