Please join us on Thursday, January 28, 2016 to welcome our guest speaker Leslie Hossack. She will address our Society on CHARTING CHURCHILL: An Architectural Biography. She holds a BA from the University of Toronto and MEd from the University of Ottawa. In addition, she has studied fine art printmaking at the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa and has taken courses at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her images have been exhibited across Canada and have appeared in numerous publications.
Leslie Hossack’s photography has been recognized with many awards. In 2012, she was selected to participate in The Canadian Forces Artists Program and was deployed to Kosovo. In 2013, her series Stalin’s Architectural Legacy won an award for historic architecture in the prestigious ipa (International Photography Awards) competition. And in 2015, she was presented with an RBC Emerging Artist Finalist Award. Recent books include REGISTERED: The Japanese Canadian Experience During World War II and TESTAMENT: Leslie Hossack In Kosovo. Her next publication, CHARTING CHURCHILL: An Architectural Biography, will be released in 2016.
Leslie Hossack proposes that contemplating contemporary photographs of the buildings where Sir Winston Churchill played out his life provides new insights into his complex character and times. The collection of photographs and writings by Leslie Hossack in CHARTING CHURCHILL: An Architectural Biography (2016) plots the legendary life of Sir Winston Churchill, from his birth at Blenheim Palace in 1874 until his death in London in 1965. Countless books have been published about Churchill, but no one person appears to have deliberately photographed so many contemporary locations directly associated with his life. CHARTING CHURCHILL presents 60 photographs of buildings linked to Churchill’s personal and political life. Hossack believes the built environment shapes character and that architecture helped to form the man Churchill became.
Leslie Hossack and her husband Emmett live in Ottawa and are members of the Sir Winston Churchill Society there. They enjoy spending winters in Vancouver where they have two married sons and three small grandchildren.
Date: Thursday, January 28, 2016
Location: Bar Three, The Vancouver Club, 915 Hastings Street West, Vancouver, B.C.
Time: Wine & Cheese starts at 5:00 pm, Program from 5:50 – 7:00 pm
Cost: $25 each for a Member of the Society, $35 each for a non-Member
$40 for a Member accompanied by either a spouse, partner or an immediate family member
The ticket cost includes one beverage ticket per attendee for 1 glass of wine or beer, or for 2 soft drinks. Additional drinks can be purchased from the bar
Please inform our Administrator, April Accola, of your attendance by email at aprilaccola@hotmail.com or online at www.winstonchurchillbc.org.