BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org
PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:Indybay-18734874
SEQUENCE:18838258
CREATED:20130408T162700Z
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio + Pegasus Books presents\nEVE ENSLER\nIN THE BODY OF THE 
 WORLD\nA Memoir\nHosted by Erica Bridgeman\nMonday, May 20, 7:30 pm\nFirst 
 Congregational Church\n2501 Harrison @ 27th Street, Oakland\ntickets: $35 
 advance (Includes signed book), $38 door: 
 http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/364746 :: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus 
 Books (3 locations: 1855 Solano/Berkeley, 2349 Shattuck/ Berkeley, 5560 
 College Ave/Oakland), or Marcus Books, Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s, Walden 
 Pond Bookstore, DIESEL a Bookstore. SF: Modern Times  
 Info:www.kpfa.org/events   KPFA benefit\n\nEven though Eve Ensler has 
 devoted her life to the female body—how to talk about it, how to protect 
 and value it—she has spent much of her life disassociated from her own 
 body. This disconnection was brought on by her father’s sexual abuse and 
 her mother’s remoteness. “Because I did not, could not inhabit my body 
 or the Earth,” she writes, “I could not feel or know their pain.”\n 
 \nBut Eve is shocked out of her distance. While working in the Congo, she 
 is shattered by her encounter with the horrific rape and violence inflicted 
 on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and 
 through months of harrowing treatment she is forced to become first and 
 foremost a body – pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. It is then that all 
 the distance is erased. As she connects her own illness to the devastation 
 of the Earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, 
 fully – and gratefully – joined to the body of the world.\n 
 \nUnflinching, generous, sometimes humorous, always inspiring, IN THE BODY 
 OF THE WORLD is a transformative work that calls on us all to embody our 
 connection to and responsibility for the world.\n\nInternationally renowned 
 playwright, activist and author (The Vagina Monologues and I Am an 
 Emotional Creature, among other works)  Ensler is the founder of V-Day, the 
 global movement to end violence against women and girls, which has raised 
 over $90 million for local groups and activists. \n\n   Advance praise for 
 In The Body of the World -\n\n  “Astonishing” —Mary Oliver\n \n“A 
 masterpiece!  Ensler has accomplished the impossible: woven huge, bold, 
 world-changing ideas together with beautiful writing, amazing metaphors, 
 and original structure. Truly one of the most courageous and original works 
 of our time.” —Naomi Klein\n \n“I dare anyone to read In the Body of 
 the World without crying, without crying out, without getting up out of 
 their chair and rising to this beautiful broken world with awe and 
 gratitude. Eve Ensler embodies the fierce flame of love on the page and in 
 the world. There is no pity here, only the raw force of courage in the face 
 of fear and violence, and the healing grace of honesty.” \n               
                                                                             
  —Terry Tempest Williams\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/04/08/18734874.php
SUMMARY:Eve Ensler: In The Body Of The World: A Memoir
LOCATION:First Congregational Church\n2501 Harrison St, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/04/08/18734874.php
DTSTART:20130521T023000Z
DTEND:20130521T043000Z
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR