Max Wyman Book Launch

(837 Davie St)

Please join us on Wednesday, Nov 1, 5:30 – 7pm, to celebrate the launch of Max Wyman’s new landmark book The Compassionate Imagination: How the Arts are Central to Democracy, co-presented by the Canadian Music Centre BC (CMC BC) and the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture.

Admission is by donation but please do RSVP at bcregion@cmccanada.org as seats are limited

Sean Bickerton, BC Director of the CMC, will interview Max, after which this much-loved lion of the Canadian arts scene will give a reading and take questions from the audience. Our good friends at Massy Books will be there with copies of the book available for purchase and signing after the talk.

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet one of the country’s leading arts visionaries and hear him speak about one of the most pressing topics of our time – the fate of democracy itself.

Max Wyman is one of Canada’s foremost cultural commentators. He was the arts columnist and critic for The Vancouver Sun, The Province, and CBC Radio for over thirty years, and launched and edited the Vancouver Sun Review of Books. The Compassionate Imagination is his seventh book on the arts in Canada.

Max is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a former President of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, a former board member of the Canada Council for the Arts, former President of Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and former Mayor of Lions Bay, BC, where he lives today.

Sean Bickerton is the BC Director of the Canadian Music Centre, President of the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture, an Instructor at Capilano University’s Department of Arts & Entertainment Management, and Artistic Advisor to the Vancouver International Music Festival.