‘FreeLove’ Book Launch with Author and Artist Sia Figiel

Contemporary Samoan Author and Artist Sia Figiel will launch and read from her latest book, “FreeLove” for UH West Oʻahu students, faculty, staff, and community members.

11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. in C225:
Book launch, reading and performance

12:30 – 2 p.m. in D146:
Discussion and potluck lunch. Contact Niko Patu at patu@hawaii.edu to participate in the potluck.

Sia Figiel is also the author of “Where We Once Belonged,” winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, the novels “The Girl in the Moon Circle,” and “They Who Do Not Grieve,” and a prose-poetry collection, “To a Young Artist in Contemplation.” Figiel is also a performer and painter whose work confronts the world with a celebration of Samoan culture through insightful and honest language.

For more information visit: http://www.uhwo.hawaii.edu/ekamakanihou/?p=3682

Event Sponsor
UH West OÊ»ahu Humanities Division, UH West OÊ»ahu English and Hawaiian Pacific Studies departments, West Oʻahu Campus

More Information
Niko Patu, 689-2800, patu@hawaii.edu

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