At City Symposium VI you will…
- Discover how a Londoner helped to provide over 200,000 people in Uganda with clean drinking water.
- Enjoy the art and performance of an internationally acclaimed musician.
- Learn about the history and importance of one of the most foundational institutions in our society: the public library.
The sixth City Symposium event is Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at the Wolf Performance Hall, London Public Central Library (251 Dundas Street). Free. No registration required.
Post-event hangout (and free nachos) afterwards at the Fox & Fiddle (255 Wellington at King).
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Tonight’s Feature Presentations:
Bob Dell, a water scientist with 30 years of experience, visited Uganda in 2004 and saw firsthand the impact that waterborne illnesses were having on the nation. Through implementing education about the use of solar disinfection, Bob Dell’s Water School has helped over 200,000 people in Uganda gain access to clean water. The project has been expanded in Bolivia, Sudan, Kenya, and Haiti. Bob Dell has received special recognition from the Governments of Canada and Uganda for his efforts in providing clean water.
Delilah Deane Cummings has worked at London Public Library in a variety of positions and is currently the Coordinator of Community Outreach & Program Services. She has been active in both the Canadian and Ontario Library Associations and received the Ontario Library Association Children’s Librarian of the Year Award in 2005. After her first degree at Queen’s University, she also completed her Masters in Library & Information Science and then an MA in English Literature at UWO.
Clark Bryan‘s performance career has taken him to Europe, Mexico the United States and throughout Canada. He has done performances for CBC radio and television including a broadcast recital in 2002 at the Glenn Gould Studio, CBC. He has adjudicated music festivals from St. John’s to Vancouver. He has recorded eleven albums of solo piano and a duo piano album of the Suites for two pianos by Serge Rachmaninoff with duo partner Marion Miller. His most recent recordings include the complete Chopin Nocturnes.
Your host and master of ceremonies for the evening is…
Lianne Young was born and raised in Oakville, but moved to Vancouver in 1999, during which time she transitioned from a Human Kinetics Degree at UBC into Radio Broadcasting. She started started out reporting traffic in Vancouver from an 4 seat’er airplane, and later landed her first job as an announcer in Williams Lake BC. She came to London in 2005 and started working with 103.1 Fresh FM. “I have a wonderful husband, a beautiful daughter who is almost 3yrs old, and 2 dogs!”