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NEW YORK, March 25, 2015 – The MFA Creative Writing Program at The New School for Public Engagement and the Gender Studies Program at The New School present a symposium on the life and work of legendary New York activist, poet, short story writer and feminist Grace Paley on Thursday, April 9, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. and Friday, April 10, 1-5 p.m. The program, “Grace Paley and The Disturbances of Man,” will take place at The New School’s Theresa Lang Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 W. 13th Street, 2nd floor. Exploring Paley’s legacy and the complex ways her work still resonates today, the event will feature a panel on her life and writings; fiction by New School Riggio Honors Program students; a screening of Lilly Rivlin’s documentary, Grace Paley: Collected Shorts; and an exhibition of archival material. There will also be a screening of Peter Barton’s Women of ’69, Unboxed accompanied by a Class of 2015 Yearbox created by Parsons’ students. The symposium concludes with a walking tour of historically and culturally charged sites from Paley’s life in Greenwich Village. “In a Paris Review interview in 1992, Grace Paley said, ‘Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.’This symposium captures the urgency at the heart of Paley’s life and work,” comments Terri Gordon, director of Gender Studies at The New School.“In paying homage to the writer and activist that was Grace Paley, we seek to bridge the past and the present, to understand how the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s and 70s reverberates in art and activism today.” For a complete schedule of programs associated with the symposium, visit The New School events page. |
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