Tuesday, November 10th
7:00PM – 9:00PM
"LAND BETWEEN WATERS” Oakville Festivals of Film & Art Photobook Presentation w Distinguished Guest Authors
Oakville Photographer/publisher Mark Zelinski is a multidisciplinary artist whose career spans five decades and over 80 countries. He is widely recognized for his “Books That Heal” initiative through which he has donated 9,000 photography books to 140 charities worldwide. “Niagara Escarpment: LAND BETWEEN WATERS” is Mark Zelinski’s 10th book, a visually stunning tribute featuring more than 600 landscape, wildlife and cultural photographs of the Niagara Escarpment, one of the world’s unique natural wonders defining an area across Southern Ontario. Through brilliant images and the personal accounts of multiple guest authors - conservationists, scientists and Indigenous scholars - participants have the opportunity to experience a multi-layered perspective of the living escarpment.
WHO: Mark Zelinski, Photographer/Publisher, Governor General’s Medal-winner, Explorer’s Club and Royal Canadian Geographic Society Fellow
WHAT: Photographic PowerPoint Presentation with Guest Speakers/Book Authors:
~ Carolyn King, Order Of Canada, founder Moccasin Identifier Initiative, Mississaugas Of The Credit First Nation
~ Tim Johnson, President, Niagara Academy for Indigenous Relations, direct descendant of Joseph Brant
~ Brian Kon, Métis Artist, Chair Orange Shirt Society, Indigenous Relations Advisor Niagara Region
~ Ed McDonnell, CEO, Ontario Greenbelt Foundation
~ Dr. David Galbraith, Director Of Science, Royal Botanical Gardens Canada
Entrance is free, and Mark’s book will be available for signing/purchase at a discount. All profits from book sales will be donated to OFFA to support Emerging Filmmakers.
Trafalgar Park Community Centre
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Free
