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Town Hall Seattle and Jaipur Literature Festival present

JLF Seattle – Full Festival Weekend

Celebrating a Festival of Books, Ideas, Debate, and Discussion

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Start:
Saturday, September 21 | 10:00 am PDT
End:
Sunday, September 22 | 2:45 pm PDT
Cost:
$15 - $30

Venue

The Wyncote NW Forum
1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.)
Seattle, 98101 United States
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Note: ASL interpretation is available for this event. 

Live Captioning will be available for this event. 

Banner for the first edition of JLF USA in Seattle from September 20th to 22nd, featuring festival dates, social media handles, and the event website, with illustrations of people reading books and the Seattle skyline in the background.
Arts & Culture

In February 2024, the 17th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival took place in the Pink City of Jaipur, Rajasthan. Now you can experience the energy of the Jaipur Festival as it makes its debut in Seattle this year. Spanning over two days, with presentations from literary greats, food vendors, and artists, this literary festival is not to be missed!

JLF International takes place across several countries including the US, UK, Spain, the Maldives, Australia, and the Middle East, merging the multilingual literary traditions of South Asia.

Tickets are $15 for partial-day sessions, or $30 for the full festival. Town Hall Members receive a 20% discount on festival passes (no other discounts are applicable).

View the full schedule below.

Note: Speakers and sessions are subject to change. Click here for the latest information on the festival lineup.

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Saturday Morning Session | Saturday, September 21, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 1:45 PM

  • 10:00 to 10:45 AM | My Beloved Life
    Amitava Kumar in conversation with Alka Kurian


  • 11:00 to 11:45 AM | Mapping the Heavens: Revealing the Cosmos
    Priyamvada Natarajan in conversation with Sanjay Reddy
    Presented by AARP


  • 12:00 to 12:45 PM | Fiction, Faction and Uncomfortable Truths
    Devika Rege and Ijeoma Oluo in conversation with Sonora Jha


  • 1:00 to 1:45 PM | The Jaipur Trilogy
    Alka Joshi in conversation with Indu Sundaresan

 

Saturday Afternoon Session | Saturday, September 21, 2024 from 2:00 to 5:45 PM

  • 2:00 to 2:45 PM | Court on Trial
    Sital Kalantry, William H. J. Hubbard, Andrew Siegal and Pallavi Mehta Wahi in conversation with Judge Ketu Shah
    Presented by ZEAN LLC


  • 3:00 to 3:45 PM | When We Talk About Rape
    Sohaila Abdulali in conversation with Sanjoy K. Roy


  • 4:00 to 4:45 PM | Culture: A New World History
    Martin Puchner in conversation with Anand A. Yang
    Presented by AARP


  • 5:00 to 5:45 PM | Irrepressible Shobhaa
    Shobhaa De in conversation with Sanjoy K. Roy
    Presented by ZEAN LLC

 

Sunday Session | Sunday, September 22, 2024 from 11:00 AM to 2:45 PM

  • 11:00 to 11:45 AM | Blame It on Eve
    Sonora Jha, Cat Bohannon and Namita Gokhale in conversation with Kimberly A.C. Wilson
    Presented by ZEAN LLC


  • 12:00 to 12:45 PM | Poetics of the Multiverse
    Vijay Seshadri, Navtej Sarna and Shin Yu Pai in conversation with Amber Flame


  • 1:00 to 1:45 PM | The Taste of Memory
    Srijith Gopinathan in conversation with Sanjoy K. Roy
    Presented by AARP


  • 2:00 to 2:45 PM | Songs of Punjab: Narratives of Resilience
    Navdeep Suri and Harpreet in performance
    Presented by ZEAN LLC

Speakers and sessions are subject to change. Click here for the latest information on the festival lineup.


Presented by Town Hall Seattle and Jaipur Literature Festival.

 

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