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"Songs of Survival:

Readings Against Silence and Erasure”

Sat, June 21, 2025

9 am (NY); 3 pm (Berlin);
4 pm (Kyiv, St. P); 6:30 pm (Kashmir); 8 pm (Hanoi)

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We all process loss differently. At times we even form identities rooted in the absence of things we’ve lost. Sometimes we just cry. We talk. We shout. We get furious. We want change for ourselves and for those who are yet to experience loss — those who haven’t yet found themselves in the middle of crisis, be that war and displacement, tyranny and oppression or another cruel turn of history, a vehicle seemingly unmanned.

Ursula Le Guin says: resistance and change often begin with art, the art of word. I want to add: It should be the word of those, who had to fight the most. Those whose loss is overwhelming and those who remember. Let us speak and listen to the words of survival and hear the song of change.

Join us on June 21st the realm of decolonial poetry, the poetry of fight, survival and memory. Join us in finding the words of resistance.

As one famous fighter once wrote:

gather in one arm,
gather as one, and write
the verse of return."

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