Border Kitchen Presents: Nadezjda Tolokonnikova aka Nadja Tolokno (Pussy Riot)

Name: Border Kitchen Presents: Nadezjda Tolokonnikova aka Nadja Tolokno (Pussy Riot)
Start: 2017-02-16T19:00
End: 2017-02-16T21:00
Location: Kleine zaal

Thursday 16 February 2017 2017

Russian Nadja Tolokonnikova (1989) will make her appearance at BorderKitchen to talk about her book How to Start a Revolution. She writes about the circumstances in the penal colony and the fate of her punk band Pussy Riot, but also shows there is a 'different Russia' too, with interesting and creative people who pursue a different society and state than the present rulers do. Tolokonnikova wrote an accessible book which shows that she not only stood her ground while in prison, she came out more self-confident than ever, determined to torment the present leadership and annoy Putin even more efficiently.

Anders

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LocationKleine zaal
Doors open18:30
Start19:00

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Tolokonnikova will be visiting BorderKitchen on Thursday February 16th. The interviewer will be announced later.

Nadja Tolokonnikova is a political activist and one of the founders of the punk band Pussy Riot. In 2012 the band made headlines after they had given a performance which was perceived as being anti-Church as well as anti-Putin and in August of that year were convicted of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”. Tolokonnikova was sentenced to two years of imprisonment in a penal colony for women. This is where she wrote How to Start a Revolution.

‘She seems to be avers to opportunism. Nadja is a real hero. Punk, but then heroic punk.’ – NRC