Writers & Friends

Writers & Friends  Sunday November 14, 2010

16^th Gala Literary Fundraising Evening

Trinity College School, Port Hope

Information, Horizons of Friendship www.horizons.ca

 905 372- 5483, 1 888-729- 9928; email info@horizons.ca.

Horizons of Friendship is delighted to announce that its Annual Literary Evening will take place on Sunday November 14th, at LeVan Hall, Trinity College School Port Hope.  

 “Writers & Friends” will mark its 16^th year as Horizons’ signature fundraising event which since 1995 has featured contributions by over 110 outstanding Canadian authors. Readings, book signings and Q&A, live music, gourmet buffet, silent auction and live art auction are all part of Writers & Friends 2009 on behalf of Horizons programmes in Central America and Mexico. Watch for announcements on programme, tickets and early bird opportunities in coming weeks..

 We hope you will mark your calendar now for “Writers & Friends” “16^th on the 14^th”!.

Horizons of Friendship is the only Canadian charitable organization working exclusively in southern Mexico and Central America. Since its founding in 1973 by three volunteers from Northumberland, Horizons has worked with partners in the South on behalf of marginalized communities struggling to improve their living conditions and to access basic human rights of health, education and livelihood. Horizons also supports regional programmes which address the growing problem of HIV/AIDS and violence against women.  Writers & Friends, originating in Port Hope in 1995 with the support of Farley and Claire Mowat and Ronald Wright now includes Writers & Friends Kingston.  Almost three quarters ahalf a million dollars has been raised by Writers & Friends and is matched up to three to one by the Canadian International Development Agency. For more information on Horizons of Friendship, visit www.horizons.ca.

Writers & Friends Evenings

Writers & Friends 2008: Authors Anna Porter, Horizons’ partner Transito Ruano, Director, PASSOS, El Salvador, Elizabeth Hay, winner 2007 Scotiabank Giller award, Horizons of Friendship Executive Director Patricia Rebolledo, Noah Richler and Linden MacIntyre. 

Writers & Friends 2008: Trinity College School Headmaster Stuart Grainger, Horizons’ Execuytiev Director Patricia Rebolledo, Writers & Friends original co- contributor Farley Mowat, authors  Dr. James Orbinksi, Charlotte Gray, Helen Humphreys, Richard Gwyn and master of ceremonies Ian Brown.

From Writers & Friends Port Hope 2009

Back: Dg, TCS headmaster Stuart Grainger, master of ceremonies Sandra Martin, HoF  E. D. PR

Front row: Monica Grainger, Ian Brown, Miriam Toews, Sally Armstrong, Ronald Wright.

 Authors, Musicians and Artists Join Supporters in Horizons’ Sold Out Benefit April 11^th 

Kingston Friends of Horizons are delighted to announce that tickets are now sold out for this year’s Writers & Friends at Kingston City Hall. It’s Horizons’ 14^th annual fundraising gala in Kingston, and for those lucky enough to have tickets, it will be a memorable afternoon with outstanding authors Ian Brown, Linden MacIntyre, Erna Paris and Lawrence Scanlan and special musical guest Sarah Harmer.

Visual artists as well are contributing to Horizons Writers & Friends Silent Auction.  (See poster attached).  Oils by artists Su Sheedy and Sharon Thompson will join pieces by metal artist Maggie Hogan, glass artist Laura Donefer, potter Tim de Rose and two authenticated handcoloured 19c. W.H. Bartlett lithographs. A special offering is A Week in Provence in 2011, a stay in a hill top village 17^th century stone house northwest of Avignon.  Other donations from community supporters include golf with maestro Glen Fast at Smuggler’s Den, a fall weekend in old Montreal, a guided birding expedition, tickets to the new COC opera “Nixon in China”. Also featured will be donations of gift certificates, services and select baskets of Central American art and craft.

To view art auction items, please click art auction poster

If you can’t attend Writers & Friends, you can still place your bid on art items. Please contact Horizons of Friendship with your proxy bid amount for the item of your choice by Saturday April 10^th at 5 pm; please call 1 888- 729- 9928, ext. 14 for more information.  

Support for Writers & Friends is particularly important to Horizons of Friendship during a period of funding uncertainty. Your contribution is also welcomed by a donation of your choice (fully tax receiptable); please contact Horizons at 1 888- 729- 9928.

Kingston Friends of Horizons

Susan Anderson, Henry Becker, Ulrike Bender, Ruth Crafts, Evelyn and Paul Gervan, Barbara Hill, Jill Irwin, Oscar and Joanna Malan, Mary Mason, Gord McDiarmid, Beth Pater, Janet Pearse, Barbra Rose Perry, Larry Scanlan, Jamie Swift, Wayne Westfall, Barb Wilson

It’s Kingston’s 14^th annual Writers & Friends and some remarkable authors and an outstanding musical guest are coming to town.  Everyone is invited to join in with Horizons of Friendship supporters at City Hall this April 11^th. At this year’s Writes of Spring, you will meet:

Ian Brown, winner of two of Canada’s most prestigious awards for literary non- fiction, the Charles Taylor Prize and the B.C. National Award for his memoir The Boy in the Moon:  A Father’s Search for his Disabled Son.  He is a Globe and Mail feature writer and anchor of TVO’s The Human Edge and The View From Here.

Linden MacIntyre, recipient of Canada’s major fiction prize, The Scotiabank Giller award for his novel The Bishop’s Man.  The nine- time Gemini- winning broadcast journalist and CBC host of the Fifth Estate  is also author of the memoir Causeway: A Passage from Innocence, a portrait of a vanishing way of life  in Cape Breton.     

Erna Paris is a writer- historian and recipient of many national and international writing awards.  Her book Long Shadows won the Pearson Writers’ Trust and the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Her latest book is The Sun Climbs Slow: The International Criminal Court and the Struggle for Justice.

Lawrence Scanlan is an award- winning Kingston based journalist. He is author or co- author of fourteen books including the best selling The Man Who Listens to Horses and this spring will publish, A Year of Living Generously: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Philanthropy. Larry is a long time supporter of Horizons and contributor to Writers & Friends.

Returning for her second Horizons benefit afternoon as musical contributor is one of Canada’s favourite singer – songwriters and an environmental activist, Sarah Harmer. Writers & Friends welcomes as master of ceremonies the novelist, editor and driving force behind Kingston’s WritersFest- Merilyn Simonds.

Over $ 27,000 is raised annually by Writers & Friends and is matched up to three to one for Horizons by CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency). Projects assist communities now even more marginalized by the current economic climate and yet struggling, resiliently and creatively, to improve their living conditions and access health, education, citizen participation and sustainable development. Horizons also supports regional projects that address the growing problem of HIV/AIDS and violence against women. With your support, Horizons of Friendship can continue to make a difference.

We promise a memorable afternoon of readings and live music. We feature culinary delights from some of Kingston’s finest chefs, book sales by Novel Idea, book signings and our fabulous Silent Auction. Special offerings include original art, opera, music, sports and theatre tickets (including Stratford), fabulous wines, a golfing package, a weekend in Montreal, a 2011 stay at a villa in Provence, as well as unique Central American and Mexican gifts.

Writers & Friends Tickets are $120, with an income tax receipt provided for $95. Tickets are limited and are selling briskly. Call Horizons of Friendship at 1-888-729-9928 to order your ticket by credit card; or visit Novel Idea Books in Kingston. For more information, call 613 542- 8292, email info@horizons.ca or contact a committee member.  We look forward to seeing you!

Writers & Friends

Sunday April 11, 2010

14^th Annual Gala Afternoon

Kingston City Hall, 1:00 pm.

Featuring Ian Brown, Linden MacIntyre, Erna Paris, Lawrence Scanlan and Sarah Harmer.

Readings, music, gourmet delectables and silent auction. “Writes of Spring” benefit on behalf of marginalized communities in Central America and Mexico. For information call 613 546- 9199.

For early bird tickets contact Horizons of Friendship 1 888 729- 9928 or 905 372- 5483, ext. 10 or e-mail info@horizons.ca.  Visit www.horizons.ca.

Writers & Friends April 11 th, 2010

Kingston’s Friends of Horizons are delighted to announce their Annual Gala Afternoon for Sunday April11th at Kingston City Hall, featuring outstanding guests. Joining us will be Globe and Mail features writer

Ian Brown, radio and television host  and author of The Boy in the Moon and winner of the B. C. National Award for literary non- fiction and nominee, Charles Taylor Prize 2010; Linden MacIntyre, writer, and television host of CBC’s Fifth Estate, and author of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller winning novel, The Bishop’s Man;  Erna Paris, award winning writer and historian, and author of The Sun Climbs Slow: The International Criminal Court and the Struggle for Justice; and acclaimed journalist Lawrence Scanlan,  author of the upcoming spring release, A Year of Living Generously .

Writers & Friends musical contributor Sarah Harmer is the one of Canada’s favourite musicians and previous Writers and Friends musical guest.

The afternoon of “literary schmoozing” on behalf of the charitable organization, Horizons of Friendship begins at 1:00 p.m. with readings, music and finger foods provided by some of the Kingston area’s finest chefs.  Book sales will be provided by Novel Idea, and there will be a Grand Silent Auction of gifts, services and art. Funds raised by Writers & Friends will help address problems in marginalized communities in Central America and Mexico struggling to improve their living conditions and to access the basic human rights of health, education and citizen participation. For more information on Horizons of Friendship, visit www.horizons.ca

For Writers& Friends Early bird tickets ($120; income tax receipt $90.00), available by credit card order; call Horizons at 1 888-729- 9928. After mid March, tickets will be available at Novel Idea.  For more information call 613- 546- 9199. 

Outstanding Artists join Acclaimed Authors for Annual Writers & Friends

 On Sunday November 15, Governor General’s award winner Miriam Toews and internationally renowned novelist historian Ronald Wright will be just two of the featured artists contributing to this year’s special 15th Annual Writers & Friends evening of readings, music, gourmet buffet and select auctions at Trinity College School on behalf of Horizons of Friendship. Authors of some of Canada’s most engaging best sellers (A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans and A Short History of Progress, What is America)  they will join two of the country’s most respected journalists, foreign correspondent, editor and filmmaker Sally Armstrong, author of Bitter Roots and Tender Shoots, The Uncertain Fate of Women in Afghanistan and Ian Brown, Globe & Mail feature writer and author of the poignant memoir The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son.

Horizons of Friendship is delighted to announce that the generosity of  Writers & Friends 2009  participating writers,  is complemented this year by donations from outstanding visual artists in this year’s Select Live Art Auction whose works will help to raise additional funds on behalf of Horizons partners in Central America and Mexico. Among the contributions is Evening Pacific a serigraph by Ron Bolt, one of Canada’s finest living artists, a resident of Northumberland, widely known and collected throughout the world for his shows and exhibitions over the last forty years, and a longtime supporter of Horizons. PIXELS a work in acrylic and crayon on canvas, has been donated by Alice Teichert, artist of visual poetry born in Paris, whose studio is now in Port Hope and who has exhibited in France, Switzerland, and Australia. ZimArt Rice Lake Gallery is donating  a Shona Sculpture of Cobalt stone by artist Singi Chihota. Donations also include a watercolour by Rosemary Freeman, “Alaska Shoreline”; a one of a kind topaz, crystal and silver necklace by Jacqueline Curelly and Kendra Simmons; and a photograph by Mary Talbot “Memories of Spring II”. To preview these art works and to see photos of  “Terralta”, a condo in Bucerias, Mexico, that has been donated for two weeks stay, a Public Viewing will take place Thursday November 12 noon to 5 pm at the new Furby House Loft, 65 Walton Street. Everyone is welcome.

For more information contact Horizons of Friendship 905 372- 5483, ext.10

For tickets to Writers & Friends November 15, visit Furby House Books or contact Horizons.

For viewing of the art auction pieces, please click here.

Writers & Friends

Sunday November 15, 2009

Horizons of Friendship  15th Annual Literary Evening.

Trinity College School, Port Hope

Sally Armstrong, Ian Brown, Miriam Toews, Ronald Wright.

Master of Ceremonies Sandra Martin

Special Guests: Founding Contributors Farley and Claire Mowat.

Readings, Music, Q&A, Dinner with Authors, Silent Auction, Selected Live Art Auction.

Tickets at Furby House Books Port Hope; or call Horizons of Friendship 905 372- 5483 1 888 729- 9928; or email info@horizons.ca. Visit www.horizons.ca.

On November 15, you are invited to meet some of Canada’s most engaging authors at Writers & Friends Port Hope.

Governor General’s award winner Miriam Toews joins internationally renowned novelist historian Ronald Wright and acclaimed journalists Sally Armstrong and Ian Brown for Horizons of Friendship’s 15^th Annual Gala at Trinity College School on behalf of community development in Central America and Mexico. Writers & Friends guests will enjoy readings, book signings and Q&A, with moderator Sandra Martin,  Globe and Mail Senior Features Writer.

Founding contributors Farley and Claire Mowat will also be on hand for Horizons’ 15^th Annual celebration which this year includes dinner with authors, live music with the Nicaraguan guitar trio, Voces Poeticas, a Silent Auction and Live Art Auction featuring works by Ron Bolt, Alice Teichert, Kendra Simmons  and Zim Art Sculpture Studio. Tickets are limited. Visit Furby House Books in Port Hope or call Horizons of Friendship 905 372- 5483; 1 888 729- 9928. Ext. 10. Website www.horizons.ca.

Select Live Art Auction at Writers & Friends November 15, 2009

Authors and Artists Come Together for Horizons of Friendship

LIVE ART AUCTION PREVIEW: EVERYONE WELCOME!

Thurs November 12, noon to 5 pm, Furby House Loft, 65 Walton St. Port Hope

A Writers & Friends Select Live Art Auction will again be an important component of Horizons’ signature literary evening fundraiser, on Sunday November 15th at Trinity College School. The generosity of Writers & Friends participating writers, Sally Armstrong, Ian Brown, Miriam Toews and Ron Wright  is complemented by donations from these local artists and supporters. Writers & Friends Live Art Auction proceeds support Horizons partners in Central America and Mexico.

Ron Bolt, resident of Cobourg and widely known and collected throughout world for his shows and exhibitions. He is a longtime supporter of Horizons of Friendship.  Serigraph prints by Ron Bolt are now pulled in smaller edition runs and with many more colours.  Each colour or blend of colours requires separate colour separations. In Evening Pacific, 14/ 29, pulled in August 2008, each separation was pulled 29 times. Value $ 1100; reserve $ 500. Ron is represented by A.K. Collings Gallery: www.akcollings.com.

Singi Chihota, 2009 artist in residence at Zim Art Rice Lake Gallery, works from his home studio in Chitungwiz, Zimabawe.  Leader of three successful workshops at Zim Art, his work is found in collections in Germany, Holland, USA, UK and South Africa.  His Contemplating My Future, h. 22” in hand carved cobalt stone is ZimArt’s 2009 Shona sculpture donation to Writers &Friends. Signed by Singi, accompanied by an authentication certificate, its value is $ 950; reserve bid is $ 450. Visit www.zimart.ca.  

Rosemary Freeman, resident of Northumberland County, teacher and proprietor for many years of the Gallery Art School. Primarily a water colourist, Rosemary also works in pen and ink with a wide portfolio, from historic homes, public architecture and nostalgia pieces to portraits of wildlife. “Recently “her works carry you across Canada in reflective impressions of her visual experiences.”  Her Alaska Shoreline, 38”x 31” is valued at $ 950; reserve bid $ 450. Email mikro_cedar@hotmail.com

Kendra Simmons and Jacqueline Currelly, jeweller and designer, respectively, of a one of a kind necklace made up of Smoky Quartz , also known as Smoky Topaz, and rock crystal beads. The pendant is hand made sterling silver set with facetted Smoky Quartz. The necklace is a creative joint effort by “Semi Precious” wearable art by Jacqueline Currelly and “Chatwood and Simmons” antique and estate jewellery dealers at Antiques on Queen owned by Kendra Simmons. Suggested value is $ 1950; reserve is $ 750.

Mary Talbot, photographer, is stirred by patterns, shapes, colours, and textures.  Using slide film, she often portrays subjects in a non-representational manner. Primarily self-taught, Mary has also studied with Canada’s distinguished photographer Freeman Patterson, and with André Gallant and Richard Martin.  She makes presentations in southern Ontario, exhibits, judges competitions, and conducts photography workshops.  Memories of Spring II, 19”X 23”framed, suggested value $ 500; reserve $ 200. Email mtalbot@eagle.ca.

Alice Teichert, artist of abstract painting and visual poetry, born in Paris, educated in Brussels, New York and Toronto.  She now has a studio in Port Hope. Teichert’s work is rooted in her study of music, philosophy, visual poetry, visual arts and printmaking. Teichert has participated in over 24 solo exhibitions and 50 group exhibitions spanning France, Canada, Switzerland and Australia. Her work is held in private and public collections worldwide. Pixels, 24 X 24, acrylic and crayon on canvas, value $ 2700; reserve bid $ 1350. Visit www.aliceteichert.com

A much anticipated offering is Two Weeks in the South, a condo stay at Terralta, near the town of Bucerias, Mexico, 40 minute from Puerto Vallarta. Three bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, patio, security, 42 steps to pool, 10 minute walk to beach. Sun shines from November to June. Available Feb 1 through to November 1, 2010 except for March 14 to 20. Value priceless; suggested $ 1000.

 Writers & Friends Live Art Auction on Sunday November 15^h  takes place following readings and gourmet buffet, at approx. 7:30 pm. Auctioneer: Dr. Paul Caldwell, Horizons of Friendship board member well known in the arts community of Northumberland. Bids will be final; payment may be made by cheque, cash, MasterCard or VISA to Horizons of Friendship. Those unable to attend Writers & Friends in person are invited to submit proxy bids for Writers & Friends Live Art Auction by Saturday Nov 14, 12 noon, by calling 905 372- 5483 ext. 14, or 905 373- 5414 or email info@horizons.ca.

To enquire about tickets for Writers & Friends, contact Horizons’ office, 50 Covert St. or Furby House Books.  For more information call 905 372- 5483, ext. 10., 1 888- 729- 9928; info@horizons.ca

Horizons of Friendship is the only Canadian charitable organization working exclusively in Mexico and Central America. Since 1973, it has raised close to $74-million from individuals and organizations across Canada for self-help projects that provide a viable alternative to poverty and injustice in the region. Projects are initiated by the communities themselves and address a variety of concerns: livelihoods, education, indigenous peoples and women’s rights, health, and the environment. Writers & Friends Port Hope now raises over $ 30,000 annually and is matched up to three to one by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). www.horizons.ca

15^th Annual Literary Evening

Trinity College School, Port Hope

      SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 3:30PM

                     Journalist, documentary filmmaker, best selling author   

     SALLY ARMSTRONG

Bitter Roots, Tender Shoots:

 The Uncertain Fate of Women in Afghanistan

    Award winning writer, radio and television host

 IAN BROWN

         The Boy in the Moon    

     Governor General’s award winning novelist

 MIRIAM TOEWS

    A Complicated Kindness

    The Flying Troutmans

Special Guest, Acclaimed novelist, historian, essayist

RONALD WRIGHT 

    A Short History of Progress,  What is America?

     Readings, Dinner with Authors, Live Music,

Grand Silent Auction, Live Art Auction

    Including works by Ron Bolt, Rosemary Freeman,

   Alice Teichert and the Zim Art Sculpture Studio.

       Early bird “Special 15^th” tickets $110 (till Oct. 15).

Tax receipt $65

   Contact Horizons of Friendship 905 372- 5483    1 888- 729- 9928,

                  or e- mail info@horizons.ca 

          ( From October 1, tickets also available at Furby House Books)

          Proceeds will support Horizons of Friendship’s work with               marginalized communities in Central America and Mexico

               With thanks to CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency).

 LIVE ART AUCTION PREVIEW Thursday,  OCTOBER 30, noon to 5 p.m.  

 AK Collings Gallery, 35 John St. Port Hope  

Everyone Welcome!

Authors and Artists Come Together for Horizons of Friendship

Following on the popular successes of the last three years, A Writers & Friends Select Live Art Auction will once again be an important component of Horizons’ signature literary evening fundraiser to be held this year on Sunday November 9th at LeVan Hall, Trinity College School.

The generosity of Writers & Friends 2008 participating writers, Charlotte Gray, Richard Gwyn, Helen Humphreys, James Orbinski and Farley Mowat is complemented this year by donations from local artists and special supporters in this year’s Select Live Art Auction whose contributions will help to raise additional funds on behalf of Horizons partners in Central America and Mexico. See below (and graphic attachment) for information on art by Stephen Gilberry, Andrew Gregg, George Raab, Shelagh Stewart, Tony Urquhart and Arthur Manyengedzo, sponsored by Zim Art Studio as well as the much anticipated “A Week in the South”.

 - Stephen Gilberry, resident of Cobourg and artist whose work is exhibited widely. Influenced by travels and studies around the world, he enjoys working in abstract and impressionistic styles. His oil painting Birches,  # 3, 24″ X 24″ is framed in a wooden hand crafted and hand painted original frame. www.gillberry.com Value $850.  Reserve bid $500

oil, Birches, #3, 24″ x 24″

- Andrew Gregg, head of art at Trinity College School and artist who is represented in collections in Canada and abroad. His painting “Petroglyphs and Pencils“, oil on board with found objects, 24″ X 36,”is designed to evoke thoughts about ancient tribal symbols. It is based on an actual petroglyph found at the Petroglyphs Provincial Park east of Peterborough.  Value $1200; reserve bid $800.

Petroglyph and Pencils, Oil on board with found objects, 24″ x 36

   - George Raab, resident of Millbrook, and printmaker. Renowned for his wilderness landscape etchings, he has held dozens of solo exhibitions and participated in over 100 group shows worldwide. “Last Light, First Frost” 40″ x 28″ is one of Raab’s “intaglio” prints, described by Raab as offering a “sense of the mystery of the wildlands we all need in order to better know ourselves.” Website: www.georgeraab.com Value $750. Reserve bid $450

  Intaglio print , Last Light, First Frost, 40′ x 28″

- Shelagh Stewart, resident of Cobourg and professor at Ryerson University, School of Fashion. An artist whose paintings and textile works hang in collection in Canada, the US, and the UK, she favours the “use of fashion images as icons of storytelling (where) the boundary between illustrating and painting has blurred and blended”. Her donation to Horizons is an oil painting “Paris 1962“, 36″X 24″. Value $1500. 

 oil, Paris 1962, 36″ x 24″

- Tony Urquhart, resident of Stratford, Ontario and member of the Order of Canada. A pioneer of Canada’s abstract expressionism in the 50’s, he is an artist whose work is found at the AGO, the National Gallery, MOMA, the Victoria & Albert, etc. His works are recognized as combining “the surreal, the mythic and the symbolic”. His donation to Horizons is a pen & ink drawing on prepared paper, Amy’s Mausoleum. 21″X 17″.  Suggested value $1200; reserve bid. $800.

 Drawing on prepared paper, Amy’s Mausoleum, 21″ x 17″ framed

- ZimArt is once again donating a Shona Stone Sculpture, this year’s by Arthur Manyengedzo, featured artist and sculpture workshop leader at the Rice Lake Gallery. Owned and curated by Fran Fernley, Zim Art Studio only represents artists from Zimbabwe who are carving and finishing with hand tools. “Proud of My Culture” (h. 18″) is signed by its creator and is accompanied by an authentication certificate. Value $950; reserve bid $450.

    Stone Sculpture, h. 18 “, Proud of My Culture, by Arthur Manyengedzo.

- A much anticipated offering once more is a Week in the South, in the Aveyron district, France. An 18 th century farmhouse in the hamlet of La Pradines, the retreat is located in the Midi Pyrenees, near Toulouse. Value $ 850.

Writers & Friends Live Art Auction on Sunday November 9^th will take place following readings and gourmet buffet, at approx. 7:45 pm. Auctioneer will be Dr. Paul Caldwell, Horizons of Friendship board member who is well known in the arts community of Northumberland. Bids will be final; payment may be made by cheque, cash, MasterCard or VISA to Horizons of Friendship. Those unable to attend Writers & Friends in person are invited to submit proxy bids for Writers & Friends Live Art Auction by Saturday Nov 8, 12 noon, by calling 905 372- 5483 ext. 14, or 905 373- 5414 or email info@horizons.ca.

To enquire about tickets for Writers & Friends, contact Horizons’ office, 50 Covert St. For more information call 905 372- 5483, ext. 10., 1 888 729- 9928.

Horizons of Friendship is the only Canadian charitable organization working exclusively in Mexico and Central America. Since 1973, it has raised over $65-million from individuals and organizations across Canada for self-help projects that provide a viable alternative to poverty and injustice in the region. Projects are initiated by the communities themselves and address a variety of concerns: livelihoods, education, indigenous peoples and women’s rights, health, and the environment. Writers & Friends now raises over $28,000 annually and is matched up to three to one by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). www.horizons.ca