BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:32333@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240316T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240316T200000 DTSTAMP:20240227T024754Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/offsite-readings-for-palestinian-ai d/ SUMMARY:Offsite: Readings for Palestinian Aid DESCRIPTION:\nAbout this event\n \;\n\n\n\n 1 hour\n Mobile eTicket\n \n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent guidelines:\n\n Doors will open a t 6PM\, and the reading will begin at 7PM.\n All attendees are required t o wear a face mask at all times.\n Additional copies of the authors' book s will be available for purchase at the event.\n Home address is collecte d for contact tracing purposes\; it will not be used otherwise.\n As a re minder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, ev en if you have a ticket\; email us and we'll work it out.\n\nIf you have a ny questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accomm odations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net.\n\n\n \;\n\n\n1 00% of all ticket sales and 20% of all event book sales will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.\n\n\n \;\n\n\nThis event is pr esented in collaboration with the Asian American Writers' Workshop. The A sian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) is devoted to creating\, publish ing\, developing and disseminating creative writing by Asian Americans\, a nd to providing an alternative literary arts space at the intersection of migration\, race\, and social justice. Since their founding in 1991\, they have been dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told. At a time when migrants\, women\, people of color\, Muslims\, and LGBTQ people are specifically targeted\, we offer a new countercultural p ublic space in which to imagine a more just future. For more information a bout the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, visit their website at aaww. org.\n\nZaina Arafat is a LGBTQ Palestinian–American writer based in Br ooklyn. Her debut novel\, You Exist Too Much\, was selected as an Indie N ext Pick for June\, and has been praised by O Oprah Magazine\, Vogue\,  Elle\, Harper's Bazaar\, NPR\, LitHub and Good Morning America. Her s tories and essays have appeared in publications including Granta\, The N ew York Times\, The Believer\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, VICE\, Buzz Feed\, Guernica and The Atlantic. She holds an MFA from Iowa and an MA from Columbia\, and was awarded the 2018 Arab Women/Migrants from the Midd le East fellowship from Jack Jones Literary Arts. She teaches writing at L ong Island University and the School of the New York Times\, and is curren tly working on an essay collection.\n\nKen Chen is an Assistant Professor and the Associate Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College. His po etry collection Juvenilia was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poet s Award by Louise Glück\, who wrote “Like only the best poets\, Ken Che n makes with his voice a new category.” His forthcoming book\, tentative ly titled Death Star\, follows his journey to the underworld to rescue hi s father and his encounters there with those destroyed by colonialism. Che n has received fellowships from the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the New York Foundation fo r the Arts\, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. His nonfiction work ha s been published in Best American Essays\, N+1\, The New Republic\, Fr ieze\, The New Inquiry\, Poetry\, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Ch en served as the Executive Director of the Asian American Writers’ Works hop from 2008 to 2019. He also co-founded the cultural website Arts &\ ; Letters Daily and CultureStrike\, a national arts organization dedicate d to migrant justice.\n\nTemim Fruchter is a queer nonbinary anti-Zionist Jewish writer who lives in Brooklyn\, NY. She holds an MFA in fiction fro m the University of Maryland\, and is the recipient of fellowships from th e DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities\, Vermont Studio Center\, and a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. She is co-host of Pete’s Rea ding Series in Brooklyn. Her debut novel\, City of Laughter\, is out now on Grove Atlantic.\n\nAya Ghanameh is a Palestinian illustrator\, writer\ , and designer from Amman\, Jordan. Her work moves away from state-centric ways of thinking to center the voices of ordinary people in historical an d political narratives. Her debut picture book\, These Olive Trees\, is i nspired by the experiences of her family who cultivated her love of the la nd throughout her upbringing in exile. Having graduating from the Rhode Is land School of Design\, she is currently based in New York City where she overspends on food from Arab restaurants.\n\nHannah Moushabeck is a secon d-generation Palestinian American author\, editor\, and marketer who was r aised in a family of booksellers and publishers in Western Massachusetts a nd England. Born in Brooklyn into Interlink Publishing\, a family-run inde pendent publishing house\, she learned the power of literature at a young age. Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine is her first picture book. She lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations.\n\nEmma Seligman is a Canadian director of the films Shi va Baby and Bottoms.\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-9.44.18-PM.png LOCATION:Brooklyn Poets\, 144 Montague Street #2nd Floor144 Montague Street #2nd Floor\, Brooklyn \, NY \, 11201\, United States GEO:40.694373;-73.993592 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=144 Montague Street #2nd Fl oor144 Montague Street #2nd Floor\, Brooklyn \, NY \, 11201\, United State s;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Brooklyn Poets:geo:40.694373,-73.993592 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR