DATE: Wednesday, Dec. 2

TIME: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

LOCATION: UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum Auditorium

DETAILS: Free and open to the public

Er Tai Gao, a writer, painter and critic from China, was writer-in-residence in the Black Mountain Institute's City of
Asylum program from 2003 to 2006. His writings gained controversy in China and he is
prohibited from teaching and publishing there.

He will discuss his memoir, "In Search of My Homeland," which he wrote during his stay at the BMI. City of Asylum grants writers, whose voice have been muffled by censorship, the freedom to write and practice their craft.

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