Upcoming Voice of Witness Events

Posted on January 25, 2011

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

Join editors Maggie Lemere and Zoe West as they discuss Nowhere to be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime.

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.

February 4, 2011, 5:00-7:00 pm
Oral History and Community Justice Presentation
Movimiento de Arte de Cultura Latino Americana Gallery
510 South 1st Street, San Jose, CA
As part of San Jose’s First Friday event, students from Katie Kuszmar’s service learning group at Notre Dame San Jose High School will exhibit their oral history projects focusing on a range of community issues.


Bookmark and Share

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.