American Writers Museum - My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today
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Thu, Nov 21 – Mon, May 31, 2021
180 N. Michigan Ave - Second Floor, Chicago, IL 60601
The mission of the American Writers Museum is to engage the public in celebrating American writers and exploring their influence on our history, our identity, our culture, and our daily lives.
The American Writers Museum celebrates refugee and immigrant writers with its newest exhibit called My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today, which explores the influence of modern immigrant and refugee writing on our culture, history and daily lives.
My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today will give visitors and students a deeply personal experience, bringing them face-to-face — both through interactive, intimate video conversations and in-person — with contemporary authors who are immigrants and refugees from all over the world. The exhibit, which opens Nov. 21, 2019 and runs through May 2021, is designed to elicit thoughtful dialogue on a wide breadth of issues relating to the modern refugee crisis and the perception of immigrants in our country today.
My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today features more than 30 authors who will delve into questions about writing influences, being multilingual, community, family, and what it means to be American. At a time when “immigrant” can be a symbol or slur, shorthand for any of a thousand complicated concepts, these writers explore what it truly means to cross borders.
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