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2 • POSTED ON May 15, 2008 Dear Festival Friends - just a quick note to remind you about Saturday's Spotlight on Tibet events at Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts and Humanities with Pico Iyer on the Dalai Lama at 3:30 Dear Festival Friends - just a quick note to remind you about Saturday's Spotlight on Tibet events at Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts and Humanities with Pico Iyer on the Dalai Lama at 3:30, fabulous food from Havali at 5:30 and Jeff Fuchs on the Ancient Tea Horse Road at 7:00. We've also got Jaap Blank's amazing performance coming up on June 6th. Also wanted to let everyone know about some other local events of interest: Keep the Portrait Gallery in the Capital on May 16th and "The Art of Storytelling – Tips from the Trade Featuring Denise Chong, Roy MacGregor and Don Gibb" presented by the Canadian Association of Journalists on June 21 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. Hope to see you soon! All the best, Sean Wednesday, May 14 @ 7:30 PM THE BIG IDEA: WHAT IS CANADA'S PLACE ON THE WORLD STAGE? Mel Hurtig in conversation with Lawrence Martin Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street Mel
Hurtig, author of The Truth About Canada, in conversation with
acclaimed journalist and author Lawrence Martin. Join the conversation
on how Canada has changed in the last twenty years. Renowned as a
passionate Canadian, Mel Hurtig, bestselling author and member of the
Order of Canada, has combed through world statistics to see how Canada
really measures up — and his results are astonishing, and often
shocking. How do we rank in the world in voter
turnout? Try 109th. Number of physicians per 100,000 population? Try
54th. Our rank in reducing pollution? 126th out of 146 countries. Is
this the Canada we want? If not, how can Canada become the nation we
want it to be? Saturday, May 17 @ 3:30 PM INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTERS: Pico Iyer on Global Journeys with the Dalai Lama Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts and Humanities, 314 Saint Patrick One
of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and
Buddhism shares an intimate portrait of the Dalai Lama’s work and ideas
as a politician, scientist, and philosopher. Pico
Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama (a friend of
his father’s) for the last three decades—an ongoing exploration of his
message and its effectiveness. Now, in this insightful, impassioned
book, Iyer captures the paradoxes of the Dalai Lama’s position: though
he has brought the ideas of Tibet to world attention, Tibet itself is
being remade as a Chinese province; though he was born in one of the
remotest, least developed places on earth, he has become a champion of
globalism and technology. He is a religious leader who warns against
being needlessly distracted by religion; a Tibetan head of state who
suggests that exile from Tibet can be an opportunity; an incarnation of
a Tibetan god who stresses his everyday humanity. Moving
from Dharamsala, India—the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile—to
Lhasa, Tibet, to venues in the West, Pico Iyer, author of The Open
Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, illuminates the
hidden life, the transforming ideas, and the daily challenges of a
global icon. Saturday, May 17 @ 5:30 PM Dinner onsite at Saint Brigid's from Haveli Indian Restaurant. Saturday, May 17 @ 7:00 PM THE ANCIENT TEA HORSE ROAD: Writer and photographer Jeff Fuchs on his 8-month, 6000 km journey through the Himalayas Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts and Humanities, 314 St. Patrick Having
lived for much of the past decade in Asia, Jeff Fuchs' work has
centered on indigenous mountain peoples, Asian traditions, with a
particular addictive emphasis on tea. Jeff has just penned a book of
his 8-month, 6000 km journey through the Himalayas, along Asia's fabled
Tea Horse Road. The Ancient Tea Horse Road, a twelve-hundred-year-old
route, winds its way through some of the most unforgiving terrain on
earth. Documenting his travels in rich and eloquent detail, with
stunning photography, Fuchs brings to life a path that has been an
escape route, trade highway, and an adventure destination, battling
frostbite, snow blindness, and hunger along the way. His vibrant photos
and stories have appeared in World Geographic, The Earth, Voyage, New
Ideas, Outdoor Exploration, New Traveler, Outpost and the China Post
newspaper. Work has taken him to the Arctic, South America, Asia,
Europe and ultimately found him a home in the eastern Himalayas. FrIday, June 6 @ 7:30 PM AN EVENING WITH JAAP BLONK With an introductory performance by the Max Middle Sound Project (Max Middle and John Lavery.) Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts and Humanities Presented with the Royal Netherlands Embassy and the AB Series Dutch
composer, performer and sound poet Jaap Blonk is unique for his
powerful stage presence and almost childlike freedom in improvisation,
combined with a keen grasp of structure. He has performed in many
European countries, as well as in the U.S. and Canada, Indonesia,
Japan, South Africa and Latin America. With the use of live electronics
the scope and range of his concerts has acquired a considerable
extension.
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