More great preview events

Dear Festival Friends - just a quick reminder that we have five more great preview events before the Fall Edition October 21 to 27, 2009.  Tickets for the October 14 events (as well as Festival Passes and Tickets) are available by phone at 613.562.1243, on our website (www.writersfestival.org) or in person from Nicholas Hoare, Collected Works and Octopus Books. 

1. Saturday, October 3 @ 6:00 PM 

A Life A Legend A Filmmaker

A free event at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street.

 

The late Ottawa filmmaker Frank Cole is the only human being to cross the Sahara Desert alone. On another crossing he was mysteriously murdered. But he left us his extraordinary films about life and death.

 

Come celebrate the book launch of Life Without Death: The Cinema of Frank Cole. An evening of words, images, music and surfboards. The event will be hosted by Tom McSorley and Rick Taylor. Also the Canadian Film Institute will screen the Ottawa premiere of Korbett Matthew's documentary on Frank Cole The Man Who Crossed The Sahara, with Matthews in attendance.

2. Wednesday, October 14 @ 6:30 PM

THE CASE FOR GOD with KAREN ARMSTRONG

Hosted by Jim Creskey

Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts and Humanities, 314 Saint Patrick Street

From the bestselling author of A History of God and The Great Transformation comes a balanced, nuanced understanding of the role religion plays in human life and the trajectory of faith in modern times.

3. Wednesday, October 14 @ 8:30 PM

NOW OR NEVER with TIM FLANNERY

Hosted by Jay Ingram

Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts and Humanities, 314 Saint Patrick Street

 "What is our purpose as a species? How does the Earth work?"

Tim Flannery is one of Australia’s leading thinkers and writers. An internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist, Tim’s books include the definitive ecological histories of Australia (The Future Eaters) and North America (The Eternal Frontier). He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. As a field zoologist he has discovered and named more than thirty new species of mammals (including two tree-kangaroos) and at 34 he was awarded the Edgeworth David Medal for Outstanding Research. His pioneering work in New Guinea prompted Sir David Attenborough to put him in the league of the world’s great explorers and the writer Redmond O’Hanlon to remark, “He’s discovered more new species than Charles Darwin.”

4. Tuesday, October 20 @ 8:00 PM

AWARD PRESENTATIONS:

OTTAWA BOOK AWARDS AND LAMPMAN-SCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRY

A free event at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St.

The City of Ottawa and ARC Poetry Society are pleased to invite you to attend a celebration of Ottawa's vibrant literary scene, in conjunction with the Ottawa Writers Festival Fall Edition. Award presentations will be made to the winners of the Ottawa Book Awards and the Lampman-Scott Prize for best book of poetry, with short readings by the winning authors. Join us for a reception following the award presentations and meet the outstanding authors who have been nominated for these prestigious prizes. RSVP: infoculture@ottawa.ca

And last but not least, I wanted to let you know that on Thursday, October 15 at 6:30 PM our friends at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands are presenting The Occupied Garden with Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski at the Canadian War Museum. For free tickets please call Rosemieke van de Meerendonk at 613.237.5031 x225.

Have a great weekend!

All the best,

Sean