BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6005@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200712T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200712T160000 DTSTAMP:20200708T153151Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/liverpool-arab-arts-festival-wri te-your-life-pen-voice-and-story-with-ibtisam-barakat/ SUMMARY:: Liverpool Arab Arts Festival: Write Your Life: Pen\, Voice and St ory with Ibtisam Barakat DESCRIPTION:\nWrite Your Life: Pen\, Voice and Story with Ibtisam Barakat\n \n\nSunday 12 July\, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmFree\, pre-booking required\n\nLiter atureWorkshopsThis event will be hosted on Zoom\n1 hour workshop\nSign up  here to reserve your place and receive the link\n\nMemoir/Personal Hist ory writing workshop with acclaimed author and poet Ibtisam Barakat.\n\nH istory has excluded many voices and many groups for a long time. Now more people have an opportunity to participate in narrating and helping humanit y have a more inclusive history. There are many barriers\, you may say. An d the answer is: Yes\; but barriers are there to be transcended. And what joy and freedom it is to begin. . . So\, if you love to write\, come explo re who you are on paper\, and tell the world some of the stories the world needs to hear and to know about your being a unique person whose voice an d ways of seeing can never be duplicated. This workshop will focus on “v oice” to help you overcome emotional blocks\, and will offer you startin g tools that will help you embark on the writing journey joyfully and succ essfully. There will be time to write and time to converse and ask questio ns. Anyone who wishes to share some of what they wrote will be encouraged to do so. Sharing is not required and strictly voluntary. If you are an es tablished writer or anywhere along the writing path\, you are welcome to j oin Write Your Life.\n\nPalestinian-American poet and author of the critic ally acclaimed memoirs: Tasting the Sky\, a Palestinian Childhood\, and Ba lcony on the Moon\, Coming of Age in Palestine\, and the founder and leade r of Write Your Life\, welcomes you. Ahlan to all ♥\;  for the spec ial Zoom session at the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival 2020 ♥\;\n\n\n\ nAbout the author\n\nIbtisam Barakat is an award-winning\, Palestinian-Am erican author\, poet\, translator\, artist and educator\, based in the US. She publishes in both English and Arabic—her memoirs\, Tasting the Sky : A Palestinian Childhood (2007)\, and Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Ag e in Palestine (2016)\, received considerable critical acclaim. Her poems \, essays and short stories have appeared in magazines including The Natio n\, Wasafiri and the Washington Post. She won a 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Awa rd for illustrated children’s book Al-Fatah Al-Laylakeyyah (The Lilac Girl)\, her sixth book for younger readers. You can watch her TEDx talk ab out her transformative and cross-cultural love for language (“Songs of m y foreign accent”) on YouTube.\n\nRead about Tasting the Sky here\nRe ad about Balcony on the Moon here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSheikh Zayed Book A ward:\n\nThe Sheikh Zayed Book Award is one of the Arab world’s most pre stigious literary prizes. The award\, which has been described as the ‘A rab world’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize’\, has a reputation for high lighting the most exciting\, and often the most challenging work from and about the Arab world.\n\nwww.zayedaward.ae\n\n\n\n\nImage: Ibtisam Barakat . Courtesy of Matt Peyton\, NYC.\n\n\nBook Tickets ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2020/07/Website-banner-Ibitsam-768x512-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR