Friday, April 28, 2006

Hart House, Great Hall (7 Hart House Circle), 7:30pm

This eagerly awaited second instalment of David Suzuki’s autobiography, David Suzuki: The Autobiography, picks up where that book left off and traces the racism that Suzuki experienced in an internment camp in Canada during World War II, through his teenage years in southern Ontario, his college and postgraduate experiences in the U.S., and his career as a geneticist and as the host of The Nature of Things.

With characteristic candor and passion, he describes his metamorphosis into a leading environmentalist, writer, and thinker; the establishment of the David Suzuki Foundation; his many travels throughout the world and his meetings with international leaders, from Kaiapo chief Paiakan to Nelson Mandela to the Dalai Lama; and the abiding role of nature and family in his life.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Hart House East Common Room, 7:30pm

Lorraine Johnson, author Tending the Earth, and contributor to Canadian
Gardening , Gardening Life, and This Magazine, and member of the board of
directors of the North American Native Plant Society, moderates a discussion
that is sure to spark debate!

Mark Jaccard, author of Sustainable Fossil
Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy,
shortlisted for the 2005 Donner Prize, believes that we have the
technological capability to use fossil fuels without emitting pollutants.

Terry Glavin, author of Waiting for the Macaws, believes that all
extinctions are related and that the language of environmentalism is
inadequate to describing this great unravelling.

Wayne Grady, author of Bringing Back the Dodo and co-author of the bestselling Tree: A Life Story, was written in collaboration with David Suzuki, searches our history and prehistory to explain why humans love nature and fear it at the same time.

Friday, April 7, 2006
O.I.S.E. Auditorium, G162 (252 Bloor St. W.), 7:30pm

Michael Baigent, author of numerous books on ancient Christianity and conspiracy, author of the bestseller, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, The Elixir and the Stone, The Dead Sea Scroll Deception, Temple and the Lodge, and The Messianic Legacy, brings us his latest book the Jesus Papers: The Greatest Cover-Up in History.

1. Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross?
2. Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists?
3. Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom?
4. Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the mystery of the Holy Grail?