People Change: Book Launch with Vivek Shraya
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Esker Foundation 444-1011 9 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0H7
People Change: Book Launch with Vivek Shraya
Wednesday 4 May, 6-7pm
In-person at Esker Foundation
Join us for an evening with artist and author Vivek Shraya to celebrate the launch of her new book: People Change.
"A deeply generous and honest gift to the world." - Elliot Page
The author of I’m Afraid of Men lets readers in on the secrets to a life of reinvention. Vivek Shraya knows this to be true: people change. We change our haircuts and our outfits and our minds. We change names, titles, labels. We attempt to blend in or to stand out. We outgrow relationships, we abandon dreams for new ones, we start fresh. We seize control of our stories. We make resolutions.
In fact, nobody knows this better than Vivek, who’s made a career of embracing many roles: artist, performer, musician, writer, model, teacher. In People Change, she reflects on the origins of this impulse, tracing it to childhood influences from Hinduism to Madonna. What emerges is a meditation on change itself: why we fear it, why we’re drawn to it, what motivates us to change, and what traps us in place.
Vivek Shraya's exhibition Legends of the Trans was previously presented in the Esker Project Space from October 2021 to February 2022.
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