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My Name is Inanna | Reading by Maryam Abdi

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Sponsored in part by the College of Fine and Applied Arts, Allerton Park & Retreat Center, and Krannert Art Museum. Support provided by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and National Endowment for the Arts.
Location
Krannert Art Museum, Lower Level, Hood Classroom, 500 E Peabody Dr. Champaign, Illinois
Date
Feb 18, 2022   1:00 - 3:00 pm  
Contact
Krannert Art Museum
E-Mail
kam-info@illinois.edu
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Join us for My Name is Inanna, a play by Ezzat Goushegir, the resident playwright of Chicago, performed by Maryam Abdi as part of the exhibition Reckless Law, Shameless Order: An Intimate Experience of Incarceration. (Q & A after the show, by Bob Jenkins.) --- My Name is Inanna is a passionate, lyrical story that blends myth and contemporary realities. Inanna is a modern Middle Eastern woman poet and activist in search of identity and freedom. She flees the political tyranny of her home country. After receiving political asylum in the U.S., but discovers unexpected limits to her freedom of speech as a second-class citizen.

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