Join us on Monday, July 7th at the Civitella Castle for Lara Baladi and Elisa Gonzalez presentations. We will welcome you with light refreshments at 6:00 PM.
Lara Baladi
Visual Arts, Lebanon/Egypt
Lara Baladi is a Lebanese-Egyptian multimedia artist, archivist, writer, and educator. Driven by critical exploration of archives and popular visual culture, her work—exhibited and published globally—examines the intersection of myth and the cyclical nature of history. She has served on the boards of the Arab Image Foundation and the Townhouse Gallery in Beirut and Cairo, has lectured in MIT’s Program in Art, Culture, and Technology, and currently serves on the Artistic Board of Malhoun in Marrakesh. She is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Arts at the American University in Cairo.
Elisa Gonzalez
Writing, USA/Puerto Rico
Elisa Gonzalez is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Grand Tour (FSG, US; Penguin, UK), was named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Whiting Award, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Levis Reading Prize, and was a finalist for the 2025 Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. A novel and a nonfiction book are also forthcoming.
Monday, July 7th 2025
6:00 PM Welcome cocktail
6:15 PM Presentations
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