Join us in November at LeVan Hall, Trinity College School, Port Hope for Writers & Friends, Horizons’ signature fundraising event featuring some of Canada’s most acclaimed authors. Just a few of the past contributors to Writers & Friends
M.G.Vassanji, Michael Crummey, Richard B.Wright, Paul Quarrington, Donna Morrissey, Dr. Margaret MacMillan, Jane Urquhart, Alistair MacLeod, Rachel Manley, Nino Ricci, Ronald Wright and Claire & Farley Mowat
Now celebrating its 12th Anniversary in Port Hope, Writers & Friends is always a much anticipated event in the fall arts calendar which over the years has helped to raise over $ 350,000 in support of impoverished communities in Central America and Mexico.
An evening of readings by four outstanding authors, live music, gourmet buffet, book signings, grand silent auction & live art auction, Writers & Friends takes place this year on Sunday, November 19 2006 with author Farley Mowat as well as Camilla Gibb, author of the 2006 Trillium award winner Sweetness in the Belly, and Joseph Boyden, 2006 Canada Reads nominee for
Three Day Road. Master of ceremonies will be TVO & CBC radio host and Globe & Mail feature writer Ian Brown.
Writers & Friends tickets on sale late September. For more information on this year’s event call 1 888 729-9928 or email info@horizons.ca
Scenes from Writers & Friends
Contributing authors Michael Crummey, M. G. Vassanji and Claire Mowat join
master of ceremonies Anna Porter and Horizons board member Dr.Paul Caldwell,
Nov 12, Port Hope.
Attending Writers & Friends Port Hope 2004: Stuart Grainger (headmaster TCS), Paul Quarrington, Kate Taylor, Richard B. Wright, Farley Mowat with Monica Grainger, master of ceremonies David Macfarlane, and Horizons’ board member Dr. Paul Caldwell.
Farley Mowat & Walter Castro from Guatemala
Writers & Friends art auctioneer Dr.Paul Caldwell together with successful
bidders Dean Howlett and Tim Badgely, holds watercolour “Back Street San
Miguel” a donation by artist Ron Bolt.
