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Bring Your Boomers # 3: Power and Energy Connecting the Dots


December 11, 2012


In collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Leadnow.ca, 'Power and Energy: Connecting the Dots' explores BC’s emerging carbon corridor and the provincial policies needed to change course towards a green economy, just society and a healthy new era.

OPENING PERFORMANCE: Luciterra Fusion Belly Dance quartet

STORYTELLING: CCPA’s senior economist, Marc Lee, tells the utopian story of BC’s energy policy 50 years in the future, alongside visuals created by Ben Cooper of eatART.

DIALOGUE: On-stage "living room conversations” with participants from different generations, reflecting on BC’s industrial web of fracking, pipelines, LNG plants, tankers, mines, dams and the Tar Sands. Speakers include: Damien Gillis (Y'er), Ben Parfitt (X'er) and Karen Cooling (boomer).

CLOSING PERFORMANCE: Brasstronaut

Come enjoy a theatre full of exceptional individuals, entertainment, education.... and prizes!

Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: The Rio Theatre
Location: 1660 East Broadway (and Commercial Drive) Vancouver, BC
Website: http://bringyourboomers3.eventbrite.com/
Categories: Arts & Culture

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