{"id":746,"date":"2021-09-10T16:25:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/humanities\/?p=746"},"modified":"2023-03-10T15:26:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T15:26:25","slug":"the-arts-of-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/humanities\/2021\/09\/10\/the-arts-of-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arts of Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Strengthening Community by Building a City of Asylum in Rochester<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-753 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/humanities\/files\/2021\/09\/city-of-asylum-300x124.jpg\" alt=\"House Paintings \/ City of Asylum\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/humanities\/files\/2021\/09\/city-of-asylum-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/humanities\/files\/2021\/09\/city-of-asylum.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2004, City of Asylum\/Pittsburgh opened with a mission: to provide sanctuary to literary writers who were exiled and under threat of persecution. Since then, this fertile organization has grown and enriched the entire Pittsburgh community. Through its public arts programming, bookstore featuring works in translation, neighborhood restaurant, and houses for use by writers and artists-in-exile\u2014each with a text-based artwork on the fa\u00e7ade\u2014City of Asylum\/Pittsburgh has become a hub for artistic and community partnerships that express humanity\u2019s best creative impulses. It\u2019s \u201c<a title=\"Opens external link in new window\" href=\"https:\/\/cityofasylum.org\/about\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a place where Pittsburgh meets the world and the world meets Pittsburgh<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our own upcoming Arts of Asylum series, a virtual, interactive forum, features distinguished writers, musicians, and artists along with community partners serving refugee and asylum-seeking populations to:<\/p>\n<ul><li>Raise awareness about the City of Asylum network,<\/li>\n\t<li>Help create a new City of Asylum\/Rochester as the fifth U.S. City of Asylum location, and<\/li>\n\t<li>Explore how the City of Asylum\/Rochester will engage in creative placemaking to support local communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p><strong>Writing in the Cities of Asylum<br><\/strong><strong>Date:<\/strong> September 16, 2021, 5:00 \u2013 6:15 pm EDT<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-754\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/humanities\/files\/2021\/09\/Tuhin-Das-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tuhin Das, exiled Bengali poet, activist, and political columnist\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-752 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/humanities\/files\/2021\/09\/Alison-Meyers-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Alison Meyers, Executive Director of Rochester\u2019s Writers and Books\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/humanities\/files\/2021\/09\/Alison-Meyers-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/humanities\/files\/2021\/09\/Alison-Meyers-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/humanities\/files\/2021\/09\/Alison-Meyers.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>For this first installment, Alison Meyers, Executive Director of Rochester\u2019s Writers and Books, will sit down with exiled Bengali poet, activist, and political columnist Tuhin Das to discuss his journey from being the target of fundamentalist groups in his native Bangladesh to a writer in residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a title=\"Opens external link in new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geneseo.edu\/cil\/arts-asylum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arts of Asylum webpage<\/a> for more information on this and future events.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strengthening Community by Building a City of Asylum in Rochester In 2004, City of Asylum\/Pittsburgh opened with a mission: to provide sanctuary to literary writers who were exiled and under threat of persecution. Since then, this fertile organization has grown and enriched the entire Pittsburgh community. 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