A Gathering of Translators
Monday, September 30, 2024 3:15 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
Art & Design Building, Gillespie Gallery
If you throw a flower in another language into the air, who will catch it? Let’s make a bouquet together in many languages! Please join us for a Big Tent Community Event, a chance to convene and bring together literary translators and multilingual writers in the DMV for a kaleidoscopic reading and gathering.
Location: Gillespie Gallery, 1st Floor Art and Design Building, 4515 Patriot Circle, Fairfax
Bus stop: Mason shuttle stop is nearby. Please use google maps to find us.
Parking: Shenandoah Parking Deck (Validation will be provided for readers. Please save your receipt)
This project was supported, in part, by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
Program:
3:15pm Arrivals
3:30 - 4: 30pm Reception with Introductions, and a discussion on building community around translation; hopes for literary translation practice in the DMV
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Reading - 5 minutes each - 1 poem/ para each with intro; translation and option to read original
Refreshments served 3:00-5:00 pm
Lineup: to be shared in more detail, but includes Padma Narayanan, Katie King, Munir Hachemi (Cheuse Center Writer-in-Residence from Spain), Judy Leserman, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Vivek Narayanan, Homa Mojadidi, Marguerite Feitlowitz, Katherine E Young, Heather Streckfus-Green, Roman Kostovski, and Sayed Elsisi.
Book Sales: All writers are welcome to bring books to sell via cash, check, venmo, paypal, zelle, with payment to be issued directly to them.
About the Exhibition: Nothing Personal: a collaboration in black and white: https://www.masonexhibitions.org/exhibitions/nothing-personal
