* Featuring:
- Jennifer Beals
- Conchata Ferrell
- Marcia Wallace
- Jodi Long
- Summer Bishil
- Nichelle Nichols
- Bahar Soomekh
- Nadia Bjorlin
- Teal Sherer

(* Reception starts at 6 PM, readings start at 7 PM. There will also be special comments by novelist Masha Hamilton, Founder of the Afghan Women's Writing Project and Katherine Spillar, Executive Vice President of The Feminist Majority and Editor of Ms. Magazine, followed by a Q&A.)

A theatrically staged program of powerful essays and poems written by emerging Afghan women writers, who often face estrangement, beatings, and even death for creatively expressing themselves through the written word.

Novelist Masha Hamilton started the Afghan Women's Writing Project (AWWP) in 2009, in response to the plight of Afghan women and the repressive conditions that silence their voices and their stories. AWWP has more than 50 women journalists, novelists, poets, memoirists and screenwriters mentoring and teaching Afghan women writers through secure, internet-based classrooms.

Open to the public with RSVP

RSVP: rsvp@awwproject.org
(include your name/phone in RSVP)

The Museum of Tolerance
9786 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90035
(Free underground parking available at the museum.)

Directions: Google maps
For more information, visit the AWWP website.

Sponsoring organizations:
- The Museum of Tolerance
- Producers Guild of America
- Women In Film International Committee
- Women's Committees of:
     - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
     - Screen Actors Guild
     - Writers Guild of America, West
- Steakhaus Productions

Persons with disabilities who require accommodation or sign language interpretation should request this by March 1, 2010.

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