![Silencing Voices of Dissent in India](https://pencanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/silencing-cropped.jpg)
Silencing Voices of Dissent in India
A discussion about the killing of journalists who dared to expose the authoritarian government as well as the larger threat to democracy in India.
![Glorious and Free? Canada in 2017](https://pencanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/OfficeSlider_blurb-01.png)
Glorious and Free? Canada in 2017
Jesse Wente, Desmond Cole and Rachel Giese join moderator Jesse Brown for a panel discussion asking: just how glorious and free are we?
![Book Launch: Being Kurdish in a Hostile World](https://pencanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Kurdish-EVITE.jpg)
Book Launch: Being Kurdish in a Hostile World
Book Launch: Being Kurdish in a Hostile World by Ayub Nuri 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Ben McNally Books 366 Bay St., Toronto Free Admission, All [...]
![Ai Weiwei: Adrienne Clarkson Prize for Global Citizenship](https://pencanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-05-at-8.32.55-AM.png)
Ai Weiwei: Adrienne Clarkson Prize for Global Citizenship
PEN members and friends are invited to see Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei accept the Adrienne Clarkson Prize for Global Citizenship.
![Word On The Street 2017](https://pencanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/exhibitors046.jpg)
Word On The Street 2017
Join us Sunday, September 24 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Harbourfront Centre for the 28th annual Word On The Street Festival.
![Investigative Journalism in a Dangerous Country](https://pencanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/AdeleNavarro-01.jpg)
Investigative Journalism in a Dangerous Country
Adela Navarro will discuss the hostile climate for free expression in Mexico at Ryerson University on September 13.
![Indigenous Voices Rising](https://pencanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Indigenous-slider_dimaline.jpg)
Indigenous Voices Rising
Indigenous Voices Rising June 22, 2017 - 7:00 - 8:00 pm Toronto Reference Library - Atrium (map) Free Admission Has mainstream success changed the role [...]
![Open House + "Make Space" Campaign Launch](https://pencanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/MakeSpaceSlider6-01.png)
Open House + "Make Space" Campaign Launch
Come check out PEN Canada's new offices and celebrate the launch of PEN International's "Make Space" global campaign, supporting the work of displaced writers.
![Bring the Noise Street Poetry Tour](https://pencanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-04-24-at-11.07.43-AM.png)
Bring the Noise Street Poetry Tour
A pop up street reading tour organized by Inspiritus Press for National Poetry Month, on Saturday April 29. All proceeds in support on PEN Canada.
![2017 PEN Canada Gala Dinner Honouring Salman Rushdie](https://pencanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/RushdieDinner_Slider.jpg)
2017 PEN Canada Gala Dinner Honouring Salman Rushdie
This intimate dinner will celebrate a landmark literary and human rights anniversary: when Rushdie famously emerged from hiding to attend a PEN Canada benefit twenty-five years ago.