passionate lives 2010

Next on Passionate Lives: Lorna Crozier, poet                

Sat. Feb. 20 | Dinner 5:30pm | Presentation / dialogue 7:00pm

 Passionate Lives is a dinner & lecture / performance series  featuring guests who  seek to bring truth, beauty and justice to the world through ministry, activism, and art.  Through their sharing, we learn how their greatest passions meet the world's greatest needs... and we go home with renewed inspiration to use our own gifts with equal passion.

 Net proceeds from Passionate Lives go to the Queenswood Bursary Fund, which enables lower-income guests to attend programs that they otherwise couldn't afford.  It's our belief that programs which support spiritual, mental and physical wellness should be available to everyone. With your help, we make this possible.

Regular Rates:
• 1 ticket for dinner and presentation: $25
• 1 ticket for presentation only: $15

Student Rates:
• 1 ticket for dinner and presentation: $20
• 1 ticket for presentation only: $10 

About Lorna Crozier (Sat. Feb. 20)
Margaret Laurence once called Lorna Crozier "a poet to be grateful for." Born in Saskatchewan, Lorna Crozier lives on Vancouver Island and teaches writing at the University of Victoria, where she is a Distinguished Professor. The author of fifteen volumes of poetry, including the Governor General's Award winner Inventing the Hawk (1992), Lorna Crozier writes poetry that reaches far beyond the prairies which have helped to inspire much of her work. What makes her poetry remarkable, in fact, is how her keen observation of people and things and her deep connection to specific places and spaces allows her work to move from the particular to the universal in such a way that her work becomes much more than "prairie poetry." The lyricism, passion and, at times, humour of her poems have helped to make Lorna Crozier one of Canada's favourite poets Inventing the Hawk (1992), received all three of Canada’s national poetry awards: the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Award for the Best Book of Poetry by a Canadian Woman, and the Canadian Authors’ Association Award for poetry. Her tenth book of poetry, What the Living Won’t Let Go, was published by McClelland and Stewart in the spring of 1999. It received the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award for the best book of poetry in BC that year.  For more information about Lorna and her work,  click here. 

Dinner Menu for Sat. Feb. 20

Salad bar

Marinated Pork Loin
Lemon Roasted Potatoes
Sweet Potato Casserole
Steamed Broccoli
Baked Butternut Squash

Profiteroles with chocolate and caramel sauce