What’s Brews & Views?
Glad you asked.
Brews & Views is a growing event held every month (or at the least every other month) for readers and Albertans alike to meet authors and thinkers on local issues. They are lively, informal panels where crowd participaction is encouraged. In fact, to aid in this, subscribers have a free beer on us.
Event is free for subscribers or you can buy a subscription at the door ($15 for a beer or wine, riveting discussion and year’s worth of a darn fine magazine—not a bad little deal in my opinion).
The last B&V featured four fine Crowsnest Passians (Passites?): author David Thomas, artist Lynnette Jessop, councillor Brian Gallant and realtor Randall Whiteside. The theme, “What will come to the Pass?” was a discussion of big changes in the works and what the Pass might look like in 5, 25, 50, 100 years … Adventure tourism hot spot? Thriving film industry? Artist mecca? Or perfectly quiet backwater?
The date of the next Brews & Views is Dec 7, 2011 at 7 p.m. at Calgary’s Shelf Life Books (1302 4 St SW). Topic: How do we measure happiness in Alberta? Featuring author Mark Anielski (The Economics of Happiness), Alberta Views’s 15-year columnist Fred Stenson, winner of the 2011 fiction contest Elaine Hayes and magazine founder Jackie Flanagan.
Click here for the Brews & Views poster
In the meantime, please enjoy these photos from previous B&V’s, and we’ll see you in your town soon.
Sincerely,
The AV Club.
At the Art Gallery in the Crowsnest Pass. Topic: What will come to the Pass? From left, author and advocate for keeping the Pass just the way it is, David Thomas, touter of adventure tourism, councillor Brian Gallant, advocate for more outdoor art, artist Lynnette Jessop and local film industry proponent, Randall Whiteside.
A full fort at the N.W.M.P Fort in Fort Macleod. From left, authors Fred Stenson and Doug Horner, rancher Tony Bruder and (hidden) Western Producer Barb Glen discuss “what’s in the water” politically and literally in southern Alberta, while a crowd member raises some questions.
- A “threeding” (three-person reading) at ShelfLife Books in Calgary. Left to right: Aritha van Herk (author), Kristjanna Grimmelt (winner of Alberta Views 2010 short story contest), Alex Rettie (Rettie on Books columnist, Alberta Views).
Water, conservation and bears, oh my! (Then, after the first round of brews, the existence of God, the meaning of life and other various philosophical musings) at the Canmore Hotel. Left to right: Jeff Gailus (author of the Grizzly Manifesto), Michale Lang (curator at the Whyte Museum), Bob Sandford (author Water, Weather and the Mountain West, water conservationist), and Ben Gadd (author Handbook of the Canadian Rockies, naturalist).
- Topic: “Urban Farming,” at the Dish & Runaway Spoon in Edmonton. Left to right: Ron Berezan, the Urban Gardener (just behind the blueberry bush) Patty Milligan, owner of Lola Canola Honey, and Tracy Hyatt, first-time gardener (it’s her blueberry bush).
Topic: “Women in the Workplace,” at the Galt Museum in Lethbridge. Left to right: Writer Shannon Phillips, Glenn Scott (AUPE), Ian McKenna (labour rights lawyer) and Lisa Lambert (Womanspace).
- Topic: “Mayoral Election Financing and Undue Influence of Local Developers,” at Broken City in Calgary. Left to right: soon-to-be-mayor Naheed Nenshi, mayor hopefuls Jon Lord and Paul Hughes and OPUS Dev’t Corp’s Hannes Kovak.
What’s Brews & Views?
Glad you asked.
Brews & Views is a growing event held every month (or at the least every other month) for readers and Albertans alike to meet authors and thinkers on local issues. They are lively, informal panels where crowd participaction is encouraged. In fact, to aid in this, subscribers have a free beer on us.
Event is free for subscribers or you can buy a subscription at the door ($15 for a beer or wine, riveting discussion and year’s worth of a darn fine magazine—not a bad little deal in my opinion).
The last B&V featured four fine Crowsnest Passians (Passites?): author David Thomas, artist Lynnette Jessop, councillor Brian Gallant and realtor Randall Whiteside. The theme, “What will come to the Pass?” was a discussion of big changes in the works and what the Pass might look like in 5, 25, 50, 100 years … Adventure tourism hot spot? Thriving film industry? Artist mecca? Or perfectly quiet backwater?
The date of the next Brews & Views is Dec 7, 2011 at 7 p.m. at Calgary’s Shelf Life Books (1302 4 St SW). Topic: How do we measure happiness in Alberta? Featuring author Mark Anielski (The Economics of Happiness), Alberta Views’s 15-year columnist Fred Stenson, winner of the 2011 fiction contest Elaine Hayes and magazine founder Jackie Flanagan.
Click here for the Brews & Views poster
In the meantime, please enjoy these photos from previous B&V’s, and we’ll see you in your town soon.
Sincerely,
The AV Club.
At the Art Gallery in the Crowsnest Pass. Topic: What will come to the Pass? From left, author and advocate for keeping the Pass just the way it is, David Thomas, touter of adventure tourism, councillor Brian Gallant, advocate for more outdoor art, artist Lynnette Jessop and local film industry proponent, Randall Whiteside.
A full fort at the N.W.M.P Fort in Fort Macleod. From left, authors Fred Stenson and Doug Horner, rancher Tony Bruder and (hidden) Western Producer Barb Glen discuss “what’s in the water” politically and literally in southern Alberta, while a crowd member raises some questions.
- A “threeding” (three-person reading) at ShelfLife Books in Calgary. Left to right: Aritha van Herk (author), Kristjanna Grimmelt (winner of Alberta Views 2010 short story contest), Alex Rettie (Rettie on Books columnist, Alberta Views).
Water, conservation and bears, oh my! (Then, after the first round of brews, the existence of God, the meaning of life and other various philosophical musings) at the Canmore Hotel. Left to right: Jeff Gailus (author of the Grizzly Manifesto), Michale Lang (curator at the Whyte Museum), Bob Sandford (author Water, Weather and the Mountain West, water conservationist), and Ben Gadd (author Handbook of the Canadian Rockies, naturalist).
- Topic: “Urban Farming,” at the Dish & Runaway Spoon in Edmonton. Left to right: Ron Berezan, the Urban Gardener (just behind the blueberry bush) Patty Milligan, owner of Lola Canola Honey, and Tracy Hyatt, first-time gardener (it’s her blueberry bush).
Topic: “Women in the Workplace,” at the Galt Museum in Lethbridge. Left to right: Writer Shannon Phillips, Glenn Scott (AUPE), Ian McKenna (labour rights lawyer) and Lisa Lambert (Womanspace).
- Topic: “Mayoral Election Financing and Undue Influence of Local Developers,” at Broken City in Calgary. Left to right: soon-to-be-mayor Naheed Nenshi, mayor hopefuls Jon Lord and Paul Hughes and OPUS Dev’t Corp’s Hannes Kovak.
