Mitali Perkins -- "Just Making"
Category: Literary
Date and Time
- Saturday, May 24, 2025 11am - 12pm
Location
Boulder Bookstore
1107 Pearl St
Details
Mitali Perkins will speak about and sign her new book, "Just Making: A Guide for Compassionate Creatives," on Saturday, May 24th at 11:00am, at Boulder Bookstore. This is a FREE event, but registration is required. Register on Eventbrite.
About the Book:
Why should we make art while injustice and suffering wreak havoc? How can we justify making beautiful things? Author Mitali Perkins isn't afraid of hard questions about justice and art. She knows that the creative life can seem selfish. As the daughter of immigrants, she studied toward a career of eradicating poverty and knows the internal voice that challenges: "How dare you retreat to your studio to create?"
Yet Perkins learned that writing fiction wasn't setting aside her passion for a better world but pursuing it. In "Just Making," she offers a justice-driven perspective unique among books on creativity. Women across the globe have crafted beauty and order amid chaos, war, and deprivation, and Perkins turns our attention to what we learn from them.
"Just Making" introduces us to strategies such as forgetfulness in flow, tenderness in trauma, and crossing borders. In conversation with creative guides like Nikki Grimes, Chad Somers, and Carol Aust, Perkins offers ten practices that help creatives keep making. Persevering through pushback from within and without, we can keep making art that heals human suffering, transmits truth, and confronts the oppressor. With vivid stories, practical ideas, and reflection and discussion questions, "Just Making" will inspire you to keep making beauty in a broken world.
IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATION
*This is a free event, but registration is required.
