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Healthcare & Humanity Reading Series: Examining Diagnosis & Identity with Rachel Aviv

Healthcare & Humanity Reading Series: Examining Diagnosis & Identity with Rachel Aviv

Rachel Aviv discusses her book "Strangers to Ourselves," which illuminates the startling connections between diagnosis and identity ...
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Workshop: Reshaping The Stories That Make Us

Workshop: Reshaping The Stories That Make Us

This workshop, led by memoirist and medical professional Theresa Brown, R.N., will guide participants through  a process of breaking down medical documents & rearranging the given words, thus allowing them to examine the interplay between a medicalized and a personal ...
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Freedom to Create Keynote with Ben Okri

Freedom to Create Keynote with Ben Okri

Each year we gather at Alphabet City to honor an international writer or artist who shares our mission to promote and honor creative freedom for all. This year we honor Booker Prize winning poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright, Ben Okri ...
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Lost & Found in Translation: Storytelling with the World Affairs Council

Lost & Found in Translation: Storytelling with the World Affairs Council

All sharing stories in the theme of Lost & Found in Translation, the program features eight high school students who traveled abroad (Ecuador, France, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Spain) this past summer through the World Affairs Council’s global Travel ...
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Writing Away From Home: In-Conversation with Rania Mamoun & Leila Aboulela

Writing Away From Home: In-Conversation with Rania Mamoun & Leila Aboulela

This program presents a conversation between two female Sudanese writers, Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela and City of Asylum writer-in-residence Rania Mamoun ...
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