the Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, London SE15 6JL
Join The Culture Team’s Nana Opoku as she is joined by Céline Semaan to discuss her new book ‘A Woman is a School’.
About Céline
Céline Semaan has, for the past twenty years of her life, applied design, sociology, material science & accessibility in order to address compounding existential crises such as climate change and human injustices.
As an award-winning equity climate designer, she is the co-founder of Slow Factory where her work is focused on creating regenerative and reciprocal systemic change.
As an artist, her work has been acquired and displayed in national museums de Young, MoMA and Cooper Hewitt.
As an educator, her classes, curriculum and methodologies have been the precursor to applied climate-justice in academia and for various sectors including the fashion industry, waste industries, material science as well as through the Open Education platform she has championed.
About the Book
A Woman is a School is the first memoir and cultural anthropological book by Slow Factory founder, Céline Semaan. As a war-survivor and child refugee sharing endangered and discredited ancestral knowledge of the Global South, particularly tales from Lebanon from 1948 to 2023, the book follows the tradition of the hakawati, the storytellers of the Levant. Holding Indigenous knowledge and wisdom, Céline Semaan, a hakawati herself, documents what she has witnessed throughout her life and the lives of her family members, sharing her upbringing and cultures of resistance.
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