[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]If you aren’t busy enough this holiday season and looking for something entertaining, thought-provoking, and edifying to experience, may we suggest the audio recordings of some of this year’s THIN AIR 2015 stellar events. As promised way back in September, a number of our events were recorded and the audio for the Mainstage, the […]
Big Ideas
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September 25, 20154:30 pm
Big Ideas – Parroting Archived
Thin Air 2015Big IdeasEnglishBrian BrettMillennium Library -
September 24, 20154:30 pm
Big Ideas – Grit Archived
Thin Air 2015Big IdeasEnglishJody MiticMillennium Library -
September 23, 20154:30 pm
Big Ideas – Fracking Archived
Thin Air 2015Big IdeasEnglishAndrew NikiforukMillennium Library -
September 22, 20154:30 pm
Big Ideas – Road Trip Rwanda Archived
Thin Air 2015Big IdeasEnglishWill FergusonMillennium Library -
September 21, 20154:30 pm
Big Ideas – In Stalin’s Shadow Archived
Thin Air 2015Big IdeasEnglishRosemary SullivanMillennium Library
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Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey into the New Heart of Africa
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Slick Water
Andrew Nikiforuk -
Stalin's Daughter
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Tuco
Brian Brett -
Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper
Jody Mitic
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Big Ideas: Will Ferguson
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey into the New Heart of Africa Giller Prize-winning author Will Ferguson started off his talk by saying “Rwanda itself is a big idea. It represents something.” He said it represents the best and the worst of human nature. He read the beginning of his book to us. I found his writing […]
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Stalin’s Daughter, by Rosemary Sullivan
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] I conceived of writing my biography of Svetlana Alliluyeva after reading the obituaries that appeared across the world when she died in November 2011. In many of them she was quoted as saying: “Wherever I go, to Australia or some island, I will always be the political prisoner of my father’s name.” What an impossibly dark, […]