The Ivey Network Atlantic Canada Chapter

On Global Ivey Day, there are going to be more than 20 cities around the world hosting events to celebrate all that is Ivey.Join us on November 3rd with guest speaker Stephen Kimber for lunch at The Halifax Club.  His topic will be “The Occupy Movement – Lessons for Ivey”.Date: Thursday, November 3, 2011
Time: 12 p.m.
Where: The Halifax Club
1682 Hollis St, Halifax, NS B3J 1V7

Cost: $30 per person for lunch.
To register, visit: http://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=225&EID=10901

Stephen Kimber – Professor, Narrative Non-Fiction
MFA (Goucher)
Faculty Member, School of Journalism

Stephen Kimber is the Rogers Communications Chair in Journalism at the University of King’s College, where he has taught since 1983. From 1996 until 2003 he was Director of the King’s College School of Journalism.   He is the author of eight books–a novel and seven works of nonfiction. He is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster, and his writing has appeared in almost all major Canadian magazines and newspapers. As a broadcaster, he has been an Ottawa-based current affairs producer for the CTV Television Network and a producer, writer, story editor and host for numerous CBC television and radio programs. Between 1985 and 2002, he was a weekly political and general interest columnist for the Daily News in Halifax, Canada. His is currently Senior Features Writer for The Coast, a Halifax alternative weekly.

Mr. Kimber holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College in Baltimore. He and his wife, television and film costume designer Jeanie Kimber, live in Halifax. They have three adult children, all graduates of King’s.

Selected Publications:
• IWK: A century of Caring for Families (Halifax: Nimbus, September 2009).
• Loyalists and Layabouts (Toronto: Doubleday, 2008).
• Reparations (Toronto: HarperCollins, 2006).
• Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War. (Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2002).
• NOT GUILTY: The Trial of Gerald Regan. (Toronto: Stoddart, 1999).
• Flight 111: The Tragedy of the Swissair Crash. (Toronto: Seal Books, 1999).
• More Than Just Folks: 31 Remarkable Nova Scotians. (Lawrencetown Beach, N.S.: Pottersfield, 1996).
• Net Profits: The Story of National Sea (Halifax: Nimbus, 1989).