This Is Not A Reading Series Presents Chris Turner's Geography Of Hope Tour

Tired of eco doom and gloom? Acclaimed author and journalist Chris Turner traveled the globe in search of hope for a sustainable future and chronicles his findings in The Geography Of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need (Random House Canada). Turner will deliver an update to his ongoing quest during an entertaining and incisive multimedia presentation. Respected urbanist Amy Lavender Harris will moderate what promises to be a lively Q&A session between Turner and the audience. A This Is Not A Reading Series event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, Random House Canada, and EYE WEEKLY. At the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto. Monday, February 18 at 7:30 p.m. (doors 7:00 p.m.). Admission Free.

Chris Turner is the author of The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need and the international bestseller Planet Simpson: How A Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation (2004). He writes a monthly feature on sustainability for The Globe & Mail. Turner has won four Canadian National Magazine Awards, including the 2001 President's Medal for General Excellence. His work has appeared in The Independent (UK) , Time Magazine, Maclean's, Canadian Geographic, The Walrus, Azure and Utne Reader. Turner lives in Calgary, Alberta, with his wife, the photographer Ashley Bristowe, and their daughter, Sloane.

Amy Lavender Harris is a writer, geographer and scholar who teaches urban studies, literary geography, theories of space/place and a course on Kensington Market at York University. She is the author of the forthcoming book Imagining Toronto, to be published in the spring of 2008 by Mansfield Press, and contributed to GreenTOpia and State Of The Arts: Living With Culture in Toronto. Lavender Harris is also a contributing editor at Spacing Magazine. She lives in Toronto.