November 23, 2011

5:30-7:00 pm
Reception at Books  & Company, Picton

7:30 pm
Presentation at The Regent Theatre, Picton

Tickets
Regent Theatre box office at $65 for the reception and presentation, or $40 for Ms. Atwood’s presentation only.

Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, social and environmental activist will appear at a special presentation at Picton’s Regent Theatre on November 23, 2011.

Ms. Atwood will be attending a reception in her honour at Books & Company from 5:30 -7:00 p.m. on Nov. 23rd.  Following the reception, Ms. Atwood will present her talk “Bulldozing the Mind: The Assault on Cultural and Rural Heritage” at the Regent starting at 7.30 p.m.

These events are fundraisers for the Al Purdy A-Frame Trust and Friends of East Lake.

Both Friends of East Lake and the Al Purdy A-Frame Trust are committed to the landscapes and heritage sites that have shaped, and continue to embody, our cultural heritage.

Friends of East Lake are a small community-based environmental group dedicated to preserving the health of not only East Lake, but the County’s other inland lakes – Roblin, Consecon, and West Lake.  To help achieve this initiative, a portion of the fundraiser proceeds will be donated to a Shoreland Management Plan Trust.  Shoreland Plans guide land use and natural resource management, and are extremely successful in identifying lakes at risk and providing solutions for rehabilitation, if necessary.

The Al Purdy A-Frame Trust has set as its mandate the purchase and preservation of the property and cottage of Al Purdy’s on Roblin Lake.  Margaret Atwood has already offered her support of the work of the A-Frame Trust stating, “the preservation of this home is akin to the preservation of Canadian literary history”.  A portion of the Atwood event proceeds will be donated directly to the Trust whose goal is to purchase and preserve the property, create an endowment, and establish a poet-in-residence program.

For more information on Friends of East Lake see www.friendsofeastlake.ca, for the Al Purdy A-Frame Trust, see http://www.harbourpublishing.com/PurdyAFrame/index.html.

This joint fundraising event is supported by the Hastings Prince Edward Land Trust and Prince Edward Stewardship Council.

Tags: Cultural Heritage, Heritage, Margaret Atwood, Writing