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Starhawk: City of Refuge Book Talk and Fundraiser

What Would It Look Like if We Won? Fiction, Prophecy and Strategy Starhawk reads from and discusses her new book City of Refuge

Starhawk in Santa Cruz Thursday, May 19, 8-10 pm

Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave. Santa Cruz, CA 95062

What Would It Look Like If We Won? Fiction, Prophecy, and Strategy

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Starhawk reads from and discusses her new book City of Refuge

Advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com Book sales and signing to follow

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Fiction , Prophecy, and Strategy

How can we create the new world—that non-hierarchical, socially just,

ecologically balanced and beautifully diverse world we long for—unless we can

first imagine it?

Speculative fiction allows us to envision that world in detail,

to anticipate its workings and challenges, and bring it alive in our

collective imagination. And fiction can serve as an extended thought-experiment to explore

strategies for getting there.

Starhawk draws from her futuristic novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and its sequel, her new book

City of Refuge, to spark discussion on how to shift cynicism and despair into empowerment and engagement.

Fundraiser for EAT - Earth Activist Training scholarship program. Admission is $5-20 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds). Copies of City of Refuge available for purchase. Book signing follows talk. Advance tickets highly recommended.

Learn more from EAT graduates Suraya Arslan, Ellen Farmer, and Coleen Douglas. Sign ups are open for Rowe, Massachusetts (June 5-19), and Northern Spain (August 14-28).

Starhawk (based in San Francisco) is a lifelong activist in peace and global justice movements, a leader in the feminist and earth-based spirituality movements, author and coauthor of thirteen books, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising, The Earth Path, The Empowerment Manual, and her latest, City of Refuge, a sequel to The Fifth Sacred Thing. Starhawk's website is starhawk.org and more of her writings and information on her schedule and activities can be found there.

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