Join our 2023 Annual General Meeting
2023 Annual General Meeting PEN Canada’s AGM will take place on Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 5:30 pm ET on Zoom. Please RSVP by Monday June 12th, 2023 via the form below. …
Events
Silencing Across Borders – Governments Threaten Canadian Writers & Journalists
Join this free online event about Digital Transnational Repression on June 6th 2:00 – 3:30 pm. Canadian-based writers and journalists face increasing threats from authoritarian governments trying to intimidate and silence …
Confronting the new wave of Antisemitism
Confronting the new wave of Antisemitism Philip Slayton In conversation with Samir Gandesha Antisemitism is resurgent in our age of social media, identity politics, and populism. In his new book, Antisemitism: An ancient …
WEPFEST——A TORONTO FUNDRAISER TO SUPPORT LOCAL JOURNALISM
May 23, 25 and 27 @ 8pm at the Tranzac Club, Main Hall, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto Come along to WEPFEST, the West End Pheonix Spring fundraising festival, for three days …
Ethnic/Religious Nationalism & Academic Freedom: The Study of China
CFE Series: Threats to Academic Freedom Increasingly, scholars of a nation’s history, politics, and culture are challenged as anti-national or hostile to the dominant religion, ethnicity, and culture. This panel …
Free screening of Midnight’s Children on National Canadian Film Day 2023 – SOLD OUT
April 19th is National Canadian Film Day! SOLD OUT! Join Reel Canada and PEN Canada on April 19th at Scotiabank Theatre (259 Richmond St W, Toronto) at 7:00 pm in …
CFE online event — Putin’s War Against Journalists
One year after Russian president Vladimir Putin launched his invasion and muzzled Russian media, what have we learned from the war against Ukraine and against journalists? Join three Russian journalists who spoke at a CFE panel one year ago to see how they have refused to be silenced. How are Russia’s independent media fighting to expose the truth about the war? What are the challenges as the war heads into its second year?
Watch “The Grab” at Hot Docs, March 10 @ 7pm
20th Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival The Grab Date: Friday, March 10, 2023 at 7:00 pm Location: Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St W, Toronto PEN Canada is …
Voices of Freedom #3 — readings from exiled writers
Join us on Sunday, March 26 at 3:00 pm at the Hirut Ethiopian Jazz Club, 2050 Danforth Avenue, Toronto to hear the work of four celebrated writers who have now …
You’re invited to the launch of Em Dial’s Virtual Poetry Exhibition THE BALL
In “The Ball,” poet Em Dial explores how the mythos of the overtly sexual and desperately self-loathing “quad***n” has been crafted by some of the most atrocious sides of science and history. Throughout this exhibition are poems, self-portraits, and artifacts through which an artist attempts to separate themself, their queerness, and their complex familial history from the disturbing resonance of the American imagination.