An Evening with Jeanne Beker & Nita Prose

SUNDAY, OCT 20 @ 7PM $25
Patricia A. Whelan Theatre, Central Library
800 3 Street SE

Long before Insta influencers, there was Jeanne Beker. In her new memoir, Heart on My Sleeve: Stories From a Life Well Worn, the TV personality, fashion maven, and journalist looks back on life through the clothes she wore. From her Toronto childhood, growing up the daughter of Holocaust survivors, to her gigs on The NewMusic and Fashion Television (where she rubbed shoulder pads with the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, Keith Richards, and Beyoncé), to her journey with cancer, the first fashionista of Canada reminds us why clothes matter. Making the evening extra special, Beker’s equally-stylish stagemate is the delightful groundbreaking novelist Nita Prose (The Mystery Guest, The Mistletoe Mystery), whose alter ego (not Molly the maid!) edited Heart on My Sleeve in a past life.

WHAT TO EXPECT

• 75-minute conversation
• Pre-submitted audience questions
• Dandy Bar with non-alcoholic options
• Onsite Bookseller: Owl’s Nest Books
• Post-Show signing and author selfies

ABOUT HOST SHELLEY YOUNGBLUT

Shelley Youngblut is the CEO & Creative Ringleader of Wordfest. She was the recipient of the 2020 Calgary Award for Community Achievement in the Arts and the 2018 Rozsa Award for Arts Leadership. She also won the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Western Magazine Awards. Youngblut was the founding editor of Calgary’s award-winning Swerve magazine and has created magazines for ESPN, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, Nickelodeon, Western Living, and The Globe and Mail. She was also a former pop-culture correspondent for ABC World News Now and Canada AM.

Facebook: @ShelleyYoungblut 
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