Summer Writes: Urban Tales
SFU Public Square, in partnership with SFU Continuing Studies, presents the Summer Writes: Urban Tales series. Join us to celebrate summer, writing, and the imaginative challenges of city life with award-winning writers.
All conversations take place from 7 to 9 pm at SFU Vancouver’s Vancouver campus. Four hours of workshops will follow the lectures.
Going Places: A Writerly Perspective on Travel
Short-story writer Marina Sonkina
in conversation with a local writer
What’s the allure of travel? Is it the opportunity to satisfy an instinctive curiosity about other cultures and lifestyles? Or does it help us run from an old identity by inventing a new one among strangers and in remote places?
When travelling, we find ourselves on a curious border, sharing a new way of life temporarily, but remaining outsiders. It is this duality that liberates us, giving us the freedom to see through fresh eyes. If art is about seeing the world from an unexpected perspective, then travelling is a perfect tool to enhance this vision. The writer also takes this experience home, discovering the new in the familiar.
Using her own experience, Marina Sonkina will also reflect on the curse and the cure of changing continents and languages for the creative writer, who, against all odds, wants to remain true to her art.
This lecture is free. Seating is limited, so reserve your seat today.