{"id":1492,"date":"2015-03-16T02:50:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T02:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2015-05-11T02:48:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T02:48:47","slug":"2015-pibo-fundraiser-an-evening-with-lawrence-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/2015-pibo-fundraiser-an-evening-with-lawrence-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 PIBO Fundraiser: An Evening with Lawrence Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/2015-pibo-fundraiser-an-evening-with-lawrence-hill\/evening-with-lawrence-hill1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1497\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1497 aligncenter\" title=\"Margaret Atwood and PIBO Present An Evening with Lawrence Hill\" src=\"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Evening-with-Lawrence-Hill1.png\" alt=\"Margaret Atwood and PIBO Present An Evening with Lawrence Hill\" width=\"424\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-align: center;\">We are excited to announce that once again, <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: center;\">Margaret Atwood<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: center;\"> will host the PIBO Windsor fundraiser, bringing as her guest\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: center;\">Lawrence Hill.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Hill is the author of nine books, including <em>The Book of Negroes<\/em>, an international bestseller and winner of various awards including The Commonwealth Writers\u2019 Prize and the English and French Canadian versions of CBC Radio\u2019s Canada Reads. He travelled across Canada to deliver the 2013 Massey Lectures, based on his non-fiction book <em>Blood: The Stuff of Life<\/em> (House of Anansi Press). He is finishing a new novel and co-wrote the adaptation for a six-part television miniseries of <em>The Book of Negroes, <\/em>which<em> <\/em>was filmed in South Africa and Nova Scotia and aired in early 2015 on CBC in Canada and on BET in the USA. He volunteers with Crossroads International, Book Clubs for Inmates, and with the Black Loyalist Heritage Society, and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrencehill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.lawrencehill.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LawrenceHillAuthor\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/LawrenceHillAuthor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about the fundraiser, please <a href=\"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PIBO-2015-Fundraiser-An-Evening-with-Lawrence-Hill.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">click here to download the poster (pdf)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to this year\u2019s fundraiser, and hope that you will join us! Proceeds from the fundraiser will help PIBO conduct our\u00a0<a title=\"Keeping Track\" href=\"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/keeping-track\/\" target=\"_blank\">migration monitoring<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Breeding Birds\" href=\"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/keeping-track\/breeding-birds\/\" target=\"_blank\">breeding bird,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Species at Risk on Pelee\" href=\"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/about-pibo\/species-at-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Species at Risk\u00a0<\/a>research programs on Pelee Island, as well as our\u00a0<a title=\"Thank you ERCA\" href=\"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/thank-you-erca-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">award-winning<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Education Programs\" href=\"http:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/keeping-track\/getting-involved\/education-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\">environmental education programs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event will be held Wednesday, May 6, 2015, at Beach Grove Golf and Country Club in Tecumseh, ON. Contact Paul Vasey at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:paulvasey@gmail.com\">paulvasey@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0to order tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We are excited to announce that once again, Margaret Atwood will host the PIBO Windsor fundraiser, bringing as her guest\u00a0Lawrence Hill. Lawrence Hill is the author of nine books, including The Book of Negroes, an international bestseller and winner of various awards including The Commonwealth Writers\u2019 Prize and the English and French Canadian versions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31,145,41,42,144,59,53,48],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pibo-update","tag-birds","tag-book-of-negroes","tag-essex-county","tag-graeme-gibson","tag-lawrence-hill","tag-margaret-atwood","tag-pelee-island-bird-observatory","tag-pibo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}