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Workshop: Your Stories Matter with Niloufar Talebi

Saturday, 4/27/2024
3:00 - 4:30
Excelsior Meeting Room
Excelsior

4400 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94112
United States

415-355-2868

Discover the power of your own stories in this interactive workshop, designed for anyone eager to turn their experiences into impactful narratives. Learn to craft your tales into family scrapbooks, poetry, spoken word or memoirs, with guidance from Niloufar Talebi. She will share insights from writing her hybrid memoir Self-Portrait in Bloom and her editing and translation work on the anthology Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World, showcasing stories of immigrants across generations.

Niloufar Talebi is an author, award-winning translator, creator and producer. She is the editor and translator of Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (North Atlantic Books, 2008), and author of the hybrid memoir, Self-Portrait in Bloom (l’Aleph, 2019). She teaches Creative Writing at the Stanford Continuing Studies Program. Talebi's multimedia storytelling projects have been commissioned and presented by Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Stanford Live, the Kennedy Center and Brooklyn Academy of Music. She is the creator of a suite of projects inspired by the Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou that includes Abraham in Flames opera (composer A. Vrebalov, 2019), Funeral Address video-poem and a TEDx Berkeley Talk. She is a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellow. 

Attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Talebi's book Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World will be available to attendees, compliments of SFPL. 

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Niloufar Talebi - Website | Niloufar Talebi - Instagram

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Events and workshops curated around SFPL’s One City One Book selection. One City One Book: San Francisco Reads is a citywide literary event that encourages members of the San Francisco community to read the same book at the same time. For more information, see sfpl.org/onecityonebook.

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This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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