NARROWSBURG, NY — Dylan and Becky Ann Baker perform Dorothy Thompson’s essay on becoming a Nazi. Thomas Bosket will inhabit a temporary “drawing cave”—a raw shelter built from cardboard, scrap wood and duct tape—where he will receive one visitor at a time. In “Ordinary Rebels,” Rebecca Donner, Peter Pomerantsev and Suzanne Cope consider resistance as not a grand gesture, but as daily acts of courage by ordinary people transformed by circumstance. Dasha Ziborova and Corinna Grunn dance their way through the metamorphosis demanded by sudden, massive change.

There are many ways of looking at transformation, at the shifting landscape of thought and perspective. From Friday, June 20 through Sunday, June 22, the Deep Water Literary Festival will blossom throughout Narrowsburg and embrace it all. 

Venues in the hamlet will host writers and readers and artists. All explore the theme. When the world changes, who do we become? What happens when you see something, read something, that disrupts the way you view the world? 

What about those seismic shifts, when everything you thought was solid (think your history, think truth) turned out to be mutable? 

In the words of the organizers (they’re talking about the opening event, but it truly applies to the whole weekend), it is about “where poetry becomes music, grief becomes art, and memory becomes a bridge between worlds.”

What follows is only some of what’s on offer. You’ll have to check the website for the full schedule.

The opening event is a concert at the Tusten Theatre at 7 p.m. on June 20. Titled “I Am Living. I Remember You,” the work takes poetry by Marie Howe—written after her brother’s death—and Ricky Ian Gordon transforms it into a song. It is performed by soprano Jennifer Zetlan, and then is followed by Kevin Hays’ improvisatory riff on Philip Glass’s “Metamorphosis.”

An opening-night “reverie” at the Parlor (9:30 p.m.) concludes the day.

Saturday is packed. It starts with a memoir-writing workshop at the Tusten-Cochecton Library (9:30 a.m.) and at the same time but at the Darby across the river, illustrator Doug Salati (“Hot Dog”) holds a reading and interactive-drawing demo focused on dogs. 

You’ll find the second Deep Water Independent Book Fair (10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Narrowsburg Union); Susan Choi, Douglas Stuart and Geoff Dyer discuss “Becoming” (11 a.m. at the Tusten Theatre); Alejandro Heredia, Andre Aciman and Madeleine Thien contemplate the loss of home in “Elsewhere People” (2 p.m. at the Tusten Theatre); and poet Marie Howe and author Ayana Mathis (“The Unsettled”) appear in a talk moderated by Hafizah Augustus Geter, probing how literature maps the enduring shifts within and around us (3:30 p.m., Delaware Valley Arts Alliance). 

Raphaele Shirley stages an installation created with 200 pink smoke signal flares at 6 p.m. on Firemen’s Field; the festival party takes off at 8 p.m. at the Darby in Beach Lake, PA; and there are many more events in between. 

Sunday, the festival’s final day, explores topics from “Who Goes Nazi?” (2 p.m. at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance) to the Yarnslingers’ take on metamorphosis (4 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church).

“It’s thrilling to be able to bring two Booker Prize winners, two National Book Critics Circle Award winners and a recipient of the National Book Award to this special river town of 370 people on the New York/Pennsylvania border,” said founder and director Aaron Hicklin. “There’s something indescribably magical about bringing together writers and readers for a weekend of conversation, storytelling and communion.” 

In keeping with its mission to keep the literary arts accessible, two-thirds of the festival events are free of charge, while prices for the rest are $15 each.   

The full program and the addresses for the various event locations are available at www.Deepwaterfestival.com. For inquiries for the Deep Water Book Fair, email info@thehoundbooks.com.