GOOD TIMBER
Songs and Stories of the Western Logger
Inspired by the logger poetry of Robert E. Swanson, known as the "Bard of the Woods," Good Timber celebrates the golden age of the forestry industry. The amazingly talented ensemble has created a show of songs and stories played against a multi-media backdrop of rarely-seen archival imagery from a time when loggers climbed trees.  
"...a rollicking account of a badass backwoodsman and love gone wrong." - Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight
October 22 - 27, 2013   Tickets $23 - $28   604-990-3474
at Presentation House Theatre
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Crowdfunding has grown increasingly popular in the nonprofit sector over the past few years, thanks to the Internet and crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. The question on every non-profit, charity and fundraiser’s mind is “can crowdfunding really raise a lot of money for my cause?” The answer is yes - if you do it properly.

Christopher Charlesworth, co-creator of the CSI Catalyst crowdfunding platform for social good, and Whelena Sainsbury, volunteer and creator of Not Far From the Tree’s crowdfunding campaign, lead a workshop on crowdfunding at Toronto Net Tuesday on October 8th, 2013. They shared tips and strategies on how your nonprofit can be successful in your crowdfunding campaign.
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Arts Journal BlogsOctober 9, 2013 by Norman Lebrecht 

Thomas Sudhof, who shares this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology, told The Lancet in August 2010 that he owes his powers of analysis and concentration to studying a musical instrument.

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