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Artist:
Elizabeth Gilbert


Date:
02/28/19 - 03/01/19


Time:
12:00am



Venue:
Wanderlust Yoga Retreat at Turtle Bay Resort



City:
Kahuku , HI


Address:
57-091 Kamehameha Hwy


Country:
US





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Notes:
Workshop TBD Thursday /Lecture on Friday at 4:00 PM
PROGRAM:
Thursday:
1) TBD AM—”Big Magic Creativity Workshop”.
Friday:
2) 4:00 PM—keynote lecture


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Terrified of singing in front of a crowd of strangers? So is Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert.

But in preparation for her upcoming book, Big Magic, which encourages readers to face their fears, Gilbert decided to practice what she preaches. Which is how she ended up singing “Total Eclipse of the Heart” on a New York City karaoke stage.

After sharing her experience on Facebook, readers demanded video evidence. Without any to offer, Gilbert decided to confront her karaoke fears again – but for a price.

The author challenged readers to raise $10,000 for the charity BlinkNow, and Gilbert promised to match the donations and offer up a video of her belting out the Bonnie Tyler hit. As of performance time, a total of over $110,000 had been raised for charity, and Gilbert delivered the goods.

See below for her performance on N.Y.C.’s Queen of the Night stage, and click here to learn more about BlinkNow and donate to the cause.

 

“Faithfully”

“Total Eclipse”

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Terrified of singing in front of a crowd of strangers? So is Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert.

But in preparation for her upcoming book, Big Magic, which encourages readers to face their fears, Gilbert decided to practice what she preaches. Which is how she ended up singing “Total Eclipse of the Heart” on a New York City karaoke stage.

After sharing her experience on Facebook, readers demanded video evidence. Without any to offer, Gilbert decided to confront her karaoke fears again – but for a price.

The author challenged readers to raise $10,000 for the charity BlinkNow, and Gilbert promised to match the donations and offer up a video of her belting out the Bonnie Tyler hit. As of performance time, a total of over $110,000 had been raised for charity, and Gilbert delivered the goods.

See below for her performance on N.Y.C.’s Queen of the Night stage, and click here to learn more about BlinkNow and donate to the cause.

 

“Faithfully”



“Total Eclipse”

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It’s not every day that we get to go behind the curtain with the person responsible for a global phenomenon on the level of the best-selling-memoir-turned-Julia-Roberts-blockbuster Eat, Pray, Love. In Elizabeth Gilbert’s upcoming book Big Magic, debuting this September from Riverhead Books, this self-taught author shares her strategies for bringing joy and delight into artistic pursuits.

Elizabeth knows firsthand that creative work can be fraught with obstacles and anxiety, even when you’ve achieved some success. In Big Magic, she offers insights into the magical nature of creativity; the path to uncovering the “strange jewels” the universe buries within each of us; the courage to tackle what we most love (and fear); and the attitudes, approaches, and habits that will sustain a creative life. Elizabeth believes creative living is available to everyone — artists and non-artists alike.

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It’s not every day that we get to go behind the curtain with the person responsible for a global phenomenon on the level of the best-selling-memoir-turned-Julia-Roberts-blockbuster Eat, Pray, Love. In Elizabeth Gilbert’s upcoming book Big Magic, debuting this September from Riverhead Books, this self-taught author shares her strategies for bringing joy and delight into artistic pursuits.

Elizabeth knows firsthand that creative work can be fraught with obstacles and anxiety, even when you’ve achieved some success. In Big Magic, she offers insights into the magical nature of creativity; the path to uncovering the “strange jewels” the universe buries within each of us; the courage to tackle what we most love (and fear); and the attitudes, approaches, and habits that will sustain a creative life. Elizabeth believes creative living is available to everyone — artists and non-artists alike.

Continue reading…

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The most poignant response I've seen yet to the attacks in France is this illustration. (It was incorrectly attributed to Banksy at first, but by now the provenance has been made clear — the artist is Lucille Clerc.)

May freedom of expression never be vanquished.

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WEEKLY HOUSEKEEPING!

Dear Ones –

We get a lot of new people joining this Facebook page every day (thank you for joining our little community, new folks!) so once a week or so, I try to give everyone all the information they might want, about other places on the Internet to find me.

So let’s run down the list:

My website is http://ift.tt/1tJzIxR

You can follow me on Instagram (which I recently started because some 14-year-olds told me to) at:

http://ift.tt/1tJzIO7.

You can follow me on Pinterest (that addictive crack house, whose vortex I try not to tumble down too often because it’s a gorgeous suckhole) at: Elizabeth Gilbert - The Official Website | ElizabethGilbert.com.

Dear Ones -

Whenever my family used to go on a trip, the last thing I my mother would do before she walked out the door was to make her bed nicely, with clean sheets and everything. When I asked her once why she went through all that trouble to make a bed that she wasn't going to sleep in all week, she said, "It's a present that I give to my future self, because I know she'll appreciate that, when she gets back home."

I think this was the first time I grasped the idea of having a "future self" who is different from the person I was at the moment.

It was something about my mother calling her future self "she" — not "I"…an awareness that future self this was a totally separate being.

And it was definitely the first time I considered that you could be NICE to your future self — doing her favors, leaving her treats, making the bed for her…

We are often told to be kind to ourselves, but it takes a special sort of awareness to be kind to our FUTURE selves. Maybe that's who we are really talking about, when we say that we should be kind to ourselves Because your poor, innocent, sweet future self is the person who will have to cope with whatever choices you make right now. (As evidence by the mess I had to clean up around the age of 30, from so many reckless decisions I made in my 20s.)

I don't want to be mean to my future self anymore. I don't want her to have to cope with illnesses and struggles and catastrophes that my current self sets into motion. (I also don't want her to have to face the sorrows of gum disease, which is the ONLY reason I ever floss my damn teeth. Every night, bored at the sink, flossing away, I'm like, "This one's for you, future Liz!")

When I'm doing preparation to write a new novel (like I am now), it's such a drag to get myself moving on the boring tasks of compiling research…but as I sit there at my desk, reading dull books, filling out index card after index cards of notes I say, again, "This one's for you, future Liz!" And it totally pays off. For instance, when it came time to write THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, I had six boxes of index cards filled with notes and research to draw upon in creating my novel. It was so useful! Like some kind of magical elf had helped me so much! I started laughing one day at my desk, as I heard myself say aloud, "Hey, thanks, past Liz!"

And past Liz sent future Liz a friendly salute across time…and it was a curiously lovely sensation.

When all your selves — your past self, your present self, and your future self — can make friends with each other and be kind to each other, life somehow seems less fraught with suffering and anguish.

So what can you do today for your future self?

Something as small as making her bed for her?

Something as big as saving some money for her?

Something as totally life-transforming as quitting smoking for her, or getting out of toxic relationship for her?

Whatever it is — big or small — do your future self a kindness today. You are all she has.

ONWARD,
LG

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…just in case nobody mentioned to you today how perfect you already are.

Heart,
LG

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I love the work of Tracy Verdugo!

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