Venue :
Grand Central Ballroom at Liuna Station
Featured Film :
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Musical Performers :
Powerhouse
Doors Open : 7:00pm
Film : 8:15 pm
Music : 9:30 pm
Food and beverages will be available for purchase.
Tickets : $30
Cameo Sponsorship
For groups or individuals who have made formal arrangements for a reserved table at the Gala event by April 19th .. The names listed here have purchased a table in advance, as they believe in the Festival :
Cameo Sponsors :
· Reeves Financial Services
· Green Party of Hamilton (Ancaster Dundas Flamborough Westdale Riding)
· Social And Ecological Responsibility in Education (S.E.R.E) Committee
(Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board)
· Fix Our World
· DCC Dancing
· Rotary International Rotary Club of Hamilton, Downtown Club
· Global Village Market
· City of Hamilton Film & Television Office
· Kiwanis Club of Greater Hamilton
· The Print Studio: Hamilton Printmakers Arts Association
· Horizon Utilities Corporation
To become a cameo sponsor, please contact us.
RACHEL CARSON'S SILENT SPRING - She had been a biologist for the federal government when she first took note of the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides, especially DDT. Magazines refused to publish her articles because they were afraid of losing advertising. When Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1963, she was viciously attacked, called "an ignorant and hysterical woman." Her warning sparked a revolution in environmental policy.
Witness the story of how the passionate biologist and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, exposed the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides by the federal government when she published her controversial work, Silent Spring.
This production from PBS's "The American Experience offers a presentation of marine biologist/zoologist Rachel Carson's poetic and seminal work "Silent Spring" which decried the use of DDT and which would become the keystone of the ecological and environmental movements.
POWERHOUSE
Powerhouse
rocks! A big band with a huge sound, Powerhouse has played festivals from
Montreal to Michigan and has opened for Hall & Oats, Blood Sweat & Tears,
The Doobie Brothers, Tragically Hip, Blue Rodeo, Burton Cummings, Sam Moore
(of Sam & Dave), as well as bringing in the Millennium New Year at Copp’s
Coliseum. Notable festivals include: Molson Rocks the Village (Hamilton), Friendship Festival (Fort Erie), Winona Peach Festival, Aquafest (Hamilton), Hamilton City Hall New Year’s Eve Party, Belleville Waterfront Festival, the Sound of Music Fe.stival (Burlington), the 1000 Islands Festival, and for several years, the C.N.E.
Rock the night away to the best of R & B, Motown, Chicago, Rod Stewart and Ray Charles