There are so many ways of thinking about creativity, and some of our foremost thinkers have given us brilliant observations about it. Ursula K Le Guin, for instance, said "The creative adult is the child who survived," and Albert Einstein is supposed to have opined that ""Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought." Somewhere between these two ideas of struggle and illumination lies the simple truth that in order to create anything, we have to be paying attention to ourselves and others. Award winning Sri Lankan and American writer and activist Ru Freeman, and Director of the Artist Network of Narrative 4, a  global no-profit that focuses on story as a catalyst for social change, will draw from her life as a poet and writer to speak to the community about the salience of observation, and finding stories in ordinary places. After her presentation, she will be able to sign copies of her books On Sal Mal Lane and Sleeping Alone  that will be available for purchase.