with Isabel Allende" My most significant achievements are not my books, but the love I share with a few people, especially my family, and the ways in which I have tried to help others" -Isabel Allende Join us for this conversation with Isabel Allende, and learn how the celebrated author transforms facts into magical stories and turns reality into endless possibilities. Her talent for creating a story becomes our conversation for this evening, focusing on her theme of women determining their own way. Supporting her commitments to empowering women and saving girls from exploitation and abuse, she explores with us the ever changing role of women in today's challenging world. Isabel Allende, the Chilean- American internationally known writer and feminist, is a women with a warrior heart, a passionate soul and a wild sense of humor. A consummate storyteller, the author of 19 books, with over 57 million copies sold, the first being House of the Spirits, the latest, Island Beneath the Sea. She has received 12 honorary doctorates and fifty awards, and her books have been adapted for a variety of movies, plays, ballets and operas. In 1992 she created a foundation in her name to support the empowerment of women and girls worldwide. DETAILS Wednesday, November 2 7:00pm $20/$15 members and CIIS community First Unitarian Universalist Church 1187 Franklin Street San Francisco, CA 94109 There will be a book signing at the event REGISTER HERE >> (please note: scroll towards the bottom of the registration page for our series) MEMBERS and CIIS COMMUNITY REGISTER HERE >> |
