Tonight! An Evening with Barbara Kay!

Tonight! An Evening with Barbara Kay! Library & Archives, Main Auditorium 395 Wellington, Ottawa 7:00 PM Admission:  $20, or with Festival Pass.  All tickets available at the door. Columnist at the National Post, Barbara Kay is a true Canadian treasure. In this event, Ms. Kay will read from her new book, Acknowledgements, discuss her work with Free Thinking Films President Fred Litwin, and then answer questions from the audience, followed by a private reception. Ms. Kay is a weekly columnist for National Post and a frequent contributor to the Post's opinion blog, Full Comment. Her writings have also appeared in conservative U.S. online opinion sites Front Page Magazine and Pajamas Media, and in print magazines such as Canadian Observer, Dorchester Review and Cité libre. In 2009 Barbara was the National Association of Men's recipient of its award of excellence "for promoting gender fairness in the media." She is also a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. In 2012 Barbara received the Diamond Jubilee Medal for "excellence in journalism. Barbara is a regular guest on many Canadian radio talk shows, from the Maritimes to B.C., as well as more recently on Sunmedia TV. Barbara is the co-author, with Aruna Papp, of Unworthy Creature: A Punjabi Daughter's Memoir of Honour, Shame and Love. "Barbara Kay's writing is brisk and clear. She thinks for herself. She bravely resists the turn of the moment, and the preoccupations of the politically correct..."     Rex Murphy, columnist, National Post "There's one group, the best of a bad lot, columnists I call the cream of the crap... Then there are a few like Barbara Kay, who is good when compared to good writers, not bad ones. She started punditry at an age when some people retire from it. Perhaps that's why she isn't one of those writers about whom you feel they've written more books than they've read. She is a chippy polemicist, but only tells readers who may disagree with her that they're wrong, not that they're small and stupid. Most writers know how to assert; some know how to demonstrate; but only the Barbara Kays of columnists have the capacity to persuade."     George Jonas, columnist, National Post Terry Glavin to Present on the Crisis in Syria at the 4th Annual Free Thinking Festival! The Free Thinking Film Society is proud to announce that award-winning Ottawa Citizen columnist Terry Glavin will be presenting on the crisis in Syria at the 4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival in Ottawa. Glavin's presentation will be on Saturday, November 2nd at 2:15 PM in the Main Auditorium of the Library & Archives Canada. Earlie this month, Glavin spent two weeks visiting the various Syrian refugee camps in Jordan.  A 4-part series on the Syrian exodus and what it means for the region, for the world and for Syria's future, will be running this week in the Ottawa Citizen. Terry Glavin is a co-founder of the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee, is the author of six books, and the co-author of four, traversing subjects from anthropology to natural history.  He has won more than a dozen writing awards, including the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, and is now a columnist for the Ottawa Citizen. The Free Thinking Film Society was established in 2007 in Ottawa to celebrate the efforts of risk-taking documentarians whose work espouses the values of limited, democratic government, free market economies, equality of opportunity rather than equality of result, and the dignity of the individual, all underscored by a healthy and patriotic respect for Western culture and traditions.  The 4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival starts on October 31st and runs through November 3rd at the Libary & Archives Canada.  Tickets to see Terry Glavin, and all films and events can be purchases at the door.  Tickets start at $12 and a Festival Pass (to see everything) is just $80.  For further information, please visit our website www.freethinkingfilmfest.ca   Major Events/Speakers  4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival 2013  There's a ton of great films, speakers, book launches and panel discussions at the 4th Annual Free Thinking Festival 2013.  Here are the highlights: An Evening with Barbara Kay - one of Canada's finest columnists.  Meet her in person and get her book autographed. An explosive evening on China Cyber Spying.  On Saturday, November 2nd, we'll have a new film about China cyber spying in Australia, followed by an incredible panel of experts - including Brian Shields, who oversaw IT security at Nortel, and Richard Bejtlich, Chief Security Officer for Mandiant Corporation, the company that actually identified the exact buildings the Chinese spy from. Comedy at the Festival - Comedian Rodney Ramsey will be presenting his films making fun of the crazy language police in Quebec.  We also have two comedy documentaries - "The Sheik and I" about a filmmaker who exposes the lack of free speech in the United Arab Emirates; and "The Ambassador" about the selling of diplomatic titles in the Central African Republic. 2 Book launches - Barbara Kay's new book "Acknowledgements" and Elizabeth Nickson's "Eco-Fascists:  How Conservationists are ruining our environment."  Get both of these book autographed. Orchestra of Exiles:  An amazing film about how one violinist saved the best Jewish musicians during WWII and brought them all to Palestine. Broken Soldiers:  A documentary on how Canada's vets aren't getting the treatment they deserve. Powerful as God:  The Children's Aid Society of Ontario.  An explosive look at this organization with film maker Esther Buckareff in attendance to answer questions.  We'll end the Festival on a positive note with the film, "Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean", a film about a coffee coop in Uganda where Christians, Muslims and Jews work together in harmony.  Our guest speaker for the evening will be J.J. Keki, the leader of the Jewish Abayudaya Community.  And, we'll be serving his Ugandan coffee at the reception afterwards. Plus, lot's more. Here's how to get tickets.  You can buy festival passes right now at Compact Music (785 Bank, 206 Bank).  You can also buy Festival Passes, Day Passes for Saturday or Sunday, or passes for individual events on Tickweb.ca.  We will also be selling tickets at the door as well. Trailer for the 4th Annual Free Thinking Film Festival 2013 How to Buy Tickets for the Free Thinking Film Festival Tickets will be available at the door. Festival passes are now on sale at Compact Music (785 Bank, 206 Bank). You can buy Festival passes ($80), Saturday day Passes ($30), Sunday Day Passes ($30), Individual film tickets ($12), or for the 4 big gala events ($20) online at Ticketweb.ca.