An interactive workshop on creativity and liberation & book launch with Tamara Pearson, author of The Butterfly Prison.
The Butterfly Prison is a tapestry of vignettes that tells the hushed-up, little stories that unfold within a world characterized by diminishment and shame, the stories of the disenfranchised, the stories of Paz and Mella, two young people in western Sydney. As each fights for dignity in the shadows of poverty, harassment and exploitation, their decisions tell a compelling story of choice, consequence, systematic injustice, and the inner magic of the human constitution.
Tender and thought provoking, unusual and rule-breaking, The Butterfly Prison bites and delights as it redefines our notions of beauty, freedom, heroes, criminals, and war.
Tamara Pearson is a writer, journalist, activist and teacher. Currently based in Ecuador as an editor for an international news organization, she has been a journalist for 14 years, working from Venezuela as a reporter and respected analyst, as well as for Green Left Weekly in Australia. She has also written for a range of other media in English and Spanish in Bolivia, Mexico, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, and more. She campaigned for refugee rights and against the war in Iraq in Australia, and was involved in community organising in Venezuela. She also worked at an alternative school in Venezuela promoting creativity and imagination as tools for expression and empowerment.
WHEN: Friday October 23, 6.30pm
WHERE: Sydney Resistance Centre, 22 Mountain St, Ultimo (near Broadway Shopping Centre).