A warm hello to all members and friends of The Hamilton Association,
Our next free public lecture will be this Saturday, February 21,
beginning at 8 pm in the usual place, Room 1A1, Ewart Angus Centre,
McMaster University Medical Centre.
Our speaker this month will be Canadian journalist Ian Brown.
His talk is titled:
Everything But the News: A Journalist's Future
Ian Brown considers the fate of narrative journalism when newspaper
readership is declining, and media struggle to re-invent themselves in
an age of blogs, twitter and infotainment. He asks whether there is
still a place for well-told stories to help us understand human experience.
Ian Brown's accomplishments are as varied as his interests. He has
written for magazines such as Macleans; newspapers, notably the Globe
and Mail; hosted CBC Radio's late lamented literary program Talking
Books and still hosts TVOntario documentary programming. His feature
articles range from an hour-by-hour description of individual stories
played out over three days in a Toronto hospital, to a public
correspondence with L'Arche founder Jean Vanier about discovering
one's humanity. He has three published books, Freewheeling, about the
family dynasty behind Canadian Tire Corporation, Man Overboard: True
Adventures with North American Men, and an edited collection of
essays, What I Meant to Say. His next book, The Boy in the Moon, due
out this year, is about living with his son Walker who has a rare,
profound genetic disorder.
Please help us expand our audience by informing friends and colleagues
who might be interested in this presentation.
Tax receipts for the 2008 tax year will be available from our
treasurer, David Keane.
Hope to see you on Saturday!
Sincerely,
Aurelia Shaw
HAALSA Secretary (
[email protected] Tel. 905-527-0080 )