Jun 16-18, 2023
Image by Jorge Colombo

Festival Program

Fri Jun 16

2024

Jun 16 to Jun 18

Featuring
Seth Indigo Carnes, Rodney Harder

Poetry on Main

Jun 16, 5:30pm

Featuring
Dani Case

Understanding Orwell: The Biographer’s Art

Jun 16, 7:00pm

Featuring
D.J. Taylor, Liesl Schillinger

DOUBLEPLUSGOOD

Jun 16, 9:30pm

Featuring
David Driver , Pond Wave, Andrea Wittgens, Lena Kaminsky, Lyra Vega, Bank Of Ireland, Julian Jimenez, Anna Copacabanna
Sat Jun 17

Rebecca Solnit: Orwell’s Roses

Jun 17, 11:00am

Featuring
Rebecca Solnit, Parul Sehgal, and a short film by G. Anthony Svatek, commissioned for the festival, with Tilda Swinton narrating "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad"

Dystopia Worldbuilding Workshop

Jun 17, 11:30am

Featuring
Isadora Alteon, Marlon James
Photo by Nacona Fierro

undertones

June 17 and 18, 12-2pm, Every 15 Minutes

Featuring
Corinna Grunn, Hilary Melcher Chapman

Agents and Provocateurs

Jun 17, 12:30pm

Featuring
Dasha Ziborova, Juliette Hermant
Photo by Dani Case

Margin Call: On Low Lifes and Feral Cities

Jun 17, 1:00pm

Featuring
Lucy Sante, Sukhdev Sandhu, Jeremiah Moss

Hip-Hop at Fifty featuring Jonathan Abrams

Jun 17, 1:00pm

Featuring
Jonathan Abrams, Trymaine Lee

Oh Julia

Jun 17, 2:30pm

Featuring
Sandra Newman, Darcey Steinke

Why They Write: Three Masters of Non-Fiction on Poverty, Propaganda, and Lies.

Jun 17, 4:00pm

Featuring
Barbara Demick, Peter Pomerantsev, Azmat Khan, Ilya Marritz

Wine and Crime: The art of the Mystery Novel

Jun 17, 5:30pm

Featuring
Caroline Kepnes, Brendan Slocumb

Parallax of Quantum

Jun 17, 7:30pm

Featuring
DJ Spooky and the WCM Beloveds

Festival Party

Jun 17, 9:00pm

Featuring
Paul A Miller / DJ Spooky
Sun Jun 18

Father’s Day

Jun 18, 11:00am

Featuring
Richard Blair, D.J. Taylor

Podcasting Workshop

Jun 18, 12:30pm

Featuring
Tim Bruno, Ilya Marritz

Between Dystopias

Jun 18, 1:00pm

Featuring
Marlon James, Hafizah Augustus Geter, Parul Sehgal

Why Do Actors Train?

Jun 18, 1:00pm

Featuring
Brad Krumholz, Jason Tougaw

Four Legs Blessed

Jun 18, 1:00pm

Featuring
The Rev. Phyllis Haynes

ALIVE OR EXISTING?

June 18 at 2:00pm, 2:15pm, 2:30pm, and 2:45pm

Featuring
Manon Manavit, Hazen Cuyler, Willow Gatewood
Art by Tif Wolf

Flash Memoir Writing Workshop

Jun 18, 2:00pm

Featuring
Melisse Gelula

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