05th March
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In this talk, Smith discusses her decades-long careers in music, photography and writing, and how she鈥檚 used each medium to deeply explore the human condition with a focus on women鈥檚 lives.
Smith shares how she finds and maintains a sense of worth 鈥� financial, emotional, experiential 鈥� as an artist in the face of rejection, judgment, dizzying successes and gutting lows, by constantly assessing her relationship to art and commerce.
By willingly being the first to raise her hand and share deeply personal stories in her work, Smith hopes greater truths will resonate with her audience, liberating them to be congruent and bold in their own lives and with what they put into the world.
In an era defined by disconnection and divisiveness in media and culture, combined with the significant message about the growing irrelevance of human involvement in creating art, Smith continues to believe in the value of connection in the creative process.
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Speakers Biography
The vibrant style Ali Smith has brought to her writing and photography鈥攆eatured regularly in The New York Times, The Guardian, and other publications internationally鈥攚as forged in New York鈥檚 underground music scene where she played bass in the seminal punk / blues / avant-garde band, Speedball Baby. After touring worldwide and recording nine albums, Ali released two books of photography about women鈥檚 lives. The first, Laws of the Bandit Queens, led to a feature on OWN, Oprah Winfrey鈥檚 television network. The second, Momma Love: How the Mother Half Lives, won two International Book Awards, was praised by The New York Times, and Gloria Steinem called it 鈥渁 gift to moms.鈥� With a passion for telling women鈥檚 stories, Ali鈥檚 memoir, The Ballad of Speedball Baby, is her literary debut. Released January 16 2024, it is already an Amazon bestseller and led to a BBC Sounds interview amongst many other things. Learn more at and @mommaloveAli on Instagram.
