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6 October 2011- London
AT LIBERTY TO SAY
A NIGHT OF POETRY PRESENTED BY CARLOS REYES MANZO, AMNESTY’S
INAUGURAL POET IN RESIDENCE.
In partnership with Exiled Writers Ink.
EVENT BRIEFING
A free evening of poetry celebrating National Poetry Day and
Amnesty’s 50th anniversary year, hosted by our first poet in
residence, Carlos Reyes-Manzo. The audience will be invited to
enjoy an evening of poetry. The broad theme is Freedom of
Expression but this can be taken either literally or
metaphorically.
Amnesty International UK, Human Rights Action Centre
17-25 New Inn Yard
London EC2A 3EA
Nearest tubes: Old Street, Liverpool Street
POETS
Carlos Reyes Manzo, Amnesty poet in residence
Luke Wright, fresh from a sold-out Edinburgh fringe run
Carole Satyamurti, award-winning British poet
Ben Okri, prize-winning Nigerian poet and novelist
Shirin Razavian, Iranian poet in exile
Felix Dennis, entrepreneur, poet and survivor of the OZ trials
Linton Kwesi Johnson, world renowned reggae poet . |
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June 29, 2011
The Nehru Centre of
THE INDIAN HIGH COMMISSION
presents a multilingual
evening of poetry, art & music ARIA | ANIKA programme |flow of
events | draft (auditorium) [MC: Anjali Guptara] I. Monika Mohta,
Minister (Culture) & Director, The Nehru Centre: opening remarks
Leona Medlin, Mulfran Press, Cardiff: publisher’s remarks + she
hands over the presentation copy to William Radice & Jane
Draycott who jointly launch Aria|Anika,.They say a few words,
and hand the copy to SS. SS invites Jenny Lewis & Frances
Kiernan II.1 Readings [Translations: World & South Asia] Jane
Draycott reads Bengali poet Mandakranta Sen [39b] & Mithu Sen
[46] in English Shirin Razavian reads her own poem in Farsi
[100] / in English by SS Natasha Dabeski reads Macedonian poems
by Petko Dabeski [110b] & Zoran Anchevski [108] / in English by
SS William Radice reads Bangladeshi poet: Shamsur Rahman: ‘Love
Poem’ [48b] in Bengali /in English by SS William Radice reads
Rabindranath Tagore’s Khapcharra poems [36-37] in Bengali / in
English by SS Mukulika Banerjee reads Gulzar [71] & Kunwar
Narain [73] in Urdu/Hindi / in English by SS Sangeeta Datta
reads Jibanananda Das: ‘Banalata Sen’ [35] in Bengali / in
English by SS Sangeeta Datta sings “Sakhi Prem” by Rabindranath
Tagore from her film, Life Goes On Jenny Lewis reads Amir Or
(Hebrew) [98] Ewa Sonnenberg (Polish) [102] poems in English
translation.
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16th June 2010
Iranian Women: Heroines or Victims of transgression?
An event organised by:
Unite for Iran, Exiled Writer Ink!, International Coalition
Against Violence in Iran (ICAVI) and One Million Signature
Campaign.
Event was held at Free Word Centre at Farringdon, London.
Poets: Shirin Razavian, Mehrangiz Rassapour, Hila Sedigh
Chair: Jennifer Langer (EWI) , Rouhi Shafii (ICAVI)
Speakers: Ann Harrison (Amnesty International), Sara Pahizgar
(One Million Signature Campaign)
Music: Mansour Parhizgar – Kurdish music to remember Shirin Alam
Holi
8th July 2010
Reading at Lauderdale House, Highgate
Hill, London
Poets: Robert Chandler, Shirin Razavian, Lakshmi Holstrom,
Srilata. K
Chair: Shanta Acharya
Poetry in Translation: Celebrated poet, translator and editor
Robert Chandler will read his own work plus translations of
Alexander Pushkin and contemporary Iranian poet Shirin Razavian,
who will read her own work in Persian. Sasha Dugdale's
translations of Elena Shvart's Birdsong Seabed was a PBS
recommended choice and shortlisted for the 2009 Rossica Prize.
She has translated over thirty Russian plays, including
Chekhov's Cherry Orchard for BBC Radio 3. Award winning Lakshmi
Holmström translates poems, short stories and novels by major
contemporary Tamil writers. Her 2009 publications were The
Rapids of a Great River: the Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry, of
which she is a co-editor, and a translation of Salma's The Hour
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June 2008EXILED LIT
CAFE:
WRITERS FROM BANGLADESH, IRAN AND SOUTH AFRICA
Mir Mahfuz Ali was born in Dhaka,
Bangladesh and studied at Essex University. He dances, acts,
has worked as a male model and a tandoori chef. He has given
readings and performances at the Royal Opera House and other
theatres in Britain and beyond. His poems have appeared in
London Magazine, Poetry London, Ambit and Exiled Ink. He is
currently preparing his first collection for publication. He
has been working closely with his mentor, Moniza Alvi and
was short-listed for the New Writing Ventures Awards 2007.
Shereen Pandit was a South African lawyer and political
activist before coming into exile in the UK in 1987 where
she completed a PhD in Law. Her short stories have appeared
in many anthologies and magazines and have won several
prizes including the Booktrust London Award. Her articles
and reviews have appeared in several magazines.
Shirin Razavian was born in Tehran where she studied Persian
and English Literature. Because of the censorship and lack
of freedom of expression, she fled her country and started
building a new life in London. She has published three
Persian poetry books in London in 1995, 1999 and 2001. Her
Farsi-English book Which Shade of Blue? is being published
in the USA shortly. Shirin has had several radio and TV
interviews with the BBC, Voice of America, Radio Azadi,
Radio Israel and other Persian exiled media.
Their chap books, published 2008 by Exiled Writers Ink, will
be available:
A Golden Bowl by Mir Mahfuz Ali, Flamingoes at Sunset by
Shereen Pandit and Free Fall by Shirin Razavian.
Hosted by Nathalie Teitler
www.exiledwriters.co.uk
29 April 2008
12 exciting, emerging exiled
writers and the launch of their chap books
Exiled Writers Ink Mentoring and Translation Scheme (Year 1)
participants
Shereen Pandit ( South Africa), Abol Froushan ( Iran), Ali
Abdolrezaei ( Iran),
Sofia Buchuck ( Peru),
Vesna Ruzicka-Sehovic ( Sarajevo), Hasan Bamyani (
Afghanistan), Hassan Bahri (Syria),
Samira Al Mana ( Iraq), Mir Mahfuz Ali ( Bangladesh), Shirin
Razavian ( Iran),
Bashir Al Gamar ( Sudan), Mogib Hassan ( Yemen)
The evening will take place at:
Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre
8
March 2008
Organisation:
Association des Chercheurs Iraniens -
ACI
Venue:
Frontline Club – 13 Norfolk Place, London
Subject: International Women’s
day
Participants:
Shirin Razavian - exiled
poet and campaigner for free press in Iran
Tahirih Danesh -
Human Rights Researcher
/ Documenter bullet
Roya Kashefi - Human Rights
Committee - ACI
Elizabeth Sidney, OBE
National Alliance of Women’s
Organisations – NAWO
United Nations Development Fund for
Women – UNIFEM UK
Women’s Federation for World Peace
– WFWP (General Consultative Status of ECOSOC and DPI
Associates with the United Nations)
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