Hamilton: Franke James on the Tar Sands, the Northern Gateway Pipeline and How You Can Make a Difference

by Franke James

Hamilton: Franke James on the Tar Sands, Northern Gateway Pipeline and How You Can Make a Difference
Presented by: Hamilton 350, Environment Hamilton, EcoWHam, & KAIROS
Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Hamilton Room, Hamilton Central Library, 55 York Blvd., Hamilton, Ontario

About Franke James:
Artist, author, and speaker Franke James is an entertaining and persuasive advocate for the environment. She merges science, art, political savvy, and storytelling to inspire people to take action and ‘do the hardest thing first’ for the planet. Her lively presentations demonstrate her ‘rare skill of presenting important abstract concepts with immediacy and relevance through her art.’ Franke is the author of Bothered By My Green Conscience, and the game-book Dear Office-Politics. Franke has delivered keynote presentations and Green Conscience art and game workshops in Canada and the U.S.A.; www.frankejames.com.

For background on Franke’s Blacklisting by the Harper Government, including links to the Access-to-Information documents, please visit this index. Tim Harper wrote in the Toronto Star: “Franke James…has shown no shortage of political acumen in her bid to fight back against a Conservative government she says has bullied her. She has used access to information requests, help from political allies, and publicity in the media to highlight her belief that the Conservatives withdrew funding for a European tour of her art and then badmouthed her privately to shut it down because they didn’t like her view of the country’s inaction on climate change.”