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CSI Book Club

Embrace Your Weird by Felicia Day

2024-10-01 18:30:00 2024-10-01 19:30:00 America/Chicago CSI Book Club Book pickup begins Monday, August 19, in The Launch Pad. Ages 14 and older. Author Felicia Day takes you on a journey to find, rekindle or expand your creative passions. R Main Library - Cook Room

Tuesday, October 01
6:30pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-10-01 18:30:00 2024-10-01 19:30:00 America/Chicago CSI Book Club Book pickup begins Monday, August 19, in The Launch Pad. Ages 14 and older. Author Felicia Day takes you on a journey to find, rekindle or expand your creative passions. R Main Library - Cook Room

Main Library

Cook Room

Book pickup begins Monday, August 19, in The Launch Pad. Ages 14 and older. Author Felicia Day takes you on a journey to find, rekindle or expand your creative passions. R

In Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity, bestselling author, producer, actress, TV writer, and award-winning web series creator, Felicia Day takes you on a journey to find, rekindle, or expand your creative passions.
Including Felicia’s personal stories and hard-won wisdom, Embrace Your Weird offers:
• Entertaining and revelatory exercises that empower you to be fearless, so you can rediscover the things that bring you joy and crack your imagination wide open.
• Unique techniques to vanquish enemies of creativity: anxiety, fear, procrastination, perfectionism, criticism and jealousy.
• Tips to cultivate a creative community.
• Space to explore and get your neurons firing.

Whether you enjoy writing, baking, painting, podcasting, playing music, or have yet to uncover your favorite creative outlet, Embrace Your Weird will help to unlock the power of self-expression. Get motivated. Get creative. Get weird. 

Free copies of the book will be provided to registered members courtesy of the Helen Morrow Trust.

R = Registration required.

AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Launch Pad | High School (Grades 9-12) | Adult |

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