The symposium offers a unique opportunity for the artists to discuss with each other, and with the audience, how they have reached across lines of age, nationality, and artistic discipline through their mentoring activities.

Participants:

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University

Trisha Brown, Choreographer

Ariel Dorfman, Author

Sir Peter Hall, Theatre Director

Geraldine James, Actress

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Author

Mario Vargas Llosa, Author

Mira Nair, Director, Writer and Producer

Wole Soyinka, Author