SOLD OUT! Big Magic: MAY WORKSHOP

SOLD OUT! Big Magic: MAY WORKSHOP

Workshop
Saturday, May 19, 2018 - 11:00 to 16:00
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: 

I will be talking about what I consider to be the 5 major necessary emotional components of living a creative life, as per the chapter headings in Big Magic: Courage, Enchantment, Permission, Persistence and Trust. (I'm leaving out "divinity", because it's basically the same thing as 'enchantment")

The workshop will be divided into those 5 chapters, and I will lead people into writing exercises where — in letter form (letters to and from parts of themselves) — the participants will be invited to explore their creative dreams and obstacles, and to learn about all these different aspects of their own creative consciousness. 
 
Participants will need some sort of writing implement and paper, and no electronic devices will be allowed in the classroom.

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: 
10.00
Doors open
11:00
Masterclass commences
16:00
Masterclass ends
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