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<div dir="ltr">Hello GREN members,<br>If you're an artist or an environmentalist who likes beautiful books, for a good cause, please consider the following a recently-released book"Canada's Raincoast at Risk: Art for an Oil-Free Coast". See note below.<br> <br>Sheila Karrow, the daughter of UW geologist, Paul Karrow, is one of the 50 artists invited to participate in this travelling art show and book, with environmental comments by Suzuki, Wade Davis and one more.I wanted you to know about it to help protect the BC coast, and give the artists more publicity. It is a not-for profit book: the artists have donated their work. <br> <br>A similar artistic venture in the 1980s saved the old-growth forest on the west coast of Vancouver Island known as Carmanah. That successful initiative encouraged me to organize the 2006 art show at the KPL: Hidden Valley~a Celebration or a Lament. (Maybe it's time to do another one???)<br>Thanks!<br>Daphne <br><br>Hi All,<br>Some of you will remember Sheila Karrow as a talented young watercolour and acrylic artist who taught in this area, and was an environmental activist. She moved to the Queen Charlotte Islands a few years ago. Last summer she was invited to participate with some very famous painters and scientists, including Robert Bateman, Roy Henry Vickers, David Suzuki and Wade Davis, to name two in each category, who are concerned about the risks of an oil pipeline through BC and of tankers transporting oil across the Pacific. The 50 Canadian and First Nations artists each donated a work of art for a travelling show and for a book, which was recently released: "Canada's Raincoast at Risk: Art for an Oil-Free Coast". This is quite a coup for Sheila to be included. Her painting is a piognantly beautiful juxtaposition of a child playing in a healthy tidal pool, surrounded by all sorts of beautiful creatures with a tanker cruising in the background. Im having trouble attaching the image, but I'll send it to you separately.<br><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"> So, if you like to support environmental projects and/or collect beautiful books, you might like to know that this will be available in Waterloo soon.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>I just talked to David at Words Worth (new owner, former staff) and he's ordered in 3 or 4 copies ton Friday, (one's for me though). So you can let your friends and family know that they can get a copy of the book ($45.00) at Words Worth in about 2 weeks. If you place an order, (519- 884-2665,) they'll send you an mail or phone you when it's in.<br><br>Enjoy!</div><div dir="ltr">Daphne<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="text-align: left; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><br class="ecxwebkit-block-placeholder"></div><a href="http://www.raincoast.org/canadas-raincoast-at-risk-art-for-an-oil-free-coast/" target="_blank">http://www.raincoast.org/canadas-raincoast-at-risk-art-for-an-oil-free-coast/</a><div style="text-align: left; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><br class="ecxwebkit-block-placeholder"></div></div> </div></div>
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