Photo Highlights from the 2017 PEN World Voices Festival
Photo Highlights from the 2017 PEN World Voices Festival
At the 2017 PEN World Voices Festival, more than 150 authors and artists from all over the world gathered to examine bigotry, misogyny, and xenophobia and bolster the movement to counter them. Exploring the theme Gender and Power, these events celebrated the transcendent power of art to enable people to see beyond their differences. Below is a sampling of photographs from the festival. To view more photos, visit PEN America’s Flickr.
Adonis and Jessica Hagedorn at An Evening with Adonis
Masha Gessen and Samantha Bee at the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture
Abdourahman Waberi at Lit Crawl NYC 2017: A Most Exquisite Corpse
Hana Esa at M Word: Muslim-American Women on Power and Beauty
Patti Smith performs at United Against Hate
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Trevor Noah
Salman Rushdie at United Against Hate
Poetry Reading at the Union Square Market
Ani DiFranco at United Against Hate
Festival participants hold signs in support of Oleg Sentsov
Mohsen Namjoo at Exposure: Politics, Sex and Power
Jennifer Finney Boylan at Queer Representation and the Media
Poetry Reading at the Union Square Market
Suphala performs at United Against Hate
Audience members at Badass Women: Speaking Your Power
Samantha Bee at the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture
Women in Ink
Gabby River and Renee Watson at Badass Women: Speaking Your Power
Audience members at Forbidden: Too Punk/Too Queer
Salman Rushdie at the Vigil for Truth
WOW Teen Summit: Grrls, Pearls, Unfurl: Identity and Self-Love in the Millennial Age
Mona Eltahawy at Forbidden: Too Liberated
Carrie Brownstein and Kathy Tu at Forbidden: Too Punk/Too Queer
