7:30pm on Wednesday November 28th at First Unitarian Church (170 Dundurn st S.) this is a free event.
The acclaimed Canadian investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk will deliver the 8th annual Spirit of Red Hill Valley lecture. His topic will be “Bitumen, Pipelines and the Petro-State”. We’re hearing a lot about the first two as Enbridge seeks to transport diluted bitumen across BC in its proposed Northern Gateway project as well as through Hamilton in its Line 9 pipeline that runs from Sarnia to Montreal and eastern export ports. Alberta has long been identified as a “Petro-State” and the current federal government is now displaying similar characteristics – dependence on oil that reduces economic activity, fosters inequality, and sponsors autocratic government, along with poisoning the environment and driving us toward catastrophic climatic changes.
Andrew Nikiforuk has won seven National Magazine awards, as well as the 2002 Governor-General’s award for non-fiction for Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s Ward Against Big Oil. He also won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award in 2009. He was recently interviewed on CBC radio about his latest book The Energy of Slaves (see http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/10/12/the-energy-of-slaves-andrew-nikiforuk/).
Straight from Montreal, the Luyas bring their sonic experience to the Cashbah tonight. Lush yet spacious, the arrangements can transform any venue into a geode of crystalline sound. Their thoughtful songcrafting tucks meditative lyrics into the cacophony, resulting in music that is both grand architecture and a beautiful mess. Like a less mainstream Arcade Fire- weirder and fronted by a woman with a delicate voice- The Luyas are a refreshing contrast to today`s Top 40.
