Power, Singh, Etc. Set for WCS 'Conversations' Series
By: BWW News Desk Jul. 13, 2007
Culture Project has announced new participants in the latest event in their Conversation series, being presented as part of its currently underway 2007 Women Center Stage festival (WCS), the annual multi-disciplinary event featuring women artists whose work calls attention to human struggles globally.
Samantha Power (winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for her book "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide), renowned photographer and activist Lekha Singh (founder of Aidmatrix) and New York Times Magazine contributor Elizabeth Rubin will take part in a talk-back discussion entitled "The Role of Individuals in Social Movements," about the role human rights and imagination play in the world we live in today, defined as it is by the ideas of war and terror. Reading Lolita in Tehran author Azar Nafisi, who was scheduled to participate in the panel discussion, has dropped out due to illness.
"The Role of Individuals in Social Movements" will take place Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at Culture Project (55 Mercer Street).
Currently in its 11th year, WCS gathers artists, activists, thinkers and other crucial voices to share stories and ideas and challenge one another to act and react. The three-week festival, with more than 25 events, will take place at Culture Project's SoHo home as well as The Knitting Factory and P.S. 122. The events include theater, film, music, comedy and conversations. The festival's participants include Eve Ensler, Marisa Tomei, Samantha Power, Staceyann Chin, Elizabeth Swados, Olivia Wilde, Patricia Foulkrod, Julie Goldman and Letty Cotton Pogrebin, among many others. The festival draws to a close on Tuesday, July 17.
Tickets for all WCS events, including tomorrow's conversation, are available through the Culture Project box office at www.cultureproject.org and through Theatermania.com, (212) 352-3101. For further information, visit the WCS site at www.cultureproject.org.
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