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Last minute announcement! Ron Williams, author of Landscape Architecture in Canada, is giving a talk this evening at the McGill School of Architecture in Room G10 of the Macdonald Harrington Building.
The event starts at 6:00 pm – Don’t miss it! Details here
Landscape Architecture in Canada is available in both English and French. To promote the book and … Read More >
Shelley Wright heads north next week to launch her new book, Our Ice is Vanishing/Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq, aboard Adventure Canada‘s Expedition to the Canadian Arctic.
The following is from Adventure Canada‘s press release:
Author and Inuit advocate Shelley Wright reveals her latest nonfiction work Our Ice is Vanishing/Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, … Read More >
The Montreal Gazette posted an excerpt this week from You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten: A Memoir by John Dunning and Bill Brownstein, where the late film pioneer recalls working at his family’s movie theatre in Ville Émard.
Please join us for the TORONTO launch of:
YOU’RE NOT DEAD UNTIL YOU’RE FORGOTTEN
A memoir by John Dunning, with Bill Brownstein
When: September 11th, 6:30 pm
Where: Ben McNally Books
Admission is free and everyone is welcome!
Click here for more event info
Bill Brownstein was on Montreal’s CJAD 800 with Dave Fisher to discuss the memoir where Dunning, in forthright and charming fashion, … Read More >
SANDINO’S NATION BOOK LAUNCH
Tuesday, September 16th
7:30 PM
The Bookshelf, Guelph
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The University of Guelph International Development Speaker Series, in collaboration with MQUP and The Bookshelf, is delighted to host the book launch & lecture for Stephen Henighan’s Sandino’s Nation: Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez Writing Nicaragua, 1940-2012.
Ernesto … Read More >
NEW RELEASE: Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq:
A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change
By Shelley Wright
A remarkable and moving journey through Arctic history into an uncertain future, highlighting Inuit as well as European and Canadian perspectives.
Combining scientific and legal information with political and individual perspectives, Shelley Wright follows the history of the … Read More >
Bill Brownstein, Montreal journalist and co-author of You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten, was a guest on Melnick in the Afternoon yesterday, discussing the launch for John Dunning’s memoir this Saturday!
REMINDER! This Saturday evening we’ll be honouring the late John Dunning with the publication of his memoir, You’re Not … Read More >
Nancy J. Turner, author of Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge, will be a speaker at the 2014 ESA Annual Meeting August 10-15 in Sacramento, California.
Her talk will be on Thursday, August 14th. Details here
We’ll also have a booth set up at Table C!
Turner has studied Indigenous peoples’ knowledge of plants and environments in northwestern North … Read More >
REMINDER: This Saturday! Aug 2 at 7pm
John Dunning Book Launch & Screening
Concordia’s J.A. De Sève Cinema (View map)
John Dunning (1927-2011):
“The unacknowledged godfather of an entire generation of Canadian filmmakers.”
–David Cronenberg
Join us for an evening honouring the late John Dunning and the publication of his memoir, You’re Not Dead until … Read More >
MQUP and Fantasia International Film Festival are pleased to present:
An evening honouring the late John Dunning and the publication of his memoir, You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten.
Join us for a special screening of Dunning’s original 1973 film, Le diable est parmi nous (a rare 35mm archival print!) followed by a book signing … Read More >