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Events at NYUAD

The NYUAD Literature and Creative Writing Program hosts a variety of events each year, including readings, lectures, movie screenings, workshops and discussions.

Synchrony: From New York to Nigeria | Thursday April 24, 2025 at 7:30pm in the Red Theater

The second edition of The City and the Writer for Words Without Borders is an all-star lineup of writers, directors, actors, and musicians. The evening engages with the award-winning film The Man Died (2024), which is inspired by Wole Soyinka’s memoir and directed by Awam Ampka, Vice Provost for the Arts and Dean of Arts and Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi. Starring Nathalie Handal, global citizen and prize-winning poet, Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) Nobel Prize winner; Awam Ampka (USA-Nigeria) renowned interdisciplinary artist; Claudia Rankine (USA) New York Times bestselling poet; Sir John Akomfrah (Ghana-UK) film director and screenwriter; Yolanda Castaño (Spain) winner of the Spanish National Award for Poetry; Wale Ojo (Nigeria-UK) actor and lead role in The Man Died; Andrea Cote(Colombia) winner of the Premio Casa de América de Poesía Americana Award; and musical performances by Anthony Joseph (Trinidad) musician and  T. S. Eliot Prize winner; Abínibí Groovy Band (Nigeria), Afrocentric music group led by Abbey Trombone, trombonist and composer of the soundtrack for The Man Died; Herve Samb (Senegal) guitarist and pioneer of Jazz Sabar; Otis Brown III (USA) Grammy-nominated drummer and recording artist; and Somi (USA-Rwanda–Uganda) Grammy-nominated vocalist, actor and playwright. 

PETTEE: Storybox, Devised by Deepak Unnikrishnan

Ideas of living and leaving, of sharing real and surreal stories, weaved together through movement, music, and flight. PETTEE, the performance, is about marrying these ideas and conversations together. 

Susan Rich Presents her Poetry Collection "Blue Atlas"

Susan Rich Presents Poetry Collection Blue Atlas at the Torch Club on November 2024.