BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Pen Sydney - ECPv6.16.5.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Pen Sydney X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://pen.org.au X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Pen Sydney REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20220402T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20221001T160000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20230401T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20230930T160000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20240406T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20241005T160000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231118T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231118T193000 DTSTAMP:20231022T154623Z CREATED:20231022T153654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231022T154623Z UID:2709-1700330400-1700335800@pen.org.au SUMMARY:Day of the Imprisoned Writer DESCRIPTION:When Behrouz Boochani became the Voice of Manus he revealed the chaos and cruelty of a secret regime and made a nation take notice. But five years on from finding freedom in New Zealand who is Behrouz Boochani now?  \nIn this wide-ranging conversation\, he reflects on his years in detention capturing in words and on film the madness of Manus\, his more recent writing – including his book Freedom\, Only Freedom – his poetry and playwrighting\, and as a Kurdish activist his involvement in the ‘Woman Life Freedom’ uprising in Iran \n \n \n \n \n \n What happens to imprisoned writers when they are no longer in prison?\nBehrouz will be talking with Ben Doherty – International Affairs correspondent for The Guardian – for PEN International’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer. \nBehrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian writer\, journalist\, scholar\, cultural advocate and filmmaker. Boochani was a writer and editor for the Kurdish language magazine Werya in Iran. He is an Honorary Member of PEN International; and winner of an Amnesty International Australia 2017 Media Award\, the Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Award\, and the Anna Politkovskaya award for journalism. He publishes regularly with The Guardian\, and his writing also features in The Saturday Paper\, Huffington Post\, New Matilda\, The Financial Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. Boochani is also co-director (with Arash Kamali Sarvestani) of the 2017 feature-length film Chauka\, Please Tell Us The Time. His book\, No Friend But The Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison won the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature in addition to the Nonfiction category. His most recent book is Freedom\, Only Freedom. \nBen Doherty\, International affairs correspondent for The Guardian\, has reported across the Asia-Pacific\, including postings in Southeast and South Asia. His work focuses on human rights and humanitarian issues\, and forced migration. He holds master’s degrees from Oxford University and UNSW\, and is the author of a novel\, Nagaland. \nThis event is presented in partnership with the State Library of NSW. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Book Now URL:https://pen.org.au/event/day-of-the-imprisoned-writer/ LOCATION:Home\, 245 Wilson St\, Eveleigh\, NSW\, 2015\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://pen.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Behrouz-Boochani-2023-website.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231018T183000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231018T203000 DTSTAMP:20230922T001512Z CREATED:20230919T063108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T001512Z UID:2533-1697653800-1697661000@pen.org.au SUMMARY:Words In A War – Writers on the Russia Ukraine War DESCRIPTION:Where is freedom of speech in the Russian Ukraine war? Has truth been a victim of the conflict?How are Russian and Ukrainian writers\, journalists and poets responding to the war?What are the challenges of covering the war when there is so much at stake?How have both governments tried to shape the truth? \n \n \n \n \n \n Join this exclusive conversation with:\nDmitry Bykov is a prominent Russian-Jewish writer\, poet\, critic and satirist who has taken a strong political stance against Putin and against the war. He has been one of the top influencers of the Russian opposition for more than ten years\, since joining the Opposition Council\, along with Alexey Navalny. His criticism of Putin’s Russia and its Soviet period had almost cost him his life – he was allegedly poisoned with the same toxic agent that was used in an attempt to kill Navalny. \nZoya Sheftalovich is a contributing editor of the POLITICO news website\, covering the war in Ukraine. She was born in Ukraine\, before moving to Australia as part of the post-Soviet diaspora in the early 1990s. Zoya has written about her experiences growing up in Ukraine through the Chernobyl disaster and the fall of the Soviet Union. She is a two-time Walkley Award finalist. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Book Now URL:https://pen.org.au/event/words-in-a-war-writers-on-the-russia-ukraine-war/ LOCATION:Alexandria Town Hall\, 73 Garden St\, Alexandria\, NSW\, 2015\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://pen.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Bykov_poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230713T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230713T210000 DTSTAMP:20231001T230138Z CREATED:20230921T233951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231001T230138Z UID:2586-1689271200-1689282000@pen.org.au SUMMARY:Tales of the Wind - A night of Uyghur poetry DESCRIPTION:Join PEN Syden and the Uyghur community for a celebration of poetry\, music and food.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Guests include:\nAhmatjan Osman\, Fatima Seyyah and Mamtimin Ala \nMoney raised goes to the World Uyghur Writers Union. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Book Now URL:https://pen.org.au/event/tales-of-the-wind-a-night-of-uyghur-poetry/ LOCATION:The Turkish Cultural Centre\, 33 Gelibolu Parade\, Auburn\, NSW\, 2144\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://pen.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Uyghur_Poetry_night_1_480x480WEB.webp END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR