Community Event - Windsor/Leamington - Dinner with Margaret Atwood & Steve Burrows
Tickets for our most exclusive fundraiser of the year are now available, and we hope you will join us for this memorable event. Steve Burrows’s interest in birds and nature began in the urban parks around his childhood home in Birmingham, UK. After immigrating to Canada, Steve worked as a high school teacher before relocating to Hong Kong with his wife, Resa, where he became editor of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society Magazine, and a contributing field editor with Asian Geographic.
Steve has written freelance articles on travel and environmental issues for a number of publications including BBC Wildlife (UK), Action Asia (Singapore), Globe and Mail (Canada), South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) and Melbourne Age (Australia). He began writing fiction on his return to Canada, and his first novel, A Siege of Bitterns, was a Globe & Mail Top 100 Books of the year selection and won the 2015 Crime Writers of Canada award for Best First Novel. The other novels in the Birder Murder series are A Pitying of Doves (2015), A Cast of Falcons (2016), A Shimmer of Hummingbirds (2017), and A Tiding of Magpies (2018). The newest Birder Murder, A Dance of Cranes will be published in June of this year.
The program for the evening will feature Margaret Atwood’s introduction of Steve Burrows, Steve’s talk, a gourmet dinner prepared by the chefs at Beach Grove in the club’s stately dining room and a live auction facilitated by Peter Hrastovec. Paul Vasey will be our animated M.C for the evening. The auction is always a lively affair and no two years feature the same items, but there is always something unique donated by Ms Atwood. At the end of the evening, there will be book signings by Steve and Margaret. Books will be available for purchase on site from Biblioasis Books. All proceeds from the dinner and the auction go directly towards supporting PIBO’s research on migration monitoring and our education program. Please join us at the Beach Grove Golf and Country Club on May 8. Tickets are $125 and a portion of the ticket price is eligible for a tax deduction. Reception is at 6 PM and dinner at 7 PM. There will be complimentary wine at each table. We are looking forward to seeing you there!