Name: 'A Life of Art and Activism' Conversation with actress Debra Winger and author/poet Naomi Shihab Nye
Start: 2026-01-17T13:00:00-06:00
Location: CALS Ron Robinson Theater

$'A Life of Art and Activism' Conversation with actress Debra Winger and author\/poet Naomi Shihab Nye$

Join us for an intimate conversation as dear friends, acclaimed actor Debra Winger and celebrated poet Naomi Shihab Nye sit together to reflect on the intertwined roles of Palestinian activism and art in their lives. With decades of creative work and public engagement, Winger speaks of visibility and moral courage, while Nye shares how language, memory, and place shape a lifelong commitment to justice especially when the subject is Palestine.
Together they explore how art bears witness, resists erasure, and creates unexpected connections.
What can art do when the subject is survival and genocide?
How does activism remain relevant and current?
These two friends show us how storytelling, performance, and poetry nurture solidarity and sustain hope.
I invite you to listen deeply, reckon honestly, and leave renewed by the power of creative expression to illuminate struggle and affirm shared humanity that the Palestinian struggle for freedom.