BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4690@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190522T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190522T183000 DTSTAMP:20190327T175408Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/wowfest-the-freedom-artist-an-ev ening-with-ben-okri/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: WoWFest: The Freedom Artist: An Evening with Ben Okri DESCRIPTION:The Freedom Artist: An Evening with Ben Okri \n\nVenue: Blueco at\, 8 School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BT\nTime: 6.30pm (Doors at 6pm)\nTi ckets: £12/£6 (Students/Over 60's/Unemployed)\n\nBooker Prize-winning Ni gerian writer Ben Okri discusses his contribution to literature and his l atest novel\, The Freedom Artist\, an impassioned plea for justice and a penetrating examination of how freedom is threatened in a post-truth soci ety.\n\nIn a world uncomfortably like our own\, a young woman called Amala ntis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the P risoner?\n\nWhen Amalantis disappears\, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first\, then with a growing realization. T o find Amalantis\, he must first understand the meaning of her question.\n \nKarnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of lies\, oppression a nd fear at the heart of which lies the Prison. Then Karnak discovers that he is not the only one looking for the truth.\n\nThe Freedom Artist is an impassioned plea for justice and a penetrating examination of how freedom is threatened in a post-truth society. In Ben Okri’s most significant no vel since the Booker Prize-winning The Famished Road\, he delivers a power ful and haunting call to arms.\n\nBen Okri was born in Minna\, Nigeria. Hi s childhood was divided between Nigeria\, where he saw first hand the cons equences of war\, and London. He has won many prizes over the years for hi s fiction including the Guardian Fiction Prize (1988) and the Man Booker P rize (1991)\, and is also an acclaimed essayist\, playwright\, and poet.\n \nSarah Maclennan is Head of Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores Uni versity where she teaches poetry and prose writing at under-graduate and p ost-graduate level. She is passionate about community writing and her most recent research project involves working on the Learning Together program me\, developing an anthology of creative and autobiographical writing with participants who have experience of the criminal justice system.\n>\;&g t\; TICKETS <\;<\;\n\nFor any problems booking tickets or ticketing qu eries email customerservice@ticketquarter.co.uk or telephone the box off ice during opening hours on 0344 8000410. The Call centre is open 9am - 9p m Monday - Saturday and 10-5 Sundays and bank holidays. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2019/03/Okri_THE_FREEDOM_ARTIST.jpg LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat:geo :53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190331T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR