Exiled Writers Ink

'Exile: What is the Silver Lining?' hosted by Andrea Pisac.

Paulina Egle Pukyte is an artist, writer, poet, essayist, and cultural commentator. She has a BA from the Vilnius Academy of Art and an MA from the London Royal College of Art. Paulina lives in London and Vilnius.

Edin Suljic was born in a part of ex-Yugoslavia which is now Bosnia and Herzegovina. He studied science, but always stayed connected with the theatre. He found a way to communicate observations through writing, photography and short films. He has lived in the UK since 1991.

Tena Stivicic is a London-based Croatian playwright whose work has been produced in over ten European countries. Her play Fragile! won several international awards. In the UK she has worked with Paines Plough, Royal Court Theatre, National Theatre, BBC Radio4, New Wolsey Ipswich
and The Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

Special Visiting Guest:Esther Kamkar was born in Iran in 1947. She has lived the USA since 1973. In 2001 she received an Artist Grant from the Peninsula Community Foundation to publish a collection of her poetry Hummingbird Conditions in a letterpress limited edition, to be used as sample books to teach children poetry and handmade bookmaking.

Entry: £4/2(EWI members)

Time: 7:30pm