THE
GALLEY
The Media Club of
Ottawa
"Penning the Future"
September 2010
The
next meeting of the Media Club of
Ottawa
will
be held on October 18, 2010
Guest Speaker: Kita
Szpak, writer,
publicist,
communications strategist
and children’s author
Where: Library
and Archives
Time:
6:00 p.m.
Cost:
$20 non-members, $15
members
RSVP:
613 521-4855
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Tony Martens at the Media Club
Spetember 20, 2010
At the first meeting of the 2010-2011 season, the Media Club invited
Tony Martins. creative edito of Guerilla
to be the guest speaker. The suggestion had come from Susan Hallett,
former member of the Club.
Kita Szpak is a writer, publicist, communications strategist, and
speaker. Since she opened her consulting business in 1992. her
professional reputation has been built on “positioning clients
for excellence” Armed with honours degrees in German and
Education from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, as well
as business management certification from the Queen’s School of
Business, Kita cross-pollinates sound business principles with
marketing savvy. She has spent over 10 years working with prominent
Canadian artists, musicians and writers such as Robert Farrell, Maria
Knapik, Firdaus Kharas, and Elisabeth Harvor.
Last October, Kita published her first children’s book,
You’re Special Wherever You Are (http://picturebookstories.com)
This April, Kita also accomplished another first by running the Big Sur
International Marathon in California. With business partner,
Monique MacKinnon . she released her second book, Tipping Point to
Happiness in August 2010. They presented at the Women Living on the
Verge of Evolution Summit and Convocation in Las Vegas in September
2010.
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Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Award winning author Diana Berseford-Kroeger, who
was raised in
Ireland, calls herself a Renegade Scientist. She is the author of at
least five
non-fiction books, two novels, three mysteries, and over 200 short
pieces, some
of which have been aired on radio and have been performed live for the
public.
photo © by Christian H. Kroeger
She has frequently contributed to, written for, and
hosted programs for radio
and television in Canada, Europe, Israel and the USA. The television
documentary series “Recreating Eden” first aired
“The Renegade Scientist”
about her life and her research garden in 2008. This has now been
distributed
worldwide. In 2005, the CBC’s flagship program,
“Ideas,” aired “The Ideas of
Diana Beresford-Kroeger.”
She has also appeared on the
National Public Radio
(NPR) program “Living Earth,” and other programs in
the USA and Canada. In
addition, Diana has
regularly published
articles in an array of popular journals, magazines and newspapers in
North
America and Europe.
Diana has studied classical botany,
medical biochemistry, organic and
raidionuclear chemistry, and experimental surgery in Ireland, the USA
and
Canada. Her scientific publications appear in such journals such as The
American Heart Journal, The Canadian
‘Heart Journal, and
The Journal of Microscopy.
Diana has
lectured at the University College Cork (Ireland) and at Carleton
University,
received a fellowship at the University of Connecticut, and worked as a
research scientist at the Canadian Department of Agriculture and the
Ottawa
School of Medicine, as well as the aforementioned institutions. In 2010
she was
elected a Wings Fellow by Wings World Quest for her scientific research
and
discovery.
She writes and conducts
research in her extensive private gardens at
Merrickville and will be guest speaker at the Media Club monthly
meeting on November 22, 2010.
Diana
Berseford-Kroegers books include:
2003 - Arboretum
America: A Philosophy of the Forest, which won the American
National Arbour
Day Foundation Media Award in 2005 for exemplary educational work on
trees and
forests
2004 - A Garden
for Life, originally published in 1999 as Bioplanning
a North Temperate
Garden
2004 - Time Will
Tell, a collection
of short
stories
2010 - The Global
Forest - a collection of
40
essays
2010 - Arboretum
Borealis - A Lifeline of the Planet - the
sister book to Arboretum America, about the great
northern forests and their importance to the global eco system.
Her novels are Nellie,
and The Terrace
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