2024

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  • The Philosophy Seminar room at the U.B

    10:30-11:15 Just Serrano

    The critical theorist v. the psychoanalyst with regard to social struggle movements

    11:15-12:00 Sam Sadian

    Mediators and mediations in capitalism

    12:00-12:45 Aurea Motta

    Smuggling thoughts: intellectual displacements and cultural transfer

    12:45-13:30 Sholeh Wolpé 

    The Wayfarer as depicted by Persian mystic poet, Attar

    13:30-14:00  Javier Peñafiel

    video of confedrama Perfeccionando Muerte

    14:00-15:00 lunch break 

    15:00-15:45 Esther Kläs

    Form as vessel of thought

    15.45-16:30 Dionis Escorsa

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    16:30 -17:15 Marina Agathangelidou

    Racial passing: a contrasted reading of Passing by Nella Larsen and Identitti by Mithu Sanyal

    17:15-18.15 Laia Lòpez Manrique 

    La mirada de Eurídice

    18.15-18:30 Nathalie wrap up

    18:30-19:00 Miriam Reyes y Ilona Schneider

    extracts from performance Pasadora

  • Please join us at PAMLA on Friday, November 9 (3:10 – 4:35 pm) in Crosby Ballroom C for a performance by and conversation with Iranian-American poet, playwright, and librettist Sholeh Wolpé.

  • Please join us for our 2024 PAMLA Forum: Translation and Creativity, on Friday, November 8, starting at 11:45 am in Crosby Ballroom North. Our PAMLA Forum will be a moderated roundtable on various ways of approaching translation: from the art of literary translation, to the joys of adaptation, to creative understandings of text and image. Our three panelists, Marilyn Chin, Johanna Drucker, and Sholeh Wolpe, will engage in an interdisciplinary examination of these notions through the lenses of poetry, theater, music, and bibliophilia. Coffee, tea, and a light snack included.

  • Holen Village

    Sholeh Wolpe teaches Sufi mystic Attar’s spiritual perspective through her re-creation of The Conference of the Birds.

    Located in the heart of Washington’s North Cascades Mountains, Holden Village is an iconic retreat center that offers visitors a unique opportunity to step into the wilderness to form and renew their relationship with the Divine the earth, and each other.

    Source:: https://www.holdenvillage.org/program/2024-faculty/

    Chelan, WA, 98816 United States (map)

  • Two Idiots Peddling Poetry present: Sholeh Wolpe and Alexandra Lytton Rgalata 8 PM

    https://www.facebook.com/events/241845529018392/Link to reading

  • 19:30 21:30

    First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn

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    In this festival each work on this program explores the meaning of loss. Katherine Balch’s poignant reimagining of Schumann’s Dichterliebe, Iranian-born Aida Shirazi’s meditation on exile with texts by acclaimed poet Sholeh Wolpe, and new works by Matthew Ricketts and Charlotte Bray.

    Katherine Balch: Estrangement (BASS Commission)

    Charlotte Bray: The Earth Cried out to the Sky (American Premiere)

    Matthew Ricketts: The Threefold Terror of Love (World Premiere, BASS Commission)

    Aida Shirazi: New Work (World Premiere, BASS Commission)

    Lucy Fitz-Gibbon, Charlotte Mundy soprano

    Emily Triebold alto

    Dominik Belavy baritone

    Nathaniel LaNasa, Brent Funderburk, Ryan McCullough piano

    Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-voices-festival-departures-ii-tickets-682079647587

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    Pagebreak Festival

  • 10 - 11 AM PST

    Sholeh Wolpe offers writing workshop to WriteGirl Participants

  • 19:30

  • 19:00 21:00 First Congressional Church of Los Angeles .

    Celebrate the official release of the Conference of the Birds studio album with music by Fahad Siadat and libretto by Sholeh Wolpé.

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conference-of-the-birds-album-release-tickets-796399009877

  • 19:30

    The Garage and Studio

    Music and Poetry

    With Sholeh Wolpé, Sahba Motallebi, Ferdos Maleki, Samira Shamlou and Sanaz Khademi

  • Sholeh Wolpé is UCI's Writer in Residence. This class is offered in the Winter Quarter. You must be an enrolled student.

2023

  • Presentation from Abacus of Loss and Como Escribiír na Cancion de Amor.

  • Una recital fonopoetico con Sergio Aretero, Sholeh Wolpé, Danilo Facelli, Mónica Caldeiro y Ale Oseguera

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  • “The Neustadt International Prize for Literature [is] widely regarded as the most prestigious international literary award after the Nobel.” — Lawrence Van Gelder, “Footlights,” New York Times, February 26, 1998

  • Wolpé will discuss her most recent book, a memoir in verse, Abacus of Loss (2022) in which according to Prism International: “Desire and love exist in terrifying worlds” yet they are handled with “silken language.” Wolpé will discuss her most recent book, a memoir in verse, Abacus of Loss (2022) in which according to Prism International: “Desire and love exist in terrifying worlds” yet they are handled with “silken language.”

  • Música y poesía. Recital con música de la autora iraní Sholeh Wolpé y

    cantaora vasca de flamenco Amaia Gabantxo

  • Arlington Chorale , through a collaboration with ReactDC, working to connect with the new Afghan refugees is excited to present a world premiere by Saunder Choi! This piece uses text by Sholeh Wolpé, an Iranian-born poet, playwright, and librettist, to describe the difficulties refugees face in leaving their homes and putting down roots in a new community.

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  • Sholeh Wolpe presents a workshop at NYU. RSVP necessary.

  • Sholeh Wolpé performs selections from her memoir in verse, Abacus of Loss. NYU 6-7:30 726 Broadway , New York Room 701

    She will be accompanied with musicians.

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  • Strong Words - voices of the City

2022

  • And Here I Am / A Lonely Woman

    Imra Dinçer – vocals / performer / actress

    Nora Mulder – keyboards

    Dodó Kis – EWI / recorder

    Michaela Riener – vocals & electronic percussion *

    Huba de Graaff – electric violin, noise

    Source:: https://www.hubadegraaff.com/ff/

  • In the Garden City of India meet writers from everywhere — local, national and international — as this festival brings the world to ‘Namma Bengaluru’.Description text goes here

  • Asia Pacific Poets and Writers presents Sholeh Wolpé — Abacus of Loss: A Memo

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  • Woman. Life. Freedom. - A Poetry Reading to Benefit Amnesty International's Work in IranItem description

  • Sholeh Wolpé, Moving Across Forms and Genres

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  • Sholeh Wolpé (trans.) and Somaia Ramesh (Dari)

    Soleil David (trans.) and Carlo Paulo Pacolor (Filipini)

    Hélène Cardona (trans.) and Lea Nagy (Hungarian)

    Yardenne Greenspan (trans.) and Noa Yedlin (Hebrew)

    Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng (trans. and author) (Vietnamese)

    Moderated by: Nancy Naomi Carlson

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  • The Getty Villa Museum Presents: Sholeh Wolpe’s The Seven Valleys

  • This world premiere, based on Sufi mystic poet Attar’s seminal text about the journey of the soul as it seeks union with the Divine. Featuring an a capella choir and seven soloists acting narratively and orchestrally, accompanied by a dancer.

    Fahad Siadat, Composer

    Sholeh Wolpé, Librettist

    André Megerdichian, Director, Choreographer

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  • Sholeh Wolpé and Suzanne Roberts present their latest, Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse and Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other DifficultiesItem description

  • A reading sponsored by the United States Mission, Indonesia.

 Events Prior to August, 2021- 2018

UCR Dept Of History Presents: Sholeh Wolpé

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Claremont College-- Rise: Vocal Music And Poetry

Saturday, May 8, 2021

NY Public Library: The Mirror Of My Heart

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Black Bird X Ars Poetica Present

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

University of Toronto Present: Celebration Of Naw Ruz - Persian New Year

Friday, March 26, 2021

California College of the Arts -- Translating Forugh Farrokhzad

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

PEN France -- International Day Of Women

Monday, March 8, 2021

19:00  20:00

 Canadian Iranian Medical Association, CIMA Book Club

Sunday, February 28, 2021

University of Toronto-- Shame, Stigma And Sin: From Tahirih, To Forugh, To Us

Friday, February 26, 2021

Farhang Foundation -- Attar: The Unending Thirst

Saturday, January 16, 2021

The Poetry Center, San Francisco --Legacy Of Forugh Farrokhzad

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Bridgewater International Poetry Festival

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Monmouth University -- Border Lines

Sunday, November 15, 2020

Karnavati University in Gujarat, India -- Exile, Home, Poetry

Friday, November 13, 2020

Ebel Theater, Los Angeles -- Look What She Did

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Chevalier Books

Monday, November 9, 2020

 2020 Nimrod International Journal Conference

Saturday, November 7, 2020

Strong Words: An Evening Of Story Telling, Los Angeles

Saturday, October 24, 2020

Otis College Of Arts And Design

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Chicago Art Institute

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Asia Pacific Writers and Translators -- ISOLATION BREAK

Saturday, August 29, 2020

Red Hen Hours at the Broad Stage -- Finding Truths And Creating Art In Exile

Thursday, July 16, 2020

BelieveAbility Festival, NYC

Sunday, July 12, 2020 

11th Annual 10 Minutes Play Festival – Hollywood

Fri, Apr 10, 202021:00  Sun, Apr 26, 202022:00

 Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai

Monday, February 3, 2020

 Jaipur Lit Festival, India –Jan 23- 27, 2020

At The Secret Socrates, Delhi

Thursday, January 16, 2020

The Broad Museum -- Gallery Performance

Thursday, December 12, 2019

 Chapman University - Tabula Poetica

Monday, December 9, 201919:00

University Of California, Irvine

Friday, November 22, 2019

Alphabet City, Pittsburgh

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

The American Literary Translators Association

November 7 and 9

The Broad Museum -- Gallery Performance With Sahba Motallebi

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Occidental College

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Litquake: The Enduring Influence Of Persian Poetry

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Iranian Film Festival San Francisco, ONLY VOICE REMAINS

Sunday, September 29, 2019

City Of Asylum, Pittsburgh -- Freedom To Create

Saturday, September 6 and 7, 2019 

University Of California, Riverside

Thursday, May 9, 2019

13:00  14:00

 Vassar College

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Boston University Translation Seminar

Friday, February 15, 2019

Schmalentine! Jakarta

Friday, February 15, 2019

El Festival Internacional De Poesía "Ramón López Velarde", Zacateca, Mexico2018

Thursday, December 6 and 9 20181

Ubuntu Theater (Oakland Theater Project) Presents: Conference Of The Birds

Friday, November 30 - Dec 16 , 2018 

Poetry Flash At Moe's Books, Berkeley

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Festival International Poesia, Mexico City

Thursday, October 18 and 21, 2018

Fullers Bookshop, Tasmania

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

People's Library In Hobart, Tasmania

Wednesday, September 19, 2018 

The Gorman Centre, Canberra, Australia

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Poetry On The Move Festival, Canberra, Australia

Friday, September 14, 2018

"Mirrors Of Iran" 2018 Iranica Conference, Sydney

Saturday, September 8, 2018

 University of New South Wales,School Of Arts And Media, Sydney, Australia

Friday, September 7, 2018

UNSW-- A Masterclass With Sholeh Wolpé

Thursday, September 6, 2018

A Persian Feast With Iranian Thinkers, Melbourne, Australia

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Griffith University, Australia: Breaking Down The Highway

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Queensland Poetry Festival

Friday, August 24, 2018

 Cultubar Hostería La Bota, Mexico City--An Evening Of Poetry

Tuesday, June 19, 2018