Live: Join Andri Snaer Magnason in Dialogue this Monday, 13th May - 6.45 pm at The London Hotel, Balmain
Live: In Dialogue Andri Snær Magnason,
Author of ‘On Time and Water’
Antarctic Dialogue session - 13th May - 6.45 pm
The London Hotel, 123 Darling St, Balmain NSW 2041
Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer, documentary film director and one of the world’s most important voices on our relationship with Nature 🍃
Andri has been active in the fight to preserve the highlands of Iceland and raise awareness about our fast-changing climate.
In 2019, millions of people shared his “Letter to the Future” eulogy, placed on a monument next to the Okjökull glacier, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change:
“𝗢𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗰 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗿.
𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀, 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲.
𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝗳 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗶𝘁.”
Andri ran for President of Iceland in 2016 on environmental issues 🇮🇸❄️🧊🍃
Watch Andri’s TED presentation here:
https://lnkd.in/g5BHyzWW
Watch Andri read from “On Time and Water” here:
https://lnkd.in/g5DyEmew
This is a free event as we aim is to give Andri the widest possible audience.
Join us on Monday in dialogue with Andri by registering at Humanitix now to secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/gkHcuYhn
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Presenter:
Andri Snaer Magnason, master storyteller, filmmaker, and environmental activist, is one of Iceland’s most celebrated writers. He has won the Icelandic Literary Prize for fiction, children’s fiction, and nonfiction, and his books, including ‘Dreamland’, ‘Lovestar’, and ‘The Story of the Blue Planet’, have been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2016, he ran for president of Iceland.
‘On Time and Water’
Extraordinary and original, ON TIME AND WATER helps us to rethink time and climate through travel, science, history and myth. It allows us to imagine ourselves into a disconcertingly close future. It offers ideas, reflections and solutions…and, in a remarkable postscript on how the world stopped for COVID-19, it offers hope.
Host:
Andrew Kelly is the CEO of The Antarctic Science Foundation, which connects supporters with researchers to enable catalytic scientific research on the Icy Continent. Across two decades, he has witnessed the power of generosity by facilitating transformational gifts to Youth Off The Streets, The Smith Family, The Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS), the Society of St Vincent De Paul and Children’s Medical Research Institute. Andrew trained as an economist before commencing a career in banking with Macquarie, Bank of America and Westpac. He has competed at an elite level in road cycling and is an Observer at the Australian Antarctic Science Council. His favourite role is being a Dad.