2017
October 30
Irish Repertory Theatre, New York, NY
Presenting Barney’s Wall with a post-screening panel discussion on the experience of acting in the works of Samuel Beckett and the making of the film. With special guests: John Turturro (The Night Of, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea), Bill Irwin (Waiting for Godot, Fool’s Moon), Lisa Dwan (The Beckett Trilogy, Not I), Conor and Judy Hegarty Lovett from Gare St. Lazare Ireland (The Beckett Trilogy), and Sandy Gotham Meehan (Director / Producer / Writer, Barney’s Wall). Moderated by distinguished Beckett scholar Dr. Lois Oppenheim.
Irish Repertory Press Release, Broadway World
November 18
NYU’s Forum on Law, Culture, and Society
Presenting Barney’s Wall with post-screening panel discussion on literary censorship. Panel participants include: Sandy Gotham Meehan (Director / Producer / Writer, Barney’s Wall), Alan Kaufman (writer, Jew Boy; editor, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry), Lorin Stein (Editor-in-Chief, The Paris Review), and Win McCormack (Editor-in-Chief, The New Republic)
December 19
Roxie Theatre, San Francisco
Barney’s Wall presented by City Lights
2018
February 9
Francis W. Parker School, Heller Auditorium, Chicago, Illinois
Presenting Barney’s Wall with post-screening panel conversation on contemporary literary, social and economic censorship with Director Sandy Gotham Meehan and University of Chicago First Amendment and Literary Arts Faculty
Moderated by Wall Street Journal Cultural Reporter, John Jurgensen
April 3
Musée de la Chasse, Paris, France
Projection du film Barney’s Wall (sous-titré), suivie d’une discussion sur le rôle historique des traducteurs et des éditeurs visionnaires dans l’échange interculturel de nouvelles idées littéraires et politiques
Screening of (subtitled) Barney’s Wall, followed by a panel conversation on the historical role of translators and visionary publishers in the cross-cultural exchange of new literary and political ideas