PEN Canada celebrates literature, defends freedom of expression and aids writers in peril.
FREE EVENT from the Centre for Free Expression (CFE) Thursday, November 9, 2023, 4 p.m. EDT Zoom link: torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 As schools face demands to remove books from their libraries and …
Please join Cormorant Books in celebrating the official launch of the new anthology The Uncaged Voice: Stories by Writers in Exile. Masks are strongly encouraged at this event. This event …
On Sunday, October 29, Ageless International Film Festival, HotDocs, PEN Canada, Rainbow Railroad, & the Centre for Free Expression present an event in celebration of freedom of expression. The second …
Join a panel of leading experts who examine how Islamophobia is enabled, perpetuated, and even rendered respectable in Canada. What can be done to help Canada fulfill its promise of being an inclusive democratic society?
FREE ONLINE CFE EVENT November 2, 2023, at 4:00 – 5:30 pm Bianca Wylie in conversation with Andrew Clement Perhaps the most controversial and poorly understood technological development in recent times, artificial …
October 3, 2023 4pm – 5:30pm Online CFE event What Will AI Mean for Free Expression? Artificial intelligence technologies are powerful curators of information and arbiters of online content. But …
On September 24 at 2:30 p.m. at the Hirut Jazz Club, the PEN Canada Writers in Exile group proudly presents an afternoon of inspired readings from emancipated voices. This event is the fourth ‘chapter’ of their “Voices of Freedom” reading series, this time with writers from Tunisia, Kurdistan-Sorani, Turkey, and Syria.
TIFA, PEN Canada and CBC Radio’s IDEAS present Notes On An Invasion: Masha Gessen and Andrey Kurkov in conversation on Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.
PEN Canada partners with TIFA to celebrate four annual awards and draw attention to writers across the world who are imperiled because of their written work.
The Honourable Yuen Pau Woo in conversation with Meghan McDermott Memories of the Chinese Exclusion Act and its requirement for all Chinese to register were awakened by Canada’s recent proposal …