In 2017–18, Gavin Browning organized the inaugural season of public programs and engagement at the Lenfest Center for the Arts, including presentations by Patti Smith, Ai Weiwei, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Carolee Schneemann, Laura Poitras, Tomás Saraceno, Kellie Jones and Farah Jasmine Griffin, Mel Chin, New York City high school students, and Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl. In addition, he co-organized the five-day festival The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Paris 1946 and American Film Noir with Rob King, and More Than A Manifesto, a daylong symposium on the topic of the Poet’s Essay with Dorothea Lasky. He also organized the Inaugural Columbia University School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival. Co-founded by Carol Becker and David Henry Hwang, the festival featured readings of the plays Where Can I Find Someone Like You, Ali? by Raeda Taha (Palestine), Shaitan Lake by Rinat Tashimov (Russia), and Time Bomb by Nano Riantiarno (Indonesia) alongside conversations with the playwrights and translators.
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Download the program for More Than A Manifesto: The Poet’s Essay
Download the program for The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Paris 1946 and American Film Noir
Watch a trailer for The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: Paris 1946 and American Film Noir