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CAF 2024 grantee Kevin Augustine presents “The People Versus Nature,” November 7–17, 2024 at in NYC. “With only hours to live, a death-row inmate fights to free a chimpanzee from medical captivity. In solitary confinement, he reenacts a court trial based on true events, litigating the value of some lives over others.” For tickets, click here. To read more about Kevin’s grant, click here.
On the occasion of the awarding of novelist J. M. Coetzee with the 2024 Nancy Regan Arts Prize, CAF convened a webinar with three leading scholars to discuss Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals, which was published 25 years go this year. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the webinar.
Martin Rowe, CAF’s Executive Director, writes on his and CAF’s three-decades long connection with author Carol J. Adams. A video accompanying this article can be found at the jump.
The Culture & Animals Foundation is pleased to announce that J. M. Coetzee, the South African-born novelist, multiple Booker Prize winner, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature, has been awarded the 2024 Nancy Regan Arts Prize in recognition of his contribution to animal rights.
Tom Regan (1938-2017) was the co-founder of the Culture & Animals Foundation with his wife Nancy (1938–2021). Together, they made a major contribution to animal rights. You can read about their and CAF’s origins, work, and legacy below.