Tuesday, May 07, 2013

See Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson in Regina

...on June 27! Here's the scoop:

EVENT NOTICE:
Prairie Passages Dinner: An Evening with Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson 
Radisson Plaza Hotel Saskatchewan in Regina, Regency Ballroom  
Thursday, June 27, Cocktails at 6:30 P.M. Dinner at 7:30 P.M.
Join two of Canada’s most celebrated authors, conservationists, and prominent members of BirdLife International as they reflect on their passion for birds, wildlife, grasslands, and their recent travels in Saskatchewan. This is an educational event. The dinner is the highlight of the Prairie Passages tour with Atwood, Gibson, and other international guests from the conservation community. The purpose is draw attention to the global significance of conservation programming and bird habitat at risk on federal PFRA community pastures now being transferred to Saskatchewan.
Your MC will be Candace Savage, one of Saskatchewan’s most respected writers. Her most recent book, A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape, won the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the 2013 Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award. 
This event is hosted by Public Pastures-Public Interest and Nature Canada. Visit the dinner webpage.
Tickets: $100, available at the Globe Theatre Box Office:
Phone: 306.525.6400/Out of town: 1.866.954.5623 
Fax: 306.352.4194. Email: boxoffice@globetheatrelive.com

More information here.

2 comments:

Pearl said...

oh darn. I'll have come and gone 2 days before she arrives.

(and diacritics? I need diacritics to prove I'm not a robot. the bar just raised.)

Brenda Schmidt said...

You'll be in Regina? Cool!