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Tickets for individual events are available online, from our Box Office at 613-562-1243, or visit Nicholas Hoare Books (419 Sussex Drive), Octopus Books (116 Third Ave.) or Collected Works (1242 Wellington St. West.)
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SPRING EVENTS 2010
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Friday, March 26
7:00 PM
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BOOK LAUNCH:
Alan Bradley: The Weed That Strings The
Hangman's Bag
at Nicholas Hoare Books, 419 Sussex Drive
A Free Event
We begin our 2010 season with Alan Bradley's acclaimed follow-up to his international hit, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
Flavia de Luce didn't intend to investigate another murder - but, then again, Rupert Porson didn't intend to die. When the master puppeteer's van breaks down in Bishop's Lacey, he puts on a show with his loyal assistant, the disarmingly charming Nialla, prone (by Flavia's estimation) to strange bruises and long, solitary cries in graveyards. While Nialla plays Mother Goose, Rupert's goose gets cooked, the victim of an electrocution that is too perfectly planned to be an accident.
Putting down her sister-punishing chemistry experiments and picking up her bicycle, Gladys, Flavia uncovers long buried secrets of Bishop's Lacey, a seemingly idyllic town that nevertheless has a mad woman living in its woods, a prisoner-of-war with a soft spot for the English countryside, and two childless parents with a devastating secret.
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MONDAY, April 12
8:00 PM
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- GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES SERIES :
HOPE FOR ANIMALS AND THEIR WORLD
with Jane Goodall
Introduction by Roseann O’Reilly Runte, President, Carleton University
Presented with the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University
Dominion Chalmers United Church, 355 Cooper Street
Tickets: $30 / Free for Festival Members
Members: please reserve your seats in advance.
Join us for an unforgettable evening with Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace. In the 50th anniversary year of her research into the behaviour of chimpanzees, world-renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall will reflect on the meaning of the past five decades, from the incredible insights her research has offered into our closest animal relatives, to the extraordinary change the world has seen since 1960, for people, for animals and for the environment.
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SPRING FESTIVAL 2010
More events coming: watch this space!
Thursday, April 22 (Earth Day)
NOON
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- THE BIG IDEA: LOCAVORE
How Canadians Are Changing the Way We Eat
with Sarah Elton
Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street
Tickets: $15 General / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members
"Learn how Canadians in every walk of life are finding new ways to produce the food we eat--ways that are humane, fair, technologically savvy, and environmentally smart, and that bring farmers and consumers closer together.” --Thomas Homer-Dixon
Foodies,100-milers, urbanites, farmers, gardeners and chefs across Canada are creating a new local food order that has the potential to fight climate change and feed us all. Sarah Elton, the food columnist for CBC Radio's Here & Now, lays out a blueprint for a local food revolution. Join us for an insider’s look at the burgeoning local food movement taking place in Canadian cities, farms and shops that is changing both the way we eat and the way we think about food.
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6:30 PM
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- GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES:
OIL AND THE END OF GLOBALIZATION
with Jeff Rubin
Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street
Tickets: $20 General / $15 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members
What do subprime mortgages, Atlantic salmon dinners, SUVs and globalization have in common? They all depend on cheap oil. For generations we have built wealth by burning more and more oil. Our cars, our homes, our whole world has been getting bigger in the cheap-oil era. Now it is about to get smaller.
Jeff Rubin, author of Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, was the Chief Economist and Chief Strategist at CIBC World Markets, and is one of the world's most sought-after energy experts. Join him for a look at our new economic reality. Distance will soon cost money, and so will burning carbon – both will bring long-lost jobs back home. We may not see the kind of economic growth that globalization has brought, but local economies will be revitalized, as will our cities and neighborhoods.
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8:00 PM
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- GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES:
THE NECESSARY REVOLUTION with Joe Laur
Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street
Tickets: $20 General / $15 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members
Companies around the world are boldly leading the change from dead-end “business as usual” tactics to transformative strategies that are essential for creating a flourishing, sustainable world. There is a long way to go, but the era of denial has ended. Today’s most innovative leaders are recognizing that for the
sake of our companies and our world, we must implement revolutionary—not just incremental—changes in the way we live and work.
Joe Laur, Rabbi, teacher, Senior Manager of Greenopolis.com, and co-author (with Peter M. Senge) of The Necessary Revolution, believes that stories create systems and systems create results. Change the story – get a different result. Join us for a conversation on the new story. A conversation on the individuals and organizations tackling social and environmental problems around the globe. Don’t miss this primer on the strategies that individuals and organizations can use — specific tools and ways of thinking — to help us build the confidence and competence to respond effectively to the greatest challenge of our time and to create a sustainable world.
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saturday, April 24
6:30 PM
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- SPOTLIGHT ON TALON POETRY
derek beaulieu, Weyman Chan, Frank Davey and George Bowering
Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street
Tickets: $15 General / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members
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8:00 PM
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- HOUSE OF ANANSI POETRY BASH
Michael Lista, Suzanne Buffam and Steven Heighton
Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street
Tickets: $15 General / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members
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MONday, April 26
8:00 PM
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- POETRY CABARET
Rachel Zolf, Jesse Ferguson, Erin Mouré
and
Gregory Scofield
Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street
Tickets: $15 General / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members
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TUESDAY, april 27
6:30 PM
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- GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES : ANCIENT WISDOM IN THE MODERN WORLD with Wade Davis
Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street
Tickets: $20 / $15 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members
"Davis presents an eloquent and persuasive case for the contemporary value of these ancient cultures, not least because of what we might learn about how human societies can live sustainably on the planet." --Canadian Geographic
Over the past decade, many of us have been alarmed to learn of the rapidly accelerating extinction of our planet's diverse flora and fauna. But how many of us know that our human cultural diversity is also going extinct at a shocking rate? Biologists estimate that 18% of mammals and 11% of birds are threatened, while botanists anticipate the loss of 8% of flora. Meanwhile, of the 7,000 languages in the world today, 50% will disappear in our lifetime. Languages are merely the canaries in the coalmine: what of the poetry, songs, knowledge, and ways of seeing encoded in these disappearing voices?
Acclaimed anthropologist Wade Davis, author of The Wayfinders, offers a gripping account of this urgent crisis. He leads us on a fascinating tour through a handful of indigenous cultures and worldviews while reminding us of the encroaching dangers posed by unchecked globalization. An enlightening, awe-inspiring, and cautionary look at vanishing cultures and languages from one of the world's most celebrated and distinguished anthropologists.
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8:00 PM
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- EXTRAORDINARY CANADIANS
John Ralston Saul hosts Adrienne Clarkson, Mark Kingwell and Douglas Coupland
Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street
Tickets: $20 / $15 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members
We conclude the 2010 Spring Edition with the latest installment of Penguin’s Extraordinary Canadians. John Ralston Saul, Executive Editior of the series and newly elected president of PEN International leads the discussion on three Canadian titans on the world stage: Adrienne Clarkson on Norman Bethune, Mark Kingwell on Glenn Gould, and Douglas Coupland on Marshall McLuhan.
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Upcoming Festivals
2010 Spring Edition: April 22 to 27
2010 Fall Edition: October 21 to 26
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