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March 2017
Annual Gala for Young People’s Chorus of New York City
Performance of "A Murmuration for Chibok," a choral work by composer Joan La Barbara with lyrics by Monique Truong
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Maxine!
Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston in celebration of the 40th anniversary of THE WOMAN WARRIOR.
Find out more »May 2017
Bang on a Can Marathon
Performance of "A Murmuration for Chibok," a choral work by composer Joan La Barbara with lyrics by Monique Truong.
Find out more »Song of Myself: An Intimate Public Reading
“Free verse for a free nation!” ScreeningRoom.org, in cahoots with the Waterfront Barge Museum in Red hook, invite you to a public reading of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” from Leaves of Grass.
Find out more »[GENERATE] Joan La Barbara: “The Wanderlusting of Joseph C.”
Performance of a new song cycle by composer Joan La Barbara with lyrics by Monique Truong, featuring Joan La Barbara, Mario Diaz-Moresco, Lauren Flanigan, Julia Meadows, and Ne(x)tworks.
Find out more »January 2018
Poetica 4: Beyond Idenitities
Festival of World Literature
Festival curator: Yoko Tawada. With authors: Jeffrey Angles (USA), Bei Dao (China), Anneke Brassinga (Netherlands), Teju Cole (USA / Nigeria), Hiromi Ito (Japan), Kim Hyesoon (South Korea), Barbara Köhler (Germany), Morten Søndergaard (Denmark), Monique Truong (USA / Vietnam), Jan Wagner (Germany)
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Yoko Tawada and Tatyana Tolstaya
with introductions by Monique Truong and Anya Migdal
Yoko Tawada reads from her novel The Emissary and Tatyana Tolstaya from Aetherial Worlds
Find out more »April 2018
Joan La Barbara: The Wanderlusting of Joseph C.
Joan La Barbara, Lauren Flanigan, Mario Diaz-Moresco, along with musicians Miguel Frasconi and Bryan Hayslett, perform selections from La Barbara's epic song cycle "The Wanderlusting of Joseph C." with lyrics by Monique Truong, along with La Barbara's "Windows" and "Habité par ses rêves et les phantasms." Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris."
Find out more »June 2018
Creative Minds: Vietnamese Writers of the Diaspora
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Thi Bui, Nam Le, Anna Moi, Hoa Nguyen, Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Aimee Phan, Bao Phi, Dao Strom, and Monique Truong will read excerpts from new work and hold a roundtable discussion sharing their perspectives on the complexities surrounding refugees and immigrants of color.
Find out more »July 2018
BERLIN NEW YORK = URBAN DICTIONARY LITERATURFESTIVAL (July 8-15)
Literature & Politics: Round table discussion with Norbert Gstrein, Jeremy M. Davies and Monique Truong. Presenter: Christine Daum.
Find out more »BERLIN NEW YORK = URBAN DICTIONARY LITERATURFESTIVAL (July 8-15)
Salt & Signs: New prose by Senthuran Varatharajah and Monique Truong.
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