IMAGINE!
Fri, Oct 02
|Kitchen Theatre Company
Join journalist & memoirist Raza Rumi, writer & filmmaker Austin Bunn, and theater producer Emily Jackson in this conversation about the power of imagination as a public good
Time & Location
Oct 02, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 W State St, Ithaca, NY 14850
About this event
Twenty-five years ago, a group of local writers declared Ithaca a place where persecuted writers and artists could safely speak their minds and exercise their imaginations. Since then, Ithaca City of Asylum has welcomed creative and courageous individuals from China, Iran, Swaziland, Georgia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nicaragua, and Russia for two-year residencies.
Celebrate this 25th anniversary year with IMAGINE!, a series of dialogues on the power of imagination as a public good. Each invites a former program participant and local residents working creatively in other fields to share their perspectives on making art, exercising rights, and imagining a better world for all.
October's First Friday panel features journalist and memoirist Raza Rumi, writer and filmmaker Austin Bunn, and the Kitchen Theatre Company's producing artistic director Emily Jackson.
Admission is free but donations will be gladly accepted. Story House Ithaca is proud to co-host the IMAGINE! series. Ithaca City of Asylum is a project of the Center for Transformative Action.