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Farhang Foundation is delighted to join forces with PEN AMERICA in presenting this year’s

WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL

WOMAN, LIFE, FREEDOM: The Role of Art in the Struggle for Human Rights

May 10, 7PM

SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER

AMIR SOLTANI
NAZANIN NOROOZI
TALA MADANI
​​NESAR MOHAMMADI
CRYSTAL BAYAT

How are artists, writers, and activists mobilizing and participating in the struggle for human rights and gender justice around the world? What are the regional and global ramifications of this feminist revolution? How have the words “Women, Life, Freedom” helped define a movement and inspire action and allyship? To answer these questions, and discuss the very real risks artists take when addressing them in their work, writer, filmmaker, and human rights activist Amir Soltani will moderate a conversation with Afghani women’s rights activist Crystal Bayat, award-winning visual artist Tala Madani, Iranian poet-in-exile Nesar Mohammadi, and multimedia artist and member of the Art/Culture/Action collective Nazanin Noroozi.

The program will be co-presented by The Skirball Cultural Center, and will be followed by a reception featuring music by DJ Omid Walizadeh and Iranian cuisine delights by Chef Mojdeh Eghbal.

DJ Omid Walizadeh

Chef Mojdeh Eghbal

This event is presented in collaboration with the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) and made possible thanks to the generous support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts.