However you choose to weave your thoughts — whether through prose, poetry, song or even comedy — you’ll find your tribe at the upcoming multi-stage performing arts festival SpokenFest ‘24 that unveils this weekend. that unveils this weekend. The two-day event celebrates more than just the art of storytelling across mediums, it facilitates honest conversations built on empathy. This reflects the words of playwright Tennessee Williams in his essay Person To Person, he wrote: “And so we talk to each other, write and wire each other, call each other short and long distance across land and sea, clasp hands with each other at meeting and at parting, fight each other and even destroy each other because of this always somewhat thwarted effort to break through walls to each other.”

Imtiaz Ali in conversation with Roshan Abbas