SOLD OUT! Elizabeth Gilbert MAY TALK

SOLD OUT! Elizabeth Gilbert MAY TALK

Talk
Monday, May 21, 2018 - 19:00 to 20:30
Spiritual
Inspiring
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Elizabeth Gilbert is a bestselling author and speaker. Her memoir 'Eat, Pray, Love' has been translated into more than 30 languages and has sold over ten million copies worldwide.
Description: 

This evening Elizabeth will be speaking about the importance of what she calls "Creative Living" — a spirit of living in which one makes a concerted effort to stay awake, responsive, and curious about life as it is constantly unfolding around you. 

Creative Living is more about a way of interacting with the world, and less about what you produce or achieve. Creative Living is also about always choosing the path of curiosity over the path of fear (in this way, Elizabeth argues, your life itself becomes a creative project.)

In a series of humorous and emotionally-searching anecdotes from her own journeys around the world, she will talk about ways she has challenged herself to stay awake, responsive and curious — even when stuck in circumstances that might seem mundane, tiring, or uninspiring.

 Elizabeth will also discusses with candor about how a certain degree of uncomfortableness and awkwardness is to be expected in Creative Living, if we are truly to push past our own protective boundaries.  It's not always easy to put yourself out there, or stay open, creative, and engaged, but it's worth the risk and the effort, because nobody ever got surprised by life by trying to play it safe.

About the speaker, Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels City of Girls, The Signature of All Things, and Stern Men; the story collection Pilgrims; and the nonfiction books Big Magic, Eat Pray Love, Committed, and The Last American Man. A finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Award.

In her critically acclaimed novels and immensely popular works of nonfiction, Elizabeth Gilbert expands our understanding of creativity, spirituality, and love. Whatever her subject—her own transformative experiences, the institution of marriage, or 1940’s showgirls—Gilbert writes with “a mix of intelligence, wit, and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible” (The New York Times Book Review). The woman Oprah Winfrey called a “rock star author” is among her generation’s most beloved and inspiring voices, with her books selling more than 25 million copies worldwide, she has an avid international readership and devoted following.

Gilbert’s memoir, Eat Pray Love, exploded onto the scene in 2006. The #1 New York Times bestseller famously chronicled the year Gilbert spent traveling the world after a shattering divorce. Translated into more than 30 languages, it was adapted into a 2010 film starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem. Following Eat, Pray, Love, Gilbert wrote Committed: A Love Story, a meditation on marriage as a sociohistorical institution.

In fall 2025, Gilbert returns with a highly anticipated memoir, All the Way to the River, which follows her relationship with her late partner Rayya Elias.

Timetable: 
18:15
Doors open
19:00
Talk commences
20:30
Talk ends
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