Pack your picnic basket and blanket and take the family to Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in DUMBO to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, the seminal event at the Austrian-Hungarian border that helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end communism in Europe. We will be having the picnic rain or shine. A tent will be provided.
Host
K. Anthony Appiah, President, PEN American Center
Speakers:
Michael R. Meyer, Newsweek's Eastern Europe correspondent in 1989, author of the upcoming “The Year that Changed the World”
Eszter Babarczy, historian and journalist, professor of media & culture at Moholy-Nagy University of Arts
Georg Hoffmann-Ostenhof, journalist, Editor-in-Chief Dept. Foreign Policy, Profil magazine
Alexander Wind, original Picnic organizer, former Middle School director of St. Margarethen