Balakian and Egoyan to Speak at Center for Jewish History
By Armenian Weekly Staff
January 4, 2010
NEW YORK – Peter Balakian and Atom Egoyan will be featured artists at a
symposium, titled `Imagination and Catastrophe: The Aftermath of
Genocide,’ which will be held at the Center for Jewish History, 15
West 16th Street, New York, on Jan. 10. The symposium will include
filmmakers, writers, and musicians who will explore the complexity of
creating art that deals with genocide and its aftermath. The artists
and critics will discuss how the imagination wrestles with
historically catastrophic events. The program will include segments of
films, readings of fiction and poetry, and poetry set to music. In the
creation of art out of catastrophe, genocide can be understood in more
complex ways.
Participants include: Atom Egoyan, internationally acclaimed director,
writer, producer and Academy Award nominee (Where the Truth Lies, The
Sweet Hereafter, Ararat); Peter Balakian, poet and acclaimed author
(June-tree: New and Selected Poems, Black Dog of Fate, The Burning
Tigris); Marcie Hershman, novelist (Safe in America [researched at
AJHS], Tales of the Master Race); R. Clifton Spargo, fiction writer,
critic, and co-editor (After Representation: The Holocaust, Literature
and Culture); Donna-Lee Frieze (moderator), scholar in genocide
studies, philosophy, and film; Emily Duncan-Brown, soprano; and Laura
Leon, pianist.
The event is on Sunday, January 10th at 11:00 a.m. Tickets are $20,
$15 for CJH members. For tickets, call Smarttix at 212-868-4444 or
visit
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress