TIME: 11:30 - 12:30

DATE:  November 21, 2017

SPEAKER:  Kate Bird

Librarian Kate Bird helped manage the photograph collection at The Vancouver Sun and The Province for twenty-five years. She is the author of City On Edge: A Rebellious Century of Vancouver Protests, Riots and Strikes and the bestselling Vancouver in the Seventies: Photos From a Decade That Changed the City. Kate was the researcher for Making Headlines: 100 Years at The Vancouver Sun, which won the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award at the 2013 BC Book Prizes, Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia, and many other books.. 

ABSTRACT:  City On Edge
For more than a century, photojournalists at The Vancouver Sun and The Province have been on the scene to capture those  times when the city stood up, took to the streets, and made some noise. From the 1900 salmon fishermen’s strike to the 2017 women’s march, Vancouver has a long history of making its viewpoints heard, and in some cases, felt. Join retired PNG librarian Kate Bird for a slide show of images from Vancouver’s rich history of protest activism. 

VENUE:  Halpern Centre, Rm 114 (SFU Burnaby Campus)