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A Look at Climate Change with Naomi Klein
Tuesday April 20, 2021 | 6:30PM - 7:30PM
ZOOM EVENT
Purchase How to Change Everything by Naomi Klein and register for the event HERE (proof of purchase required) Join us for a call to action with Naomi Klein interviewed by Naia Lee & Rebecca Hamilton.
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, documentary filmmaker and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough and On Fire. Her writing has appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world and she is Senior Correspondent for The Intercept. Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University and cofounder of the climate justice organization The Leap. Naia Lee was drawn to climate work through shared visions of a more just world. Currently an organizer with the local and national climate movement, and a gap year student working with Youth Climate Lab, Naia uses her passions for sharing stories and scaling local action to contextualize the need for climate justice.
Rebecca Hamilton is an 18-year-old climate justice organizer from Vancouver. She sees the climate justice movement as a journey to create a more just future for all people, and has been involved in the climate strike movement locally and nationally through Sustainabiliteens and Climate Strike Canada. She is interested in collectively exploring how we can live in a way that honours our interconnectedness with each other and the natural world.
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Kim Echlin in Conversation with Kerry Clare
Tuesday May 04, 2021 | 7:00PM - 8:00PM
ZOOM EVENT
Purchase Speak, Silence and receive an exclusive Zoom invitation. Join award-winning author Kim Echlin & Kerry Clare for an intimate conversation about Kim's new novel: Speak, Silence.
Kim Echlin is the author of Elephant Winter and Dagmar's Daughter, and her third novel, The Disappeared, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction and was published in 20 countries. Her most recent novel Under the Visible Life was critically acclaimed, endorsed by Khaled Hosseini and declared "nothing short of a masterpiece" by Quill & Quire. ![]()
A Thrilling Evening with Linwood Barclay
Thursday May 13, 2021 | 8:00PM - 9:00PM
ZOOM EVENT
Purchase Find You FIrst by Linwood Barclay and register for the event HERE (proof of purchase required) Join us for a thrilling evening with Linwood Barclay interviewed by Brent Butt!
Linwood Barclay is the author of eighteen previous novels, and two thrillers for children. A New York Times bestselling author, his books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. He wrote the screenplay adaptation for his novel Never Saw it Coming and his book The Accident has been made into a TV series in France. His novel No Time for Goodbye was a global bestseller. ![]()
Exploring Identity with Hollay Ghadery
Tuesday May 18, 2021 | 7:00PM - 8:00PM
ZOOM EVENT
Purchase Fuse and receive an exclusive Zoom invitation. Join Hollay Ghadery for a dynamic discussion about her autobiography: Fuse. Hollay will also be discussing a deleted chapter from her book that, in light of the sex-positive movement, she wishes she'd left in.
Hollay Ghadery is a writer living in small-town Ontario. Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have been published in various literary journals, including The Malahat Review, Room, Grain, and The Fiddlehead. In 2004, she graduated from Queen's University with her BAH in English Literature, and in 2007, she graduated from the University of Guelph with her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. She is the recipient of the Constance Rooke Scholarship in Creative Writing, as well as Ontario Arts Council grants for her poetry and non-fiction. Hollay is the force behind River Street Writing—a collective of freelance writers who create exceptional content and provide creative consultancy services for personal and professional projects. A portion of the proceeds from this reading will go toward Durham Region's Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Services to support the recovery of individuals suffering from mental illness.
An Evening with Thomas King in Conversation with Shelagh Rogers
Wednesday June 02, 2021 | 8:00PM - 9:00PM
ZOOM EVENT
Purchase Indians on Vacation by Thomas King and register for the event HERE (proof of purchase required) Join us for a night of laughs with Thomas King!
Thomas King is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, scriptwriter and photographer. His critically acclaimed, bestselling fiction includes Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; One Good Story, That One; Truth and Bright Water; A Short History of Indians in Canada; The Back of the Turtle (winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction); The Inconvenient Indian (winner of the RBC Taylor Prize); Indians on Vacation; the DreadfulWater mystery series; and the poetry collection 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin. A Member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, Thomas King lives in Guelph, Ontario. |