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The Midnight's Children Humanities Festival will deepen the experience of viewing the performance through an exciting exploration of the ideas embedded in the play, held in public dialogue by scholars, writers, theater artists, and cultural commentators. The Festival will provide a cross-fertilization of ideas by thinkers and creators from a host of disciplines, including legal studies, history, comparative literature, anthropology, cultural studies, and the performing arts.
From March 2 through 30, the Festival will present dialogues, open roundtable rehearsals, readings and public debates featuring Salman Rushdie, Todd Gitlin, Patricia Williams, Michael Cunningham, Nicholas Dirks, Vikram Chandra, John Rockwell, Manning Marable, Peter Awn, Janaki Bakhle, Eduardo Machado, Homi Bhabha, Russell Banks, members of the Royal Shakespeare Company cast for Midnight's Children, and Edward Said, among others. Sessions will take place on the Columbia campus and at Asia Society, and will include a visual arts exhibition curated by Chitra Ganesh. Tickets are $5 for each session and go on sale January 20. For more information, including expanded participant biographies, go to www.midnightschildrennyc.com.
The Midnight's Children Humanities Festival is conceived and programmed by Jayme Koszyn Consulting.
Download Midnight's Children Humanities Festival Brochure (.pdf 2.2MB)
Humanities Festival Press Release
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