How Does the Cobbler Make a Revolutionary Shoe?

A presentation by Diane Lefer about promoting change through art. Diane talks about life as artist and activist addressing human rights abuses at Guantánamo, in immigration detention, and US prisons. When scheduling permits, the program can include a reading from her fiction, writing and/or theatre exercises for participants, or a traditional writing workshop for manuscript discussion and critique.

As seen at: CodePink at Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA; Crossroads School (high school) Human Rights Forum, Santa Monica, CA; Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA; Forum at All Saints Episcopal, Pasadena, CA; Orcas Island Writers Festival, Orcas Island, WA; PEN USA, Los Angeles, CA; Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA; Secular Jewish Humanists of Los Angeles; University of Redlands, Redlands, CA; Utah Humanities Council Great Salt Lake Book Festival; Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT; West Hollywood Book Fair, West Hollywood, CA.

Critical praise for Diane’s award-winning short fiction collection, California Transit, as reviewed by Judith Freeman in the Los Angeles Times:

“It’s easy to see why a judge would want to honor these stories. They are smart, well written and have that most elusive of qualities: vitality. They take on difficult issues — immigration, racism, torture, animal suffering, environmental degradation. That makes her stories sound humorless; they aren’t. A vein of wry wit runs through them.”

Contact: desilef@cs.com