The Food Networks spice goddess and a Zeitgeist interpreter are two of the people who will be participating in Sam Sullivans next speed dating for ideas.
Bal Arneson and Charles Montgomery will join elephant advocate Rosemary Conder, architect Bruno Freschi, choreographer Crystal Pite, social change digital visionary Steve Rio, UBC pharmaceutical sciences associate dean Kishor Wasan and Chinese modern art critic Shentian Zeheng as speakers at the February 19 Public Salon.
As you can tell by the eclectic mix of speakers each of whom are invited to expound on a subject of their choice for seven minutes the discussion is always lively and thought-provoking. Its the former Vancouver mayors way of bringing people together to share ideas in the hopes that the conversations become part of this citys dialogue.
An article on BCBookLook.com says, Like Douglas Coupland, Charles Montgomery is a gifted zeitgeist interpreter who has an instinct for a distinctive turn-of-phrase; a social scientist who can mix a broth of serious ideas with an entertaining style; a card-carrying internationalist who is nonetheless distinctly a product of Vancouver.
Montgomery is the author of The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia and, more recently, Happy City: transforming our lives through urban design.
Bal Arnesons cookbook, Bals Quick and Healthy Indian, won the 2011 Canada award for best Asian cuisine cookbook at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Shes launched a new cooking show, Spice of Life on the heels of her third book.
Crystal Pite (and members of Kidd Pivot) will be performing a section of the upcoming Tempest Replica at the Public Salon.
Tickets are $20 in advance at TicketsTonight.ca, $30 at the door and, for $120, you can mingle with the speakers at the pre-salon sponsors dinner.
