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Toiling in the Global Garden
REFLECTIONS ON CRITICAL ISSUES
» Thursday 27 September 2007 | 4:30pm
» Mosaic Books, 411 Bernard Avenue
An informal afternoon hour celebrating artists and writers whose work was featured in the fall issue of Okanagan Arts. Derek Evans explores how beauty appears even in the midst of horror and raises questions about the human in the garden - the wars we wage on our environment, and on each other.
» This is a free event. Refreshments will be available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE
Sponsored by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Books, CKOV Radio, UBCO-FCCS, and in support of Project Literacy Kelowna
World-renowned humanitarian reflects on critical international issues
One of the foremost experts on conflict resolution, who has spent decades visiting war-torn countries around the world, will be speaking in Kelowna Thursday, September 27, 4:30pm at Mosaic Books.
Derek Evans, who served two-terms as Deputy Secretary General of Amnesty International, will be speaking as part of the Re:Imagine series of lectures put on by the Okanagan Institute in conjunction with Wheat King Publishing.
Toiling in the Global Garden takes a look at the world from the viewpoint of the gardener. Evans explores how beauty appears even in the midst of horror and raises questions about the human in the garden - the wars we wage on our environment, and on each other.
"Perhaps there is really no such thing as an unlikely place for a garden," Evans wrote in his essay that appears this month in Okanagan Arts. "Perhaps every patch of earth - like every aspect of human experience - can be a place of life and beauty, even in places that are "cut back hard." Perhaps the real work of gardening is cultivating our own ability to recognize the beauty that surrounds us, and nurturing our willingness to share life in its fullness."
Derek Evans is the author and co-author of some 14 books, including his most recent book Dispatches from the Global Village - published by Copperhouse, an imprint of Wood Lake Books which is co-sponsoring the event.
During the past two years Evans has worked primarily for the United Nations, providing leadership in the area of children and AIDS. He has travelled the globe to meet with African warlords and the Dalai Lama, heads of state and leaders of rebel armies, victims of torture and peasant farmers. His single-minded objective: to challenge the forces of injustice and violence. His unfaltering hope: that people learn to live in peace despite our differences.
"Derek Evans is a gentle soul with a will of iron. As a friend and as a leader,
as a mediator and as a guide, he is open and honest, disarming and kind. And yet
hidden within that deep serenity is a burning essence of universal curiosity a
conflagration that rages but is never consumed, a phenomenon of creative agitation,
unknown, at times, even to himself." - Yosef Wosk, Director of Interdisciplinary
Programs, SFU, and Founder of the Philosophers' Café.
Toiling in the Global Garden is a free event, and takes place at 4:30 p.m. It's put on in association with the magazines of Wheat King Publishing - Okanagan Arts, Okanagan Home, and Okanagan Q. Re-Imagine is sponsored by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Books, CKOV Radio, UBCO Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, and supports the work of Project Literacy Kelowna.
Where inquiring minds gather. Okanagan Insitute at Mosaic Books
A hearty feast of presentations, workshops and seminars that celebrate the works and ideas of leading Okanagan creative individuals, organizations and companies. Produced by the Okanagan institute in association with the magazines of Wheat King Publishing: Okanagan Arts, Okanagan Home, and Okanagan Q.
Re:IMAGINE is a cultural tonic that refreshes the mind. Join us at Mosaic Books after work on Thursdays for a free hour of stimulation that will get your synapses tingling with new ideas and fresh images. Designed for inquiring minds looking for, among other things, the wild blue yonder.
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