Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Reminder: Reading: Do You Dream in Color? by Laurie Rubin at Moder... @ Tue Jan 15 7pm - 8pm (Queer Things)

Reading: Do You Dream in Color? by Laurie Rubin at Modern Times

Modern Times Bookstore Collective
2919 24th St (at Alabama)
San Francisco 94110
http://moderntimesbookstore.com/event/do-you-dream-in-color-insights-from-a-girl-without-sight/

In her new memoir, Do You Dream in Color? (Seven Stories Press),
Laurie Rubin explores the biases and fears we all harbor about those
we perceive to be different within a life-story rich in detail and an
inspiration to readers of all ages. Frederica von Stade says "Do You
Dream in Color? shows the same clarity, honesty, and devotion that
Laurie has always had with her art. A wonderful book."

Laurie is not only a brave world-traveler, an amazing singer with
stellar reviews in the New York Times, LA Times and around the world,
but she is also young and charismatic, a jewelry designer, and a
dreamer in color. Growing up blind, Laurie often wondered what it was
like to fit in. Midsentence she might discover that her "friends" had
quietly slipped away. And while they bopped to pop, Laurie, with
perfect pitch, was mesmerized by opera and was singing publicly by age
12. When Laurie finally did find her crowd in the music world (at
camp, at Oberlin Conservatory, and at Yale graduate school), an opera
director would not cast her for fear she would fall off the stage.

A lifetime of unintentional discrimination—of assumptions being made
about what she could and could not do—and a child's innocent question
that became the book's title, prompted Laurie to write about her life.
We all have traits that make us something other than "normal," Rubin
believes, but for the strong and persistent dreams can overcome any
barrier.

Come hear Laurie talk about her life and her successes on stages all
over the world, and occasionally break into song!

When
Tue Jan 15 7pm – 8pm Pacific Time
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Queer Things
Who
larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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