Tickets on sale now for IMAGINATE 2019

IMAGINATE: An Evening of Possibility Exclusive Presenter:

Outstanding Presenters

Additional Guests:

Paul Dowling
Social policy expert, HomeComing Community Choice Coalition

Celia McBride 
Multi-disciplinary artist and spiritual director

Jeff Wheeldon
Writer and International Affairs Critic, Green Party of Canada Shadow Cabinet

Kristina Nairn
Community activator, advocate for affordable housing, HKPR Health Unit

Cale Crowe
Singer/songwriter, Alderville First Nation

Lotus Wight
Multi-instrumentalist, songster, historian, Sheesham, Lotus & Son 

Ted Staunton
Children's author, musician
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IMAGINATE: We All Have A Story returning to Victoria Hall March 29, 2019

Featuring prominent social justice leaders, artists and musicians, IMAGINATE will combine workshops, short talks, film and music to explore urgent social issues while informing, entertaining and motivating.

Headlining this year’s daytime conference is Dr. Gary Bloch, St. Michael’s Hospital family physician and Associate Professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Bloch is the recipient of numerous honours, including this year’s prestigious AMS Phoenix Fellowship for his groundbreaking work in providing compassionate and socially equitable frontline medicine to the homeless and other marginalized individuals.

IMAGINATE will also feature Juno-Award-winning singer-songwriter Catherine MacLellan, who will host a screening of The Song and The Sorrow, a 2018 National Film Board documentary chronicling the mental health struggles of her musician father, Gene MacLellan. Legendary for writing Put Your Hand in the Hand and Snowbird, made famous by Anne Murray, MacLellan committed suicide when Catherine was 14. Through interviews and song, the film opens up a conversation about mental illness, including Catherine’s own inherited battle.
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Green Wood expanded its annual evening of music and storytelling for the first time last year to include the one-day conference, bringing more diverse voices, lived experience and depth to exploring the issues of poverty, mental illness, addiction and social equity that have become IMAGINATE’s trademark. The conference was a run-away success, selling out weeks before the event.

“IMAGINATE is more than conference, more than a theatrical event,” says Green Wood Community Director David Sheffield. “When someone attends IMAGINATE, we want them to leave feeling like ‘I can and will do something that will make the world a better place.’ IMAGINATE is a call to action.”

Summing up last year’s IMAGINATE, one conference attendee said, “I cried, I laughed, I cried again...The courage of the speakers in sharing their stories that were both raw and inspiring left a profound impact on all who were there.”
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IMAGINATE SPONSORS
Carol Anne Bell-Smith
CASA ALMA
MP Kim Rudd, Northumberland-Peterborough South
Rotary Club of Port Hope
snapd Northumberland West