Performance in Translation at LitFest 2025

Translation Slam with Volodymyr Rafeyenko, Mark Andryczyk, Dominique Hoffman & Halyna Hryn

Saturday, October 18 @ 4:30 PM

Writer-in-Residence Volodymyr Rafeyenko has supplied a 600-word essay in Ukrainian to be translated by Mark Andryczyk, Dominique Hoffman, and Halyna Hryn. In this program, Mark, Dominique, and Halyna reveal (and defend!) their respective translations. Who will come out on top?

Poetry, Comedy & Storytelling in American Sign Language with NuNu Davis & Lisa McBee

Sunday, October 19 @ 4:30 PM

Don't miss this all-Deaf lineup performing in American Sign Language (ASL) and Visual Vernacular. Hosted by Mj Shahen, the ASL Poet Laureate of Allegheny County. ASL interpretation provided for hearing folks.

More to Explore at LitFest 2025

Saturday, 10/18

1:00 PM Black Womanhood in Pittsburgh with Yona Harvey & Tahirah J. Walker

2:30 PM Books From My Country You Should Know with Olena Boryshpolets (Ukraine), Bertony Louis (Haiti), Anouar Rahmani (Algeria) & Mukhtar Shehata (Egypt)

3:30 PM Trans/Nonbinary Ecopoetics in the Garden with Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Aaron El Sabrout & imogen xtian smith

7:00 PM Bringing the Classics to Today with MacArthur Genius Anne Carson (“Cassandra Float Can,” “Antigonick”)

Sunday, 10/19

1:00 PM Indigenous Language Acts with Erin Marie Lynch, Julian Talamantez Brolaski & Layli Long Soldier

2:30 PM Bringing Chinese Literature to America with Editor Han Zhang (Riverhead Books) & Translator Jeremy Tiang

7:00 PM Love & Family, India & America, Tradition & Modernity with Booker Prize Winner Kiran Desai (“The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny”)

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