Our sixth annual Literary Feast fundraiser will be held at the Morrin Centre on Thursday, October 16, 2014. The evening will start with a cocktail at 5:30 p.m. in one of Canada’s most beautiful libraries, followed by dinner in the historic College Hall at 6:30 p.m., catered by Le Saint-Amour restaurant, inspired by the meals served during 1864’s Quebec Conference on the way to Confederation.
This year, we are honoured to welcome two distinguished guest speakers. Our keynote speaker is Christopher Moore, the Governor-General’s-Award-winning author of “1867: How the Fathers Made a Deal” and other works. His speech, “Three Weeks in October: When Quebec City invented Canada,” will explore the personalities, parties, and politics of the constitutional conference held at Quebec City exactly 150 years ago, when the constitutional arrangements by which we still live were debated and drafted.
The evening’s honorary chair, David F. Blair, is a Partner in McCarthy Tetrault’s Business Law Group, where he focuses his practice on transportation law. He was president of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec from 1999 to 2012. In December 2013, Mr. Blair was awarded the Order of Canada.
A limited number of tickets for this black-tie (optional) event are available for $225 per person. You may reserve your ticket(s) by calling Program and Communications Director Hoffman Wolff at 418-694-9147, extension 223, or e-mailing hoffmanwolff@morrin.org.
As part of the Literary Feast, there will also be a silent auction. This is a great opportunity to purchase a valuable item or a special service while supporting our flagship English-language cultural centre. Proceeds from the evening will enable the Morrin Centre to continue offering a variety of stimulating and innovative English-language cultural programs at a reasonable cost. Silent auction items will be listed on the Literary Feast website as they become available atmorrin.org.
I hope that you will be able to join us for this important event and thank you for your continued support.
