We have an exciting lineup of translation events for the fall, as follows, with all events at the Cleveland Park Library at 2:00 – 4:00 with the exception of 9/27/19:
September 27, 2019—Translatable! – the annual Open Mic celebration of International Translation Day at Montgomery College, hosted again this year by DC-Area Literary Translators Network (DC-ALT)
Date: Friday, Sept. 27, 2019
Time: 7 p.m. (Doors open at 6 p.m. for mingling, refreshments, & Open Mic sign-up)
Location: Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center (CF) Room 101, 930 King Street, Silver Spring, MD 20910
All are welcome! Students, faculty, staff, and the public - everyone. Come early & sign up to participate in the Open Mic!
October 6, 2019—Sarah Arvio—"Afterthoughts on Translating Lorca: Music & Duende”
November 17, 2019—ALTA debriefing: DC-ALT members attending the annual American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) conference in Rochester will report back on their experiences. DC-ALT is a local affiliate of ALTA.https://www.literarytranslators.org/conference/alta42-sight-and-sound
December 8, 2019—Ravi Shankar—"Translation as Kaleidoscope: Reimagining Fidelity as Multiplicity”
(2020 in the works! Let us know if you have ideas or would like to present!)
Upcoming translation events in the DC area in which our members are participating:
September 14, 2019—Barbara Goldberg will be reading from her new book, Transformation: The Poetry of Translation, at the Bulgarian Embassy, 621 22nd Street, NW, Dimitar Peshev Plaza, Washington, DC 20008, at 6:00 p.m. https://www.bulgaria-embassy.org/en/homepage/
September 19, 2019--Indran Amirthanayagam will join poets Zeina Azzam and Vladimir Monge for a reading called “Poems of Migration and the American Immigrant Experience, at the Takoma Park Cultural Center (7500 Maple Avenue, Takoma Park, Maryland) at 7:30 p.m.
September 20, 2019—Barbara Goldberg will be reading from her new book, Transformation: The Poetry of Translation, at the Studio Gallery, 2108 R Street, NW, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. https://www.studiogallerydc.com
September 25, 2019—Carol Volk will be in conversation with French author Jean-Baptiste del Amo at Politics & Prose Union Market, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/jean-baptiste-del-amo-animalia-in-conversation-carol-volk-politics-and-prose-union-market
October 12, 2019—Nancy Naomi Carlson will be part of a "Conversation About Translation" panel that will include Jennifer Grotz, Roser Caminals, Carlos Rubio, and Hope Maxwell Snyder at 1:30, in Erma Ora Byrd Hall, Room 103 (301 N. King Street, Shepherdstown, WV).
https://www.shepherd.edu/societyforcreativewriting/society-events
September 27, 2019—Translatable! – the annual Open Mic celebration of International Translation Day at Montgomery College, hosted again this year by DC-Area Literary Translators Network (DC-ALT)
Date: Friday, Sept. 27, 2019
Time: 7 p.m. (Doors open at 6 p.m. for mingling, refreshments, & Open Mic sign-up)
Location: Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center (CF) Room 101, 930 King Street, Silver Spring, MD 20910
All are welcome! Students, faculty, staff, and the public - everyone. Come early & sign up to participate in the Open Mic!
October 6, 2019—Sarah Arvio—"Afterthoughts on Translating Lorca: Music & Duende”
November 17, 2019—ALTA debriefing: DC-ALT members attending the annual American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) conference in Rochester will report back on their experiences. DC-ALT is a local affiliate of ALTA.https://www.literarytranslators.org/conference/alta42-sight-and-sound
December 8, 2019—Ravi Shankar—"Translation as Kaleidoscope: Reimagining Fidelity as Multiplicity”
(2020 in the works! Let us know if you have ideas or would like to present!)
Upcoming translation events in the DC area in which our members are participating:
September 14, 2019—Barbara Goldberg will be reading from her new book, Transformation: The Poetry of Translation, at the Bulgarian Embassy, 621 22nd Street, NW, Dimitar Peshev Plaza, Washington, DC 20008, at 6:00 p.m. https://www.bulgaria-embassy.org/en/homepage/
September 19, 2019--Indran Amirthanayagam will join poets Zeina Azzam and Vladimir Monge for a reading called “Poems of Migration and the American Immigrant Experience, at the Takoma Park Cultural Center (7500 Maple Avenue, Takoma Park, Maryland) at 7:30 p.m.
September 20, 2019—Barbara Goldberg will be reading from her new book, Transformation: The Poetry of Translation, at the Studio Gallery, 2108 R Street, NW, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. https://www.studiogallerydc.com
September 25, 2019—Carol Volk will be in conversation with French author Jean-Baptiste del Amo at Politics & Prose Union Market, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/jean-baptiste-del-amo-animalia-in-conversation-carol-volk-politics-and-prose-union-market
October 12, 2019—Nancy Naomi Carlson will be part of a "Conversation About Translation" panel that will include Jennifer Grotz, Roser Caminals, Carlos Rubio, and Hope Maxwell Snyder at 1:30, in Erma Ora Byrd Hall, Room 103 (301 N. King Street, Shepherdstown, WV).
https://www.shepherd.edu/societyforcreativewriting/society-events
