On Tuesday, September 21 Rex Weyler officially launches his new book Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World (Raincoast, 1-55192-529-X, $39.95 cloth) at the Commodore Ballroom, 868 Granville Street in Vancouver. The launch gets under way at 7 pm, tickets are $25 and are available through Banyen Books (604-737-8858) or through the deplorable Ticketmaster.
The book launch for Greenpeace promises, like my own book launch for Up in Ontario, Live at the Lake, to transcend the usual affair. The launch is titled a Greenpeace benefit concert,
Honouring the ordinary people who, for nearly 40 years, have been making an extraordinary difference worldwide. Proceeds from this event will go to the Greenpeace Boreal Forest campaign to save the largest remaining ancient forest in North America.
Musicians like Chilliwack, Paul Horn, Ann Mortifee, Jim Byrnes with Zubot & Dawson, Gordy Ryan with Oba, Valdy, Shari Ulrich & Friends, Downland, Pete Trower (the logger's poet) and Joe Keithley may very well rock the place with some strong degree of enthusiasm. The mayor will be there and so will I. Throw down the $25 and join us. Maybe something memorable will happen.
Posted by James Sherrett at September 8, 2004 09:28 PM