V-Day in the Capital - April 25th!

Friends,

As many of you know already - I, along with my friend Laurie, have spent the last few months organizing a benefit - V-Day in the Capital. We have been granted the rights for a V-Day benefit production of A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer to raise money and awareness for organizations that work to stop violence against women and girls.  

A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer: Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls, is a groundbreaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights, edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle. These writings are inspired, funny, angry, heartfelt, tragic, and beautiful. But above all, together they create a true and profound portrait of how violence against women affects everyone, men and women.

The event takes place on Apil 25th, at 7:00 p.m. in the Theatre of the Canadian Museum of Civilization and features an impressive line up including Bill Welychka (former MuchMusic VJ, current A-Channel personality), Paul Dewar (MP for Ottawa-Centre), Hedy Fry (MP for Vancouver Centre), Kerry Pither (Ottawa human rights activist and author of Dark Days:  The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror) and Todd Duckworth (actor/director). There are also some amazing items available in a silent auction and a 50/50 raffle!

I need your help to get the word out and get those tickets sold! Could you please either forward this note or send one of your own to your friends and contacts to let them know about the event? 

Tickets are only $40 and are available at the CMC box office or by calling 819.776.7000. All proceeds will go to Family Services Ottawa and the Canadian Committee for UNIFEM.

I hope that you can join us on April 25th with your friends for an evening of hope and celebration and to raise some funds for some great organizations who are making a difference.

More information can be found on our web site at: www.capitalvday.com

Thanks in advance for your support!

Laura

Event @ Octopus Books

Adria Vasil author of Ecoholic
Thursday May 3, 7:00 p.m
Arbour Environmental Shoppe
800 Bank St (between Third and Fourth Ave)
This event is free and accessible (please note the washrooms are downstairs)

Octopus Books and Arbour Environmental Shoppe are excited to invite you to an evening with Adria Vasil and her much anticipated book - Ecoholic. Filled with helpful tips on everything from which seafood is safe to eat and where to find organic clothes that don’t look like a burlap sack to which green cleaning products actually do the job, Ecoholic is a witty and informative companion on the road to sustainability. Don't miss this great event and learn how to make your world a greener place.

Adria Vasil has been writing the Ecoholic column for NOW Magazine since the spring of 2004 and has covered environmental issues for NOW’s news section for four years. Vasil has a degree in development politics and cultural anthropology from the University of Toronto and a degree in magazine journalism from Ryerson. An advocate for the earth, women’s issues and human rights since her teens, Vasil has appeared on MTV Canada and CBC’s Newsworld to promote environmentalism.

Questions - please call Octopus Books at 613-233-2589

Former child soldier to speak in Ottawa April 17th

Octopus Books Presents

Ishmael Beah - former child soldier, human rights activist and author of
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Hosted by CBC Ottawa's Adrian Harewood

Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 7:00pm Bronson Centre Theatre 211 Bronson Avenue

Tickets are $10 or $5 for students/unwaged(tickets available in advance at Octopus Books, Books on Beechwood, Collected Works, Leishman Books, Mother Tongue Books and Perfect Books)

A gripping story of a child’s journey through hell and back.
There may be as many as 300,000 child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in more than fifty conflicts around the world. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. He is one of the first to tell his story in his own words.

In A LONG WAY GONE, Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story. At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. Eventually released by the army and sent to a UNICEF rehabilitation center, he struggled to regain his humanity and to reenter the world of civilians, who viewed him with fear and suspicion. This is, at last, a story of redemption and hope.

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