Alia Malek, acclaimed author of A Country Called Amreeka, will be one of Joy Behar’s guests on tonight’s CNN Headline News at 9pm. Malek is also the editor of an upcoming Voice of Witness book on discrimination against Muslim Americans and Arab Americans. To read more about the project, click here.
PETER ORNER AT BOOK PASSAGE
Posted on April 22, 2010 | link
Nick McDonell, Peter Orner & Tom Barbash present
McSweeney’s Issue 34 and An Expensive Education
April 29, 2010
6:00 PM
at Book Passage
1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA 94111
Join Underground America editor Peter Orner and other McSweeney’s writers at the San Francisco Ferry Building to celebrate McSweeney’s Issue 34! Inside this issue: ‘Tafi’ an excerpt from our forthcoming book on Zimbabwe.
For more information on this event, click here.
PETER ORNER AT BERKELEY LAW SCHOOL
Posted on April 5, 2010 | link
Health Inequities for Undocumented Immigrants
Wednesday, April 7
12:45-1:45 PM, Room 100
Underground America editor Peter Orner will be speaking about the growing health crisis for undocumented workers, highlighting such topics as health and human rights in prison, occupational injuries and social vulnerabilities leading to health inequities. Hosted by The Boalt Healthcare & Biotech Law Society,
Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, and the National Lawyers Guild – Berkeley Law.
Ghosts of the River Community Event featuring Voice of Witness
Posted on October 8, 2009 | link
October 20th from 7-9:30 pm
Mission Cultural Center Theater
2868 Mission St
San Francisco, CA 94110
FREE Admission
(reservations recommended; 415.648.4461 or leslie@shadowlight.org)
Please join Voice of Witness for a Multimedia Panel Discussion with:
Octavio Solís – playwright for Ghosts of the River
Corinne Goria – assistant editor for Voice of Witnessʼ Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives
Laura Rivas -organizer for National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rightsʼ HURRICANE project
For more information about the panelists and event, click here
*simultaneous translation provided (English to Spanish)
This event brought to you in part, by the support of the California Arts Council.
“The Intersection of Law and the Arts: Documenting Civil Rights Stories”
Posted on September 30, 2009 | link
Wednesday 14 October, 5:30pm
Sofia Restaurant
Sacramento, CA
SPACE IS EXTREMELY LIMITED. Please RSVP by October 9 to:joshua@mark.merin.com / 916-443-6911
Underground America editor Peter Orner is the keynote speaker at the 2nd Annual Distinguished Lecturer Series, presented by the Sacramento County Bar Association. He will be speaking about his work as a human rights attorney, author and oral historian for the Voice of Witness series. For full event details, click here.
VOICE OF WITNESS/STORYCORPS EVENT AT CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM
Posted on September 8, 2009 | link
THE ART OF LISTENING: Oral Histories from Voice of Witness and StoryCorps
Thursday 17 September 2009, 7pm
Voice of Witness and StoryCorps will co-present an evening at the Contemporary Jewish Museum about the power of oral history to penetrate deeply into individual lives, as well as prompt social and political transformation. Out of Exile editor Craig Walzer will be in conversation with Melvin Reeves, StoryCorps Planner and former Manager, Family Support Services, American Red Cross September 11th Recovery Program. In addition, the evening will feature clips from the StoryCorps archive, as well as live interviews with featured Voice of Witness and StoryCorps participants from around the world. For more information, visit the Contemporary Jewish Museum website.
This event was made possible in part, by the California Arts Council.
Out of Exile at Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference
Posted on July 31, 2009 | link
Sunday August 16th, 1pm
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
Corte Madera, CA 94925
Out of Exile editor Craig Walzer will be speaking at the 18th Annual Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference. Craig will discuss his experiences traveling around Sudan, Kenya and Egypt conducting research and interviews for the book. For more information, visit the conference website.
OUT OF EXILE NEW YORK EVENT
Posted on May 21, 2009 | link
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27th 2009, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
HOUSING WORKS BOOKSTORE CAFE
126 Crosby St, New York, NY 10012
In light of the paperback release of Out of Exile, editor Craig Walzer will be speaking at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York. Special guests (via sateliite): Out of Exile narrators Panther Alier and Alweel Kol.
Paperback copies, signed by Craig Walzer, Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng, will be on sale at the event.
To download the event flyer, click here.
To RSVP, email mimi.lok_at_voiceofwitness_dot_com.
OUT OF EXILE at UCSF
Posted on April 21, 2009 | link
Monday, April 27th, 12pm
UCSF Parnassus campus
513 Parnassus, HSW 303
Out of Exile editor Craig Walzer will be speaking at UCSF for a fund and awareness-raising event hosted by Health Alliance for Sudan. The event is centered around healthcare in Sudan and health issues faced by IDPs (internally displaced persons) and refugees. Proceeds from this event will benefit Juba Teaching Hospital.
UNDERGROUND AMERICA AT NEWBURYPORT LITERARY FESTIVAL
Posted on April 21, 2009 | link
Below the Radar: Immigrants in America
Saturday, April 25th, 2:30 PM, Old South Church, Newburyport, Massachusets: Underground America editor Peter Orner will be speaking at this event with social activist Drew Hendrickson as part of the Newburyport Literary Festival. For Underground America, Orner compiled and edited the stories of various men and women who came to the United States and confronted life-changing challenges that they never expected. This book is a collection of first-hand accounts, illuminating the human experiences that elude the headlines and are rarely considered in political discourse about immigration. The discussion will center on the power of the human story and the often harsh reality of immigration in the US.
Presenter: Peter Orner
Moderator: Drew Hendrickson
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/
