Lannan Foundation Events for the 2011-2012 Season

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Michael Ondaatje with Carolyn Forché

Wednesday 15 February 2012
Tickets On Sale:
7 January 2012

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Brian Jones in Howard Zinn’s play, Marx in Soho

Wednesday 22 February 2012
Tickets On Sale:
7 January 2012

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Chris Williams with David Barsamian

Tuesday 20 March 2012
Tickets On Sale:
4 February 2012

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Ann Beattie with Michael Silverblatt

Wednesday 28 March 2012
Tickets On Sale:
4 February 2012

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Phyllis Bennis with David Barsamian

Tuesday 10 April 2012
Tickets On Sale:
3 March 2012

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W.S. Merwin with Michael Silverblatt

Wednesday 18 April 2012
Tickets On Sale:
3 March 2012

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Lydia Davis with Ben Marcus

Wednesday 16 May 2012
Tickets On Sale:
7 April 2012

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Richard Wolff with Anthony Arnove

Tuesday 13 September 2011
Tickets On Sale:
6 August 2011

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with Binyavanga Wainaina

Wednesday 28 September 2011
Tickets On Sale:
6 August 2011

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Tariq Ali with Avi Lewis

Wednesday 26 October 2011
Tickets On Sale:
3 September 2011

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Dinaw Mengestu with Penn Szittya

Wednesday 16 November 2011
Tickets On Sale:
1 October 2011

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Norman Finkelstein with Chris Hedges

Tuesday 6 December 2011
Tickets On Sale:
5 November 2011

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John Sayles with Francisco Goldman

Wednesday 18 January 2012
Tickets On Sale:
3 December 2011

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David Shirk with Peter Smith

Tuesday 24 January 2012
Tickets On Sale:
3 December 2011

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Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining, Crownpoint, NM

ap photo of churchrock mining in the navajo nationEastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM) is working to stop the construction and operation of three new uranium solution mines in Navajo communities in northwestern New Mexico. Individuals from this organization are concerned about the impacts of proposed uranium solution mining on the Crownpoint region’s sole source of drinking water, the Westwater Canyon Aquifer.

Santa Fe Indian School

santa fe indian school spoken word programThis grant is in support of the Spoken Word program at the school. The Spoken Word program, initiated and directed by teacher Tim McLaughlin, has gained national and international recognition over the last seven years at such competitions as the National Youth Poetry Festival and the Baltic Cultural Exchange in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

David Foster Wallace

david foster wallace by don usner“The whole trans-Pecos is haunted. Some of this is the high desert, where nothing has a shadow and stormclouds seem just out of reach. Some of it is the quiet, which is so profound it becomes its own hum. It is country that wants nothing from you, where it becomes impossible to take yourself seriously. A fruitful state to be in, work-wise, usually.”