Chris Turner: The Geography of Hope
Author Chris Turner (The Geography of Hope) will be speaking at the McInnes Room, Dalhousie University Campus.
Doors will open at 6:30pm, and the talk starts at 7pm.
Chris Turner is the author of the national bestseller The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need (Random House, 2007), which was named one of the Globe & Mail's Best Books of the year and shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction, the National Business Book Award and the Alberta Literary Award for Nonfiction. He is also the author of the international bestseller Planet Simpson: How A Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation (2004). His narrated visual tour of The Geography of Hope has captivated audiences across Canada, ranging from Environmental Defence summits to Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers galas. He was a featured speaker at the 2008 Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures in Melbourne, Australia. He writes a monthly feature on sustainability for The Globe & Mail and a biweekly column for Worldchanging.com.
Turner's magazine writing – mostly for the late, great Shift Magazine – has earned him four Canadian National Magazine Awards and six honourable mentions, including the 2001 President's Medal for General Excellence (the highest honour in Canadian magazine writing). His writing and reporting on culture, technology and the environment have also appeared in Fast Company, Time Magazine, The Independent (UK), Maclean's, Canadian Geographic, The Walrus, Azure and Utne Reader. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, with his wife, the photographer Ashley Bristowe, and their daughter, Sloane.
Tickets available from:
- Ecology Action Centre
- Outside the Lines
- Venus Envy
- P'lovers
Ticket price: $15 or $10 student/senior/unwaged
Event sponsors:
- Hammerhead Design
- The Coast
- Halcraft Printing
- Outside the Lines
