Voice of Witness

Next month, Voice of Witness editors Ayelet Waldman, Robin Levi and Peter Orner will be speaking at upcoming events in New York and California. We hope to see you there!

In New York:

February 7th, 2012: Join Robin Levi and Ayelet Waldman for a discussion of Inside This Place, Not of It, at Columbia University. Click here for details.

February 8th, 2012: Join Robin Levi, Ayelet Waldman, and Inside This Place, Not of It narrator Francesca Salavieri for a reading and talk at NYU. Click here for details.

In California:

February 13th, 2012: Join Peter Orner (editor of Voice of Witness titles Underground America and Hope Deferred) in conversation with Peter Godwin (The Fear) for a discussion of life and struggle in Zimbabwe at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Click here for details. Use the promotional code “VOW” for a discounted ticket!

Join Peter Orner, editor of Voice of Witness titles Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives and Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, in conversation with Peter Godwin, author of The Fear at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Orner and Godwin will discuss their work, human rights in Zimbabwe, and the power of storytelling for social justice.

“Hope Deferred might be the most important publication to have come out of Zimbabwe in the past thirty years.” – Alexandra Fuller, Harper’s Magazine

“[The Fear is] a document that should be read by anyone interested in the sacrifices that people are willing to make for the sake of democracy.” – The New York Times

Event details:
Monday, February 13 at 7 pm
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California St.
Members $17 | Public $20 | Student $10

For more information about the event, click here.

Join editor Robin Levi and legendary human rights activist Angela Davis in conversation at the Hammer Museum

Event Details:

December 1st, 7:00 pm

The Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire, Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024

Join Robin Levi, co-editor of Inside This Place, Not of It and Human Rights Director of Justice Now in conversation with activist Angela Davis. Davis’ recent work has focused on incarceration and the criminalization of communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. Her recent books are Abolition Democracy: Beyond Incarceration, Torture and Empire and Are Prisons Obsolete? For more information on this free event, click here.

Earlier this month, Voice of Witness hosted ‘Voices from Burma,’ a reading event featuring Wallace Shawn, Kathryn Grody, Amitav Ghosh, Deborah Eisenberg and more. Hosted by the Asia Society’s Orville Schell, and presented in partnership with the Magnum Foundation, Open Society Foundations and the PEN American Center, the evening gave audiences a rare glimpse into life inside Burma. Listen to excerpts from the evening here.

Join Justice Now and Voice of Witness to celebrate their new title, Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons, with a reading and reception featuring editors Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi.

October 18th, 6:30 pm
826 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA

And don’t forget– Ayelet Waldman is still donating $10 to Scholarmatch for each book pre-ordered. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to support two great organizations at once. Order your copy today!

Join editors Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi, and special guests Kelli Evans and Irma Rodriquez on Sunday, October 9th at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

About the event: Best-selling author Ayelet Waldman; Robin Levi, Human Rights director for Justice Now; Kelli Evans, Deputy Director of the  ACLU Northern CA and first-account narrator Irma Rodriguez, discuss Inside This Place, Not Of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons, which illustrates the stories of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women across the U.S. Discussion moderated by Dan Schifrin, CJM Writer in Residence, with book signing to follow. Co-sponsored by CJM’s StoryCorps StoryBooth, and presented in conjunction with Litquake.

For more information click here.

Join us in New York for ‘Voices from Burma’, a performance of narratives from Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime and photography from Magnum photographers Chien Chi Chang, Lu Nan and James Mackey.

Voice of Witness is delighted to announce several opportunities in the San Francisco Bay Area to learn more about our newest title, Patriot Acts, and hear from editor, Alia Malek.

We hope to see you at one of our events!

September 20th
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA
7:00 pm
Join editor Alia Malek and foreword writer Karen Korematsu (founder of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education) for a reading and talk.
Click here for more information.

September 21st
Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, Room 3203, San Francisco, CA
12:00 pm
Join Alia Malek for a reading and discussion, hosted by the American Constitution Society.

September 22nd
Santa Clara Law School, Bannan Hall, Room 142, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA
12:00 pm
Join Alia Malek for a reading and discussion of Patriot Acts.
For more information, click here.

Also on September 22nd
Books, Inc., 301 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA
7:00 pm
Join Alia Malek for a reading and book signing. For more information, click here.

September 23rd
826 Valencia, San Francisco, CA
6:30 pm
Join Alia Malek and the Voice of Witness team for a reading and reception. This event is cosponsored by Amnesty International, The Korematsu Institute and the Council on American Islamic Relations- San Francisco Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA).
For more information, click here.

September 25th
Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California, 1433 Madison St., Oakland, CA
4:00 pm
Join editor Alia Malek in conversation with writer Wajahat Ali, for a reading and discussion of Patriot Acts.
This event is cosponsored by the Council on American Islamic Relations- San Francisco Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA) and the Bay Area Association of Muslim Lawyers.
For more information, click here.

September 27th
University of California- Hastings College of the Law
Sky Room, 100 McAllister Street, San Francisco
6:00 pm
This event is cosponsored by the Bay Area Association of Muslim Lawyers, the South Asian Bar Association, and the Council on American Islamic Relations.

Join editor Alia Malek at an event for the newest Voice of Witness title Patriot Acts this week. All events are free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!

September 13th
7:00pm
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
New York University, New York, NY

Join Alia Malek and special guests at NYU for a roundtable discussion followed by a reception and book signing. For more information, click here.

September 14th
4:15 pm
KINSC Sharpless Auditorium
Haverford College, Haverford, PA

Join Alia Malek for a reading and discussion of  Patriot Acts. For more information, click here.

September 18th
11:00 am
Brooklyn Book Festival, Main Stage
Brooklyn, NY

Join Alia for 9/11 AT TEN. Ten years later, after the killing of Osama bin Laden and the continuation of many Bush-era national security polices by the Obama Administration, leading writers and thinkers Jeremy Scahill (Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army) and Alia Malek (A Country Called Amreeka: US History Retold Through Arab American Lives) engage in a conversation moderated by Laura Flanders about what has changed in the US since September 11, 2001. For more information, click here.