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You are a Story: Memoir & Illinois Novelists - RO

The Wednesday Mix - Adults 55+

Aaron Lawler uses books by popular Illinois authors to explore common philosophical questions to reflect on your own personal story. Drop-ins are welcome! Register to receive a reminder.

The big questions we all ask at some point in our lives—Who am I? Why am I here? What does it all mean?—are often explored through philosophy, poetry, and psychology. 

This workshop with Aaron Lawler, an assistant professor of humanities at Waubonsee Community College, examines how writing memoirs, telling our own stories, and recording our lives can help us search for those same answers. Drawing inspiration from two Illinois novelists, Ray Bradbury and Ernest Hemingway, we’ll see how even fiction can be deeply autobiographical and how their approaches to storytelling can guide us in writing our own. 

The presentation is divided into three interactive parts: personal identity, reflections becoming reality, and learning as transformation.

Come early for coffee and conversation beginning at 1:30 pm. The program will begin promptly at 2 pm. 

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