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Author Reading, Pamela Reitman,Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life
BOLD is thrilled to host a reading with Pamela Reitman, author of Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life.
Pamela Reitman will talk about how the young German-Jewish Charlotte Salomon created a masterpiece of 20th-century art while in exile, alone without identity papers, in the south of France. Entitled “Life? Or Theater?” the work is comprised of 869 watercolor/gouache paintings that tell the story of coming-of-age during Hitler’s rise to power and coming-to-terms with a family legacy of suicides. Pamela will share the artist’s creative process, how she struggled against madness and the impulse to die by suicide, and finally risked her life to save her work. Her talk will focus on the power of art to transform suffering.
Pamela Reitman is an award-winning writer with numerous publications, Director Emerita of Makor Or: A Jewish Meditation Center in San Francisco, retired from public health, with community service reducing the stigma of mental illness, and a lay-ordained Zen Buddhist.
Arrive at 6:30 p.m. to grab a snack or drink. The event will start at 7:00 p.m.
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Event cohosted by BOLD Coffee & Books and Indigo: Editing, Design, and More.