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Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking

2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 23, The Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303- 322-7727.

From her early beginnings as a human statue, to kicking her record label to the curb and going solo, Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda Palmer has always been willing to buck convention and try something unexpected, even when the odds and the powers that be are against her.

But that’s because Palmer believes adamantly that people want to give money to artists, but that the artist has to give them the opportunity, a belief she detailed in a 2013 TED Talk on “the art of asking,” that has now been viewed more than 3 million times on YouTube.

That talk has been expanded into a newly-published book, which Palmer will be reading from at The Tattered Cover.