Artist Soapbox and June Guralnick/Creative Acts of Resistance, in partnership with PEN America, will be presenting a virtual live reading of an exciting recreation of a 1949 radio dramatization of George Orwell’s haunting novel, 1984.

In recognition of World Press Freedom Day (on May 3rd), the reading, open to the public via Zoom, will take place Monday, May 5th, from 7:30-9:30 p.m. (E.S.T.).  

Performed by distinguished actors from the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area (with sound design by Chandler “ARSENiK” Solomon), the reading will be followed by an in(cite)ful conversation led by prominent North Carolina author Joseph Bathanti, exploring artists speaking truth to power under authoritarian regimes.

Featured performers participating in the reading include (in alphabetical order): J Chachula, Thaddaeus Edwards, Mark Filiaci, David Henderson, Derrick Ivey, Tamara Kissane, Norah Myer, Ray Owen, Juliana Valente, and Banu Valladares.

For more information about BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, please contact Tamara Kissane at artistsoapbox@gmail.com.

“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” (1984)