Launch Party for I live here, by Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge & Michael Simons
Launch Party for I live here, by Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge & Michael Simons
Idlewild Books
12 W.19th St. (near 5th Ave.)
New York, NY 10011
October 21, 2008, 7pm
RSVP to events@idlewildbooks.com
Sonny Mehta and Idlewild Books invite you to celebrate the launch of I live here, an intimate journey to humanitarian crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, economic dislocation in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi. This unique book is a visually stunning narrative - told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novellas - in which the lives of refugees and displaced people become at once personal and global. The voices featured are those of displaced women and children, in their own words or in stories told in text and images by noted writers and artists.
Canadian actress Mia Kirshner's journals guide us through a unique paper documentary brought vividly to life in collaboration with J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge, and Michael Simons, with featured works by Joe Sacco, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Phoebe Gloeckner, Chris Abani, Karen Connelly, Kamel Khelif, and many others.
From the book's Journeys - Ingushetia: The border of the Russian republic of Ingushetia is not even fifty miles from Grozny, the capital city of Chechnya. Today, some 15,000 Chechen refugees live in Ingushetia. Mia Kirshner and Joe Sacco traveled here together, returning with first-person accounts, video, photographs, and other materials gathered in Nazran and Moscow. The chapter includes journals by Mia Kirshner, the story of a young refugee as told by J.B. MacKinnon, the story of a young piano virtuoso as told by Ann-Marie Macdonald, and a graphic novella of Chechen refugees by Joe Sacco.
This event I am definitely going to attend. Let me know if you plan on coming, and maybe we can meet up before the event for a quick bite.
Idlewild Books
12 W.19th St. (near 5th Ave.)
New York, NY 10011
October 21, 2008, 7pm
RSVP to events@idlewildbooks.com
Sonny Mehta and Idlewild Books invite you to celebrate the launch of I live here, an intimate journey to humanitarian crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, economic dislocation in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi. This unique book is a visually stunning narrative - told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novellas - in which the lives of refugees and displaced people become at once personal and global. The voices featured are those of displaced women and children, in their own words or in stories told in text and images by noted writers and artists.
Canadian actress Mia Kirshner's journals guide us through a unique paper documentary brought vividly to life in collaboration with J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge, and Michael Simons, with featured works by Joe Sacco, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Phoebe Gloeckner, Chris Abani, Karen Connelly, Kamel Khelif, and many others.
From the book's Journeys - Ingushetia: The border of the Russian republic of Ingushetia is not even fifty miles from Grozny, the capital city of Chechnya. Today, some 15,000 Chechen refugees live in Ingushetia. Mia Kirshner and Joe Sacco traveled here together, returning with first-person accounts, video, photographs, and other materials gathered in Nazran and Moscow. The chapter includes journals by Mia Kirshner, the story of a young refugee as told by J.B. MacKinnon, the story of a young piano virtuoso as told by Ann-Marie Macdonald, and a graphic novella of Chechen refugees by Joe Sacco.
This event I am definitely going to attend. Let me know if you plan on coming, and maybe we can meet up before the event for a quick bite.